Let’s tell our patients:
EAT MORE PLANTS
Feel Better
Lower Your:
Risk of Heart Disease, Stroke, Alzheimer's and Cancer
Impact on the Environment, on animals and the oceans
Nutrition card and Get Started information now available in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese and with recipes for Indian cuisine.
Nutrition in medicine newsletter
Monthly email newsletter highlighting a few articles for different topics in medicine that support the evidence of the benefits of plant centered dietary patterns to improve health and the environment.
Diabetes and Food
Carbs and Carnivores
Hypertension
Cardiovascular Disease
Cancer
Alzheimer’s Disease
Different Diets
Microbiome
Phytonutrients
If you have diabetes or hypertension and decide to eat mostly plants, please let your doctor know so your medication can be adjusted as needed. Your blood pressure and glucose can decrease even in a few weeks.
Is it possible for a brief discussion of plant centered nutrition to make a meaningful impact on patients’ health?
YES!
All patients with diabetes in a non-primary care practice received a 2 minute discussion on the benefits of plant-based diets with a nutrition handout.
From the accompanying editorial:
"Treating diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a critical topic that deserves our attention ... and there are many simple ways to affect change in our clinics.
In one of this issue’s featured articles, Brittany Long, BS, and Allison Menezes, MD, suggest that retina specialists can spend 2 minutes discussing healthy eating habits and help more than 20% of patients improve their diets and glycemic control."
This site is designed for doctors and health care professionals to:
By: Allison Menezes MD
Broad Agreement,
Less Controversy
There is broad agreement that a diet of mostly fruits, vegetables, legumes and whole grains is associated with lower mortality and reduced cardiovascular disease. (Ref. American Heart Association 2021 Dietary Guidance, Lyon Diet Heart Study, Adventist Health Studies, Harvard Nurses Health Studies, Ornish)
Blue Zones
The healthiest, longest lived people on the planet eat mostly plants (especially legumes and greens). (Ref. Blue Zones Diet: Food Secrets by Dan Buettner)
Keep it simple:
“Eat (WHOLE) Food.
Not Too Much.
Mostly Plants.”
“Eat Food Made By a Plant, Not In a Plant.”
- Michael Pollan
