Vegetarians have lower body fat levels than meat-eaters. Study by Nico S. Rizzo, PhD, Karen Jaceldo-Siegl, DrPH,  Joan Sabate, MD, DrPH and Gary E. Fraser, PhD “Nutrient Profiles of Vegetarian and Non-vegetarian Dietary Patterns” as published online in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics on August 28, 2013.

Vegetarians lose more weight and keep it off much longer than meat-eaters. The award winning study by Turner-McGrievy B, et al “How do plant-based achieve weight loss? Results of the New Dietary Interventions to Enhance the Treatment for Weight Loss (New DIETs) study” as presented on November 15 at a special session of The Obesity Society (TOS) Annual Meeting during Obesity Week, 2013; Abstract T-53-OR.

High dietary intake of saturated fat is associated with increased risk for estrogen-receptor-positive breast cancer, progesterone-receptor-positive breast cancer and increased risk for HER2-negative breast cancer. Of the 7,860 women studied, those with the highest saturated fat intake had a significantly increased risk of all three breast cancer types. Study by Siera S, et al “Consuming a high-fat diet is associated with increased risk of certain types of breast cancer” as part of the European Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) research, as published online on April 9, 2014 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

People who eat the most animal protein are more likely to be diagnosed with type II diabetes. Study by researchers, as led by Monique van Nielen of Wageningen University in the Netherlands, compared 11,000 type II diabetics and 15,000 non-diabetics taking in exact data on diet, exercise and size measurements, covering eight European countries, and spanning 12 years. The paper was published in the April 14, 2014 online issue of the journal Diabetes Care.

Hypertension cured through a plant-based diet and fasting. The study was published in the scientific, peer-reviewed and indexed, Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics, Volume 24, Number 5, June 2001. The paper, entitled Medically Supervised Water-only Fasting in the Treatment of Hypertension detailed our outstanding results in the treatment of 174 consecutive program participants presenting with high blood pressure. Almost 90% achieved blood pressure less than 140/90 (cured). This study demonstrated the remarkable effectiveness of water-only fasting in the treatment of the leading contributing cause of morbidity and mortality in industrialized countries. A second study evaluating the effectiveness of fasting in the treatment of borderline high blood pressure was accepted for publication and appeared in the October 2002 issue of the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine.

A plant-based diet delivers the most successful heart disease study in history. A 100% hit rate curing heart disease, reversing artery damage and prolonging healthy life for decades, just through a plant-based, wholefood diet. Esselstyn CB, Ellis SG, Medendorp SV, et al. “A strategy to arrest and reverse coronary artery disease: a 5-year longitudinal study of a single physician’s practice.”  J. Family Practice 41 (1995): 560-568.

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A plant-based diet wipes out heart disease; stay on drugs and typical diet – get much sicker. Ornish D, Brown SE, Scherwitz LW, et al. “Can lifestyle changes reverse coronary heart disease?” Lancet 336 (1990): 129-133.

Heart attacks prevented by vegetarian diet. Study published in the December 3, 2012 issue of the journal Circulation. As reported by The Huffington Post on December 3, 2012 and by MyHealthNewsDaily on December 4, 2012.

Vegetarian diet cuts heart risk by 32%. Study by scientists at England’s University as published on January 31, 2013 in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. The study was funded by Cancer Research UK and the U.K.’s Medical Research Council and conducted by the university’s Cancer Epidemiology Unit, and reported by Bloomberg.com on January 31, 2013.

Dropping meat from your diet can decrease cholesterol levels by 10%-15%. A huge INTERHEART meta-analysis of 27 studies published in 2009 in the American Journal of Cardiology showed at least 90% of heart disease is lifestyle related. Morrison LM. “Diet in coronary atherosclerosis.” JAMA 173 (1960): 884-888.

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Valachovičová M, Krajčovičová-Kudláčková M, Blažíček P, Babinská K. No evidence of insulin resistance in normal weight vegetarians. A case control study. Eur J Nutr. 2006;45(1):52-54.

Micha R, Wallace SK, Mozaffarian D. Red and processed meat consumption and risk of incident coronary heart disease, stroke, and diabetes mellitus: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Circulation. 2010;121(21):2271-2283.

Turner-McGrievy GM, Barnard ND, Cohen J, et al. Changes in nutrient intake and dietary quality among participants with type 2 diabetes following a low-fat vegan diet or a conventional diabetes diet for 22 weeks.J Am Diet Assoc. 2008;108(10):1636-1645.

Barnard ND, Cohen J, Jenkins DJ, et al. A low-fat vegan diet improves glycemic control and cardiovascular risk factors in a randomized clinical trial in individuals with type 2 diabetes. Diabetes Care. 2006;29(8):1777-1783.

