Here's a PPT about Diet as medicine, a solution that is cost-effective, curative rather than palliative, and can extend the lives of millions around the world. This is the key to a brighter future to an overburdened health care system.

1. Diet as medicine:
Plant-based nutrition
Ryan Long
Medical Botany Spring 2021

2. What’s at stake?

3. Effects of eating meat:
cardiovascular system
 LDL cholesterol is causal to
atherosclerosis & ischemic stroke
risk20, 22, 23
 Saturated fat increases stroke
risk by raising LDL 24
 Mechanism: decreases LDL
receptor activity
Risk Factors for CVD:18, 19, 20, 21
Higher total cholesterol
High LDL cholesterol
High triglycerides
Low HDL cholesterol
CVD: narrowing of blood vessels that
transport blood and oxygen to the
heart & body – due to
atherosclerosis18
Meat and animal
products are high in
saturated fats
Atherosclerosis: A build up of
cholesterol plaque in the walls of
arteries causing obstruction of blood
flow.
“Consistent evidence from numerous and
multiple different types of clinical and genetic
studies unequivocally establishes that LDL causes
ASCVD.”
- A consensus statement from the European Atherosclerosis Society
Consensus Panel22
Meat and animal
products increase risk of
heart disease

4. Effects of Eating Meat cont.
Conclusion:
Animal product consumption exposes humans to
saturated fat, cholesterol, lactose, estrogens, and
pathogenic microorganisms, while displacing fiber,
complex carbohydrates, antioxidants, and other
components needed for health. In the process,
consumption of animal products increases the risk
for cardiovascular disease, cancer32,33, diabetes,
obesity, and other disorders including unhealthful
gut microbiomes that produce TMAO.34

5. Effects of Eating
Plants
 Lower BMI 26, 27
 Lower cases of hypertension and
hyperlipidemia28, 29
 Lower rates and reversal of heart disease28, 29
 Less diabetes29
 Less cancer29, 30, 31, 32, 33
 All-cause mortality decreased29
 Reduced acne?
 Dairy increases sebum production
 Meat inc. IGF-1 growth factor = associated with sebum & cancer risk
 Refined sugars
 mTORc1 = dairy, refined sugar, meat consumption, overactivation inc.
sebum
 mTORc1 signaling is reduced with fruit and vegetable consumption
 See Essylstyn and Adventist health studies, blue zones, Poland during
WWII, WHO declaring red meat carcinogenic, ad libitum dietary interventions,
etc.
“It is the position of the American Dietetic Association that appropriately planned
vegetarian diets, including total vegetarian or vegan diets, are healthful, nutritionally
adequate, and may provide health benefits in the prevention and treatment of certain
diseases.”38