Nutrients that are found in very
small amounts in a vegetarian diet and are likely to be beneficial for
vegetarians include:
B12, Methtylcobalamin
is a B vitamin often deficient in such a diet.
Carnitine
plays an essential role in the
integration of fat and carbohydrate oxidation in skeletal muscle
CoQ10
is used for mitochondrial energy, you can buy
CoQ10-50mg here and you will see other options at
30 mg, 60 mg, and 100 mg.
Creatine dose from 500 mg
to 2,000 mg a few times a week.
Creatine
safety increases muscle mass and makes you stronger.
Fish oils since
vegetarians often do not get these highly polyunsaturated omega3 fatty acids.
Diabetes diet vegetarian
Those who have diabetes should make sure they ingest enough omeg-3 fatty acids
since they not be obtaining important fatty acids such as EPA and DHA that are
found in fish.
Vegan Diet better than ADA
diet?
According to a report in Diabetes Care, a journal published by the American
Diabetes Association, those who eat a low-fat vegan diet lower their blood sugar
more, have lower
cholesterol levels, and lose more weight than people on a
standard American Diabetes Association diet. The vegan diet does not have animal
products such as meat, fish and dairy and is low in fat and sugar. Researchers
tested 99 people with type 2 diabetes, assigning them randomly to either a
low-fat, low-sugar vegan diet (without meat, fish, or dairy) or the standard
American Diabetes Association diet. After 22 weeks on the diet, 43 percent of
those on the vegan diet and 26 percent of those on the standard diet were either
able to stop taking some of their drugs such as insulin or glucose-control
medications, or lowered the doses. The vegan dieters lost 14 pounds on average
while the diabetes association dieters lost 7 pounds. An important level of
glucose control called hemoglobin a1c fell by 1.2 points in the vegan group and
by 0.38 in the group on the standard diet. In the dieters who did not change
whatever cholesterol drugs they were on during the study, LDL or "bad"
cholesterol fell by 21 percent in the vegan group and 10 percent in the standard
diet group. Participants said the vegan diet was easier to follow because they
did not have to measure portions or count calories.
Our thoughts: We give credit to the ADA for admitting that another type of diet
works better than their diet. There is no doubt that diet
has much more to do with blood sugar and cholesterol control than most doctors
realize. However, vegans and vegetarians need to make sure they are getting
adequate amounts of nutrients that could be lacking in their diet. These include
B12, carnitine, the omega3 fatty acids EPA and DHA, creatine, CoQ10, and others.
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