Vegetarian and Plant-Based Diets in Health and Disease Prevention

Buckingham, Allison

doi:10.1016/j.jneb.2018.01.013

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“…Religious fasting (beyond its spiritual goals) could offer an opportunity to follow vegetarian diets and this may in turn lead to reasonable health benefits including weight loss, and favorable metabolic changes [3][4][5][6]. Fasting, the willful partial or total abstention from restricted foods in many religions [2,6].…”

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“…While it is difficult to separate the good effects of a healthy diet on cardiovascular disease (CVD) from those of regular exercise, nonsmoking and maintaining a BMI < 25 kg/m 2 , earlier data showed that chronic diseases are favorably altered by the regular consumption of PBDs with or without the low amount of non-fat dairy products [ 1 , 2 ]. The serum concentration of HDL-cholesterol, LDL-cholesterol, TG and the ratio of HDL-C to TC tend to be lower in PBDs and are often used to predict the risk of having CVD [ 4 , 5 ].…”

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Changes in biochemical parameters by gender and time: Effect of short-term vegan diet adherence

Sisay¹,

Tolessa²,

Mekonen³

2020

PLoS ONE

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Background Vegetarian diets adapted for various reasons that may include religious, ethical, and health considerations have reasonable health benefits including weight loss, and favorable metabolic changes. However, studies that assessed health benefits associated with vegan diet practices during the Ethiopian Orthodox Christian (EOC) Lenten fasting remains limited. This study has, therefore, assessed how short-term vegan diet associated with metabolic traits, including weight, body mass index (BMI), circumference, blood pressure, total cholesterol (TC), triglycerides (TG), high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), through longitudinal cross-sectional study design. Methods Seventy-five subjects (34 females and 41 males) with a mean age of [+SD] 27.3 + 5.8 years (range, 18 and 35) took part in the study. The study followed three assessment sessions: at baseline, during the Lenten (week 7), and 7 weeks after the end of the Lenten (week 14). An automatic chemistry analyzer (Mindray, BE-2000, China) used for lipid profile analysis. We used paired sample t-test in pre and post-performance and repeated measures ANOVA with Bonferroni post hoc adjustment between time points. The statistical significance was set at p < 0.05. Results The EOC fasting with vegan diet induced significantly lower blood pressure, weight, BMI, TC, HDL-C, LDL-C, and TC: HDL-C ratios, during Lenten (that is vegan diet consumption), but a regain noted in these parameters 7-weeks after Lenten (that is omnivore diet). On gender differences, vegan diet associated with significantly lower blood pressure, TC, and LDL-C in females compared with age-matched male counterparts. Some methodological limitations of this study are discussed with particular reference to lack of a randomized control

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