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| Title |
Flexitarian Diets and Health: A Review of the Evidence-Based Literature
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Frontiers in Nutrition, January 2017
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| DOI | 10.3389/fnut.2016.00055 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Emma J. Derbyshire |
| Abstract |
A flexitarian or semi-vegetarian diet (SVD) is one that is primarily vegetarian with the occasional inclusion of meat or fish. Of late, there appears to be an increasing movement toward this practice. There has not been a recent update on these diets from a health perspective. Using the National Centre for Biotechnology Information PubMed database, a search was made for all studies published between 2000 and 2016 that met defined inclusion criteria. A total of 25 studies were located with 12 focusing on body weight and diet quality. There was emerging evidence suggestive of benefits for body weight, improved markers of metabolic health, blood pressure, and reduced risk of type 2 diabetes. SVD may also have a role to play in the treatment of inflammatory bowel diseases, such as Crohn's disease. Given that there is a higher tendency for females to be flexitarian yet males are more likely to overconsume meat, there is a clear need to communicate the potential health benefits of these diets to males. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 58 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 19 | 33% |
| United States | 3 | 5% |
| Canada | 3 | 5% |
| Australia | 2 | 3% |
| Ireland | 2 | 3% |
| France | 1 | 2% |
| Japan | 1 | 2% |
| India | 1 | 2% |
| Spain | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 25 | 43% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 26 | 45% |
| Members of the public | 21 | 36% |
| Scientists | 7 | 12% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 4 | 7% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 537 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Italy | 1 | <1% |
| Switzerland | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 535 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 102 | 19% |
| Student > Master | 95 | 18% |
| Researcher | 41 | 8% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 36 | 7% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 16 | 3% |
| Other | 47 | 9% |
| Unknown | 200 | 37% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Nursing and Health Professions | 63 | 12% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 57 | 11% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 52 | 10% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 19 | 4% |
| Social Sciences | 17 | 3% |
| Other | 112 | 21% |
| Unknown | 217 | 40% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1219. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 20 June 2024.
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