A plant-based, vegetarian diet has been found to increase life expectancy
A plant-based, vegetarian diet has been found to increase life expectancy by six years compared to meat eaters.Timothy J. Key, et al., "Mortality in British vegetarians: review and preliminary results from EPIC-Oxford," American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol. 78, No. 3, 533S-538S, September 2003. Available from: http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/full/78/3/533S