Health Update: High Quality Plant-Based Diet Lowers Disease Risks
Hello again everyone:
This is a follow up to the last blog/newsletter post, and it continues on the theme that a high-quality plant-based diet lowers the risk of the major causes of death and disability. Here is what they had to say:
“Diets consisting of high-quality — but not low-quality — plant-based foods and lower intakes of animal products may lower the risks for cancer, heart disease, and early death, new research suggests.
The prospective cohort study used data from more than 120,000 middle-aged adults followed for over 10 years in the UK Biobank. Those who consumed a healthful plant-based diet — with higher amounts of foods such as fruits, vegetables, legumes, whole grains, and nuts — and lower intakes of animal products, sugary drinks, and refined grains had a 16% lower risk of dying during follow-up compared to those with the lowest intakes of the healthful plant-based foods.
By contrast, an unhealthy plant-based diet was associated with a 23% higher total mortality risk.”
Bottom Line:
This move is not as challenging as you might think, and if you want to protect your future, lower your inflammatory burden, ease any chronic condition, and slow aging…you should consider going high quality predominantly plant-based.
"Not all plant-based diets are created equally. Our data provide evidence to support the notion that for health benefits the plant-based sources need to be whole grains, fruits and vegetables, legumes, nuts, etc., rather than processed plant-based foods," study co-author Aedín Cassidy, PhD, of the School of Biological Sciences, Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, told Medscape Medical News. She added, "We do not necessarily need to radically shift diets to vegan or vegetarian regimens, but rather to switch proportions on the plate to incorporate more healthful plant-based foods, fish, and leaner cuts of meat into our habitual diet. This would have benefits for both individual health and planetary health."
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2802814
If you are not making this move, can you consider what is holding you back? There are few things more important to your life mission and purpose than being healthy. Being a good steward of your Temple is part of our duty, responsibility, and obligation that comes with this earthly life. This time of year, especially now, it is very important to show our gratitude by living a life in harmony with our true nature, a magnificent and mysterious gift we have been given to inhabit for a relatively short time. If you have not already started, now is a great time to upgrade your food plan to match the Original Manufacturers instruction manual.
Happy Holy Days to you and yours from all of us here at Richmond Chiropractic Neurology…dedicated to your health…now and for your future.
