Here you can download Plant-Based Diets: A Physician’s Guide By Hever Pdf book free online – from Plant-Based Diets: A Physician’s Guide By Hever Pdf book; Plant-based nutrition has exploded in popularity, and many advantages have been well documented over the
past several decades.1 Not only is there a broad expansion of the research database supporting the myriad benefits of plant-based diets, but also health care practitioners are seeing awe-inspiring results with their patients across multiple unique subspecialties. Plant-based diets have been associated with lowering overall and ischemic heart disease mortality2 ; supporting sustainable weight management3 ; reducing medication needs4-6; lowering the risk for most chronic diseases7,8; decreasing the incidence and severity of high-risk conditions, including obesity,9
hypertension,10 hyperlipidemia,11 and hyperglycemia;11 and even possibly reversing advanced coronary artery disease12,13 and type 2 diabetes.6
The reason for these outcomes is twofold. First, there are inherent benefits to eating a wide variety of health promoting plants. Second, there is additional benefit from crowding out—and thereby avoiding—the injurious constituents found in animal products, including