- In 2020, about 523 million people globally had some type of cardiovascular disease, with about 19.1 million people dying from the condition.
- High levels of LDL cholesterol, insulin resistance, and obesity are all known risk factors for cardiovascular disease that can be changed by eating a healthy diet.
- Researchers from Stanford University say that following a vegan diet can help improve a person’s cardiovascular health in as little as eight weeks, compared to those who follow an omnivore diet.
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Using pairs of identical twins, researchers from Stanford University have found that following a vegan diet can help improve a person’s cardiovascular health in as little as eight weeks compared to those who follow an omnivore diet.
The study was recently published in the journal
For this study, researchers recruited 22 pairs of identical twins, with one twin asked to follow a vegan diet and the other an omnivore diet.
“Studying nutrition in humans is always complicated by humans being different in so many ways — different exercise habits, sleep patterns, (and) stress levels,” Dr. Christopher D. Gardner, Ph.D., a nutrition scientist at the Stanford Prevention Research Center in the Department of Medicine in the School of Medicine at Stanford University, and senior author of this study explained to Medical News Today. “In a ‘randomized trial’ — the gold standard of human research — those different factors are assumed to be equally distributed between study groups due to…
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