The meta- analysis provides evidence that vegetarianism is associated with lower serum concentrations of hs-CRP when individuals follow a vegetarian diet for at least 2 years .
A vegetarian diet might be a useful approach to manage inflammaging in the long term
OBJECTIVE Vegetarian diets contain various anti-inflammatory components .
We aim ed to investigate the effects of  vegetarianism  on inflammatory biomarkers when compared with  omnivores .
Changes of faecal flora in rheumatoid arthritis during fasting and one-year vegetarian diet.
The beneficial effect of a 1-yr vegetarian diet in RA has recently been demonstrated in a clinical trial . We have analysed stool sample s of the 53 RA patients by using direct stool sample gas-liquid chromatography of bacterial cellular fatty acids . Based on repeated clinical assessment s disease improvement indices were constructed for the patients . At each time point during the intervention period the patients in the diet group were then assigned either to a group with a high improvement index ( HI ) or a group with a low improvement index ( LI ) . Significant alteration in the intestinal flora was observed when the patients changed from omnivorous to vegan diet . There was also a significant difference between the periods with vegan and lactovegetarian diets . The faecal flora from patients with HI and LI differed significantly from each other at 1 and 13 months during the diet . This finding of an association between intestinal flora and disease activity may have implication s for our underst and ing of how diet can affect RA
The meta- analysis provides evidence that vegetarianism is associated with lower serum concentrations of hs-CRP when individuals follow a vegetarian diet for at least 2 years .
A vegetarian diet might be a useful approach to manage inflammaging in the long term
OBJECTIVE Vegetarian diets contain various anti-inflammatory components .
We aim ed to investigate the effects of  vegetarianism  on inflammatory biomarkers when compared with  omnivores .