You don't have to take our word for it; Loma Linda University researchers did a study (cited in the Wall Street Journal and the Journal of the American Medical Association) that tracked over 73,000 vegetarian members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church for almost six years. The health differences between this vegetarian population and meat eaters is pronounced.

Here are some highlights:

• Vegetarians experienced 12% fewer deaths during the period
• Vegetarians were 19% less likely to die from heart disease
• Vegetarians experienced fewer deaths from kidney failure
• Vegetarians experienced fewer deaths from diabetes
• Vegetarians tended to be thinner

Read the whole thing.