Editing Vegetarianism (section)

===Turnover===
Research suggests that, at least in the United States, vegetarianism has a high turnover rate, with less than 20% of adopters persisting for more than a year.<ref>{{Cite journal|doi=10.1007/s11196-018-9543-3 |title=The Politics and the Demographics of Veganism: Notes for a Critical Analysis|year=2018 |last1=Martinelli|first1=Dario|last2=Berkmanienė|first2=Aušra|journal=International Journal for the Semiotics of Law|volume=31|issue=3|pages=501–530 |s2cid=149235953}}</ref> Research shows that lacking social support contributes to lapses.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Melnick |first1=Meredith |title=Turns Out, Your Vegetarianism Probably Is Just A Phase |work=HuffPost |date=May 12, 2014 |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/vegetarian-phase_n_6270584 |archive-date=March 23, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210323020140/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/vegetarian-phase_n_6270584 }} [https://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/entry/vegetarian-phase_us_6270584 Alt URL] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181023071424/https://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/entry/vegetarian-phase_us_6270584 |date=October 23, 2018 }}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Schultz |first1=Colin |title=Most Vegetarians Lapse After Only a Year |magazine=Smithsonian Magazine |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/most-vegetarians-lapse-after-only-year-180953565/ |access-date=February 27, 2021 |date=December 9, 2014 |archive-date=March 5, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210305044724/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/most-vegetarians-lapse-after-only-year-180953565/ |url-status=live }}</ref>{{better source needed|date=March 2022}} A 2019 analysis found that adhering to any kind of restricted diet (gluten-free, vegetarian, kosher, teetotal) was associated with feelings of loneliness and increased social isolation.<ref>{{cite journal |title= Food restriction and the experience of social isolation |journal= Journal of Personality and Social Psychology|year= 2020|doi=10.1037/pspi0000223|last1= Woolley|first1= Kaitlin|last2= Fishbach|first2= Ayelet|last3= Wang|first3= Ronghan (Michelle)|volume= 119|issue= 3|pages= 657–671 |pmid= 31724417|s2cid= 208018174}}</ref>

Vegetarians or vegans who adopted their diet abruptly might be more likely to eventually abandon it when compared to individuals adopting their diet gradually with incremental changes.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Haverstock|first1=Katie|last2=Forgays|first2=Deborah Kirby|date=June 1, 2012|title=To eat or not to eat. A comparison of current and former animal product limiters|url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195666312000906|journal=Appetite|volume=58|issue=3|pages=1030–1036|doi=10.1016/j.appet.2012.02.048|pmid=22387715|s2cid=13886878|issn=0195-6663|access-date=March 20, 2021|archive-date=August 6, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120806013344/http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195666312000906|url-status=live}}</ref>