Vegetarian and vegan diets can contribute to good health, provided you ensure that it is intake of essential nutrients. This is, in essence, the conclusion of collective expert report Relating to the effects on the health of vegetarian (excluding animal flesh, but consuming dairy products or eggs) and vegan (without any animal food) published, Thursday, March 13, by the National Agency for Food, Environment and Labor (ANSES).
Coming from an agency car, this work aims to draw up the inventory of knowledge on these supplies and to offer clear nutritional benchmarks for the populations concerned, between 2 % and 3 % of the French population, according to surveys. The proportion is however higher among young people and part of the population plans to adopt one of these regimes, for health, environmental reasons or for the sake of animal welfare.
“What we wanted to see was the effect in the time of vegetarian and vegan diets”explains Perrine Nadaud, assistant to the head of the risk assessment unit linked to nutrition and coordinator of expertise. For this, dozens of experts have identified several thousand articles in scientific journals with a reading committee, of which they have only kept the most robust for their evaluation: those based on the largest epidemiological cohorts and whose characteristics can be transposed to the French population.
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