{"id":26295,"date":"2026-03-03T09:00:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T14:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=26295"},"modified":"2026-02-16T12:46:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T17:46:22","slug":"a-review-of-a-study-that-examines-the-use-of-a-whole-food-plant-based-diet-in-type-2-diabetes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2026\/03\/03\/a-review-of-a-study-that-examines-the-use-of-a-whole-food-plant-based-diet-in-type-2-diabetes\/","title":{"rendered":"A Review of a Study that Examines the Use of a Whole-Food Plant-Based Diet in Type 2 Diabetes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Issue-1-2026Coversmall-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26296\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Issue-1-2026Coversmall-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"228\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the latest issue of <em>Vegan Journal<\/em>, Reed Mangels, PhD, RD, examines a recent study conducted in the Republic of the Marshall Islands that examined the use of a whole-foods, plant-based diet in people with type 2 diabetes. Did you know that more than 11% of the population of the United States has type 2 diabetes, previously known as adult-onset diabetes? People with diabetes in the United States had average medical expenditures that were 2.6 times higher than those without. Worldwide, about 12.5% of adults are estimated to have diabetes.<\/p>\n<p>Read Dr. Mangels review of this study in <em>Vegan Journal<\/em> here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/journal\/vj2026issue1\/2026_issue1_plant-based_type2_diabetes.php\">https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/journal\/vj2026issue1\/2026_issue1_plant-based_type2_diabetes.php<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To subscribe to <em>Vegan Journal<\/em> in the USA only, visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vrg.org\/member\">www.vrg.org\/member<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the latest issue of Vegan Journal, Reed Mangels, PhD, RD, examines a recent study conducted in the Republic of the Marshall Islands that examined the use of a whole-foods, plant-based diet in people with type 2 diabetes. Did you know that more than 11% of the population of the United States has type 2 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26297,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26295\/revisions\/26297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}