Vegetarian women 'at increased risk of hip fracture'
Women consuming a vegetarian diet have a 33% higher risk of hip fracture later in life compared with those who regularly eat meat, a study suggests. Hip fracture risk does not differ, however, between pescatarians or occasional meat-eaters and those who eat meat on five or more days a week. Researchers drew on data from the UK Women’s Cohort Study in which more than 26,000 women aged 35-69 filled in dietary food frequency questionnaires and were classified as regular meat-eaters (46%), occasional meat-eaters (27%), pescatarian (13%) or vegetarian (15%). A large UK study finds that eating onl...
Source: ausdoc.com.au
