Your website access code is located in the upper right corner of the Table of Contents page of your digital edition. Whether to eat meat or not can be a very personal decision. There are multiple reasons that someone might decide to reduce their meat consumption or ditch it from their diets completely. And, if so, what is it about plant-based diets that our bodies love? Plant-based diets come in many stripes. Around 3 percent of Americans consider themselves vegans, and 5 percent consider themselves vegetarians, according to some reports. Most vegetarians eat a lacto-ovo diet, which means they eat fruits and veggies, beans, nuts, grains and soy, as well as animal byproducts like eggs, dairy and honey.
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The objective of this article is to present to physicians an update on plant-based diets. Concerns about the rising cost of health care are being voiced nationwide, even as unhealthy lifestyles are contributing to the spread of obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. For these reasons, physicians looking for cost-effective interventions to improve health outcomes are becoming more involved in helping their patients adopt healthier lifestyles. Healthy eating may be best achieved with a plant-based diet, which we define as a regimen that encourages whole, plant-based foods and discourages meats, dairy products, and eggs as well as all refined and processed foods. We present a case study as an example of the potential health benefits of such a diet. Research shows that plant-based diets are cost-effective, low-risk interventions that may lower body mass index, blood pressure, HbA 1C, and cholesterol levels. They may also reduce the number of medications needed to treat chronic diseases and lower ischemic heart disease mortality rates.
Studies exploring the risk of overweight and food diet and dietary patterns indicate that a plant-based diet seems vegan be a sensible approach for the research of obesity in children. Marniemi, J. The major benefits for patients who decide to start a science diet are the possibility of reducing the number of based they take to treat a variety of chronic conditions, lower body weight, decreased risk of cancer, and a reduction in their risk of death from ischemic heart disease.