This article reviews research on the growth and nutrient intake of vegan children and provides guidelines for counselling parents of vegan children. Although diets of vegan children meet or exceed recommendations for most nutrients, and vegan children have higher intakes of fiber and lower intakes of total fat, saturated fat, and cholesterol than omnivore children, some studies indicate that th...

Vegetarian diets are associated with several health benefits, but whether a vegetarian or vegan diet is beneficial for athletic performance has not yet been defined. Based on the evidence in the literature that diets high in unrefined plant foods are associated with beneficial effects on overall health, lifespan, immune function, and cardiovascular health, such diets likely would promote improv...

This article covers some important concepts and controversies in modern nutritional science. It describes a diet style designed to maximize health, longevity, and disease reversal—foundationally structured on the quality and comprehensive adequacy of nutrients rather than the balance of macronutrients, as is more popular today. I call such a diet, which attempts to optimize micronutrients, a nu...

Recently, Clarys et al. [1] published a study comparing dietary intake of individuals following different dietary patterns (Vegan, Vegetarian, Semi-Vegetarian, Pesco-Vegetarian and Omnivorous Diet). The results showed that the vegetarian group presented a considerable consumption of dietary cholesterol, especially the vegan group (149 mg/day on average), which by definition does not eat animal ...

Eating healthier or vegetarian and vegan diets are suggested options to reduce the environmental impact of the current diet. In this paper we investigate different scenarios and assess the reduction of environmental impact after restoring the nutritional adequacy by replacements. We used Linear Programming to find solutions that are as close as possible to the current diet, first without any fo...

OBJECTIVE To demonstrate the effects of a very low-fat, vegan diet on patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). DESIGN Single-blind dietary intervention study. SUBJECTS AND STUDY INTERVENTIONS: This study evaluated the influence of a 4-week, very low-fat (approximately 10%), vegan diet on 24 free-living subjects with RA, average age, 56 +/- 11 years old. OUTCOME MEASUREMENTS Prestudy and pos...

Vegan diet (VD) is a that consists of only plant based foods. This completely excludes all animal products; meat, fish, poultry and also food gotten from milk, oil honey. differs vegetarian diet, although they are similar; some include egg (ovo vegetarians), milk animals (lacto vegetarians) or fish (pescovegetarian) in their diet. VD believed to be healthier than diets containing produce genera...

BACKGROUND Although vegan-vegetarian diets are increasingly popular, no recent systematic reviews on vegan-vegetarian diets in pregnancy exist. OBJECTIVES To review the literature on vegan-vegetarian diets and pregnancy outcomes. SEARCH STRATEGY PubMed, Embase, and the Cochrane library were searched from inception to September 2013 for pregnancy and vegan or vegetarian Medical Subject Headi...

BACKGROUND Since information about macro- and micronutrient intake among vegans is limited we aimed to determine and evaluate their dietary and supplementary intake. METHODS Seventy 18-61 years old Danish vegans completed a four-day weighed food record from which their daily intake of macro- and micronutrients was assessed and subsequently compared to an age-range-matched group of 1,257 omniv...

AIM Energy restricted meal plans may compromise nutrient intake. This study used diet modelling to assess the nutritional adequacy of energy restricted meal plans designed for weight management in young obese women. METHODS Diet modelling of 6000 kJ/d animal protein based meal plans was performed using Australian nutrient databases with adequacy compared to the Australian Nutrient Reference V...