Guest guest Posted January 16, 2003 Report Share Posted January 16, 2003 - " MrFalafel " <mrfalafel Newsgroups: alt.food.vegan Thursday, January 16, 2003 8:53 AM EPIC study into vegetarians - results > EPIC (the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and > Nutrition) was initiated in 1992 and is the largest detailed study of > diet and health ever undertaken. It involves over 500,000 people in 10 > European countries - Britain, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, > the Netherlands, Norway, Spain and Sweden. It is coordinated by the > World Health Organization and supported by the European Union and > national funding agencies. By studying very many people in different > countries with differing diets, and by using carefully designed and > tested questionnaires, EPIC should produce more specific information > than previous studies about the effects of diet on long-term health. > > EPIC-Oxford is one of two EPIC cohorts in the UK, the other being > EPIC-Norfolk. (A " cohort " is a large group of people who have joined a > study and whose health is being followed). The EPIC-Oxford cohort was > recruited between 1993 and 1999. The strategy for establishing the > EPIC-Oxford cohort was to recruit participants with a wide range of > diets by targeting vegetarians as well as participants from the > general UK population. As such EPIC-Oxford is of great scientific > value to the EPIC study as a whole, because the diets of vegetarians, > and especially vegans, differ substantially from those of meat-eaters > and this range in diets makes it easier to detect relationships > between nutrition and health > > Learn more here: http://www.epic-oxford.org/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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