A Twin Study to Assess Short Term Cardiometabolic Health Benefits of a Vegan Diet

Source https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2023/12/a-twin-study-to-assess-short-term-cardiometabolic-health-benefits-of-a-vegan-diet/

If you’re familiar with discussion of veganism as a lifestyle choice, nothing in this material will all that surprising. Vegans tend towards lower calorie intake and the benefits resulting from that, and that may be the dominant effect when looking at commonly measured health metrics in vegan study participants. It would be interesting to see more comparison studies in which the vegans were held to the same calorie intake as the omnivore control participants, but, alas, that is logistically harder and thus not the approach chosen by most study organizers.

Although it’s well-known that eating less meat improves cardiov…