Open navigation menu. Close suggestions Search Search. User Settings. Skip carousel. Carousel Previous. Carousel Next. What is Scribd? Uploaded by xugehepe. Did you find this document useful? Is this content inappropriate? Report this Document. Flag for inappropriate content. In other words, if group 1 eats vegetables, and group 2 eats the same amount of vegetables but adds meat, group 2 shows higher mortality and risk of disease. In these research studies, are vegetarians healthier simply because they tend to be skinnier?
No—in population studies, plant-based diets show lower mortality even controlling for BMI , wealth, and other confounding factors. This might be because whole foods contain many other benefits, such as fiber and other micronutrients. Supplement extracts also introduce risk of contaminants and toxicity. Think of your diet everyday as a bank account of calories you can spend everyday.
Eating one calorie hamburger displaces eating 7 sweet potatoes or 26 cups of broccoli. Which one would benefit your body more? Some might shy away from a plant-based diet because it seems expensive.
This is partly true—on a calories-per-dollar basis, junk food and fat are the cheapest. But on a nutrients-per-dollar basis, vegetables offer 6x more nutrition compared to processed food. Michael Greger suggests thinking of food as a traffic light system:. As a simple checklist for what to eat everyday, Dr.
Greger recommends these 12 components. Each box represents one serving.
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