Tag: mortality

• Whole-food Plant-based Diets and Impact on Heart Disease Mortality

  A common accusation regarding Keys is that he made his claims regarding diet and nutrition without the benefit of studies. There are numerous studies both before and after this paper performed by Keys and other researchers.

  Some examples are listed below.

  One result of the British naval blockade of the North Sea during WWI was that over 400,000 Germans died due to malnutrition from 1914 to 1918.

  Dr. Mikkel Hindhede (1862-1945) was the manager of the Danish National Laboratory for Nutrition Research in Copenhagen during World War I.

  Denmark converted to a diet "mostly of milk, vegetables and bran" and "the people received sufficient nutrition".

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  30 April 2026

• Harvard Study Shows Plant Protein Consumption Reduces Mortality

  There are thousands of medical and scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals showing that a whole-food, plant-based (WFPB) diets are optimal for our health and are also the best for the environment and for the animals we share the earth with.

  A number of these studies are documented on this website.

  There are many more studies purporting that eggs, dairy, chocolate and even red meat are healthy and even essential for health.

  When a comparison is made between two or more groups of people, showing that healthy WFPB are detrimental, be mindful of the nature of the comparison group.

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  9 March 2021

• Do vegetarians live longer?

  On 2nd February 2017, Melody Ding, a senior researcher from the University of Sydney published an article in The Conversation titled “Do vegetarians live longer? Probably, but not because they’re vegetarian”. Her preferences were revealed early in the article when she writes, “vegetarianism and its more austere cousin, veganism, are becoming increasingly popular”.

  A person calling a vegan diet austere does not know how to cook.

  There is overwhelming evidence that vegans (and particularly whole-food, plant-based vegans) live longer and healthier lives.

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  13 September 2017