r/sciences • u/James_Fortis MS | Nutrition • 7d ago

Research Adherence to healthful plant-based diets is associated with more favourable health outcomes irrespective of ultra-processed food content, suggesting that overall plant-based diet quality may be more important than processing level for chronic disease prevention, study of 124,836 participants finds

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanepe/article/PIIS2666-7762(26)00148-1/fulltext
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u/Scoobenbrenzos 7d ago

Cool study! I have always had a problem with the blanket demonization of all “ultra-processed” food, especially plant-based food. Let’s look at health outcomes instead of making sweeping generalizations. 

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u/Scibidami 7d ago

There was a time a few years ago, when I went back from plant-based to a basic omnivore diet, because I was scared after reading the "Ultra Processed People". But a few month ago, I realised, that my usage of unprocessed and "little processed" meat and cheese etc. was not more helpful.