lacto-ovo vegetarian
See also: lacto-ovo-vegetarian and lactoovovegetarian
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editlacto-ovo vegetarian (plural lacto-ovo vegetarians)
- Alternative form of lacto-ovo-vegetarian.
- 1996, Mark Messina, Virginia Messina, The Dietitian’s Guide to Vegetarian Diets: Issues and Applications, Aspen, →ISBN, page 107:
- Some research,76–78 but not all,79–82 suggests that lacto-ovo vegetarians have greater bone density than meat eaters. In women aged 50 to 87, lacto-ovo vegetarians were found to lose about 50% to 60% less bone mass in comparison with omnivores,78.83 although a recent study did not confirm these findings.81
- 2010, Manjeshwar Shrinath Baliga, Jason Jerome D’Souza, Raghavendra Haniadka, Rajesh Arora, “Indian Vegetarian Diet and Cancer Prevention”, in Ronald Ross Watson, Victor R. Preedy, editors, Bioactive Foods and Extracts: Cancer Treatment and Prevention, Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press, →ISBN, page 68:
- Today, in India, vegetarians form a nonhomogenous group consisting of semivegetarians (plant food, dairy products, eggs, and fish), lacto-ovo vegetarians (plant food, dairy products, and eggs), and vegans (plant food only).
- 2016, Helen Buckland, Jacqui Keepin, WJEC GCSE Food and Nutrition, Hodder Education, →ISBN:
- Lacto vegetarians. These eat the same as lacto-ovo vegetarians, but they do not eat eggs.