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Are you choosing vegetarian foods and recipes from time to time? Maybe you’re increasing the proportion of vegetarian dishes in your diet because you’ve heard that it’s beneficial to eat a plant-based diet.
Well, research scientists reporting in the Journal of the American Heart Association, outlined that; “Plant-based diets are dietary patterns that emphasize higher intakes of plant foods and are low in animal foods. Vegetarian diets, a type of plant-based diet, with a focus on restriction of different types of animal foods (meat, poultry, or fish), have been associated with a lower risk of cardiovascular risk factors, such as obesity, hypertension, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and ischemic heart disease.”.
Sounds good to us. Over to you 😉
Kim, H., Caulfield, L.E., Garcia‐Larsen, V., Steffen, L.M., Coresh, J. & Rebholz, C.M. 2019, “Plant‐Based Diets Are Associated With a Lower Risk of Incident Cardiovascular Disease, Cardiovascular Disease Mortality, and All‐Cause Mortality in a General Population of Middle‐Aged Adults”, Journal of the American Heart Association, vol. 8, no. 16, pp. e012865.