Over six months, the study found that the meat free eaters lost more
weight than the omnivore dieters — 6.2 kg, compared to 3.2 kg — as well as more body fat.
May still be a bell curve effect where the average mood is better amongst vegans / vegos
than omnivores for example but still they lie on a bell curve and maybe you're not affected much since you're still at 1 end of the bell curve?
Cats are carnivores
rather than omnivores, so they have higher protein requirements than dogs, but «cats can digest and utilize carbohydrates quite well,» said Andrea Fascetti, a veterinary nutritionist at the University of California Veterinary School in Davis.
Also, check out Dr. Greger's video on vegan protein status showing that vegans had higher circulating protein
levels than omnivores due to reduced inflammation in the liver.
Other vegetarian or near - vegetarian diets are lower in methionine
than omnivores diets, but not as low as vegan diets.
Cats have much higher protein
needs than omnivores and surprisingly, they don't adapt well to reduced protein or fasting [Cen2002].
al., tested the hypothesis that herbivores — and their plant diets — have evolved to have greater number of Tas2r bitter taste receptor genes in their
genomes than omnivores or carnivores.
It is found exclusively in animal products, which may be one reason why vegetarians and vegans have higher levels of
AGEs than omnivores.37, 38
While many studies of vegetarians find that they tend to weigh less on
average than omnivores, there is no evidence that people who avoid meat are more successful at losing weight than people who eat meat.
This just means that if you want to get a significant amount of your protein from plants, grains, seeds, vegetables, and the like, you need to be more
discriminating than an omnivore.
Cognitive deficits may be an early sign of B12 deficiency, which is more frequent in vegans and
vegetarians than omnivores (see also here).
Although it has been shown that the good bacteria thrive extremely well in the presence of non-tannin phytonutrients and that vegans almost always have much better intestinal
microflora than omnivores, a large percentage of the good bacteria are acid - loving lactic acid bacteria (lactobacilli and bifidobacteria) and may thrive better in the presence of the LEAST alkaline non-tannin phytonutrients rather than in the presence of the most alkaline non-tannin phytonutrients.
Similarly, vegetarian diets reduce zinc absorption by 35 % compared to omnivorous diets due to phytate content, such that vegetarians may require up to 50 % more
zinc than omnivores (58).
They found that vegans were significantly less
polluted than omnivores regarding a whole list of carcinogenic industrial toxins and pesticides — even after controlling for age and weight, which makes the difference in contamination even more dramatic, because, of course, the vegans had less body fat.
Health - conscious vegetarians who eat pastured dairy and eggs may well live
longer than omnivores eating processed, packaged and fast foods.
The biggest study on vegans in human history found that not only are vegans leaner than everyone else — leaner than vegetarians, who are
leaner than omnivores — but vegans get less of that age - related weight gain.
Vegans who consume more of these foods may be at a higher risk, and DiNicolantonio and McCarty cite one study that found vegans do indeed have higher blood concentration of
cadmium than omnivores.
Though the trials varied in length and calorie counts, researchers found that participants following the plant - based diets consistently lost more
weight than the omnivores, averaging 4.5 pounds greater weight loss.
Vegetarians typically have significantly lower cholesterol
levels than omnivores, and vegans usually have the lowest.
Those keen to shed a few pounds in 2016 will also have been inspired by research from Taiwan showing that meat - free dieters can shed as much as 2 kg
more than omnivores.
2) Vegetarians, probably because they tend to be more health - conscious as a group, also tend to smoke less, drink less, and exercise more
than omnivores.
People who believe in raw diets sometimes see dogs as carnivores more
than omnivores, hence the raw meat.