Paula wrote:
> . The annual death rate of vegetarian women is .86
> percent; the annual death rate of non-vegetarian women is .54 percent.
> This was reported in the American Journal of Epidemiology in 1973
> (97:372),......."
>
> Paula H.
What was the population for the study; i.e., it would make a very large
differernce if the study included or was limited to a third world
country/countries. Was the study inclusive of all types of vegetarian diets
or a particular type? Was there a theory to explain the result? Aren't
there some studies that show the opposite? My attraction to the paleo diet
is the logic of deriving a way of eating from the evolutionary record
rather than industrial/agricultural expediency; but I am extremely
skeptical of this or that epidemiological study being trotted out without
some profile of the parameters and credentials of the researchers. Rick