By YAKOBCHUK VIACHESLAV/shutterstock

Vegan Diet Can Reduce Depression And Diabetes Symptoms? A Study Confirms

by Mayuri Rajvanshi | March 12, 2019

Vegans all over the world have been vouching for the health benefits the cruelty free lifestyle brings in. A recent study just confirmed what vegans have been saying for long; plant based diets can significantly improve the symptoms of depression and diabetes. Keep reading to find out more about the study that claims vegan diet can reduce depression.

You might also like:

• MOTHER RAISING VEGAN CHILD SPARKS DEBATE ONLINE, CALLED CRIMINAL
• OMNI AUNT FEEDS MEAT TO VEGAN NEPHEW; ASKS INTERNET IF SHE’S AN A**HOLE.

You might also like:

• Kids And Teachers Are Teaming Up To Fight Climate Change
• This Isn’t A Movie Plot. New Climate Change Report Shows Earth in Trouble
• Families Going Vegan: How Veganism Would Change the World
• Doomsday Clock for Animals Set Up in London

Vegan Diet Can Reduce Depression Symptoms? A Study Confirms

Your food and mood could be having a direct link and skipping the meat off from your diet could be benefiting your body in more ways than you imagined. A study published by the British Medical Journal found that depression symptoms went down considerably within a few months of starting a plant based diet.

Researchers Anastasios Toumpanakis, Isaura Alba-Barba, and Triece Turnbull initially started on to study and analyze the available literature on the effects of a plant based diet on patients with Type 2 diabetes. With 400 participants for 11 studies, the trio extracted data from them to systematically analyze it for depression, self-esteem, nutritional efficacy, quality of life, perceived pain, general efficacy, neuropathy symptoms, dietary adherence, diet acceptability, total cholesterol, weight, triglycerides, fasting blood glucose, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol and diabetes-related medication.

They concluded that those who switched to a plant based diet, followed by educational interventions, experienced a significant improvement in their psychological health, overall well being, quality of life, weight, and diabetic neuropathic pain. Yet, is the claim that a vegan diet can reduce depression going a step too far? The pleasant surprise came in the form of improvement in the levels of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, triglycerides and total cholesterol for type 2 diabetes patients.

How does it work?

What exactly led to the improvement in symptoms of depression and diabetes is unknown yet. It can be attributed to a combination of factors resulting due to a vegan diet, from giving the body more nutrients in form of veggies and fruits to overall increase of awareness for a healthy lifestyle. Whatever the reasons, the latest findings sure gives the world more reasons to embrace veganism. You aren’t just preventing animal suffering and contributing to a better cause, you’re literally building a new you! Need more reasons to go vegan?

What do you think, vegan diet can reduce depression a reality?

YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE:

• A DRUG SPECIFCALLY FOR POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION MAY BE APPROVED SOON
• Do Dads Get Postpartum Depression And Postpartum Anxiety?
• ‘Forcing Veganism’ Is It Really Forcing Your Kids To Be Vegan?
• 10 Best Vegan-Friendly Cities Around The World
• 4 Most Common Fears Dads To Be Have About Fatherhood

Comments