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Nutrition is an exciting, dynamic field – there are more than 10,000 articles published on human nutrition in medical journals every year.

Nutrition, Human, Year

Simply switching to a healthy, plant-based diet can lessen stroke risk by reducing cholesterol and blood pressure, flooding your body with antioxidants and improving blood flow.

Risk, Pressure, Healthy

Anyone who’s promoting the exact diet that they were in previous years probably isn’t keeping up with the latest science, though in general, the balance of evidence has remained remarkably consistent – centering one’s diet around whole plant foods.

Science, Balance, Plant

The benefits of a healthier diet are far-reaching because they also equate to fewer animals being bred into inhumane factory farm conditions and fewer greenhouse gas emissions.

Animals, Farm, Benefits

A good way to adjust to a healthier diet is to think of three meals you enjoy that are largely plant-based. Pasta with tomato sauce can be tweaked to whole-grain pasta with added vegetables.

Good, Enjoy, Think

One of the reasons it’s so difficult to study the relationship between diet and disease is because many dietary behaviors are associated with non-dietary behaviors.

Relationship, Study

Eating a varied plant-based diet – and avoiding all meat, fish, chicken and dairy products – may have much to recommend it, but it’s certainly not for everyone.

Fish, Eating, Chicken

After following more than 60,000 people for more than a dozen years, University of Oxford researchers found those who consume a plant-based diet were less likely to develop all forms of cancer combined.

People, Cancer, Years

A plant-based diet is like a one-stop shop against chronic diseases.

Against, Like, Diseases

As you eat more healthily, your palate changes – it’s amazing. Your taste buds constantly adapt: from minute to minute, in fact. If you drank orange juice right now, it would taste sweet. But if you first ate some sweets then drank the same juice, it could taste unpleasantly bitter.

Changes, Sweet, Adapt

Popeye was right about spinach: dark green, leafy vegetables are the healthiest food on the planet. As whole foods go, they offer the most nutrition per calorie.

Dark, Green, Nutrition