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When you're treating diseases with drugs, you know there's one drug you take for cholesterol, a different class of drugs you take for high blood pressure, different class of drugs you take for diabetes, but, with diet, a plant-based diet affects all these diseases. One diet to kinda rule them all.

— Michael Greger Interview in the documentary-film What the Health by Kip Andersen (2017)

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A plant-based diet is like a one-stop shop against chronic diseases.

Consuming too much salt kills an estimated 1.9 million people a year.
In the United States alone, up to ninety-two thousand lives could be saved each year simply by eating less salt.

Artificially sweetened beverage consumption [of fizzy drinks ] is associated with leukemia, so we should eliminate fizzy drinks from our diets for this reason—and many others.

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The turmeric spice component curcumin, a simple spice found in the supermarket, might have the ability to slow or stop multiple myeloma in a percentage of patients. It couldn't hurt to spice up our diet.

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We've known for decades that even a single workout can elevate mood and that physical activity is associated with decreased symptoms of depression. For example, one study of nearly five thousand people across the United States found that people who exercised regularly had 25 percent lower odds of a major depression diagnosis.

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