Ditching meat and eating vegetarian may lower your cholesterol, help you lose weight, and improve your blood sugar control, new research shows.
The results “demonstrate that consuming a vegetarian diet exerts a modest but significant effect in … reducing multiple key risk factors,” including the “bad” LDL cholesterol; HbA1c – a measure of average blood sugar over 3 months; and body weight, especially in high-risk patients, the study’s authors said.
The vegetarians in the study also saw their blood sugar drop 0.24% and lost an average of 7.5 pounds. The studies, overall, did not show a significant reduction in blood pressure. The most commonly prescribed diets in the studies were: vegan, consisting strictly of plant-based foods; lacto-ovo-vegetarian diets, excluding meat, poultry, and seafood, but allowing dairy products and eggs; and lacto-vegetarian diets, excluding meat, poultry, seafood, and eggs, but allowing dairy products.
The diets may also be high in dietary fiber, mono- and polyunsaturated fatty acids, potassium, and magnesium, and be better for blood sugar, the authors said.
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