We should be eating more traditional African plant-based foods, including cassava and plantain, suggests a new study.
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The research, published in the journal Nature, focused on the plant-led, low-meat diets of people in Tanzania’s rural Kilimanjaro region and found that, much like those who follow plant-forward Mediterranean-style and Blue Zone diets, the health benefits are significant. This is largely because their diets are not high in ultra-processed foods, like many people in Western society.
“Our study highlights the benefits of [Tanzanian] traditional food products for inflammation and metabolic processes in the body,” lead author and infectious disease specialist Quirijn de Mast from the Netherlands’ Radboud University Medical Center, said in a statement. “At the same time, we show how harmful an unhealthy Western diet can be.”
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