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Health aspects, nutrition and physical characteristics in matched samples of institutionalized vegetarian and non-vegetarian elderly (> 65yrs)

BACKGROUND: Epidemiological studies indicate that a well balanced vegetarian diet offers several health benefits including a lower prevalence of prosperity diseases in vegetarians compared to omnivores. It was the purpose of the present study to compare nutritional and physical characteristics in ma...

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Autores principales: Deriemaeker, Peter, Aerenhouts, Dirk, De Ridder, Dolf, Hebbelinck, Marcel, Clarys, Peter
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3135511/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21672249
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1743-7075-8-37