Special Issue "Vegetarian Nutrition in Health Improvement"

A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Nutrition and Public Health".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 October 2023 | Viewed by 1752

Special Issue Editors

Scientific Society for Vegetarian Nutrition, Scientific Committee, Via Verdi 10/9, 30171 Mestre, VE, Italy
Interests: plant-based nutrition; vegetarian diets; lifestyle medicine; plant food; environmental impact; public health prevention; vitamin b12; cobalamin; homocysteine; Parkinson’s disease
Independent Researcher, Via Venezuela 66, 98121 Messina, Italy
Interests: vegetarian diet; vegan diet; plant-based diet; soy; soy foods; phytoestrogens; isoflavones; vitamin B12; cobalamins; homocysteine; B vitamins; polyunsaturated fatty acids; vitamin D; dietary supplements; oxidative stress; antioxidants
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Dear Colleagues,

In this Special Issue dedicated to “Vegetarian Nutrition in Health Improvement”, we aim to expand the knowledge on the importance of a plant-based diet for public health.

The current literature suggests that vegetarian diets could be beneficial for the prevention and management of some chronic conditions, including metabolic diseases.

Vegetarian diets (i.e., lacto-ovo-vegetarian and vegan) have been recognized as adequate and healthy, but their effect on human health is still debated due to the limited available data.

In this context, your research represents an important source of evidence to detect healthy diets which are also globally sustainable. This could stimulate better prevention policies for the population.

It is therefore important to rigorously describe the health effects of these diets, for the benefit of human health, environment, and sustainability, which are deeply interdependent.

Accepted article types are human-based original research, reviews, perspectives, systematic reviews, and meta-analyses. We encourage the submission of human clinical studies or reviews based on them, avoiding preclinical and in vitro studies, with a margin of tolerance of studies on human cells.

Dr. Luciana Baroni
Dr. Gianluca Rizzo
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • vegetarian diets
  • lacto-ovo-vegetarian diets
  • vegan diets
  • plant-based diets
  • non-communicable chronic diseases
  • cardiovascular
  • diabetes
  • hypertension
  • obesity
  • sustainability

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Impact of Reducing Intake of Red and Processed Meat on Colorectal Cancer Incidence in Germany 2020 to 2050—A Simulation Study
Nutrients 2023, 15(4), 1020; https://doi.org/10.3390/nu15041020 - 17 Feb 2023
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Background: According to the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), there is sufficient evidence for the carcinogenicity of processed meat consumption in humans, specifically regarding colorectal cancer (CRC) risk. Evidence for the carcinogenicity of red meat consumption is more limited but points [...] Read more.
Background: According to the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), there is sufficient evidence for the carcinogenicity of processed meat consumption in humans, specifically regarding colorectal cancer (CRC) risk. Evidence for the carcinogenicity of red meat consumption is more limited but points in the same direction. Methods: A macro-simulation approach was used to calculate age- and sex-specific potential impact fractions in a 30-year period (2020–2050). Aims: We estimated numbers and proportions of future CRC cases preventable under different scenarios of reducing the intake of processed and red meat in the German population. Results: Eliminating processed meat intake could reduce the burden of CRC by approximately 205,000 cases in Germany (9.6%) in 2020–2050, 2/3 among males (145,000) and 1/3 among females (60,000). Without red meat intake, approximately 63,000 CRC cases could be avoided (2.9%), 39,000 among males and 24,000 among females. Reductions in the mean consumption of both processed and red meat by one or two servings (each 11 or 22 g) per day would be expected to reduce CRC case numbers by 68,000 (3.1%) and 140,000 (6.5%), respectively. Conclusion: A reduction in red and processed meat intake might substantially reduce the incidence of CRC in Germany. The means of achieving such a reduction might include price and taxation policies, food labeling, and clearer risk communication aiming to reduce individual intake. Full article
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