The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
what they found here essentially was that british vegetarians have a low mortality compared to the general population their death rates are similar to those of comparable non-vegetarians meaning in terms of health behaviors suggesting that much of this benefit may be attributed to non-dietary lifestyle factors such as a low prevalence of smoking and generally high socioeconomic status or to aspects of the diet other than the avoidance of meat and fish
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Native comments, Twitter mentions, and Reddit threads about this claim — surfaced together so the conversation isn't fragmented across platforms.
Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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what they found here essentially was that british vegetarians have a low mortality compared to the general population their death rates are similar to those of comparable non-vegetarians meaning in terms of health behaviors suggesting that much of this benefit may be attributed to non-dietary lifestyle factors such as a low prevalence of smoking and a generally high socioeconomic status or to aspects of the diet other than the avoidance of meat and fish