Seventh-day Adventists Live Longer!

Consider these facts:

• Male Seventh-day Adventists have an 8.9-year longer average life expectancy than does the general population, while female members have a 7.5-year longer average life expectancy.

• Vegetarian Seventh-day Adventists have a reduced risk of osteoporosis when compared to meat-eaters in the general population. This probably has something to do with the fact that the excess protein in a high-meat diet causes the excretion of calcium in the urine. The SDA diet is both richer in calcium and lower in protein than the average American diet.

• Seventh-day Adventists have a lower incidence of breast, prostate, pancreatic, bladder and ovarian cancers than does the general population. Vegetarian Seventh-day Adventist are one-half as likely as people in the general population to get colon or rectal cancer.

• Non-vegetarian male Adventists have 56 percent of the expected coronary heart disease mortality. (This means the rate of heart disease in these Adventists is 56 percent of the rate in the general American population). The heart disease mortality rate for lacto-ovo vegetarian men is 39 percent, while vegetarian male Adventists who use no meat, milk or eggs (total vegetarians) have an expected coronary heart disease mortality rate that is only 12 percent of that of the general population!

• Source of article: http://www.potomacabc.com/food/live_longer.asp 

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