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• Vegan and vegetarian diets are plant-based diets.

What’s a vegan diet?

A vegan diet is an entirely plant-based diet. It doesn’t include any meat and animal products. So, no meat, poultry, fish, seafood, eggs, dairy or honey.

What’s a vegetarian diet?

• A vegetarian diet is a plant-based diet that generally excludes meat, poultry, fish and seafood, but can include animal products.
• Well, it’s because there are variations on a vegetarian diet: a lacto-ovo vegetariandiet excludes meat, poultry, fish and seafood, but includes eggs, dairy and honey an ovo-vegetariandiet excludes meat, poultry, fish, seafood and dairy, but includes eggs and honey a lacto-vegetariandiet excludes meat, poultry, fish, seafood and eggs, but includes dairy and honey a pescatariandiet excludes meat and poultry, but includes eggs, dairy, honey, fish and seafood a flexitarian, or semi-vegetarian diet, includes eggs, dairy and honey and may include small amounts of meat, poultry, fish and seafood.

Are these diets healthy?

• A 2023 review looked at the health effects of vegetarian and vegan diets from two types of study.
• Observational studies followed people over the years to see how their diets were linked to their health.
• It showed eating a vegetarian diet was associated with a systolic blood pressure (the first number in your blood pressure reading) an average 5 mmHg lower compared with non-vegetarian diets.
• It seems vegetarian diets are more likely to be healthier, across a number of measures.

But it can be about more than just food

• The motivation for following a vegan or vegetarian diet can vary from person to person.
• And for many people who follow a vegan or vegetarian diet, this forms a central part of their identity.

So, should I adopt a vegan or vegetarian diet?

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• The most recognized benefits are bone health (90%) and dental health (79%).
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• “While dairy is a chronically under-consumed food group among many Americans, BIPOC and SNAP-eligible households may benefit most from hearing more about the health benefits associated with consistent dairy consumption.

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• Along with the release of the Women's Health Nutrition Score, Cronometer notes the limitations of current practices in the medical and nutrition industries when it comes to inclusivity of trans and non-binary people.