43% higher risk of fractures without meat

Originally published as No meat, 43% higher risk of fractures
Now vegetarianism is becoming more popular, but a new study published in the British journal Biomedical Center For Medical Research has found that eating little meat increases the risk of fractures.
study was carried out by Dr Tammy Tong, a nutrition epidemiologist at the University of Oxford in the UK, and researchers from the University of Bristol, who followed the eating habits and fracture risk of nearly 55,000 participants recruited between 1993 and 2001. Participants were followed for an average of 18 years. At the beginning of the study and in 2010, the researchers investigated the participants' dietary patterns and collected information on all fracture cases that occurred as of 2016. The comprehensive analysis found that vegans had an average 43 percent higher risk of total body fractures, 2.3 times higher risk of hip fractures, higher risk of leg and spinal fractures, and other vegetarians had a higher risk of hip and leg fractures than meat eaters. The researchers found that when body mass index (BMI) was taken into account, there was little difference in the risk of arm, wrist and ankle fractures in different dietary groups.
new study warns the public that vegetarians must eat a diet that contains important nutrients such as calcium, vitamin D, zinc and iron, or risk fragile bones and more prone to fractures.
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