A plant-based diet consists mostly of foods like fruits, vegetables, and legumes. Plant-based diets may reduce your risk of ...

Eating a vegan, vegetarian or lacto-ovo vegetarian diet significantly reduces the overall risk of developing cancer, heart disease and dying early from cardiovascular disease, according to a new ...

These days we often hear it discouraged—but researchers in China found that folks who ate it "had higher odds of achieving healthy aging." ...

Researchers from Loma Linda University recently conducted a study, published in the Journal of Nutrition, to explore how various diets affect our health. To do so, they examined 840 people who ...

A lacto-ovo-vegetarian diet, which includes eggs and dairy but excludes meat and fish, and a Mediterranean diet are likely equally effective in reducing the risk of heart disease and stroke, according ...

Vegetarians adhere to plant-based diets, primarily avoiding meat and poultry in lieu of alternative protein sources. The World Animal Foundation reports there are approximately 1.5 billion vegetarians ...

I’m familiar with vegetarian and its variations lacto, ovo, lacto-ovo and vegan. I’ve heard of freegan, and I can figure out pescatarian, beegan, flexitarian and fruitarian. Before today, I had no ...

Low-calorie lacto-ovo-vegetarian and Mediterranean diets appeared equally effective in reducing cardiovascular disease risk factors. Both diets reduced body fat and overall weight by the same amount.