Vegan Weight Loss Plan

Similarly, Turner-McGrievy (3) et al conducted a randomized controlled trial with overweight adults into 5 different low fat, low glycemic diets without emphasis on calorie reduction. After 6 months, those on the vegan weight loss diet lost anywhere from 3 to 12% of their body weight, vs. 0 to 6.7% of body weight in the omnivorous group.

Ferdowsian HR et al (4) found that a group which ate a low-fat vegan diet for 22 weeks lost on average 5.1 kg vs a gain of 0.1 kg in the control group and an average of 4.7 cm from their waist vs gain of 0.8 cm in the control group. Among the intervention group, 48.5% had a weight loss of 5% body weight compared to only 11.1% among the control group.