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Healthy Bones

Nutrition Facts with Dr. Greger

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Bone Mineral Density Differences Between Vegetarians and Non-Vegetarians

differences in bone mineral density between vegetarians and non-vegetarians become marginal when accounting for differences in body size factors. So they didn't control for things like age, smoking, obesity, exercise, and so the results are really uninterpretable. But no one had gone through the trouble of going back through all those studies and making the proper adjustments on till now. In our next story, we look at the decades old dogma that animal protein leads to bone loss.

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