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A Plant-Based Nutrition Program.

Individuals on plant-based diets are more likely to enjoy healthy weight, better cholesterol profile, increased energy levels, and sound health.

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  • 2017
  • Evans J, Magee A, Dickman K, Sutter R, Sutter C.
  • Joanne Evans is the executive director of Healthy Nurses… Healthy Communities, LLC, in Rockville, MD. Alexandra Magee is an NP in the Department of Nursing at George Mason University in Oakton, VA, and was a graduate student at the time of this project. Kathy Dickman is retired and was an assistant research professor in the Department of Nursing at George Mason University in Oakton, VA, at the time of this project. Rebecca Sutter and Caroline Sutter are codirectors of the MAPS Clinic and assistant professors in the Department of Nursing at George Mason University, Fairfax, VA. Evans is a nursing consultant who specializes in plant-based nutrition and received payment from George Mason University for her work on this project. She is also a member of the scientific advisory board of Good Medicine, a publication of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. Contact author: Joanne Evans, joanneevans@verizon.net. The authors have disclosed no potential conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise.
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Dietary intake and risk of developing inflammatory bowel disease: a systematic review of the literature.

Adequate intake of fruits, fiber, and vegetables may help protect individuals from inflammatory bowel diseases, such as ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease.

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Fruit, vegetable, and antioxidant intake and all-cause, cancer, and cardiovascular disease mortality in a community-dwelling population in Washington County, Maryland.

A decline in cancer, cardiovascular disease, and total mortality risk is associated with consistent consumption of fruits and vegetables.

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Association of fruit and vegetables with the risk of nasopharyngeal cancer: evidence from a meta-analysis.

Nasopharyngeal cancer is less likely to occur among frequent consumers of fruits and vegetables.

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  • 2014
  • Jin J, Ouyang Z, Wang Z.
  • Department of Otorhinolaryngology, The Central Hospital of Yiwu City(Affiliated Hospital of Wen Zhou Medical University), Yiwu 322000, China. Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Xinhua Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, School of Medicine, Shanghai, China, 200092 [2] Ear Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, School of Medicine, Shanghai, China, 200092.
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Consumption of vegetables and fruit and the risk of inflammatory bowel disease: a meta-analysis.

High consumers of fruits and vegetables are less likely to develop inflammatory bowel diseases, such as ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease.

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  • 2015
  • Li F, Liu X, Wang W, Zhang D.
  • Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics, the Medical College of Qingdao University, Qingdao, Shandong, People's Republic of China.
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Meat intake and risk of inflammatory bowel disease: a meta-analysis.

Generous intake of meat may increase inflammatory bowel disease risk.

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Fruit and vegetable consumption and all-cause mortality: evidence from a large Australian cohort study.

Consistent consumption of fruits and vegetables is associated with reduced total mortality risk.

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  • 2016
  • Nguyen B, Bauman A, Gale J, Banks E, Kritharides L, Ding D.
  • Prevention Research Collaboration, Sydney School of Public Health, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW, Australia. thanh-binh.nguyen-duy@sydney.edu.au. Prevention Research Collaboration, Sydney School of Public Health, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW, Australia. adrian.bauman@sydney.edu.au. Prevention Research Collaboration, Sydney School of Public Health, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW, Australia. joanne.gale@sydney.edu.au. National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Research School of Population Health, Australia National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia. emily.banks@anu.edu.au. Concord Clinical School, ANZAC Research Institute, the University of Sydney, Concord, NSW, Australia. leonard.kritharides@sydney.edu.au. Prevention Research Collaboration, Sydney School of Public Health, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW, Australia. melody.ding@sydney.edu.au.
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Nut consumption on all-cause, cardiovascular, and cancer mortality risk: a systematic review and meta-analysis of epidemiologic studies.

Habitual consumption of nuts may significantly cut down cancer, cardiovascular disease, and total mortality risk.

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  • 2015
  • Grosso G, Yang J, Marventano S, Micek A, Galvano F, Kales SN.
  • From the Department of Clinical and Molecular Biomedicine, Section of Pharmacology and Biochemistry (GG and FG) and the Department GF Ingrassia, Section of Hygiene and Public Health (SM), University of Catania, Catania, Italy (GG and FG); the Department of Environmental Health, Environmental and Occupational Medicine and Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA (JY and SNK); the Steward St. Elizabeth's Medical Center, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA (JY); the Department of Epidemiology and Population Studies, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland (AM); and the Cambridge Health Alliance, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA (SNK).
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Fruit and vegetable consumption and mortality from all causes, cardiovascular disease, and cancer: systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies.

Frequent consumers of fruits and vegetables are less likely to die from chronic diseases, especially cardiovascular diseases.

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Fruit and vegetable intake and risk of major chronic disease.

Adequate intake of fruits and vegetables may cut down the risk of chronic diseases, especially cardiovascular ailments. This study investigated the effect of the consumption of fruits and vegetables on chronic disease risk. Researchers tracked the dietary records of 109,636 subjects with no previous history of chronic disease recruited from the Nurse’s Health Study and...

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A prospective study of red and processed meat intake in relation to cancer risk.

Individuals with high dietary intake of red and processed meats are susceptible to liver, colorectal, lung, and esophageal cancers.

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  • 2007
  • Cross AJ, Leitzmann MF, Gail MH, Hollenbeck AR, Schatzkin A, Sinha R.
  • Nutritional Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America. crossa@mail.nih.gov
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Red and processed meat consumption and risk of incident coronary heart disease, stroke, and diabetes mellitus: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Regular consumers of processed meats may have a high tendency to develop diabetes mellitus and coronary heart disease (CHD).

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