{"id":17706,"date":"2021-09-17T10:15:40","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T09:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/?p=17706"},"modified":"2021-09-13T09:02:24","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T08:02:24","slug":"nutrition-evidence-alert-september-2021-vegan-diets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/nutrition-evidence-alert-september-2021-vegan-diets\/","title":{"rendered":"Nutrition Evidence Alert \u2013 September 2021 – Vegan Diets"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to the September edition of the Nutrition Evidence Alert.<\/h2>\n
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\"\"Vegan Diets – What does the Science Say?<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the last decade, many people have converted to a plant-based diet. The reasons are varied, but often the motivation is environmental, ethical and\/or related to health. Indeed, the desire to eat minimally processed plant foods, in season and grown locally, combine well from both the environmental and sustainability perspectives and health motivations. The newly released National Food Strategy Part 2 <\/a>discusses this issue in detail and puts forward a number of proposals with regards to supporting population health and sustainable food systems for the benefit of people and our plant and is well worth a read.<\/p>\n

Scientific\u00a0studies have observed several health benefits of a vegan diet including lower blood pressure, lower LDL cholesterol and reduced risk of\u00a0type two diabetes and\u00a0cancer. However, studies have also noted that plant-based diets tend to be lower in nutrients such as B12, calcium, zinc, iodine and selenium. Therefore, when working with those following plant-based diets, special consideration needs to be given to ensuring adequate intake of these nutrients.<\/p>\n

Our Guest Editor this month, Caroline Farrell, brings to our attention the latest evidence on\u00a0vegan diets and\u00a0health. \u00a0You can access her top picks of the research below.<\/p>\n

To expand your reading, the editorial team has\u00a0selected\u00a048\u00a0papers<\/a>\u00a0which present more of\u00a0the current\u00a0science on this topic.<\/p>\n

Happy researching!<\/p>\n

Top Pick Articles on Plant-based Diets<\/strong><\/p>\n

The following articles\u00a0are featured as “recommended reading” this month:\u200b<\/a><\/p>\n

Intake and adequacy of the vegan diet. A systematic review of the evidence<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Clinical Nutrition. 2021<\/p>\n

Systematic review and meta-analysis of the associations of vegan and vegetarian diets with inflammatory biomarkers<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Science Reports. 2020<\/p>\n

Association between plant-based diets and plasma lipids: a systematic review and meta-analysis<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Nutrition Review. 2017<\/p>\n

Vegans, Vegetarians, and Omnivores: How Does Dietary Choice Influence Iodine Intake? A Systematic Review.\u00a0<\/a>in\u00a0Nutrients. 2020<\/p>\n

Effects of Vegetarian Diets on Blood Pressure Lowering: A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis and Trial Sequential Analysis<\/a>. in Nutrients. 2020<\/p>\n

Effectiveness of plant-based diets in promoting well-being in the management of type 2 diabetes: a systematic review<\/a>. in BMJ Open Diabetes Residential Care. 2018<\/p>\n

Anti-Inflammatory Effects of a Vegan Diet Versus the American Heart\u00a0Association-Recommended Diet in Coronary Artery Disease Trial<\/a>. in Journal of American Heart Association. 2018<\/p>\n

Vitamin and Mineral Status in a Vegan Diet<\/a>. in Dtsch Arztebl Int. 2020<\/p>\n

Vegan diets: practical advice for athletes and exercisers<\/a>. in Journal of\u00a0International Society of Sports Nutrition. 2017<\/p>\n

A plant-based diet for the prevention and treatment of type 2 diabetes<\/a>.\u00a0in Journal of Geriatric Cardiology. 2017<\/p>\n

Vegans, Vegetarians and Pescatarians Are at Risk of Iodine Deficiency in Norway<\/a>.\u00a0in\u00a0Nutrients. 2020<\/p>\n

Is a vegan diet detrimental to endurance and muscle strength?<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0European Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 2020<\/p>\n

Alpha-Linolenic and Linoleic Fatty Acids in the Vegan Diet: Do They Require Dietary Reference Intake\/Adequate Intake Special Consideration?<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Nutrients. 2019<\/p>\n

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Welcome to the September edition of the Nutrition Evidence Alert. Vegan Diets – What does the Science Say? In the last decade, many people have converted to a plant-based diet. The reasons are varied, but often the motivation is environmental, ethical and\/or related to health. Indeed, the desire to eat minimally processed plant foods, in season and grown locally, combine well from both the environmental and sustainability perspectives and health motivations. The newly released National Food Strategy Part 2 discusses this issue in detail and puts forward a number of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":17707,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[158],"tags":[159,161,528,737,738,733,728,739,734,731,735,709,297,732,172,173,340,23,200,727,729,298,736,502,723,725,724,730,726],"table_tags":[],"class_list":["post-17706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ned-alert","tag-bant","tag-british-association-for-nutrition-and-lifestyle-medicine","tag-energy","tag-environment","tag-ethical-choices","tag-fatty-acids","tag-flexitarian-diet","tag-food-systems","tag-inflammatory-biomarkers","tag-iodine-deficiency","tag-meat-reduction","tag-national-food-strategy","tag-ned-alert","tag-nutrient-deficiency","tag-nutrition","tag-nutrition-evidence-database","tag-nutrition-science","tag-nutritional-therapy","tag-personalised-nutrition","tag-plant-based","tag-plant-based-diet","tag-science","tag-sustainability","tag-type-2-diabetes","tag-vegan","tag-vegan-diet","tag-veganism","tag-veganism-and-sports-nutrition","tag-vegetarian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17706"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/media\/17707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17706"},{"taxonomy":"table_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bant.org.uk\/call\/wp\/v2\/table_tags?post=17706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}