It’s not shocking news, but it is news, in the sense that it comes from a new study by Stanford University School of Medicine. A diet rich in vegetables, grains and legumes appears to be better for your heart than a meat-based low-fat diet. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that participants in the month-long study who followed a vegetarian diet full of whole grains and nutrient-dense fruits and vegetables reduced their total and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol by more than twice as much as those who followed a more conventional low-fat diet that simply avoided saturated fat and cholesterol-rich foods. The study, which was published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, fed both groups diets containing identical amounts of saturated fat and cholesterol.
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A new study suggests that it appears to increase risk of breast cancer in women. That’s the conclusion of a new study of more than 90,000 women published in today’s Annals of Internal Medicine. And high consumption of red meat is already linked to an increased risk for colon cancer– yet another reason to follow the 2005 U.S. Dietary Guidelines advice to eat mostly a plant-based diet.