Just Plants? Impact of a Vegetarian Diet on Mortality

Fields, Heather; Millstine, Denise; Agrwal, Neera

doi:10.1089/jwh.2014.4972

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“…12 13 There are many more such studies describing other dietary components independently associated with lower risk of coronary artery disease, namely, green leafy vegetables, other coloured vegetables, whole fruit, whole grains and legumes. [14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21] For overall health, a deficit of plant-based foods in the diet is concerning as mortality rate increases of over 50% have been demonstrated in individuals consuming no fruits and vegetables compared with those eating five servings of fruits and vegetables each day. 19 In the USA, the Department of Health has identified a number of shortfall nutrients and its guidelines recommend increased intake of dark green and yellow vegetables, fruits, legumes, whole grains, nuts and seeds to address this.…”

Section: Bmj Nutrition Prevention and Healthmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…[14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21] For overall health, a deficit of plant-based foods in the diet is concerning as mortality rate increases of over 50% have been demonstrated in individuals consuming no fruits and vegetables compared with those eating five servings of fruits and vegetables each day. 19 In the USA, the Department of Health has identified a number of shortfall nutrients and its guidelines recommend increased intake of dark green and yellow vegetables, fruits, legumes, whole grains, nuts and seeds to address this. 22 Doctors have little training in nutrition or behavioural modification, yet attention to diet from a patient's physician can empower them to become the locus of control for their own disease management.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This indicated the dietary components that have been associated with reduction of cardiovascular disease risk. [14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21]…”

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confidence: 99%

“…There are many more such studies describing other dietary components independently associated with lower risk of coronary artery disease, namely, green leafy vegetables, other coloured vegetables, whole fruit, whole grains and legumes 14–21…”

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Effect of a brief dietary counselling intervention on emergency department cardiac chest pain presentations

Murphy

Rasheed

Keaver

2022

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Introduction15% of all presentations to our emergency department last year were chest pain related. This presented an opportunity to evaluate the impact of a brief physician counselling intervention on patient-reported changes in cardio-protective foodstuff intake.MethodsThis is a prospective non-randomised before and after comparison study without controls, conducted between an emergency department presentation and a scheduled follow-up visit at a cardiac diagnostics department. Participants were recruited between February and March 2021. The selected dietary components for inclusion after review of the literature were green leafy vegetables, other coloured vegetables, wholegrains, legumes and fruits. A food frequency questionnaire was completed by patients before and after a physician counselling intervention aided by a dietary infographic. Additionally, using the transtheoretical model for health behaviour change, we assessed each patient’s evolution during the study.Results38 patients were recruited. For patients with total baseline consumptions of five or fewer per day, there was an increase in cardioprotective foodstuff intakes (z=−2.784 p<0.005 effect size 0.39). Corresponding to this, there was a participant shift observed towards the action and maintenance phases of behaviour change from the contemplation and preparation phases.DiscussionWe demonstrated a statistically significant change with moderate effect size using a simple infographic, coupled with brief physician counselling, to promote increased intake of cardioprotective foodstuffs by patients with poor baseline intakes (<5 cardio-protective foods per day) and known modifiable risk factors for ischaemic heart disease.ConclusionDiet is one arm in the prevention of cardiovascular disease that is often neglected by physicians. This study found that a brief dietary counselling intervention applied in an emergency department setting, administered by non-nutritionists can have a role in changing patient dietary behaviour.

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Section: Bmj Nutrition Prevention and Healthmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Bmj Nutrition Prevention and Healthmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This indicated the dietary components that have been associated with reduction of cardiovascular disease risk. [14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21]…”

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Effect of a brief dietary counselling intervention on emergency department cardiac chest pain presentations

Murphy

Rasheed

Keaver

2022

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“…Some vegetarian communities might have the high incidence of anemia. [4] In addition to the form of the physical disorder, the community-bound syndrome might be any syndrome in the group of culture bounded disease. [5] This is a specific problem with psychospiritual background.…”

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Community-bound Syndrome: An Important Issue in Community Medicine

Wiwanitkit¹

2018

J Community Prev Med

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T he community medicine mainly deals with the medical and public health problem in the community. Community is a big scale of the groups of people, larger than the family. The concept to manage community as a unit is important in community medicine. To deal with a problem in community scale, there must be the good community manipulation. Referring to the individual and family scales, there are specific problems for individual level, and family level that is known as individual disorder and family disorder. For the community scale, there is also a specific community problem. The communitybound syndrome is the specific syndrome seen in the specific community and usually related to the community background.

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Prevalence of persons following a vegetarian diet in Germany

Mensink

Barbosa

Brettschneider

2016

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People adopt a vegetarian diet for various reasons. A largely plant-based diet not only has advantages for health, it also has positive social and environmental aspects. The aim of this analysis is to provide a description of the people in Germany who follow a predominantly vegetarian diet and to compare their food consumption with those of non-vegetarians. As part of DEGS1 (2008–2011), a validated questionnaire was used within a representative sample of 6,933 persons aged 18 to 79 to study how often and how much of 53 different food groups was consumed during a four-week period. The questionnaire also included a question about a vegetarian diet. The data were analysed descriptively and with a binary-logistical regression model. In Germany, 4.3% of the population (6.1% of women and 2.5% of men) aged 18 to 79 usually follows a vegetarian diet. The highest proportion of vegetarians is found among 18- to 29-year-olds (women 9.2% and men 5.0%) and among women aged 60 to 69 (7.3%). People with a higher level of education are more likely to usually follow a vegetarian diet. The same applies to people who live in large cities and those who conduct more than four hours of sports per week. In addition, women and men who usually follow a vegetarian diet not only consume significantly less meat compared with non-vegetarians, they also drink less energy-reduced drinks, and less beer and wine; they also drink more tea and eat more fruit and vegetables. A vegetarian lifestyle is often associated with positive socio-political impacts. It can, among others, contribute to a reduction in factory farming, which means it can help preserve the environment. A reduction in meat consumption in Germany would also be beneficial from a public health perspective, since meat consumption is currently considerably higher than the amounts recommended by the German Nutrition Society. The benefits linked to a vegetarian diet would be further strengthened, if, in addition to the relatively small group of people who completely refrain from eating meat, a larger section of the population would reduce their meat consumption.

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Just Plants? Impact of a Vegetarian Diet on Mortality

Cited by 4 publications

References 11 publications

Effect of a brief dietary counselling intervention on emergency department cardiac chest pain presentations

Effect of a brief dietary counselling intervention on emergency department cardiac chest pain presentations

Community-bound Syndrome: An Important Issue in Community Medicine

Prevalence of persons following a vegetarian diet in Germany

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