{"id":12418,"date":"2018-11-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2018\/11\/01\/plant-based-diets-beneficial-for-adults-with-type-2-diabetes\/"},"modified":"2018-11-02T16:01:21","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T16:01:21","slug":"plant-based-diets-beneficial-for-adults-with-type-2-diabetes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2018\/11\/01\/plant-based-diets-beneficial-for-adults-with-type-2-diabetes\/","title":{"rendered":"Plant-Based Diets Beneficial for Adults With Type 2 Diabetes"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Significant improvements observed in emotional and physical well-being, depression, quality of life, HbA1c<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>THURSDAY, Nov. 1, 2018 (HealthDay News) &#8212; For adults with type 2 diabetes, plant-based diets can improve psychological health, quality of life, hemoglobin A1c levels, and weight, according to a review published online Oct. 30 in <i>BMJ Open Diabetes Research &#038; Care<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Anastasios Toumpanakis, from the University of London, and colleagues conducted a systematic review to analyze plant-based diet interventions targeting diabetes in adults and to define the benefits of such interventions. Data were included for 11 studies with 433 participants.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers found that, compared with several diabetes associations&#8217; official guidelines and other comparator diets, plant-based diets were correlated with significant improvements in emotional well-being, physical well-being, depression, quality of life, general health, hemoglobin A1c levels, weight, total cholesterol, and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is further need of studies to explore the relationship between psychological health, dietary patterns\/behavior and diabetes control,&#8221; the authors write. &#8220;Future studies could explore ways of delivering proper nutritional education in order to support participants to follow healthier dietary patterns.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/drc.bmj.com\/content\/6\/1\/e000534\" target=\"_new\">Abstract\/Full Text<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Significant improvements observed in emotional and physical well-being, depression, quality of life, HbA1c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":12437,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-12418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}