Vegan And Vegetarian Diets Help Lower HbA1c And Cholesterol Levels, Improve Other Cardiometabolic Risk Factors In Certain Individuals With Type 2 Diabetes

reports that “vegan and vegetarian diets help lower HbA1c and cholesterol levels and improve other cardiometabolic risk factors in middle-aged, overweight people controlling their type 2 diabetes with medications, say authors of a literature review published online in Clinical Nutrition.” The authors “found that vegetarian diets compared with nonvegetarian diets improved the primary outcome of HbA1c by 0.29%.”