In the article titled “Vegetarian diet, food substitution, and nonalcoholic fatty liver”, published on pages 102-109, Issue 2, Volume 30 of Tzu Chi Medical Journal [1], the affiliation of Chin-Lon Lin is written incorrectly as “Department of Internal Medicine, Hualien Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Hualien, Taiwan” instead of “Department of Cardiology, Dalin Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Chiayi, Taiwan”.The authors apologize for the error and any confusion it may have caused.