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THE IMPACT OF VEGETARIAN DIETS AND BODY MASS INDEX ON HYPERTENSION

open access: yesJurnal Keperawatan Indonesia, 2019
A vegetarian diet is believed to prevent hypertension. This study aims to identify the impact of vegetarian diets, including fat, salt, potassium, and body mass index (BMI), on hypertension.
Tri Mariha, Wiwin Wiarsih
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Carbon and nitrogen isotopic ratios of urine and faeces as novel nutritional biomarkers of meat and fish intake [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Purpose Meat and fish consumption are associated with changes in the risk of chronic diseases. Intake is mainly assessed using self-reporting, as no true quantitative nutritional biomarker is available.
A Konig   +34 more
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Localisation of primary food production in Finland: production potential and environmental impacts of food consumption patterns [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
The potential for and environmental consequences of localising primary production of food were investigated by considering different food consumption patterns, based on conventional and organic production.
Helenius, Juha   +4 more
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Comparison of the nutritional status and outcome in thermal burn patients receiving vegetarian and non-vegetarian diets

open access: yesIndian Journal of Plastic Surgery, 2014
Background: The importance of adequate nutritional support in burned patients cannot be overemphasised. For adequate long-term compliance by the patients, diet should be formulated in accordance with their pre-burn dietary habits, religious beliefs, and ...
Samira Sharma   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Relationship of carotid intima-media thickness and duration of vegetarian diet in Chinese male vegetarians

open access: yesNutrition & Metabolism, 2011
Objective Many studies have shown that vegetarian diet has beneficial effects on the prevention of cardiovascular diseases. However, the effect of vegetarian diet on carotid intima-media thickness (IMT), as well as the association between IMT and ...
Liu Chang-Qin   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

The impact of a vegetarian diet on chronic kidney disease (CKD) progression – a systematic review

open access: yesBMC Nephrology, 2023
Background A vegetarian diet is a popular alternative to the casual diet - it is considered healthy, and was proven to positively affect cardiovascular health.
Łukasz Świątek   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Vegetarianism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Ethical vegetarians maintain that vegetarianism is morally required. The principal reasons offered in support of ethical vegetarianism are: (i) concern for the welfare and well-being of the animals being eaten, (ii) concern for the environment, (iii ...
AR Mangels   +9 more
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Update on vegetarian and vegan athletes: a review

open access: yesJournal of Physical Fitness and Sports Medicine, 2021
Interest in vegetarian and vegan diets continues to grow, not only in the general population, but in the high-performing athlete. Vegetarian diets may lower risk of chronic diseases and have proposed ergogenic benefits to the athlete regarding exercise ...
Kenneth Vitale, Shawn Hueglin
doaj   +1 more source

'Go on, just try some!': Meat and meaning-making among South Indian Christians [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 31(1), 36-55, 2008 [copyright Taylor & Francis], available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/00856400701874700.No abstract ...
Staples, J
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“Men who can last”: Mountaineering Endurance, the Lake District Fell Records and the Campaign for Everest, 1919-1924 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This paper examines the post-First World War reconstruction of masculinity around notions of endurance in the British outdoor movement. From the 1860s onwards, long-distance walking trials in the Lake District became part of the regional mountaineering ...
Westaway, Jonathan
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