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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,...

We just added this info to Vitamin B12 in Plant Foods: While tempeh is usually made by fermenting soybeans, it can also be made using a different species...

by Jack Norris, RD In 2019, EPIC-Oxford released a report finding a lower rate of ischemic heart disease among vegetarians (HR 0.78, CI 0.70-0.87), but a higher rate...

by Jack Norris, RD Entire article is Bone Fractures among U.K. Vegans: Implications and Recommendations. In Part 6 below: Resistance Training Conclusion Resistance Training It’s likely that the...

by Jack Norris, RD Entire article is Bone Fractures among U.K. Vegans: Implications and Recommendations. [Correction (February 21, 2021): A reader pointed out that in the iodine section,...

by Jack Norris, RD Entire article is Bone Fractures among U.K. Vegans: Implications and Recommendations. In Part 4 below: Vitamin D Calcium Protein Vitamin D One of the...