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# Vegan diet better than doctors proscribed diet for type 2 diabetes mellitus
- URL: https://www.foodconsumer.org/vegan_diet_diabetes_mellitus_0613140538/
- Published: 2014-06-13T18:38:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-22T15:49:22.000Z
- Description: A report in Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition finds low-fat vegan diets controlled blood sugar better than American Diabetes Association diets in type 2 diabetes, and that vegan dietary portfolios improved blood lipids more than National Cholesterol Education Program diets.
- Author: Food Consumer
- Tags: Diabetes, Avoiding Illness, #vivvo-import

Friday June 13, 2014 (foodconsumer.org) -- Patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus have likely received dietary advice from their physicians to improve blood sugar control and blood lipid profile. A report in Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition suggests that traditional vegan diet performs better than the traditional diet prescribed to type 2 diabetes mellitus patients.

The vegan diet outperforms the diet recommended by the National Cholesterol Education Program in terms of cholesterol control.

The American Diabetes Association (ADA) and the National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) have their own dietary guidelines to recommend to patients with diabetes or high cholesterol to help them improve glycemic control and blood lipids, respectively.

The authors claim that the traditional vegan diets which are low-fat diets that proscribe animal product consumption can effectively improve glycemic control, and dietary portfolios which are vegan diets that contain specific amounts of plant sterols, fibers, soy protein, and nuts effectively improve blood lipid profile. 

The authors compared the effects of traditional vegan diets and dietary portfolios with diets recommended by ADA and NCEP, respectively, on body weight, blood cholesterol, blood pressure, glycemic control and found traditional vegan diets seem to better control blood sugar than the ADA diets in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus while the dietary portfolios also better improves blood lipids than NCEP diets in patients with high cholesterol. (David Liu, PHD)

Trepanowski JF, Varady KA. Veganism is a viable alternative to conventional diet therapy for improving blood lipids and glycemic control. Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition, 2014 Jun 12.