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Vegetarian Times, Sept, 2005
A study suggesting that people on raw foods diets have strong bones has been widely misinterpreted by the news media, the researcher tells VT. The bones of the 18 vegans (aged 33-85) who stuck to a raw foods diet were thin but showed no signs of osteoporosis--so far. However, that doesn't mean that they won't develop bone disease over time, says Luigi Fontana, MD, PhD, of Washington University's School of Medicine.
The vegans in the study had been on their raw foods diets for an average of only 3.6 years. "Their bones may be healthy, but more study is needed to prove their long-term bone health," says Fontana, whose research appears in the March 28, 2005 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine.
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