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- Title
O impacto da dieta vegetariana na prevenção da diabetes mellitus tipo 2.
- Authors
Lobo Leite Carneiro, Angélica Cotta; Resende, Aline Sabina; Aparecida Santos, Elândia; Martins de Oliveira Silva, Gislaine; Flávia Maciel, Priscila
- Abstract
Review article aimed at investigating the possible mechanisms related to the vegetarian diet and type 2 diabetes mellitus. To do so, we conducted a comprehensive literature review from year 2000 to 2012. Among the possible mechanisms linking the disease with vegetarian diet, we highlight how human genes interact with nutrients, mechanism explained by nutrigenetics science, which is able to prevent the rise of chronic diseases such as type 2 diabetes mellitus. Another related mechanism is the protection of antioxidants in oxidative metabolism, to prevent changes favorable to oxidative stress, an important trigger of chronic morbidities. This study enables the understanding of such mechanisms and exposes a comparison between the diet of vegetarians and non-vegetarians (omnivores), and can be useful for nutrition professionals in understanding how a vegetarian diet can benefit the prevention of type 2 diabetes mellitus.
- Subjects
TYPE 2 diabetes -- Nutritional aspects; VEGETARIANISM; VEGETARIAN foods; VEGETARIANS; DIET; PHYSIOLOGY
- Publication
Demetra: Food, Nutrition & Health / Alimentação, Nutrição & Saúde, 2014, Vol 9, Issue 3, p681
- ISSN
2238-913X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.12957/demetra.2014.8885