Health

By Jack Norris, RD, LD Whether vegetarians and vegans should supplement with the long-chain omega-3 fatty acids, EPA or DHA, or can rely on their conversion from the...

by Jack Norris, RD, LD We’ve updated our article, Omega-3s Part 2: Research, with the following analysis that examines the long-chain omega-3 fatty acid levels of vegetarians compared...

By Jack Norris, RD, LD I’ve concluded a personal experiment using a daily multivitamin that I conducted after writing the article, Are Multivitamins an Adequate Source of B12...

by Jack Norris, RD, LD I’ve updated VeganHealth’s Iron article. Our recommendations haven’t changed but the article incorporates a large amount of recent research and has been streamlined....

Summary Vegans who rely solely on a daily multivitamin for vitamin B12 should make sure it meets VeganHealth’s minimum recommendation for a daily dose, which is 5 µg...

By Taylor Wolfram, MS, RDN, LDN We created a new article to house research on miscellaneous disease rates of vegetarians, including cataracts. The page includes research that we...

By Jack Norris, RD Thorpe et al. (2021) published a report from the Adventist Health Study-2 comparing hip fracture rates of different diet groups among white participants only...

By Taylor Wolfram, MS, RDN, LDN We recently updated our collagen article with a few studies investigating curcumin in the management of osteoarthritis. Two meta-analyses of randomized controlled...

by Taylor Wolfram, MS, RDN, LDN A recent study compared three plant-based burgers available in the European Union (Beyond Burger, Incredible Burger, and Planty-of-Burger) to 85% beef burgers....

We’ve updated our article on White Blood Cells in Vegans. We added a cross-sectional study that found that vegans had significantly lower white blood cell counts than nonvegetarians,...