CNN — Healthy twins who ate a vegan diet for eight weeks had lower “bad” low-density lipoprotein, or LDL, cholesterol, better blood sugar levels,
and greater weight loss than siblings who ate a diet of meat and
vegetables, a new study found.

“There was a 10% to 15% drop in LDL cholesterol, a 25% drop in insulin,
and a 3% drop in body weight in just eight weeks, all by eating real
food without animal products,” said lead study author Christopher
Gardner, a research professor of medicine at the Stanford Prevention
Research Center in Palo Alto, California.

A vegan diet differs from a vegetarian diet in that it eliminates not
only animal flesh but dairy, eggs or any other ingredient derived from
animals. A strictly plant-based diet can be higher in fiber, vitamins, minerals, and phytonutrients compared with other dietary patterns, said Gardner, who is also the director of the Nutrition Studies Research
Group at Stanford.

“The results of this study confirm the benefit of current dietary
guidance to reduce cardiovascular disease risk,” Alice Lichtenstein,
director and senior scientist at Tufts University’s Cardiovascular
Nutrition Laboratory, told CNN in an email. She was not involved in the
study.

“The diet with more unsaturated relative to saturated fat, more whole
grains relative to refined grains, fewer calories, more fiber and
vegetables, and less cholesterol resulted in a more favorable
cardiovascular disease risk factor profile than the comparison diet,”
she said.

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/11/30/health/vegan-twin-study-wellness/index.html

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