D ietary and lifestyle changes remain the cornerstone of heart disease prevention. It has been estimated that >80% of cardiovascular events can be prevented with dietary and lifestyle modifications. Vegetarian diets are one approach to achieving a heart healthy dietary pattern, low in saturated and trans-fats and high in fiber and antioxidants. While other heart healthy dietary strategies such ...

Diets rich in vegetables are associated with a low incidence of colon cancer. Since plant sterols are plentiful in vegetarian diets, we studied the effect of fl-sitosterol on colon tumor formation in rats treated with the carcinogen N-methyl-N-nitro sourea. We demonstrated that $-sitosterol nullified in part the effect of this direct-acting carcinogen on the colon. We suggest that plant sterols...

Four commercial brands of infant milk formula were investigated, and the amount of shelf lipid peroxidation was determined by measuring malondialdehyde (MDA) or, more exactly, thiobarbituric acid reactive substance (TBARS) levels, which are the end products of lipid peroxidation. TBARS level, indicated by MDA concentration, was higher in the vegetarian brands. The vegetarian brands are, as expe...

t y?uth, his parents, friends, his education in ndon and how he came to terms with European mores. There is a fascinating account of how Gandhi, who had made a vow to his mother before leaving India to remain a vegetarian, joined the vegetarian movement in London, which brought him into first contact with such vital Christian and Western writers as Tolstoi, Ruskin and Thoreau, strengthening in ...

The Buccal Micronucleus Cytome (BMCyt) in exfoliated buccal epithelial cells is a minimally invasive method for assessing chromosomal instability, DNA damage and cell death. It has been widely used in occupational and lifestyle related studies. For the present study 63 male subjects were taken out of which 32 were vegetarian and 31 subjects were nonvegetarian matched with respect to their age, ...