A new scientific literature review has found that vegetarian and vegan diets help improve cardiometabolic risk factors, such as elevated lipids, blood sugar, body weight, BMI, and inflammation.
The individuals studied also had a lower risk of ischemic heart disease and gastrointestinal and prostate cancers.
The authors of the study Trusted Source, which was published on May 15, 2024, in the journal PLOS ONE, further stated that people who ate vegetarian diets were at reduced risk for dying from cardiovascular disease.
They did note, however, that pregnant people eating vegetarian diets did not appear to have any difference in their risk of developing gestational diabetes and high blood pressure.
