omnivorous Archives - Life Science Review

16 April 202016 April 2020

No significant association between dietary patterns in early pregnancy and risk of gestational diabetes was identified although a high protein-low starch diet did appear to reduce the risk in women who were overweight prior to falling pregnant

In November 2018 researchers from Australia, Vietnam and China published the results of their study to assess the association between dietary patterns during early pregnancy and the risk of gestational … Read more

14 April 202014 April 2020

Fish eaters and vegetarians/vegans appear to have a lower incidence of ischaemic heart disease than meat eaters, although vegetarians/vegans appear to have a higher incidence of stroke

In September 2019 researchers from the UK published the results of their study to assess the effect of vegetarianism on the risk of ischaemic heart disease and stroke. A total … Read more

12 April 202012 April 2020

Total cholesterol absorption appears to be lower only in individuals following a vegan diet

In March 2018 researchers from Germany published the results of their study to assess the association between vegetarian-diet-induced changes in cholesterol metabolism. Male and female omnivores, lacto-ovo vegetarians, lacto vegetarians, … Read more

12 March 202012 March 2020

Vegetarian diets in childhood and adolescence: Position Paper of the Nutrition Committee, German Society for Paediatric and Adolescent Medicine 2019

In November 2019 researchers from Germany, on behalf of the Nutrition Committee of the German Society for Paediatric and Adolescent Medicine, published a Position Paper on the use of vegetarian … Read more

26 February 202026 February 2020

A vegetarian/vegan diet is effective in promoting a diverse ecosystem of beneficial bacteria to support both the human gut microbiome and overall health

In April 2019 researchers from Slovakia and the USA published a review on the effect of vegetarian and vegan diets on gut microbiota. Whilst humans are about 99.9% identical to … Read more

3 February 20203 February 2020

A vegan/vegetarian diet when comparied to an omnivore diet does not appear to have a consistent impact on make-up of the gut microbiome but this could be due to the high variability seen in the gut microbiome

In October 2019 researchers from Germany published their review of the medical scientific literature to assess the impact of vegan or vegetarian diet on the make-up of the gut microbiome. … Read more

15 January 202015 January 2020

Athletes consuming a vegetarian diet may need to increase their protein intake to reach the recommended protein intake of 1.2 g/kg/day

In December 2019 researchers from the USA published the results of their study to assess the dietary protein quality in athletes who are consuming either a vegetarian or non-vegetarian diet. … Read more

15 January 20203 February 2020

Consuming a vegetarian diet during pregnancy does not adversely affect the child’s neurocognitive development as long as the maternal levels of the nutrients required for neurological development are kept within the normal range

In December 2019 researchers from the UK published the results of their study to assess whether vegetarianism during pregnancy is associated with altered maternal nutritional status and with cognitive function … Read more

15 January 202015 January 2020

Although consuming a vegetarian diet at any age is not necessarily unsafe, the Committee on Nutrition and Breastfeeding of the Spanish Paediatric Association recommend that infants and young children should follow an omnivorous diet or, at least, an ovo-lacto-vegetarian diet

In December 2019 the Committee on Nutrition and Breastfeeding of the Spanish Paediatric Association published their position paper on vegetarian diets in infants and children. There is little information on … Read more

7 January 20194 January 2020

Vegetarian type diets appear to be associated with a good health status and is an equal alternative to an omnivorous diet for endurance runners

In December 2018 researchers from Austria, Germany and Switzerland published the results of their study to assess the health status of endurance runners who consumed a vegan (45 individuals), vegetarian … Read more