A vegan diet can increase your risk of blood clots and atherosclerosis, suggests a new study. Both are risk factors for heart attack and stroke.
To allow the milk and cheese, unlike some vegetarian diets vegan diet includes all animal foods, including dairy products.
But the new study claims a vegan diet - usually praised for its health benefits - critically low in several important nutrients like vitamin B12 and Omega 3 fatty acids, which experts recommend vegan expand their diet or take vitamin supplements.
Published in Journal of agricultural and food chemistry, researchers in the last 30 years and found that all animal food to avoid dozens of articles on the biochemistry of vegetarianism have an increased risk of developing blood clots and atherosclerosis.
High cholesterol can atherosclerosis that occurs when fatty material builds and hardens (forming calcium deposits) along the walls of the arteries. The US National Library of medicine national institutes of health warns that arteriosclerosis can finally block arteries.
A vegan or vegetarian diet is widely believed, the risk of cardiovascular disease, in contrast to a meat-heavy diet, that is consumed too much saturated fat raises cholesterol which leads to heart disease.
But researchers say a vegan diet lacking sufficient iron, zinc, vitamin B12 and Omega-3 fatty acids; Vegan, cause homocysteine and low HDL (or "good") cholesterol in the blood have increased. Both are risk factors for cardiovascular disease.
Homocysteine is an amino acid found, in the blood high were linked heart disease. According to the American Heart Association, homocysteine levels are "strongly influenced" by diet.
She increased heart risks to avoid and so enough B12 and Omega-3, the researchers recommend certain nuts such as walnuts, eggs, fortified milk, consuming fatty fish like salmon, or taking supplements.
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