Plant Based Diet

In this section you will find some benefits to a plant based diet.

 -Comparison of Nutritional Quality of Vegan Vegetarian Semi-Vegetarian Pesco Vegetarian and Omnivorous Diet

 -Vegetarian Diets Associated with Healthy Mood States:  a cross-sectional study in Seventh Day Adventist adults

  -Vegetarian diet in type 2 diabetes - improvement in quality of life, mood, and eating behaviour

  -IQ in childhood and vegetarianism in adulthood:  1970 British cohort study

  -Position of the American Dietetic Association - Vegetarian Diets

News Articles

Plant based diets are on the rise.  Explore these news articles to see who is transforming their life by the way they eat.

-The Physicians Committee Sues USDA and DHHS, Exposing Industry Corruption in Dietary Guidelines Decision on Cholesterol

 -TODAY:  Meet the meat lover who lost 230 pounds by eating plants and running

 -NFL veganism? David Carter, Griff Whalen have broken the mold

 -The Secret (but healthy!) Diet Powering Kyrie and the NBA

 -Huge Study Of Diet Indicts Fat And Meat

Animal Products and Diabetes

Apparently the link between animal products and diabetes is not a new discovery, so why do we not here about this information in modern science?  Check out these articles and videos to find more information.  You can also watch the documentary, "What the Health" to discover up to date information.

 ​-Cow's Milk Formula Feeding Induces Primary Immunization to Insulin in Infants at Genetic Risk for Type 1 Diabetes

 -Persistent organic pollutants and diabetes - A review of epidemiological evidence (95% from animal products)

 -Association between dietary meat consumption and incident type 2 diabetes- the EPIC-InterAct study

 -Mechanism of Free Fatty Acid-induced Insulin Resistance in Humans

 -Why is Meat a Risk Factor for Diabetes?

 -Plant-Based Diets & Diabetes

 -Fat is the Cause of Type II Diabetes

-Can Diabetic Retinopathy Be Reversed?

Animal Products and Obesity

​Consumption of red meat and whole-grain bread in relation to biomarkers of obesity, inflammation, glucose metabolism and oxidative stress

-Meat consumption is associated with obesity and central obesity among US adults

-Prevalence of obesity is low in people who do not eat meat

-Animal Protein, Pregnancy, and Childhood Obesity

-Chicken Big: Poultry and Obesity

Meat Consumption and the Brain

Vegetarian diets are associated with healthy mood states: a cross-sectional stud in Seventh Day Adventists adults

-Vegetarian diet in type 2 diabetes - improvement in quality of life, mood and eating behavior

-Brain function associated with suffering omnivores vs. vegetarians

-IQ in childhood and vegetarianism in adulthood

-Childhood intelligence and being a vegetarian