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Dietary habits during middle age may lower disease risk in later life

The more you replace meat with plant-based food the more you live

14-Aug-2019

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Plant-based food consumption during middle age lowers risk of heart attack and stroke in later life.

It also reduces mortality risk and increase the lifespan.

No need to give up meat, just make it a much smaller proportion of your daily diet.

Analysed data of 12168 middle-aged participants from late 1980s to 2017.

A collaborative study, published in the Journal of the American Heart Association.

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JAHA

Journal of the American Heart Association dedicated to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.

JAMA Internal Medicine

General internal medical and internal medicine subspecialities journal

Lyn Steffen

Associate Professor at Division of Epidemiology and Community Health at the University of Minnesota

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