Health Benefits of Vegetarian Diets: An Insight into the Main Topics

Baroni, Luciana and Rizzo, Gianluca and Galchenko, Alexey Vladimirovich and Zavoli, Martina and Serventi, Luca and Battino, Maurizio UNSPECIFIED, UNSPECIFIED, UNSPECIFIED, UNSPECIFIED, UNSPECIFIED, maurizio.battino@uneatlantico.es (2024) Health Benefits of Vegetarian Diets: An Insight into the Main Topics. Foods, 13 (15). p. 2398. ISSN 2304-8158

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Abstract

Vegetarian diets are plant-based diets including all the edible foods from the Plant Kingdom, such as grains, legumes, vegetables, fruits, nuts, and seeds. Dairy and eggs can be added in small amounts in the lacto-ovo-vegetarian subtype, or not at all in the vegan subtype. The abundance of non-processed plant foods—typical of all well-planned diets, including vegetarian ones—can provide the body with numerous protective factors (fiber, phytocompounds), while limiting the intake of harmful nutrients like saturated fats, heme-iron, and cholesterol. The beneficial effects on health of this balance have been reported for many main chronic diseases, in both observational and intervention studies. The scientific literature indicates that vegetarians have a lower risk of certain types of cancer, overall cancer, overweight-obesity, type 2 diabetes, dyslipidemia, hypertension, and vascular diseases. Since the trend of following a vegetarian diet is increasing among citizens of developed countries, the knowledge in the field will benefit from further studies confirming the consistency of these findings and clarifying the effects of vegetarian diets on other controversial topics.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	vegetarian diet; lacto-ovo-vegetarian diet; vegan diet; plant-based diet; health; noncommunicable diseases
Subjects:	Subjects > Nutrition
Divisions:	Europe University of Atlantic > Research > Scientific Production
Depositing User:	Sr Bibliotecario
Date Deposited:	24 Sep 2024 09:20
Last Modified:	24 Sep 2024 09:20
URI:	http://repositorio.funiber.org/id/eprint/14364

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