Participants who followed a 16-week vegan diet experienced significant changes to gut microbes linked to improved body weight, body composition and blood sugar control. Inspired by the 2011 documentary Forks Over Knives on Netflix, however, he was committed to trying a vegan diet. A vegan diet also “makes you feel more clear-headed and able to focus,” Fergusson adds, partly because it doesn’t take so much energy for your body to digest. Whole, unrefined plant foods are helpful to weight loss in part because they have slow-release carbohydrates that leave us feeling fuller longer. That’s a boon to those who would never have considered a vegan diet in the past — as long as plant food isn’t shorthand for junk food.

Source: National Post November 29, 2019 03:45 UTC