Posted on : January 29th, 2019
The benefits of adopting a plant-rich diet has been in the news a lot these days. Although there has been a swing in recent years to low carb diet plans, common wisdom before that was to reduce meat and dairy consumption to help lose weight, support heart health, and lower cholesterol. What’s the truth? It’s hard to say—it depends entirely on the state of your health to begin with, your genetics and how sedentary your lifestyle happens to be. There is no such thing as a one-size fits all approach to eating! However, one thing is becoming clear: the longest lived people typically eat the most plants—vegetables, whole grains, legumes, nuts and seeds.
This does NOT mean they’re all vegetarian. However, even you have at least temporarily adopted a low carb, high protein (usually meat-based diet) to help with weight loss, manage diabetes or any other reason, make sure that the carbs you do eat are as plant-rich as possible for the healthiest end results. If you substitute protein-rich plant sources for at least some of the meat in your diet, all the better. According to this recently published study that followed the eating habits of 471,495 Europeans over 22 years, those who ate the fewest fresh vegetables, legumes, and nuts were most likely to develop the most common and deadliest forms of cancer. And, interestingly enough, a plant-rich diet is also better for the planet!
Reducing the consumption of meat has been touted as potentially one of the most effective ways to combat climate change. That’s because one-fifth of global emissions of planet-warming greenhouse gasses come from conventional livestock-grazing and meat production. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, if 50 percent of the world’s population restricted their diet to a healthy 2,500 calories per day and reduced their consumption of meat at least 26.7 gigatons of emissions could be avoided from dietary change alone.
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