“This research shows, in general, that a plant-based diet can be beneficial, and taking small steps in that direction can make a difference,” said Matthew Landry, one of the review’s authors and an assistant professor of population health and disease prevention at the University of California, Irvine.
“You don’t have to go completely vegan to see some of these benefits,” he added. “Even reducing a day or two per week of animal-based consumption can have benefits over time.”
However, Dr. Walter Willett, a professor of epidemiology and nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, pointed out that not everyone who follows a plant-based diet eats the same foods, so levels of healthiness still vary.
“A vegetarian diet could be based primarily on refined starches and sugar, which we see to be the worst dietary pattern,” Willett, who was not involved in the new research, said in an email.
A healthy plant-based diet, he said, should consist mostly of whole grains, fruits, vegetables, nuts, soy, beans and non-hydrogenated plant oils.
It depends what your diet is like to start with. I was pretty shocked when I saw the diets of some people. A lot of people just don't eat fresh vegetables, they eat red meat with every meal and they eat a lot of processed food. If you eat like that then anything is going to be an improvement.
You can have a really shit vegan diet though.
Cook your own stuff from things that you have to wash and peel. Eat meat a few times a week.
That sounds pretty healthy! Particularly as you are starting with "food with the farm on" as my mum calls it! (Whole vegetables, cuts of meat, unprocessed grains...)My MO has always been the same, 1/2 plate of veggies (typically baked, ideally with the protein to pick up the drippings), 1/4 protein (typically chicken or fish, preferably baked), and 1/4 starch (brown/wild rice, rustic bread, buckwheat noodles).
Tends to do me ok from a general health and bloodwork perspective.
Plant based is also not great if you're replacing the meat with starches, fried food, processed crap.
Wait what?Cutting out fried and baked foods regardless of "source" is potentially the best first step.
There is nothing wrong with "Starches". That sounds like carb phobia.
Not everything related to health is related to weight. In fact, "science" can and should have gotten a move on isolating the variables that influence weight and health, but because of conflict of interest and intellectual mistraining(those who come out of schooling misapply techniques used to defend settled facts in a manner to stifle the investigative process), it has not and will not for decades, if it can get there before future social strife manifests itself.Wait what?
What is wrong with baked food lol?
I eat baked chicken like 2-3 times a week and baked salmon once a week, and I'm currently cutting and have lost 12lbs in the past 3 months.
Yeah, there's something wrong with "starches".There is nothing wrong with "Starches". That sounds like carb phobia.
Processing/Processed is a term used by the experts because- Fair, I guess what I was thinking of falls under processed crap.
I just googled this and literally just see 1 thing (everything basically points to the same thing in regards to this) and the only thing it says is that it may increase cancer risk, and the only studies they have done have only shown this to be true in animals, and that there has been no link to it being a risk for humans.Compounds like acrylamide, Heterocyclic amnies, and Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons are present in high temp cooked foods. They are chemicals that cause damage without necessarily affecting weight.
Yeah, there's something wrong with "starches".
Before moving forward, "carb" has numerous definitions. One relates to the class of chemicals themselves. Then there are foods that contain them that get called "carbs". And yet another definition is a subset of the chemicals that are digestible(like sugar, fructose, glucose, galactose, etc).
If weight is the issue, carbs are an enemy, because it expands appetite and inhibits fat metabolism. Every meal and snack results in 2 hours of elevated insulin levels, and the resulting inhibition of fat metabolism. So 3 meals, and intermittent snacks, that's a lot of time for elevated insulin levels.
So sugar and flour have been excommunicated from plant based label?
We should print that on DigDogs bags of coke!
The carbs themselves remain a potential threat, especially to the already ill. It's just that vegetables have a food matrix with fiber and carbs such that it's difficult to consume much of them to begin with.Sure if you get your "carbs" from donuts, wonder bread, and soda they are a problem.
But if they are from whole plant foods like beans, oats, vegetables, they are not a problem.
The problem with the SAD (Standard American Diet) is that "carbs" come mostly from the former, not the latter.
Cooking food at high temps is better suited for survival. Better suited is not the same as harmless. Just that living organisms, like bacteria and parasites, are a much more dangerous threat than chemicals that might cause problems years down the line.I just googled this and literally just see 1 thing (everything basically points to the same thing in regards to this) and the only thing it says is that it may increase cancer risk, and the only studies they have done have only shown this to be true in animals, and that there has been no link to it being a risk for humans.
Chemicals in Meat Cooked at High Temperatures and Cancer Risk
A fact sheet that explains how certain chemicals form in meat cooked using high-temperature methods. Includes results of research on consumption of these chemicals and cancer risk.www.cancer.gov
I am not going to worry about this at all and think it's silly to worry that cooking food at high temperature is bad for humans. Humans have been doing this since the dawn of time with fire to cook meat. Animals on the other hand have always ate raw food so cooked food is not normal in their diet.
cheese is not plant basedI just ate a whole Costco cheese pizza.
Plant based diet for the win beotch