Introduction and purpose: Vegan vegetarian diets rise in popularity. Their succes can be attributed to growing ecological awarness trends culture. Opponents criticise these as incompletely nutritional. In this review, we would like summarise the state of knowledge over effects vegan on skeletal system. Bone Mineral Density is a widely used indicator likelyhood fracture develompent osteoporosis....

‘There is no disease, bodily or mental, which adoption of vegetable diet and pure water has not infallibly mitigated, wherever the experiment has been fairly tried. Debility is gradually converted into strength, disease into healthfulness . . . the unaccountable irrationalities of illtemper, that make hell of domestic life, into a calm and considerable evenness of temper . . .’. So wrote the po...

Plant foods contain a negligible amount of vitamin B12; thus, vegans have difficulty meeting the recommended daily allowance (2.4 μg) and maintaining adequate serum concentrations of B12. In a cross-sectional study of 689 men, 121 of 232 vegans (52%) were B12 deficient (<118 pmol/L), whereas only 1 of 226 omnivores (0%) was B12 deficient.15 A prospective study of 20 omnivores who adopted a vega...

Gastric causes: gastrectomy, gastric resection, atrophic gastritis, H. pylori infection or congenital IF deficiency or abnormality. Inadequate dietary intake of vitamin B12 eg, a vegan diet. Intestinal causes eg, malabsorption, ileal resection, Crohn's disease affecting the ileum, chronic tropical sprue, HIV and any radiotherapy causing irradiation of the ileum. Drugs eg, colchicine, neomycin, ...

Background: Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States. Dietary factors account for at least 30% of all cancers in Western countries. As people do not consume individual foods but rather combinations of them, the assessment of dietary patterns may offer valuable information when determining associations between diet and cancer risk. Methods:We examined the association betw...

In a comment on several articles on the vegan dietary pattern, Antoniazzi &amp; Acosta-Navarro (2017) mentioned the paradox of the presence of dietary cholesterol as a nutritional component in the analysis of the vegan dietary pattern [1]. [...].