Would you go meat-free to help your heart?
Giving plants the starring role in your diet is good for heart health, a review of four decades of data shows.
The effect - equivalent to about a third that of taking daily drugs - was "really substantial", they said. The research pulled together the 30 trials since 1982 in which scientists gave volunteers a set diet and tracked its impact on heart health. In total, nearly 2,400 people from around the world were involved.
The studies would have needed to have controlled people's diets for years or decades to see how that change in the blood played out.
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