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  2. Jun 26, 2025
Replacing Animal Products With a Vegan Diet Reduces Dietary Acid Load, Leading to Weight Loss in Patients with Type 1 Diabetes, Finds New Study

Eating a low-fat vegan diet helps reduce the amount of acid consumed in the diet, which makes the body’s pH more alkaline and leads to weight loss for people with type 1 diabetes, finds new research from the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine published in Clinical Diabetes. About half of people with type 1 diabetes have extra weight.

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  2. May 8, 2024
New Jersey Man Reverses Hypertension With Diet, Will Bike More Than 1,000 Miles to Bring Attention to Food as Medicine for Black Americans

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  2. Apr 26, 2024
Lily Tomlin, Dogs, Michigan Residents Ask Legislators to “Raise Your Paw for Queenie’s Law!”

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  2. Apr 24, 2024
Doctors Offer 5 Nutritious Alternatives to Cow’s Milk for Consumers Avoiding Dairy Over Concern About Bird Flu

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  2. Apr 11, 2024
CU Anschutz’s Lethal Use of Animals for Surgery Training Draws Criticism From Physicians

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  2. Mar 28, 2024
Low-Fat Vegan Diet Reduces Insulin Requirements and Improves Insulin Sensitivity for People With Type 1 Diabetes, Finds Groundbreaking New Study

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  2. Mar 20, 2024
The Physicians Committee Congratulates Duke University on Replacing Animals in Medical Student Curriculum

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  2. Mar 1, 2024
2024 Summer Immersion on Innovative Approaches in Science to Provide Early Career Researchers a Deep Dive in Human-Based Nonanimal Science

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  2. Feb 7, 2024
New Book Introduces Plan That Works Like Weight-Loss Drug Without a Prescription

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  2. Feb 2, 2024
Hundreds of Physicians Rebuke Duke University for Killing Animals to Train Medical Students

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