By Alan Mozes HealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, June 16, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Women who follow a healthy plant-based diet after menopause appear to face a substantially lower risk for breast cancer, new French research indicates. After tracking more than 65,000 women for two decades, investigators found those who consumed a healthy, primarily plant-based diet saw … Read more
Feb. 8. 2022 — Just a few changes to your diet could add years to your life, but the sooner you start the better. Eating a healthy diet is important, but most people find this difficult to do daily. In a new study, researchers examined the effects of individual healthful and non-healthful types … Read more
By Robert Preidt and Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporters THURSDAY, Nov. 19, 2021 (HealthDay News) – People who live with chronic migraines suffer intense throbbing and pulsing, sensitivity to light and sound, nausea and vomiting. Could a plant-based diet, credited with a variety of positive health impacts, also help ease these chronic symptoms? It might. Researchers … Read more
“Quite a lot of our food supply is plant-based, but it tends to be highly processed and to have low-quality ingredients such as sugars or refined grains,” says senior author David R. Jacobs Jr., PhD. “What we are proposing is very similar to the U.S. dietary guideline” and the Mediterranean diet, but importantly, it … Read more
WEDNESDAY, July 7, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Want to be good to your ticker? Load up on veggies — especially beans, Italian researchers recommend. They’ve published a comprehensive review of research on eating habits and heart disease that provides consistent evidence that eating less salt and animal proteins and more plant-based foods is … Read more
For every incremental increase in those scores, the risk of heart disease declined by 19%, on average. The risk of stroke, meanwhile, dropped by 29%. That was with factors like smoking, body weight, and income and education levels taken into account. In what may be good news to burger lovers, “plant-based” does not … Read more
By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, Nov. 24, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Overweight women who eat a Mediterranean-like diet may reduce their odds of developing type 2 diabetes by 30%, compared with women who don’t, a new study suggests. The Mediterranean diet is rich in olive oil, fruits, vegetables, whole … Read more