{"id":251595,"date":"2024-05-23T17:49:45","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T17:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/20-years-of-research-links-meat-free-diets-to-lower-risk-of-cancer-heart-disease-major-new-review\/"},"modified":"2024-05-23T19:07:26","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T19:07:26","slug":"20-years-of-research-links-meat-free-diets-to-lower-risk-of-cancer-heart-disease-major-new-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/20-years-of-research-links-meat-free-diets-to-lower-risk-of-cancer-heart-disease-major-new-review\/","title":{"rendered":"20 Years of Research Links Meat-Free Diets to Lower Risk of Cancer, Heart Disease: Major New Review"},"content":{"rendered":"
A major new review of the past 20 years of scientific research presents some of the strongest evidence yet that plant-based diets can help prevent the two leading causes of death worldwide: cardiovascular disease and cancer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
A joint undertaking between researchers at the University of Bologna in Italy and the Stanford University School of Medicine, the comprehensive review, published last week in PLOS One<\/em>, looked at meta-analyses from 2000 to 2023 to evaluate the impact of vegetarian and vegan diets on the risk of cancer and cardiometabolic diseases. After pooling data from 48 meta-analyses involving hundreds of thousands of participants across a range of demographics (including children), the researchers noted some overarching trends: Vegetarians and vegans were significantly less likely to develop cardiovascular disease and cancer. They also tended to have better cardiometabolic…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n