New Research On Plant-Based Diets and Mortality

A new study out this month claims plant-based diets are associated with lower risk of not only cardiovascular disease and mortality but of all-cause mortality as well. Can this be so?

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[bobbygirl]

All I can say from my own personal experience is that I've always been active but I was a HUGE meat eater up to 24 years of age. I had high blood pressure and blood sugar issues. When I stopped eating meat my blood pressure normalized and when I began cutting dairy my health was better in the sense that my acne left and allergies stopped. This is just my personal experience

[amandah]

I'm transitioning to a plant based diet. I can't believe how much has changed. My skin cleared up. I came off my skin medication. A stomach problem I had. Its gone. I had insomnia for 15 years. Now i sleep through every night. I feel better in myself. My joints hurt less. I've had wobbles and ate the wrong things again. I instantly know about it. I can't sleep. My skin breaks out. I try and tell people and they just look at me like I'm a conspiracy theorist or something. Like I'm mad. But I know it's the diet.

[colinbunnell]

I watched this video because the avocados in the thumbnail image looked delicious

[BelleMeow]

Pescetarian for three years
Vegetarian for one year and now vegan almost a year already... Should have done it sooner 💙

[DimaRakesah]

There are plenty of studies on this topic. Dr Greggor has been studying them for decades. It's not hard to see a trend, that thise who eat more whole plants are healthier. Debunking one or two studies without considering the wider body of evidence is just disingenuous.

[SICKKMADEE]

Wish me luck guys! I’ve been on a plant based diet for a month now. Trying to make it a lifestyle

[liloandstitcbedtogether]

Potatoes ARE plant based. They are full of potassium, Vitamin B and C. A white potato is not quite like white bread because it is grown from the ground while white bread is either unbleached or enriched.

[justelle_]

I am new to the plant based diet and so far so good. I’ve never been a big meat eater anyway.

[buryitdeep]

As an identical twin in our fifties my twin who has lived thirty years on plant based and occasionally goes vegan looks better than me by at least 3 or 4 years. Although she always says I seem to have more fun.

[PhysicsHelps]

I would love to hear about the best nutrition study you've ever seen.

[lydiachong]

I've had a body composition test and the consultant asked me if I were vegetarian. I was shocked, like how could they tell from my body fat alone? Apparently my visceral fat was the lowest of anyone they've ever seen and that the only other people who had visceral fat near my level was a vegetarian.

So the proof is in the pudge it seems, and I'm not a particularly health conscious veggo either. I eat a lot of biscuits.

Edit: I want to specify that I still had normal to high body fat%, just not a lot around the organs.

[BRBallin]

All I can say is...LISTEN TO YOUR BODY. Some people can chug a glass of beer like it’s nothing. I can’t. Doesn’t mean that beer is as harmful to them as it is to me. Everyone reacts differently to everything. All that matters is how YOU feel after eating something

[TakeWalker]

This is a good show and you do great work, but dammit I feel like I'm just coming here for Dr. Aaron's super-salty intros. XD

[PathtoWellness]

Plant based is the way to go! I’ve been at it for over 7 years.

[ouranhostphan]

Unfortunately I’ll probably start seeing this study being passed around through various news orgs and seeing every vegan/vegetarian under the sun promoting without looking at the discrepancies. Two questionnaires over seven years? How is that even considered a study?

[neonsilver]

I would happily eat according to research studies, mark my physical activity and sleep hours, and report to a lab semi-regularly for the purpose of furthering experimental studies on nutrition, but I would have to be excluded from that final results because I have a chronic illness. It dawned on me while I was writing the previous sentence in this comment that these studies are specifically for people who do not have major health issues already, which is kind of a bummer. I can't say that it's a societal bias, but I certainly feel like it at the moment...dang dude, feels bad

[OtakuboyT]

Personally I've been working on a set of diet changes and increased exercise. I've lost 65 lbs in the last 20 months.

Right now, I'm working on reducing my red meat intake (goal is 5 times a week), and eating more veg and fish.

Salmon burgers and plant burgers are making it easier.

[Srindal]

Their should be a study to test for the differences between meat based diets and plant based diets over a period of 3 months. No cheating

[ginam]

I eat low carb low glycemic index. No grains no sugar no processed foods and salmon. So far so good.
I tried carnivore but started having stroke symptoms so I swiched and got real stricter on my diet.
I also started rebounding- best excersise ever

[jillianm]

Realistically, how would a randomized control trial take place when testing nutrition or diet? People are very unlikely to allow researchers to control EVERYTHING about their life as we do with lab rats... that is likely the biggest reason it’s so hard to do RCT with nutrition studies.