is a vegetarians life span actually lower than that of a meat eater?

Answer 1

no, usually it's longer and better. they develop fewer diseases and stay healthier overall.

Answer 2

''Longevity studies of vegetarians produce conflicting data. Some studies do not show that vegetarians live significantly longer.25,29 Two studies of people who consumed very little meat showed an average life-span increase of 3.6 years.39 A huge study of Seventh Day Adventists who ate little or no meat showed longevity increases of 7.28 years in men and 4.42 years in women.40 These data are confounded by the fact that Seventh Day Adventists follow healthy lifestyles free of tobacco and alcohol.

Studies suggest that the longevity benefits conferred by a vegetarian diet dissipate as humans enter their ninth decade.39 This implies that while vegetarian diets reduce disease risk, restricting one’s diet to only plant foods does not completely protect against the effects of aging.''

Answer 3

Depends on if the vegetarian is a chain smoking alcoholic who loves potato chips and the meat eater eat meat like a tasty condiment on his or her whole grain veggie dishes. Then, the meat eater will probably last longer.

Answer 4

No, I don't think so, they're both quite similar, but testing it would be difficult.

In response to the people saying veggies live longer, yes, on average vegetarians live longer and are healthier and at less risk of various diseasess, however, this does not necessarily mean a vegetarian diet makes you live longer, etc, as there are other considerations.

"Statistical surveys do generally suggest that vegetarians, on average, live longer, healthier lives. But we should bear in mind that research has yet to isolate the presence or absence of meat in the diet as the only variable under investigation. There are always extraneous factors which can explain equally well any health differences found between vegetarians and meat eaters. For example, many vegetarians choose their diet for health reasons simply because it is accepted on many fronts that vegantarian is healthier, rightly or wrongly. But people willing to cut out meat for health reasons are likely to be making other lifestyle decisions for health reasons. Perhaps to smoke less, drink less or exercise more frequently. Alternately stated: people unwilling to make sacrifices for the good of their health will be more likely to eat meat than those who will make those sacrifices. Thus the healthy vegetarian diet becomes self-fulfilling prophecy."

Vegetarians are much less likely to smoke, binge drink, eat junk food and are generally much more health conscious that the average meat eater, meat eating being the group that contains almost all the unhealthiest of society: the poor, the uneducated and the smokers who frankly aren't likely to give two figs about vegetrianism.

"A well-designed piece of research by using matched samples may, in theory, control for extraneous variables. But it would be virtually impossible, in the case of a large sample population studied over a lifetime, to determine whether differences found were genuine measurements of the meat/non-meat factor, or an effect of vegetarians opting for meals with higher nutritional value, irrespective of meat content.

"Moreover, irrespective of parental diet, very few western vegetarians give up meat until their late teens or early adulthood. Some will make the switch later in life. For as long as the general trend in society is away from meat and towards vegans, the average effect of people crossing the meat/non-meat barrier will be to reinforce this skew in the distribution, and create the illusion of a longer average life-span in vegans."

There are other variables as well that can skew results if not properly controlled for.

- Vegans are mostly women. Women have a longer average lifespan than men and are at less risk of various diseases, so the average of vegetarians will be better than that of meat eaters.

- Vegans are, on average, much younger than the average meat eater, because it tends to be young people who convert. Thus, as young people are at less risk from virtually all diseases and death than their older counterparts, their rates of diseases and death will be lower than the meat eating majority of the population.

As such, few studies on this subject can truthfully say they've at least tried there best to eliminate all other variables. The studies Peta show don't even try. When studies do try to control for these things they generally show little difference in longevity, if any.

Answer 5

Where'd you hear that???!!!
No, vegetarians have a much healthier diet. Meat does stuff to your body - I think the colon especially. Veggies are healthy for you - they contain most of the vitamins your body needs. Beans & greens & fruit take care of the rest.

Answer 6

No, Their life span is longer because they don't get
cloged arteries from all that animal fat. A vegeterian diet is very good for us if we make sure we get the protein we need from other sources, like nuts , beans , tofu etc.Animal fat causes high blood pressure, over weight , lots of heart attacks and strokes, from eating it long time.

Answer 7

In general, vegetarians live longer. There is much lower risk of heart disese and many cancers.

Answer 8

Nope. Actually it's about 6-10 years longer, as vegetraians are less likely to develop diseases that slow the heart, arteries and their functions.

Answer 9

No, why would it be? A vegetarian isnt taking in all of the bad fats and cholesterol in meat protein. It doesnt have to work as hard to break down a protein so similar to its own. I think veggies have a much better chance of living a healthy, long life, if their diet is well balanced. Omnivores retain putrified meat in their systems for quite some time after eating it. If done right, a person will have a bm after every vegetarian meal, which is how nature intended. Think of babies-they go each time they eat until we start clogging up their systems with meat based stuff.

Answer 10

longer not lower