Can a Plant-Based Diet Protect Your Heart?
This post was written based on a Powered by Plants presentation hosted by Kristin Gerhardstein, MD, PPG – Family Medicine and Primary Care, Lydia Hall, RDN, Center for Healthy Living, and Kathy Wehrle, RDN, community outreach dietitian, Parkview Health.
We increasingly see overwhelming recommendations for a shift toward a whole-food plant-based (WFPB) diet. As one study on the impact of a WFPB nutrition approach explained, “Research indicates that 80% of chronic diseases are preventable with simple lifestyle changes, such as tobacco cessation, improved diet, moderate exercise, and maintenance of a healthy weight. Given that six of 10 adults in the United States have at least one chronic condition and at least 40% have two or more, the benefits of lifestyle changes are encouraging. In particular, diet plays a central role in our current chronic disease crisis. The whole-foods, plant-based (WFPB) dietary pattern has been shown to prevent and reverse multiple chronic medical conditions.”
The power to fight disease: Adopting a WFPB diet can reduce the risk of many chronic conditions, including:
Excerpted from Parkview Health
