Evidence Review of Plant-Based Diets and Health Benefits
Funder: Kate Farms
The benefits of more plant-based diets are widely accepted, and new research is published frequently. However, the public, policy and decision makers, healthcare providers, and payers still remain largely unaware of the power of plant-based diets to create health. The objective of this project is to create a curated list of recent and seminal research on plant-based diets, and to create a consumer-facing report and slide deck appropriate for medical professionals’ use. Formal searches and screening have returned close to 600 unique publications. Data extraction and report generation are in process for the following specific topics:
• Support for plant-based diets from other relevant medical professional societies / mainstream recommendations summary
• Dietary quality (will answer common questions about protein, B12, D)
• Enteral nutrition
• Children’s diets and chronic disease
• Overweight/obesity, metabolic syndrome, weight loss, and healthy weight maintenance
• Type 2 diabetes
• Cardiovascular disease and risk factors (high blood pressure, high cholesterol, stroke, events and mortality, erectile dysfunction)
• Reproductive cancers (breast and prostate)
• Autoimmune conditions
• Chronic kidney disease
• Malnutrition
• Longevity and quality of life-years (QALYs) (can address quality aging)
• Athletics and sports nutrition