Research on diet and lifestyle

More and more studies are showing that a healthy diet and lifestyle (which includes adequate sleep, adequate hydration, no smoking, no drinking, exercise, and managed stress) slows aging, regulates gene expression, prevents and reverses heart disease, prevents and reverses Type 2 diabetes, and reduces cancer and other chronic diseases. The most protective diet has been shown to be a primarily whole food, plant based diet. Treating Cardiovascular Disease with a Plant Based Diet 198 patients with cardiovascular disease converted to a plant based diet which was defined as no meat, fish, eggs, dairy or oil. Of the 177 patients that…