Vegetarian Diets and Human Health: Current Prospects
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Phytochemicals and Human Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 March 2025 | Viewed by 79
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Healthy vegetarian diets rich in particular nutrients are relevant for a better health. The ethical grounds for choosing a vegetarian diet are clear, but its benefits require further scientific evidence, especially with regards to whether it fulfills human nutritional requirements. Many natural vegetarian dietary supplements, functional foods from plant sources, mushrooms, and other fungi can provide the nutritional elements needed by people who do not take animal-derived proteins. It is a matter of controversy whether vegetarian (and vegan) diets have better nutritional values than non-vegetarian ones in relation to various comorbidities like mental stress, diabetes, obesity, and cardiac diseases. Further detailed research is required to prove this and help the millions of people who rely on these diets.
This Special Issue is particularly interested in various types of research findings, including preclinical studies, clinical trials, experimental research, expert opinions, systematic reviews, and narrative review articles, to highlight contemporary research on the benefits and limitations of vegetarian diets. We look forward to your research contributions.
Dr. Alok Paul
Dr. Maria de Lourdes Pereira
Prof. Dr. Ana Paula Girol
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- vegetarian diet
- vegan diet
- natural nutritional supplements nutrition management
- plant-based proteins
- functional food
- plant-based food
- dietary supplements
- protein requirement
- amino acids
- mushrooms
- fungi
- obesity control
- stress management
- cardiac problems
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