AR-News: US - Vegging Out

[Orville A Knudsen]

Vegging Out
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44870-2003Sep8.html

QUOTE:

What exactly is it that vegetarians eat?

That's a question asked by researchers in the American Journal of Clinical
Nutrition, which has devoted much of this month's issue to the study of
those who eat no meat, poultry or fish.

Or, at least profess that they do.

It turns out that a number of people who report being vegetarians actually
consume meat, poultry and fish regularly. They just eat these foods less
often than the rest of the nation's omnivores.

In a study of daily food records from more than 13,000 Americans collected
by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Loma Linda University
researchers discovered that fewer than 1 percent of those surveyed
(including self-described vegetarians) reported eating no animal flesh
when quizzed in detail about their eating habits.

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