There are a host of benefits to eating plant-based a diet, from lowering your risk of every major disease to helping to save the planet. But now there is also a growing body of evidence that a plant-based diet will help you lose weight and be healthy too, since plant-based foods are rich in nutrients, antioxidants, and fiber and low in saturated fat. Now there is a new study to add to this: That plant-based diets are more effective for long-term weight-loss than the keto diet. Published in the journal
Nature Medicine, the study, “Effect of a plant-based, low-fat diet versus an animal-based, ketogenic diet researched the difference between a plant-based, low-fat diet and an animal-based, low-carb diet, to see how each one impacted weight loss.
People on a low-fat, plant-based diet ate fewer daily calories but had higher insulin and blood glucose levels, compared to when they ate a low-carbohydrate, animal-based diet, according to a small but highly controlled study at the National Institutes of Health.
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