Tag: vegetarian diet

      Meat Is Macho, Veggies Are Girlie

      May 22, 2012 /

      It seems like vegetarians have an image problem; they’re feminine.

      In an effort to encourage men toward better, healthier diets, it is necessary to make veggie burgers and salads more masculine.

      “In the (distant) past, meat was associated with strength. It was important for males to have more muscles than females in our social evolution — for hunting and fighting,” said Wansink, the John S. Dyson endowed chair of marketing at Cornell University. “That association remained — not between protein and muscles but between meat and muscles. It started a long time ago and it’s still powerful today.”

      Nutrition, Research, Wellness

      Lower Breast Cancer Risk with Plant Based Diet

      September 8, 2011 /

      A new study shows that those women whose diets were low in red meat, sodium and processed carbohydrates and high in plant based foods and legumes may have a somewhat decreased risk of developing one type of breast cancer,

      The findings, from a large, long-running study of U.S. nurses, showed that women with diets high in plant foods — but low in red meat, sodium and processed carbohydrates — tended to have a lower risk of developing certain breast tumors.

      Of more than 86,000 women the study followed for 26 years, slightly less than one percent developed ER-negative breast cancer.

      The risk, researchers found, was lower among women whose diets most closely resembled the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet — an eating plan experts recommended for lowering blood pressure. It emphasizes vegetables, fruit, fiber-rich grains, legumes and nuts, and low-fat dairy.

      Nutrition, Research, Wellness

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