Health
Plant-forward diets are linked to lower heart disease, type 2 diabetes and all-cause mortality — and they cover every life stage when planned well.
The reason behind the menu
A well-planned vegetarian diet can support your health, lower your food footprint and reduce animal suffering. Here is the evidence behind that choice.
Plant-forward diets are linked to lower heart disease, type 2 diabetes and all-cause mortality — and they cover every life stage when planned well.
Food is about a quarter of global emissions. Shifting what's on your plate cuts far more than swapping packaging or shopping local.
Tens of billions of animals pass through slaughterhouses every year. Eating plants is the most direct way to stop paying for that.
A global panel of 37 scientists concluded that a diet rich in plants and low in animal foods improves health outcomes and is the only way to feed 10 billion people within planetary limits.
Willett et al., The Lancet, 2019
Analysis of ~38,000 farms found that shifting towards plant-rich diets can sharply cut food-related greenhouse gases and land use — a bigger lever than buying local.
Poore & Nemecek, Science, 2018
In a cohort of 73,000 adults, vegetarian eating patterns were associated with significantly lower all-cause mortality.
Orlich et al., JAMA Internal Medicine, 2013
Well-planned vegetarian and vegan diets are healthful, nutritionally adequate and appropriate for all life stages, including pregnancy, childhood and athletes.
Melina, Craig & Levin, J Acad Nutr Diet, 2016
With adequate total protein and a spread of sources, vegetarian and vegan eaters can build and keep muscle just as well as omnivores.
Hevia-Larraín et al., Sports Medicine, 2021
Roughly 80 billion land animals are slaughtered for food each year, the large majority in intensive systems. Every meal is a vote on that number.
FAOSTAT / Our World in Data
Every dish in this app is vegetarian, most are high protein, and none of them need eggs. Swapping a handful of meals a week already moves the needle — that's the whole point of the wheel.
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