Kahleova H, Matoulek M, Malinska H, et al. Vegetarian diet improves insulin resistance and oxidative stress markers more than conventional diet in subjects with type 2 diabetes. Diabet Med. 2011;28(5):549-559.

Barnard ND, Gloede L, Cohen J, et al. A low-fat vegan diet elicits greater macronutrient changes, but is comparable in adherence and acceptability, compared with a more conventional diabetes diet among individuals with type 2 diabetes. J Am Diet Assoc. 2009;109(2):263-272.

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Bhupathiraju SN, Wedick NM, Pan A, et al. Quantity and variety in fruit and vegetable intake and risk of coronary heart disease. Am J Clin Nutr. 2013;98(6):1514-1523.

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Orlich MJ, Singh PN, Sabaté J, et al. Vegetarian dietary patterns and mortality in Adventist Health Study 2. JAMA Intern Med. 2013;173(13):1230-1238.

 

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Gonzalez, C.A., et al., “Fruit and vegetable intake and the risk of stomach and oesophagus adenocarcinoma in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC-EURGAST)”. Int J Cancer, 2006. 118(10): p. 2559-66.PubMed

Van Gils, C., et al., “Consumption of vegetables and fruits and risk of breast cancer”. JAMA, 2005. 293: p. 183-93.PubMed

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Cancer, Volume 112, Issue 10, Pages 2241-2248, 15 May 2008 “Dietary flavonoid intake and lung cancer – a population-based case-control study” Authors: Y. Cui, H. Morgenstern, S. Greenland, D.P. Tashkin, J.T. Mao, L. Cai, W. Cozen, T.M. Mack, Q.Y. Lu, Z.F. Zhang. UCLA’s Jonsson Cancer Center.

American Journal of Gastroenterology, Volume 103, Pages 1-10, doi: 10.1111/j.1572-0241.2008.01838.x, Jun-2008, “Dietary Antioxidants, Fruits, and Vegetables and the Risk of Barrett’s Esophagus” Authors: A. Kubo, T.R. Levin, G. Block, G.J. Rumore, C.P. Quesenberry, Jr, P. Buffler, D.A. Corley.

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention, 1 June 2008, Volume 17, Pages 1344-1353, doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-07-0747, “Dietary Flavonoids and Colorectal Adenoma Recurrence in the Polyp Prevention Trial” Authors: G. Bobe, L.B. Sansbury, P.S. Albert, A.J. Cross, L. Kahle, J. Ashby, M.L. Slattery, B. Caan, E. Paskett, F. Iber, J.W. Kikendall, P. Lance, C. Daston, J.R. Marshall, A. Schatzkin, E. Lanza.

Diabetes Care, June 2008, “Intake of Fruit, Vegetables, and Fruit Juices and Risk of Diabetes in Women” Authors: L.A. Bazzano, T.Y. Li, K.J. Joshipura, F.B. Hu. Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine in New Orleans.

The Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry, June 2008, “Dried plum polyphenols attenuate the detrimental effects of TNF-alpha on osteoblast function coincident with up-regulation of Runx2, Osterix and IGF-I”. Authors: S.Y. Bu, T.S. Hunt, B.J. Smith. Oklahoma State University and the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences.

Study by Oskarsson V, et al “Vegetables, fruit, and risk of non-gallstone-related acute pancreatitis: a population-based prospective cohort study” as published in Gut2012; DOI: 10.1136/gutjnl-2012-302521, showing patients consuming the highest number of vegetable servings had a significantly lower risk of developing non-gallstone-related acute pancreatitis.

Study by Professor Aedin Cassidy and colleagues from the University of East Anglia (UEA), funded by Diabetes UK, as published in the journal Diabetes Care, 2012.

Around 50% of Kiwi men and 30% of women are not eating enough fruit and vegetables, say results from the Health Ministry’s 2011 adult nutrition survey, as reported by the Sunday Star-Times on 20/11/2011.

Study by Dr. Clinton Wright at the University of Miami and his colleagues as published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, online November 9, 2011. Each point higher that a person scored on the nine-point Mediterranean diet scale reduced the risk of vascular death by 9%.

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Study conducted by researchers from three Korean universities found “antioxidants in the major fresh fruits consumed in the United States and Korea protected neuronal cells from oxidative stress” as published in the Journal of Food Science January 2009.

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Sinha R, Cross AJ, Graubard BI, Leitzmann MF, Schatzkin A. Meat intake and mortality: a prospective study of over half a million people. Arch Intern Med2009;357:562-71. doi:10.1001/archinternmed.2009.6 pmid:19307518.

Larsson SC, Orsini N. Red meat and processed meat consumption and all-cause mortality: a meta-analysis. Am J Epidemiol2014;357:282-9. doi:10.1093/aje/kwt261 pmid:24148709.

