Vegetarian Diet Decreases Death from Cardiovascular Disease

Brand new research analyzed the dietary patterns of 451,256 healthy people between the ages of 35 and 70 and followed them for 12.8 years. They scored higher on the plant based dietary pattern if they ate more vegetables, fruit, beans, grains, potato, nuts and olive oil; they scored lower on the plant based dietary pattern if they ate more meat, animal fats, eggs, fish or other seafood and dairy. . . .

People whose diets were more than 70% plant based had a 20% lower risk of dying from cardiovascular disease than people whose diets were less than 45% plant based.

(American Heart Association’s Epidemiology and Prevention/Lifestyle adn Cardiometabolic Health 2015 Scientific Sessions, Abstract #16)