Aim: Vegan and vegetarian diets are in an increasing trend worldwide recent years. Vegan/vegetarian diets, which known to have positive effects on health, may result nutrient deficiencies if they not balanced. It is important determine the nutritional status of vegan individuals, whose number Turkey, order build national recommendations. This study was conducted as a pilot energy intake vegan/v...

SAFE is a non-profit European independent organisation based in Brussels, in charge of improving the representation of ordinary citizens in the EU debate concerning the future of EU food legislation. SAFE members are consumer associations, vegan and vegetarian associations spread across different EU countries. The core mission of SAFE is to influence the future of European food legislation in f...

Food habits have a serious role in the emergence of the diseases and inflammation that causes many kinds of diseases. Some case-control studies concluded that high animal fat and cholesterol in diet is associated with some neuroinflammatory diseases such as Parkinson and Alzheimer. High level of cholesterol and lipopolysaccharides(LPS) include the peripheral inflammation in the body. There is e...

Introduction: The Ethiopian Orthodox Church (EOC) Lenten fasting (Abiy Tsom) is a seven-week period of fasting before Easter. It is a religious fasting practice, which has been less documented in the scientific literature. The present study aimed to investigate effect of EOC fasting with vegan diet practices on body composition parameters. Methods: This prospec...

Vitamin B12 deficiency has long been known to present with various neurological manifestations, but only rarely presents as movement disorders, especially in adults. We the case of a 30-year-old vegan male presenting tremors on both legs when standing which was relieved by vitamin supplementation. To best our knowledge, this is first documented slow orthostatic tremor or pseudo-orthostatic caus...

To fulfill the vitamin B12 requirement in chronic strict vegetarian or vegan fortified supplement foods are must essential as it is exclusive component of animal based food, potential neurohematological symptoms generally with anemia but could be the one without anemia in some rare cases of vitamin B12 deficiency status. This case report visualizes the common strict vegetarian neurological rela...