Links to Articles & Resources (Nutrition and Diet Related)
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crazyycatlady1
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Thought it would be a good idea to have a thread going where we can post links to articles, studies and resources that we've found interesting, relating to eating a plant based diet (or things that are connected to this).
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Article about the big Meta-Study that recently came out from the Imperial College London, about the quantity of vegetable and fruit consumption, and how it relates to a reduced risk for various diseases-
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/for-a-longer-life-researchers-say-eat-this-many-fruits-and-veggies-per-day/1 -
Article on the 'Blue Zones', (communities that have exceptionally long life spans). One of the common threads among the different zones is that they all eat a mostly plant based diet-
http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/04/11/398325030/eating-to-break-100-longevity-diet-tips-from-the-blue-zones1 -
An interesting read from the BBC about the hypothetical of if the world went completely vegetarian. Talks, in part, about the effects on health:
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160926-what-would-happen-if-the-world-suddenly-went-vegetarian1
