A 2016 study has indicated that women who consume more vegetable protein, approximately 6.5 percent of their daily calories as vegetable protein, has 16 percent lower risk of an early menopause compared to women whose intake is approximately four percent of calories.
Authors Maegan Boutat and Professor Elizabeth from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Harvard T. H Chan School of Public Health surveyed 1,16,000 registered nurses between the ages of 25-42 in 1989. They collected information about their lifestyle, health and medication, and in 1991, the duo assessed their total protein and protein from vegetable and animal sources.
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