Vegetarian diet 'weakens bones'

SYDNEY – People who live on vegetarian diets have slightly weaker bones than their meat-eating counterparts, Australian researchers said Thursday.

A joint Australian-Vietnamese study of links between the bones and diet of more than 2,700 people found that vegetarians had bones five percent less dense than meat-eaters, said lead researcher Tuan Nguyen.

The condition was most pronounced in vegans...

[But did the study sufficiently exclude other potential causative factors, such as vegans having softer craniums, also skeletal tissue, to begin with? {just advocating for good scientific method...}]

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