There's good news if you're a vegetarian.
A new study from the medical journal BMJ shows vegetarians are at a lower risk of heart disease than meat eaters.
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But it's not all good news. Researchers also discovered that vegetarians are at a higher risk of stroke because they don't eat meat.
But vegetarians who also eat fish, known as pescatarians, did not show any increased risk of stroke.
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The report followed 48,000 people in the United Kingdom over a span of 18 years.