Overweight women give vegan diet high marks.(Scientific update: a review of recent scientific papers related to vegetarian)(Brief Article)

From: Vegetarian Journal | Date: January 1, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

What if overweight women who wanted to lose weight were placed on either a standard low-fat diet or a very low-fat vegan diet? Which diet would be easier for the women to follow? Which would be more effective? These were some of the questions that Dr. Neal Barnard and co-workers at Physicians' Committee for Responsible Medicine set out to answer. They recruited 59 overweight and obese women and assigned them to a diet with no animal products and with 10 percent of calories from fat or to a non-vegetarian diet with 30 percent or fewer calories from fat. The women were taught about ...

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