The research team said: «Vegetarian (including vegan) diets have benefits for cardiovascular health, hypertension, body weight and plasma lipids, and also provide nutritional advantages compared
with omnivorous diets.»
Many large studies of nutrition have indicated lower rates of chronic diseases for study subjects following a vegan diet compared
with an omnivorous diet.
This amount is easy to achieve
with an omnivorous diet because people's favorite animal - based foods — meat, eggs, and dairy — also happen to be rich sources of protein.
Not exact matches
«This is one of the most delicate issues
with climate protection, because we all have our habits and
diet is something quite holy for some people, not to be meddled
with,» said Jo Leinen, an
omnivorous German member of the European Parliament.
The results were skewed slightly by the fact that more people stuck to the meat free
diet than stuck to the
omnivorous one — 55 per cent kept strictly to their veggie regimen, compared
with only 32 per cent on the other
diet — but that could just show that when it comes to keeping people interested in healthy eating, deliciousness is a factor too.
As a relative newcomer to the American pantry, this superfood's popularity has been on the rise not only for the
omnivorous eaters but also for people
with gluten - free or vegetarian
diets.
However, they differ considerably
with regard to
diet, ranging from strictly carnivorous (cat) to
omnivorous (dog) to exclusive plant eaters (giant panda).
The investigators found that despite their
diet, these giant pandas, together
with nine captive and seven wild individuals investigated previously, showed extremely low gut microbiota diversity and an overall structure that diverged from non-panda plant - eaters but was similar to carnivorous and
omnivorous bears.
«Some earlier workers had suggested that the
diets of bears and pigs — which have an
omnivorous, eclectic feeding strategy that varies greatly based on local conditions — share much in common
with those of our early ancestors.
So they began an experiment, feeding hamsters wheat or corn in the lab,
with either clover or earthworms to better reflect the animals» normal,
omnivorous diets.
According to the study, turkeys fattened up on an all - grain
diet were found to have brains that had failed to grow normally: The all - grain turkey brains weighed in at slightly over two - thirds the weight of the brains of turkeys in the wild — turkeys
with full access to the bugs, worms, and small lizards typical of a turkey's natural
omnivorous diet.
While vegetarian
diets do not need to be high in carbohydrate, they do tend to be higher in carbohydrate than
omnivorous diets, because meat tends to be replaced
with starches.
A dietary review of 49 observational and controlled studies found plant - based vegetarian
diets, especially vegan
diets, are associated
with lower levels of total cholesterol, including lower levels of HDL and LDL cholesterol, compared to
omnivorous diets.
If you compare the nutritional quality of «vegan [vs.] vegetarian, semi-vegetarian, pesco - vegetarian and
omnivorous diets, traditional healthy
diet - indexing systems, like compliance
with the dietary guidelines, consistently indicate the most plant - based
diet as «the most healthy one.»
That has nothing to do
with having a solid plant - based
omnivorous diet with high quality and ethically raised meat.
Finding: «a vegetarian
diet is associated
with a lower muscle mass index than is an
omnivorous diet at the same protein intake.
A vegetarian or vegan
diet can provide all of the essential amino acids a person needs,
with less fat than an
omnivorous diet.
A plant - based
diet is more likely that an
omnivorous diet to be high in «goitrogens,» compounds which can interfere
with iodine uptake by the thyroid when iodine is in short supply.
Vegetarian and vegan
diets were associated
with much lower sperm counts than
omnivorous diets,» said Dr Eliza Orzylowska an obstetrician at Loma Linda University Medical Centre in California.
On the other hand, dogs are considered to be carnivores as well but lean more to the
omnivorous side, which means that they need to be fed a
diet with more fiber than carnivorous animals such as cats.