Nutritional Characteristics of Middle-Aged Japanese Vegetarians
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Nutritional characteristics of middle-aged Japanese vegetarians.
AIM Despite the possible overall health benefits of a vegetarian diet, research about the nutritional characteristics of Japanese vegetarians is small. Our objective was to investigate the nutritional characteristics of Japanese vegetarians compared with Japanese non-vegetarians. METHODS The dietary intake, anthropometric and biochemical status of 75 middle-aged Japanese vegetarians (JV, 20 m...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Atherosclerosis and Thrombosis
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1880-3873,1340-3478
DOI: 10.5551/jat.e546