J Am Diet Assoc
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Randomized Controlled Trial
A low-fat vegan diet elicits greater macronutrient changes, but is comparable in adherence and acceptability, compared with a more conventional diabetes diet among individuals with type 2 diabetes.
Although therapeutic diets are critical to diabetes management, their acceptability to patients is largely unstudied. ⋯ Despite its greater influence on macronutrient intake, a low-fat, vegan diet has an acceptability similar to that of a more conventional diabetes diet. Acceptability appears to be no barrier to its use in medical nutrition therapy.