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Plant-based nutrition for healthcare professionals: implementing diet as a primary modality in the prevention and treatment of chronic disease

Cardiovascular disease remains the world's leading cause of death. Yet, we have known for decades that the vast majority of atherosclerosis and its subsequent morbidity and mortality are influenced predominantly by diet. This paper will describe a health-promoting whole food, plant-based diet;...

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Autores principales: Hever, Julieanna, Cronise, Raymond J
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Science Press 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5466942/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28630615
http://dx.doi.org/10.11909/j.issn.1671-5411.2017.05.012
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description Cardiovascular disease remains the world's leading cause of death. Yet, we have known for decades that the vast majority of atherosclerosis and its subsequent morbidity and mortality are influenced predominantly by diet. This paper will describe a health-promoting whole food, plant-based diet; delineate macro- and micro-nutrition, emphasizing specific geriatric concerns; and offer guidance to physicians and other healthcare practitioners to support patients in successfully utilizing nutrition to improve their health.
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spelling pubmed-54669422017-06-19 Plant-based nutrition for healthcare professionals: implementing diet as a primary modality in the prevention and treatment of chronic disease Hever, Julieanna Cronise, Raymond J J Geriatr Cardiol Review Cardiovascular disease remains the world's leading cause of death. Yet, we have known for decades that the vast majority of atherosclerosis and its subsequent morbidity and mortality are influenced predominantly by diet. This paper will describe a health-promoting whole food, plant-based diet; delineate macro- and micro-nutrition, emphasizing specific geriatric concerns; and offer guidance to physicians and other healthcare practitioners to support patients in successfully utilizing nutrition to improve their health. Science Press 2017-05 /pmc/articles/PMC5466942/ /pubmed/28630615 http://dx.doi.org/10.11909/j.issn.1671-5411.2017.05.012 Text en Institute of Geriatric Cardiology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License, which allows readers to alter, transform, or build upon the article and then distribute the resulting work under the same or similar license to this one. The work must be attributed back to the original author and commercial use is not permitted without specific permission.
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