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Plant-based Diets
Researchers have shown that a more plant-based diet may help prevent, treat, or reverse some of our leading causes of death, including heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and high blood pressure. Interventional studies of plant-based diets have shown, for example, 90 percent reductions in angina attacks within just a few weeks. Plant-based diet intervention groups have reported greater diet satisfaction than control groups, as well as improved digestion, increased energy, and better sleep, and significant improvement in their physical functioning, general health, vitality, and mental health. Studies have shown plant-based eating can improve not only body weight, blood sugar levels, and ability to control cholesterol, but also emotional states, including depression, anxiety, fatigue, sense of well-being, and daily functioning.
Only one way of eating has ever been proven to reverse heart disease in the majority of patients: a diet centered around whole plant foods. If that’s all a whole-food, plant-based diet could do—reverse our number-one killer—shouldn’t that be the default diet until proven otherwise? The fact it may also be effective in preventing, treating, and arresting other leading killers seems to make the case for plant-based eating simply overwhelming.
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See how you score on the orthorexia “diagnostic” test.
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How do we explain the increased risk of prostate cancer but the decreased risk of colon cancer associated with dairy consumption?
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How to Treat Periodontitis with Diet
Plant-based diets are put to the test in the treatment of periodontal disease.
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The First Studies on Vegetarian Athletes
Meat-eating athletes are put to the test against veg athletes and even sedentary plant-eaters in feats of endurance.
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Comparing the diets of the Roman gladiator “barley men” and army troopers to the modern Spartans of today.
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How the Dairy Industry Designs Misleading Studies
How the meat and dairy industries design studies showing their products have neutral or even beneficial effects on cholesterol and inflammation.
