Did You Know...
Approximately one million Americans die from cancer or heart disease annually?
And one in three Americans born today will develop Type 2 diabetes?
(From the 2011 documentary Forks Over Knives)
Now Consider This...
A 2009 study from the American Dietetic Association reported that vegetarians (and vegans, most of all) tend to have a lower body mass index and "appear to have lower low-density lipoprotein ('bad' cholesterol) levels, lower blood pressure, and lower rates of hypertension and type 2 diabetes than nonvegetarians."
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