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Identical twins reveal one major health difference after one went vegan and the other didn't

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Published 15:19 10 Jan 2024 GMT

Identical twins reveal one major health difference after one went vegan and the other didn't

Identical twins went on a separate diets and monitored how their bodies changed

Gerrard Kaonga

Gerrard Kaonga

The ongoing debate between meat-eaters and vegans is set to intensify after a new study had some surprising results.

If you were to go on social media and wrote ‘I love eating meat’, besides the inappropriate comments, you would get a flurry of users telling you it would be better for you to go vegan

Similarly, if you wrote ‘I love eating vegan food’, you would likely get the same inflammatory comments - with many telling you that eating a balanced diet with meat is better for you.

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So which is better?

Well, while we may not yet have a definitive answer just yet, as Stanford University experiment resulted in some interesting results which will certainly reinvigorate the debate all over again.

Writing in a report in November of last year, Stanford Medicine investigated the idea that a vegan diet improves cardiovascular health and explained the key health benefits of both an omnivore diet and a vegan diet.

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By conducting the experiment through using 22 identical twins, they were able to eliminate important factors such as genetic differences, upbringing and lifestyle choices.

Stanford Medicine conducted the study into how diet impacts our bodies.
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“The trial, conducted from May to July 2022, consisted of 22 pairs of identical twins for a total of 44 participants,” the report explained.

The study was also part of a Netflix documentary You Are What You Eat: A Twin Experiment, which released last year.

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Participants were given 21 meals of plant or meat-based food by a catering service while for the last four weeks, they prepared their own food.

And two of the twins that were involved in the study spoke to the New York Post and explained after the 2 months the big differences in their health.

Twins Jevon and John Whittington, 22, were both in impressive shape and cardiovascularly healthy before they began the study.

Twins Jevon and John Whittington took part in the study.
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John, who went on the vegan diet, was able to lose significantly more visceral fat, which is known to be more dangerous in the long term.

John’s body fat was 11.1 percent, weighing in at 137.2 pounds with 0.37 pounds - almost precisely 6oz - of visceral fat, the kind of fat which develops around the center of the body.

Jevon, who was given the omnivore diet to follow, had nearly identical body fat ahead of the study – 11 percent, and weighed just over a pound more at 138.6 with 0.22 pounds of visceral fat.

The twins also worked out few times a week - focusing on cardio, weight training and interval training.

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One of the twins went on a vegan diet while the other went on a omnivore diet.
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By the end of the study, John had lost 0.19 pounds of visceral fat from following his vegan diet - leaving him with just 0.03 pounds.

In comparison, Jevon’s visceral fat dropped by just one point from 0.22 to 0.21 pounds.

The vegan diet also resulted in a 20 percent drop in insulin levels and a 12 percent drop in bad cholesterols - while the meat-eating diet didn't impact John's health at all.

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However, his meat diet allowed him to produce more muscle as Jevon bulked up on extra 7.1 pounds of muscle after the eight weeks, while his brother only gained 2.3 pounds.

After the study, Jevon said they 'cut back on meat and dairy', adding: "“But it proved to us that we can continue to eat way we’re eating."

Featured Image Credit: Jevon and John Whittington

Topics: Health, Food and Drink, Science

Gerrard Kaonga
Gerrard Kaonga

Gerrard is a Journalist at UNILAD and has dived headfirst into covering everything from breaking global stories to trending entertainment news. He has a bachelors in English Literature from Brunel University and has written across a number of different national and international publications. Most notably the Financial Times, Daily Express, Evening Standard and Newsweek.

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