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  • Australian Women’s Weekly NZ

    Health update

    Mar 25, 2020 1 minute
    Edited by VICKI BRAMLEY

    Crunch time

    DID YOU KNOW?

     Plant-based eating may be the pathway to positive ageing and a happy heart. One study, in the , found that plant-based diets protected the heart. It followed 760 women over 10 found that a high protein diet increases the risk of plaque build-up in your arteries, and the most unstable type of plaque is linked with an amino acid that’s found in high levels in red meat. Another study of 629 people in discovered that eating a Mediterranean diet (which is big on plants) for one year resulted in more of the gut bacteria linked to physical strength and cognitive function, and less of the bacteria associated with inflammation and disease. Salad for lunch?

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