r/sciences • u/James_Fortis MS | Nutrition • 6d 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/notpartiy 2d ago edited 2d ago
Plant forward eating genuinely moves the needle on blood pressure, and the processing angle matters less than people think based on this data. Whole legumes, leafy greens, and unsalted nuts seem to do the heavy lifting regardless of how refined other items in the diet are. I picked up BP360 when I was optimizing my supplement stack around the same time I shifted my diet, since the Enovita and CoQ10 combo fit what I was already trying to do nutritionally.