Choosing a vegetarian diet can be very beneficial
Choosing a vegetarian diet can be beneficial to both you and the animals.
Research indicates that choosing to follow this eating plan could help protect against a common bowel disorder.
Vegetarians were found to be a third less likely to get a diease which is caused by eating too little fibre, diverticular diease. It causes cramps, bloating, wind, constipation and diarrhoea.
From the study, which was led by Dr Francesca Crowe from the Cancer Epidemiology Unit at Oxford Univerisity, it found that vegetarians in the group had a 30 per cent lwer risk of having the disease, compared with those who eat, meat, fish, or both.
The authors of the study suggest that the reasoning behind this could be the consumption of meat altering the metabolism of bacteria in the colon and therefore weakening the colon wall.
They found nothing to do with the amount of meat consumed.
Femalefirst Taryn Davies