{"id":1639,"date":"2018-11-01T06:28:50","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T06:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/?p=1639"},"modified":"2018-11-01T06:28:50","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T06:28:50","slug":"vegan-diet-linked-to-reduced-type-2-diabetes-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/?p=1639","title":{"rendered":"Vegan diet linked to reduced Type-2 diabetes risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>London, <\/strong>A vegan diet rich in fruits, vegetables, nuts, legumes and seeds, with few animal products, is linked to a significantly lower risk of developing Type-2 diabetes.<\/p>\n<p>The study explored that vegan diet is associated with improved psychological well-being in addition to a reduction in the risk factors for Type-2 diabetes, and heart diseases.<\/p>\n<p>For the study, researchers from the University of London, examined 433 people aged the mid-50s, on average.<\/p>\n<p>Results of the study, published in the journal BMJ, showed that while the quality of life &#8212; both physical and emotional &#8212; improved significantly, depressive symptoms and nerve pain (neuropathic pain) also improved in people on the plant-based diet.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to a sharp fall of blood glucose levels in those who cut out or ate very few animal products, these participants also lost nearly twice as much weight.<\/p>\n<p>The fall in blood fats &#8212; a risk factor for cardiovascular disease &#8212; was also greater in those on plant-based diets.<br \/>\nThose following a vegan diet were able to discontinue the drugs they were taking for their diabetes or high blood pressure.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Furthermore, plant-based diets could potentially improve diabetic neuropathic pain and the levels of total cholesterol, cholesterol and triglycerides in Type-2 diabetes,&#8221; the team said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London, A vegan diet rich in fruits, vegetables, nuts, legumes and seeds, with few animal products, is linked to a significantly lower risk of developing Type-2 diabetes. The study explored that vegan diet is associated with improved psychological well-being in addition to a reduction in the risk factors for Type-2 diabetes, and heart diseases. For [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1639","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1641,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions\/1641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}