Can a vegetarian plate cut obesity in half?

A lot of research deals with human nutrition, and much of it examines one of the major modern problems, obesity. The research, in which the dietary habits of 16,000 students from Spain were monitored for 10 years, reveals that a pro-vegetarian diet, which does not completely exclude the consumption of meat and dairy products, should have a beneficial effect on our body. Flexitarians, only occasional meat eaters, should therefore tolerate it better.

Before starting research they are students had to fulfill a very thorough set questionnaire about their eating habits. Researchers were then taken for comparison 20 % of those who regularly consumed food of animal origin, and the same percentage of those who only occasionally resorted to meat and dairy products. The first group consumed approx 200 g of meat, which is a slightly larger steak, 348 g of vegetables and 191 g of fruit, and the other for a quarter less meat, but what once more vegetables and three times as much fruit compared to the 'meat-eating' group. The results showed that the latter have just under half less chance of obesity. As an interesting fact; they included fish as meat, but came to the conclusion that it has no effect on our body weight.