Meat-eating and weight loss

Women who eat little or no meat are less likely than others to be overweight, according to study results published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Researchers at Tufts University in the US suggest that replacing some meat and other animal products with plant foods may be useful in weight control regimes. In the study sample of more than 55,000 Swedish women were those who identified themselves as vegetarian (but who ate consume dairy products), “semivegetarians” – who said they sometimes ate fish or eggs – and vegans. The vegans were one-third as likely as meat-eaters to be overweight or obese, while women in both vegetarian groups were about half as likely as meat-eaters to be overweight.

Reuters