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A Plant-Based Diet for Better Health

Dr. Kellie Crowl, DNP, FNP

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INTRODUCTION HOW TO IMPLEMENT RESULTS

Look up “Blue

Zones” or “The

Blue Zone

✼ A plant-based diet can reduce the risk of death from a Studies”
✼ Diet is the number one cause of premature death and disability. 1
cardiovascular event by approximately 30%. 12

Don’t give up on
✼ Nearly 70 percent of Americans take at least one prescription Start by eating Slowly phase out your favorite Start by going to ✼ A plant-based diet versus omnivorous diets reduced total
some form of
drug. 2 more plants animal products animal product vegetarian cholesterol and LDL by nearly 15% to 30%. 14

meal instantly ✼ The prevalence of diabetes type II is 7.6% in omnivores, 5.3% in

✼ Living longer but less functional years. vegetarians, and 2.9% in plant-based populations.

✼ The studies also found that people who eat plant-based have
Use non-dairy
✼ Diseases of overnutrition Find others locally Find recipes and dairy products, Know your foods, lower rates of heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, and

or online cookbooks for faux meats, learn to read labels
plant-based diets alternative cheeses obesity.

✼ Four simple lifestyle factors (not smoking, not being obese, ✼ The effects of plant-based diets on cardiovascular risk factors

getting 30 minutes of physical activity a day, and eating including plasma lipid concentrations, body weight, and blood

“healthier”) cuts risk for chronic disease by nearly 80%. 3 Eat at home more Start with Try replacing one pressure provide a substantial cardiovascular protection.

Trial and error and learn how to converting over product at a time. ✼ Reducing blood viscosity and improving arterial flexibility and
✼ What is a plant-based diet? eat out breakfast first Try going meatless endothelial function improves vascular flow and tissue
one day.

✼ Consist of minimally processed fruits, vegetables, whole grain, oxygenation.

legumes, nuts, seeds, herbs, and spices while excluding all ✼ Even without changes in body weight, plant-based diets have

animal products including meat, eggs, fish, honey and dairy.
been shown to reduce fat through skinfold thickness.

FAST FACTS

OBJECTIVES

✼ “….Have the blood pressure lowering benefits of a WATER SLEEP MEDITATION YOGA NATURE EXERCISE SOCIALIZE

vegetarian diet yet contain enough animal products to

make them palatable to non-vegetarians”- Dr. Sacks,

inventor of the DASH diet

✼ Fewer than 3% of Americans reach the recommended
METHOD minimum (14g per 1000 calories) daily adequate intake of

fiber. Yet 97% of Americans go well above the CONCLUSION

✼ Systematic Review: A search of the literature was completed in recommended protein recommendation.

an effort to identify pertinent evidence to respond to the ✼ The number one source of sodium and cholesterol in the A practical solution for a big problem

following PICOT question: In patients of all ages, does a plant- American diet is from chicken.

based diet improve overall health compared to a standard ✼ Did you know that three out of four Americans do not eat a ✼ A Plant-based diet addresses the key contributes to arterial

western diet over time? single piece of fruit on a given day? disease which includes dyslipidemia, elevated blood pressure,

✼ Around 96% of Americans fall short on minimum serving elevated body weight, and diabetes.

✼ Electronic databases: MEDLINE, CINAHL, EBSCO, PubMed, and of greens.

library database ✼ World human population is 7 billion. 70 Billion farmed ✼ Plant-based foods have fewer calories than animal-based foods.

animals are reared annually worldwide. 6 million animals

✼ Key words: plant-based diet, vegan diet, plant-based diet are killed for food every hour. ✼ A plant-based diet reduces blood pressure by decreased

nutrition, plant-based diet and chronic diseases ✼ All animals are sentient beings meaning they can feel, sodium, cholesterol, and processed sugar intake. Reduction in

perceive, or experience subjectively. low-grade inflammation occurs.

✼ Articles selected from years 2015-2020 ✼ Animals that do not want to die can never be humanly

killed. ✼ The abundance of antioxidants in a plant-based diet helps

✼ A total of 50 articles were reviewed, 15 retained, no peer ✼ Livestock covers 45% of Earth’s total land protect and reverse cell damage.

reviewed used. ✼ It would take three planets worth of resources if everyone ✼ Weight loss, reduction of acid in the body, better insulin

on Earth ate meat like the people of the United states. sensitivity.

✼ Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) evidence rating ✼ Land required to feed 1 person for 1 year: Vegans 1/6 an

system implemented to evaluate the quality of articles. acre, vegetarian ½ an acre, meat eater 3 acres. ✼ Plant-based diets are high in fiber.

✼ 80% of antibiotics sold in the US are for livestock