Eating vegan could be a great way to live longer

Following a vegan diet can improve your health in many different ways, and could help you to live longer as well. Whilst this is a fairly new area of research, there is mounting evidence that vegan and plant-based diets can reduce mortality and extend longevity. One recent study showed that eliminating meat and switching to a plant-based diet, with a much greater intake of legumes, whole grains, nuts, fruits and vegetables, can increase life expectancy by up to 10 years.

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For more information, see:

Association of Animal and Plant Protein Intake With All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality, M. Song et al., JAMA Internal Medicine 176(10),1453-1463 (2016)https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5048552/pdf/nihms808544.pdf

Healthy Plant-Based Diets Are Associated with Lower Risk of All-Cause Mortality in US Adults, H.Kim, L. Caulfield, and C. Rebholz, Journal of Nutrition 148 (4), 624 – 631 (2018)https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29659968/

Estimating impact of food choices on life expectancy: A modeling study, L. Fadnes et al., PLOS Medicine 19(3), e1003962 (2022) https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1003889

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