Sources
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Health
Weight loss on plant-based diets
- Health effects of vegan diets.
- Vegetarian, vegan diets and multiple health outcomes: A systematic review with meta-analysis of observational studies.
- Comparative effectiveness of plant-based diets for weight loss: a randomized controlled trial of five different diets.
- A low-fat vegan diet improves glycemic control and cardiovascular risk factors in a randomized clinical trial in individuals with type 2 diabetes.
- A multicenter randomized controlled trial of a plant-based nutrition program to reduce body weight and cardiovascular risk in the corporate setting: the GEICO study.
- Plant-based, no-added-fat or American Heart Association diets: impact on cardiovascular risk in obese children with hypercholesterolemia and their parents.
- The effects of a low-fat, plant-based dietary intervention on body weight, metabolism, and insulin sensitivity.
- A two-year randomized weight loss trial comparing a vegan diet to a more moderate low-fat diet.
- Toward improved management of NIDDM: A randomized, controlled, pilot intervention using a lowfat, vegetarian diet.
- Effect of a Brown Rice Based Vegan Diet and Conventional Diabetic Diet on Glycemic Control of Patients with Type 2 Diabetes: A 12-Week Randomized Clinical Trial.
- A multicenter randomized controlled trial of a plant-based nutrition program to reduce body weight and cardiovascular risk in the corporate setting: the GEICO study.
- Low glycemic index vegan or low-calorie weight loss diets for women with polycystic ovary syndrome: a randomized controlled feasibility study.
- Vegetarian, vegan diets and multiple health outcomes: A systematic review with meta-analysis of observational studies.
Plant-based diets help lower blood sugar levels and improve kidney function
- Type of Vegetarian Diet, Body Weight, and Prevalence of Type 2 Diabetes
- Higher insulin sensitivity in vegans is not associated with higher mitochondrial density.
- Beyond meatless, the health effects of vegan diets: findings from the Adventist cohorts.
- Health effects of vegan diets
- A low-fat vegan diet improves glycemic control and cardiovascular risk factors in a randomized clinical trial in individuals with type 2 diabetes.
- The effects of a low-fat, plant-based dietary intervention on body weight, metabolism, and insulin sensitivity.
- A low-fat vegan diet and a conventional diabetes diet in the treatment of type 2 diabetes: a randomized, controlled, 74-wk clinical trial.
- Beneficial effects of soy protein consumption for renal function.
- Soy protein intake, cardiorenal indices, and C-reactive protein in type 2 diabetes with nephropathy: a longitudinal randomized clinical trial.
- Soy-protein consumption and kidney-related biomarkers among type 2 diabetics: a crossover, randomized clinical trial.
- Withdrawal of red meat from the usual diet reduces albuminuria and improves serum fatty acid profile in type 2 diabetes patients with macroalbuminuria.
- Predominantly vegetarian diet in patients with incipient and early clinical diabetic nephropathy: effects on albumin excretion rate and nutritional status.
- Effect of soy protein-rich diet on renal function in young adults with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus.
- Regression of Diabetic Neuropathy with Total Vegetarian (Vegan) Diet
- A dietary intervention for chronic diabetic neuropathy pain: a randomized controlled pilot study
Plant-based diets helps prevent certain cancers
- Dietary legume consumption reduces risk of colorectal cancer: evidence from a meta-analysis of cohort studies.
- Fruit and vegetable consumption and all-cause, cancer and CVD mortality: analysis of Health Survey for England data.
- Soy product and isoflavone intake and breast cancer risk defined by hormone receptor status.
- Soy and its isoflavones: the truth behind the science in breast cancer.
- Adolescent and adult soy intake and risk of breast cancer in Asian-Americans.
- Vegetarian, vegan diets and multiple health outcomes: A systematic review with meta-analysis of observational studies.
- Red and processed meat intake and risk of bladder cancer: a meta-analysis.
- Cooked meat and risk of breast cancer–lifetime versus recent dietary intake.
- Meat consumption and mortality–results from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition.
- Red and processed meat intake and risk of colorectal adenomas: a systematic review and meta-analysis of epidemiological studies.
