Adoption of a plant based diet reduces risk of heart diseases by 32%: Research

There has been a long debate about whether a nonvegetarian diet is good for staying healthy or a vegetarian diet. However, scientists seem more confident that vegetarian diet is more beneficial for the body. A recent research has also claimed that if you adopt plant-based diets, you reduce the risk of heart diseases by 32%.

The biggest cause of accidental death is heart attack

Scientists believe that if you want to keep the body healthy, young and active for a long time, then eat less of the diet from animals and eat more of the diet from plants. This will keep your heart healthy for a long time. You must also know that today heart diseases are the biggest cause of accidental death worldwide. Every year more than 200 million people die due to heart attack, cardiac arrest and heart failure. Your diet (catering) has a great effect in promoting heart diseases.

What is a plant based diet?

In plant-based diet, you eat only those things that we get from plants. While following this diet, you do not use anything that we get from animals such as eggs, meat, milk etc. Plant foods include fresh fruits, raw vegetables, green-colored vegetables, grains, seeds, pulses, nuts, dry fruits, etc. Instead of animal milk, you can use Almond Milk and Soy Milk. Overall, if you omit milk in vegetarian diets, then almost all diets are included in the plant based diet.

Why are diets derived from plants beneficial?

The special thing about these diets from plants is that they contain good amount of fiber. Apart from this, all plant-based diets contain a lot of vitamins, antioxidants and minerals, which are essential for the body. All these elements increase the immunity of your body and protect your cells from damage, which keeps you healthy for a long time.

Results extracted after 29 years of research

Recently, an article was published in the Journal of the American Heart Association, which stated that plants based foods are healthier than food from animals. According to this article, if you eat vegetables, nuts, legumes (seeded diet) and whole grains instead of meat, then you will be at a lower risk of heart attack and other cardiovascular diseases. A lot of research has been done about this in the past and the results are almost the same.

Another similar study recently reported that plant-based diet can prevent up to 40% risk of heart failure. The lead author of this research is Casey M. Rebholz, assistant professor of epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore. The researchers selected 12,168 middle-aged people for this study. A clinical study was conducted on all these people from 1987 to 2016 (for 29 years), after which it was concluded.