Study finds vegans don’t get enough of this essential thing in their diets

Vegan nutrition consists exclusively of plants. But do you get all the substances that the body needs? A research team has to find out that almost half of the vegan living people take up too little lysine and leucine. A deficiency can lead to muscle breakdown and weakness.

Vegan diets have good levels of key amino acids, but there's a catch

It is harder for our bodies to absorb key nutrients from plant-based foods, so some vegans may be short on essential amino acids for healthy muscles and bones despite eating plenty of protein

Study finds vegans don’t get enough of this essential thing in their diets

Even people on a strict vegan diet who eat enough total protein may fall short of the required levels of this.

Even vegans who get enough total protein may fall short for some essential amino acids, findings suggest

In a new study of people with long-term vegan diets, most ate an adequate amount of total daily protein, but a significant proportion did not meet required levels of the amino acids lysine and leucine. Bi Xue Patricia Soh and colleagues at Massey University, New Zealand, present these findings in the open-access journal PLOS One.

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New research reveals that the vegan diet can lack key nutrients, but they are easy to obtain in these protein sources

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