AUTHOR:-RUCHI C. GADHER
1.Do vegetarian marketing campaigns promote a vegan diet?
Our trivariate model of omnivorous, vegetarian, and vegan consumption is estimated using twenty years of UK data. … For long-running campaigns, we find that for every person who adopts a vegetarian diet in such a campaign, around 0.34 people adopt a vegan diet. In a campaign to market veganism, for every new vegan there are between 0.5 and 0.77 new vegetarians.
2.Prevalence of Metabolic Syndrome and Its Associated Factors among Vegetarians in Malaysia
The data on socio-demographic characteristics, vegetarianism practises, lifestyle behaviours, body weight, height, waist circumference (WC), systolic blood pressure (SBP), diastolic blood pressure (DBP), fasting blood glucose (FBG), and blood lipid profiles were collected from 273 vegetarians. A majority of the respondents were lacto-ovo vegetarians (44.0%), females (64.8%) and Chinese (54.9%). … This study found that one in four vegetarians had MetS.
3.Vegetarian Diet: An Overview through the Perspective of Quality of Life Domains
This review aims to present an overview of the background, conceptualization, features, and potential effects of vegetarianism in all quality of life domains. The choice of adopting a vegetarian diet could have positive outcomes, such as better physical health, positive feelings related to the adoption of a morally correct attitude, an increased sense of belonging (to a vegetarian community), and lower environmental impact. … It is important to understand all the effects of adopting a vegetarian diet—beyond its nutritional aspects.
4.Vegetarianism/Veganism: A Way to Feel Good
It also comprises less conscious or unconscious drivers of vegetarianism/veganism such as empowerment and enrichment, regaining autonomy and creating identity and superiority in addition to and partly through liberation from a meat production system which is perceived as destructive and threatening.
5.Necessary Changes In Legislation To Define Food Products Suitable For Vegetarians And Vegans
these changes do not include a clearer definition of “vegetarian” or “vegan” product, which represents a loophole in the legislation. The purpose of this study is to discuss some aspects of the current legislation and standards at international level related to the precise definition of foods “suitable for vegetarians and vegans
6.Happy but Vegetarian? Understanding the Relationship of Vegetarian Subjective Well-Being from the Nature-Connectedness Perspective of University Students
we explore the possibility that vegetarians who feel connected to nature enjoy higher subjective well-being. To do so, we explore a sample comprising 1068 undergraduates and relate vegetarian commitment, accounting for vegetarian identity and vegetarian self-assessment scale, with connectedness to nature for three different measures of subjective well-being, life satisfaction, emotional well-being, and subjective vitality. We find that vegetarian subjective well-being is better understood through individuals’ connection with the environment.
7.The Vegetarian and Vegan Communities Supporting Sustainability Through Responsible Consumption
Aiming to fill in this gap in the literature, a quantitative analysis was performed among 628 vegetarians and vegan consumers in Israel and Spain. … Vegan motivations are significantly stronger compared to those of vegetarians.
8.A model of the dynamics of household vegetarian and vegan rates in the U.K
there are many studies of determinants of vegetarianism and veganism, there have been no previous studies of how their rates in a population jointly change over time. In this paper, we present a flexible model of vegetarian and vegan dietary choices, and derive the joint dynamics of rates of consumption. We fit our model to a pseudo-panel with 23 years of U.K. household data, and find that while vegetarian rates are largely determined by current household characteristics, vegan rates are additionally influenced by their own lagged value.
9.Determinants of Vegetarianism and Partial Vegetarianism in Ireland
we investigate the factors associated with vegetarianism among adults in Ireland. Using the 2007 Survey of Lifestyles, Attitudes and Nutrition, we use a logit model to assess the relationship between vegetarianism and the socioeconomic and personal characteristics of the respondents. … This paper adds to the existing literature as it is the first paper to estimate the determinants of vegetarianism and partial vegetarianism in Ireland.
10.Some vegetarians spend less money on food, others don’t
Vegetarianism is often promoted as a more ethical and less expensive diet. This study tests whether vegetarians do indeed spend less on food. … Compared to meat eaters, results show that “true” vegetarians do indeed report lower food expenditures. … We also find that some individuals self-identify as vegetarians even though they sometimes eat or buy meat, and this category of consumer spends more money on food than meat eaters.
11.Conclusion:
The aim of this research is to review the scientific evidence on the effect of following a vegetarian or these findings are promising but interpretation of the findings is limited due to the methodological quality of the studies.
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1.jAMES, Waters (2015): Do vegetarian marketing campaigns promote a vegan diet?
2.Yuan Kei Ching & Yit Siew Chin & Mahenderan Appukutty & Wan Ying Gan & Vasudevan Ramanchadran & Yoke Mun Chan (2018): Prevalence of Metabolic Syndrome and Its Associated Factors among Vegetarians in Malaysia
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4.Johannes Simons & Carl Vierboom & Jeanette Klink-Lehmann & Ingo Härlen & Monika Hartmann (2021): Vegetarianism/Veganism: A Way to Feel Good
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6.Jana Krizanova & Jorge Guardiola (2021): Happy but Vegetarian? Understanding the Relationship of Vegetarian Subjective Well-Being from the Nature-Connectedness Perspective of University Students
7.H. Gendel-Guterman & B. Derqui (2021): The Vegetarian and Vegan Communities Supporting Sustainability Through Responsible Consumption
8.Waters, James (2018): A model of the dynamics of household vegetarian and vegan rates in the U.K
9.Leahy, Eimear & Lyons, Seán & Tol, Richard S. J. (2011): Determinants of Vegetarianism and Partial Vegetarianism in Ireland
10.Lusk, Jayson L. & Norwood, F. Bailey (2016): Some vegetarians spend less money on food, others don’t