Do you want to live longer and even make death daunting? A new study shows: don't eat meat.

Researchers at Los Malinda University in California have followed up more than 70,000 men and women for six years, and concluded that vegetarians have a lower mortality rate.

First, the researchers divided the subjects into five groups: a group of non-vegetarians, a group of semi-vegetarians, a group of vegetarians (who can eat fish without meat), an oval vegetarian (who can eat milk, eggs and their products in addition to plant foods) and a group of strict vegetarians.

The researchers found that lacto-ovo vegetarians and vegans are mostly older, more educated, more likely to get married, smoke and drink less, exercise more and be slim.

People who only eat a meat-free diet also have a lower mortality rate, which is lower than that of people who eat meat 12%. This is especially obvious among men, whose risk of cardiovascular disease and ischemic heart disease is greatly reduced.

The results of this study were published this week on the website of Internal Medicine, a journal of the American Medical Association. Earlier this year, researchers at Oxford University found that vegetarians have a lower risk of hospitalization or death from heart disease than meat eaters.