- Dairy products, calcium, and prostate cancer risk: a systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studies.
- Q&A on the carcinogenicity of the consumption of red meat and processed meat
- IARC Monographs evaluate consumption of red meat and processed meat
Plant-based diets have lower risk of heart disease
- Fruit and vegetable consumption and all-cause, cancer and CVD mortality: analysis of Health Survey for England data.
- High dietary fiber intake prevents stroke at a population level.
- Dietary fiber intake and risk of first stroke: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
- Legume consumption and risk of coronary heart disease in US men and women: NHANES I Epidemiologic Follow-up Study.
- Fruit, vegetable and bean intake and mortality from cardiovascular disease among Japanese men and women: the JACC Study.
- Beyond meatless, the health effects of vegan diets: findings from the Adventist cohorts.
- Vegetarian, vegan diets and multiple health outcomes: A systematic review with meta-analysis of observational studies.
- Plant-based, no-added-fat or American Heart Association diets: impact on cardiovascular risk in obese children with hypercholesterolemia and their parents.
- Effects of Vegetarian Diets on Blood Lipids: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.
- Metabolic mediators of the effects of body-mass index, overweight, and obesity on coronary heart disease and stroke: a pooled analysis of 97 prospective cohorts with 1·8 million participants.
- Nuts and coronary heart disease: an epidemiological perspective.
- Whole grain intake and cardiovascular disease: a meta-analysis.
- Risk of hospitalization or death from ischemic heart disease among British vegetarians and nonvegetarians: results from the EPIC-Oxford cohort study
Environment
Greenhouse gases emissions, nitrous oxide, waste, and water consumption
- FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS
- Livestock and Climate Change
- Animal Feed Science and Technology
- Study claims meat creates half of all greenhouse gases
- Water Resources: Agricultural and Environmental Issues
- Summary of Estimated Water Use in the United States in 2005
- How Important is Irrigation to U.S. Agriculture?
- Water Resources: Agricultural and Environmental Issues
- Water Content of Things
- Estimation of the water requirement for beef production in the United States.
- 2,500 Gallons All Wet?
- Water
- The water footprint of food
- A Global Assessment of the Water Footprint of Farm Animal Products
- The water footprint of poultry, pork and beef: A comparative study in different countries and production systems
- Freshwater Abuse and Loss: Where Is It All Going?
- Biomass use, production, feed efficiencies, and greenhouse gas emissions from global livestock systems
- Livestock and climate change
- Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU)
- Methane Emissions Are Spiking, But It Might Be More Cow Than Car
Ocean dead zones, water pollution and habitat destruction
- Global Depletion and Food Choice Responsibility
- What is a dead zone?
- What Causes Ocean “Dead Zones”?
- The Problem
- Biodiversity Decline
- Impact of habitat loss on species
- How Eating Meat Hurts Wildlife and the Planet
- Biodiversity conservation: The key is reducing meat consumption
- Biodiversity and Food Choice: A Clarification
- NOAA-, EPA-supported scientists find average but large Gulf dead zone
- UN launches International Year of Deserts and Desertification
- Overgrazing
- Agricultural Waste Management Field Handbook
- Overfishing: a threat to marine biodiversity
- General situation of world fish stocks
- Estimating the Number of Fish Caught in Global Fishing Each Year
- Global Fisheries Crisis
- Discards and bycatch in Shrimp trawl fisheries.
- Shark Fin Trade Myths and Truths: BYCATCH
- Sharks at risk
Amazon destruction
- Causes of Deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon
- Causes of Deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon
- KEEPING OPTIONS ALIVE: The Scientific Basis for Conserving Biodiversity
- The Disappearing Rainforests
- Tropical Deforestation
- ‘Harvesting the Biosphere’ – Bill Gates on Vaclav Smil
- The World Hunger-Food Choice Connection: A Summary
- Livestock production index (2004-2006 = 100)
- Global livestock production systems
- Measuring the Daily Destruction of the World’s Rainforests
- Dietary greenhouse gas emissions of meat-eaters, fish-eaters, vegetarians and vegans in the UK
- Meat eater’s guide to climate change and health
