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Diabetics
Improve with Vegan Diet
A
new study found that people with Type 2 diabetes, show faster improvement
in blood-glucose level from weight loss by eating a vegan, or vegetarian
diet with no animal products, than eating a non-vegan low-calorie,
low-fat diet.
In
the study, published in Diabetes Care, 99 diabetics were randomly
assigned into either a low-fat vegan-diet group, or a group that
ate a diet prescribed by the American Diabetes Association (ADA),
for 22 weeks. At the end of the study, the people in the vegan-diet
group lost more weight and experienced nearly twice the drop in
HgbA1c (blood glucose) as those in the ADA diet group. The vegan
diet was also associated with greater improvements in cholesterol
levels than the ADA diet.
—Source:
Healthnotes Newswire
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