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Changes in Plant-Based Diet Quality and Total and Cause-Specific Mortality.

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Improving plant-based diet quality over a 12-year period was associated with a lower risk of total and CVD mortality, whereas increased consumption of an unhealthful plantbased diet wasassociated with a higher risk oftotal and CVB mortality.
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Background: Plant-based diets have been associated with lower risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular disease (CVD) and are recommended for both health and environmental benefits. Howev...

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Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems

TL;DR: Food in the Anthropocene : the EAT-Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems focuses on meat, fish, vegetables and fruit as sources of protein.
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Reproducibility and validity of a semiquantitative food frequency questionnaire

TL;DR: Data indicate that a simple self-administered dietary questionnaire can provide useful information about individual nutrient intakes over a one-year period.
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Fruit and vegetable consumption and mortality from all causes, cardiovascular disease, and cancer: systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies

TL;DR: This meta-analysis provides further evidence that a higher consumption of fruit and vegetables is associated with a lower risk of all cause mortality, particularly cardiovascular mortality.
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Prospective study of alcohol consumption and risk of coronary disease in men

TL;DR: The hypothesis that the inverse relation between alcohol consumption and risk of coronary disease is causal is supported.
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Validity of self-reported waist and hip circumferences in men and women.

TL;DR: The moderate degree of measurement error for the ratio of self-reported waist and hip circumferences implies that previously reported associations based on self-report of these measures may have been appreciably underestimated.
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