Vegan Diet Aids Weight Loss in People With Diabetes

By Robert Preidt HealthDay Reporter
HealthDay Reporter

FRIDAY, May 6, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Are you obese or combating kind 2 diabetes? Try going vegan, researchers recommend in a brand new knowledge evaluate.

Vegan diets are excessive in fruits, greens, nuts, legumes and seeds and don’t have any animal-derived meals.

The meta-analysis of 11 research printed via March 2022 that included a complete of practically 800 individuals discovered that following a vegan food regimen for not less than 12 weeks helped individuals shed pounds and decrease their blood sugar, extra so than a Mediterranean food regimen, totally different diabetes diets or portion-controlled diets did.

Compared with the opposite diets, vegan diets considerably decreased weight (a mean of 9 kilos) and physique mass index or BMI (an individual’s weight in kilograms divided by the sq. of top in meters, or kg/m2) by -1.38 kg/m2.

The researchers discovered even better reductions in physique weight and BMI once they in contrast vegan diets to a standard food regimen (16.3 kilos and -2.78 kg/m2, respectively) than when evaluating different diets to a standard food regimen (6 kilos and -0.87 kg/m2).

Vegan diets additionally led to slight enhancements in blood sugar ranges, whole ldl cholesterol and “unhealthy” LDL ldl cholesterol, however had little impact on blood stress or triglycerides in comparison with different diets, in response to the examine introduced on the European Congress on Obesity, May 4-7, within the Netherlands.

“This rigorous assessment of the best available evidence to date indicates with reasonable certainty that adhering to a vegan diet for at least 12 weeks may result in clinically meaningful weight loss and improve blood sugar levels, and therefore can be used in the management of overweight and type 2 diabetes,” said study author Anne-Ditte Termannsen, from the Steno Diabetes Center in Copenhagen, Denmark.

“Vegan diets likely lead to weight loss because they are associated with a reduced calorie intake due to a lower content of fat and higher content of dietary fiber,” she added in a meeting news release. “However, more evidence is needed regarding other cardiometabolic outcomes.”

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To study extra a couple of vegan food regimen, go to the American Academy of Family Physicians.

SOURCE: European Congress on Obesity, information launch, May 5, 2022