Vegan diet may improve mood and alleviate symptoms in victims of type II diabetes. This is a great way of dealing with depression, the study showed.
The transition to a vegan diet helps patients with type II diabetes not only lose weight but also feel more happy. Following a vegetable or a purely vegan diet gives the ability to better control the disorder to reduce blood sugar levels and even reduce the severity of depression. In Russia about 10 million diabetics, 90% of them suffer from type II diabetes, which is associated with poor nutrition and low physical activity. The researchers conducted a meta-analysis of 11 scientific papers and found that following a vegetarian or plant-based diet improves health and quality of life and reduces the level of depression, which generally occur three times more often in diabetics.
So, those on the vegan diet people lose weight, on average, 5.2 kg compared to 2.8 kg for those who consumed meat products. During 7 trials was a decline in the sugar level among the fans of a plant-based diet is three times more pronounced than those who consumed animal products. Therefore, vegan or vegetarian diet helps to better tolerate diabetes and reduces the dependence on medication. 43% of fans of this supply in the course of the studies significantly reduced the number of medications you take.
Experts from the University of London emphasise that this diet has both physical and psychological benefits. People have reported positive changes in the management of symptoms of diabetes. But researchers from the University of Exeter added that a vegan diet traditionally contains low amount of calories. Therefore, we cannot exclude that any non-vegetarian food with low calories can give exactly the same effect. (READ MORE)