Evidence Based Eating

Food and Disease

Heart disease - A plant based diet is proven to decrease risk

• pubmed - A plant-based diet that limits unhealthy plant foods and animal products will decrease cardiovascular risk and is achievable, even without being completely vegetarian or vegan.

• sciencedirect - Plant-based diets decrease the risk of heart disease, hypertension, diabetes, obesity, and certain forms of cancer making them healthy for people in all stages of life.

• ncbi - In a study of almost 500,000 people who were evaluated with four validated metrics, there were 86,000 deaths over a 15-year period. Those who ate closer to a plant-based diet had a 12-28% decrease in risk for cardiovascular, cancer and all-cause mortality.

Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus - A plant based diet decreases risk

• pubmed - In the largest trial on diabetes and nutrition to date, when the diets of 200,000 men and women were monitored over a 20 year period in a combination of 3 studies, those who followed a plant-based diet had 34% less chance of developing type 2 diabetes.