Usually, almost immediately after being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, doctors will recommend that the diabetes patient loses a little bit of weight.
A healthy diet and moderate exercise is the natural way to do it.
The problem?
Many people have a hard time understanding what constitutes a ‘healthy’ diet. With the advent of marketing in our grocery stores, it’s no wonder that many people mistakenly eat food marketed as ‘healthy’ when it is in fact not.
Vegetarian Diet Leads to Weight Loss
A vegetarian diet cuts out the flesh of animals. While some may choose a vegetarian diet for activist reasons, many are heading that direction for health reasons. Animal flesh, it has been found, can cause major damage to the heart and overall health.
This does not mean that all vegetarian diets are healthy, though. A vegetarian diet full of bread, cookies, and sugary drinks will prove to be detrimental to your health, even in the absence of meat.
But when you do the vegetarian diet right, it garners major results.
In fact, researchers recently announced that the vegetarian diet is twice as effective as a weight loss strategy than a regular diet.
In a study published this year, 74 participants with type 2 diabetes were 
assigned to one of two diets. The first group followed a vegetarian diet and the second followed a more conventional anti-diabetic diet.
The vegetarian diet in the study was full of fruits, vegetables, grains, legumes, nuts, and sometimes yogurt. The anti-diabetic diet followed the recommendations of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes. Both diets contained the same amount of calories each day.
The results were significant. Those in the vegetarian group lost almost twice as much weight as those in the anti-diabetic diet group.
Though weight loss seems to be the ultimate goal, there were details in the study that made the vegetarian diet even more promising.
People following the vegetarian diet group showed a greater reduction in intramuscular fat and subfascial fat than that of the other group. This is especially important for diabetics because subfascial fat is associated with insulin resistance.
So put down the meat and grab all the veggies because the vegetarian diet is the way of your future!
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