Fitness magazine highlighted growing interest in veganism and a dairy-free diet due to environmental and animal welfare concerns and a desire to lose weight.
UBC nutrition professor Susan Barr cautions that what works for high-profile celebrities doesn’t always work for everyone.
“The difficulty of course with celebrity endorsements is they haven’t been assessed by science, and there’s no science to support that their strategy would work reproducibly in a wide variety of people,” said Barr.