Wang X, Lin X, Ouyang YY, et al. Red and processed meat consumption and mortality: dose-response meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies. Public Health Nutr2016;357:893-905. doi:10.1017/S1368980015002062 pmid:26143683.

Abete I, Romaguera D, Vieira AR, Lopez de Munain A, Norat T. Association between total, processed, red and white meat consumption and all-cause, CVD and IHD mortality: a meta-analysis of cohort studies. Br J Nutr2014;357:762-75. doi:10.1017/S000711451400124X pmid:24932617.

S. Department of Health and Human Services and U.S. Department of Agriculture. 2015–2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans. 2015. http://health.gov/dietaryguidelines/2015/guidelines/.

Daniel CR, Cross AJ, Graubard BI, Hollenbeck AR, Park Y, Sinha R. Prospective investigation of poultry and fish intake in relation to cancer risk. Cancer Prev Res (Phila)2011;357:1903-11. doi:10.1158/1940-6207.CAPR-11-0241 pmid:21803982.

Micha R, Michas G, Lajous M, Mozaffarian D. Processing of meats and cardiovascular risk: time to focus on preservatives. BMC Med2013;357:136. doi:10.1186/1741-7015-11-136 pmid:23701737.

Fang X, An P, Wang H, et al. Dietary intake of heme iron and risk of cardiovascular disease: a dose-response meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies. Nutr Metab Cardiovasc Dis2015;357:24-35. doi:10.1016/j.numecd.2014.09.002 pmid:25439662.

Sinha R, Cross A, Curtin J, et al. Development of a food frequency questionnaire module and databases for compounds in cooked and processed meats. Mol Nutr Food Res2005;357:648-55. doi:10.1002/mnfr.200500018 pmid:15986387.

Tang Y, Jiang H, Bryan NS. Nitrite and nitrate: cardiovascular risk-benefit and metabolic effect. Curr Opin Lipidol2011;357:11-5. doi:10.1097/MOL.0b013e328341942c pmid:21102328.

Habermeyer M, Roth A, Guth S, et al. Nitrate and nitrite in the diet: how to assess their benefit and risk for human health. Mol Nutr Food Res2015;357:106-28. doi:10.1002/mnfr.201400286 pmid:25164923.

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Cross AJ, Harnly JM, Ferrucci LM, Risch A, Mayne ST, Sinha R. Developing a heme iron database for meats according to meat type, cooking method and doneness level. Food Nutr Sci2012;357:905-13. doi:10.4236/fns.2012.37120 pmid:23459329.

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Gabrielle M. Turner-McGrievy, PhD, RD, Charis R. Davidson, MPH, Ellen E. Wingard, MPH, RD, Sara Wilcox, PhD and Edward A. Frongillo, PhD, Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, ‘Comparative effectiveness of plant-based diets for weight loss: A randomized controlled trial of five different diets.’ The International Journal of Applied and Basic Nutritional Sciences, 2014.

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The well-established, long-running and ongoing Adventist Health Studies, carried out by Loma Linda University, California, on 96,000 Adventists aged 30–112, from all across the USA and Canada, from 1974 to the present day.

Study by Gonzales, J.F., et al., ‘Applying the precautionary principle to nutrition and cancer.’ Journal of the American College of Nutrition, 2014, DOI:10.1080/07315724.2013.866527. Data was analysed from the World Cancer Research Fund/American Institute for Cancer Research report, Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity, and the Prevention of Cancer: A Global Perspective.

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There is a vast amount of evidence that eating a plant-based wholefood diet lowers, and in some cases, reverses, heart disease and hypertension. This has been shown in the fasting studies, the chicken studies, the saturated fats studies, the fibre studies, the plant-based eating studies, and of course, the meat-is-directly-linked-to-heart-disease studies.

How to Cure High Blood Pressure’ Report: Dr Alan Goldhamer Water-Only Fasting for Hypertension 

Plant-Based Diets & the Risk of Coronary Heart Disease – Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Nutrition Report: An Evaluation of NCD Prevention Research in the United States on Human Health

A healthy plant-based diet is simply mostly eating ‘plant-based wholefoods’ – such as apples rather than apple juice – as these are plant foods in their natural state, unrefined, and with their natural fibres, antioxidants, polyphenols, vitamins and minerals intact. Eat mostly plant foods, mostly wholefoods, and you receive the benefits, as the centenarian cultures do:

Healthy Plant-Based Diets – what does it mean – Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Plant-based diets are crucial as a solution to our health crisis

How plant-based diets can prevent non-communicable diseases (NCDs)

Practical tips for preparing healthy plant-based meals

Jason wishes to deeply thank, acknowledge and recognise the effort and contribution that the PIF Foundation has provided on a voluntary basis since 2014, as we educated, motivated and inspired change that helps transform the health, vitality and longevity of people all over the world.