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Plant-Based Diets Associated with Lower Risk of Cardiovascular Disease

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Important I assume because cardiovascular disease is the largest cause of death in the United States accounting for nearly 25% of deaths.

Background Previous studies have documented the cardiometabolic health benefits of plant‐based diets; however, these studies were conducted in selected study populations that had narrow generalizability.

Methods and Results We used data from a community‐based cohort of middle‐aged adults (n=12 168) in the ARIC (Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities) study who were followed up from 1987 through 2016 ...
[M]odels showed that participants in the highest versus lowest quintile for adherence to overall plant‐based diet index or provegetarian diet, after adjusting for important confounders (all P<0.05 for trend), had a,
  • 16% lower risk of cardiovascular disease,
  • 31% to 32% lower risk of cardiovascular disease mortality, and
  • 18% to 25% lower risk of all‐cause mortality.
Higher adherence to a healthy plant‐based diet index was associated with a 19% and 11% lower risk of cardiovascular disease mortality and all‐cause mortality, respectively, but not incident cardiovascular disease (P<0.05 for trend).
No associations were observed between the less healthy plant‐based diet index and the outcomes.

Conclusions Diets higher in plant foods and lower in animal foods were associated with a lower risk of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in a general population.

https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JAHA.119.012865
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tl;dr don't eat fruit and veggies and there's no increased risk of having a heart attack or stroke.
However stick to primarily eating fruits and veggies and there's a double-digit decline in your risk of heart attack and stroke as well as mortality over the general population.

... Why does all the good stuff in this world kill you dead? What a raw deal. :doh

And on a tangential topic has anyone tried the plant-based meat that now being served by Burger King?
I hear that Subway and McDonalds are also now planning plant-based meat options too. Which I guess is not an issue if it looks and tastes exactly the same.
 
brothern said:
Important I assume because cardiovascular disease is the largest cause of death in the United States accounting for nearly 25% of deaths.


tl;dr don't eat fruit and veggies and there's no increased risk of having a heart attack or stroke.
However stick to primarily eating fruits and veggies and there's a double-digit decline in your risk of heart attack and stroke as well as mortality over the general population.

... Why does all the good stuff in this world kill you dead? What a raw deal. :doh

And on a tangential topic has anyone tried the plant-based meat that now being served by Burger King?
I hear that Subway and McDonalds are also now planning plant-based meat options too. Which I guess is not an issue if it looks and tastes exactly the same.
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I stopped eating meat, though have fish sometimes. Stopped all processed foods, nothing packaged or canned. I eat only fresh vegetables, concentrating on high protein like mushroom, broccoli, etc., but still lots of pasta, rice and some bread. Stopped drinking alcohol. I'm was so hungry, I eat like a brontosaurus. Gained 12 pounds in just a few weeks. But, my cholesterol went below red flag to normal. I guess that's the heart attack part. My weight has leveled-out.
 
... makes on wonder how Eskimos survived to exist past their first 3 generations after settling in a no fruit/no veggie region. They all should have died off of heart attacks donkey years ago ...
 
Barnacle said:
... makes on wonder how Eskimos survived to exist past their first 3 generations after settling in a no fruit/no veggie region. They all should have died off of heart attacks donkey years ago ...
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Well two things to that.

I don't think that the Inuit are ever mentioned in any literature that I've read as being a society that was achieving peak health outcomes.
Instead the societies that are mentioned as benefiting from long, healthy lives are ones located in the Mediterranean, Japan and even groups of Seventh-Day Adventists.
All societies that ate tons of beans, legumes and fruit & veg. (Something like a third to half of 7th-Day Adventists are vegetarian?)

Secondly, I believe the the "meat" that the Inuit consumed was very, very different than what we think of as meat: wild, often raw and all parts of the animal. Meaning the organs, fat, blood, skin, etc. Or in other words - chewing on the guts of a half-dead seal (yuck) gets you is a whole different story in terms of nutrients than the salted, seared loin of a fat, grain-fed cow (yum).
 
I eat the heart association 50g of protein worth of usually meat, with chicken, seafood, pork, and lastly beef in that order of frequency. When I see how much meat people eat here in Texas on a daily basis, I can't help but think I'm in the better half of the statistics.
 
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