A new study has found that adopting a low-fat vegan diet may reduce the daily insulin requirement of patients with Type 1 diabetes by nearly 30 percent.
Insulin is a hormone that helps remove glucose (a type of sugar) from the bloodstream and transports it to muscle and liver cells, where it is used as energy. Patients with Type 1 diabetes require insulin injections because their bodies do not produce sufficient amounts of the hormone.
In the study, researchers compared the effects of a low-fat vegan diet with a portion-controlled diet.
The results showed that individuals who followed a vegan diet experienced a 28 percent reduction in their total daily insulin requirement — an average decrease of 12.1 units - while no significant changes were observed in the control group.
