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7 Real Signs Your Plant-Based Diet Is Missing Protein. Plus 3 Symptoms Everyone Blames on Protein That Are Almost Always Something Else.

Clinical protein deficiency is rare on a well-planned plant-based diet. Mild shortfalls are not.

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A 2-Year Trial Gave 628 Older Adults a Handful of Walnuts a Day. Their LDL Dropped More Than the Control Group's.

The Walnuts and Healthy Aging trial published in Circulation gave us one of the cleanest numbers on daily nut intake and cholesterol. The result is smaller than social media suggests, and more useful.

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9 Things Plant-Based Cardiologists Have Gone on Record Telling Patients to Stop Buying

A small group of cardiologists has spent the last decade publicly naming the specific grocery items they wish their patients would drop. Here is what they actually say, in their own words.

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Swapping One Beef Dinner a Week for Beans Cuts More Carbon Than a Round-Trip Transatlantic Flight

The math on one weekly meal swap, using the largest food footprint dataset ever assembled, lands somewhere most people are not expecting.

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A 14,210-Person US Study Found Plant-Based Eaters Had 17 Percent Lower Odds of Sleep Apnea. The Mechanism Was Not Weight Loss.

The 2024 Melaku analysis of US adults in NHANES found a healthful plant-based diet was linked to lower odds of obstructive sleep apnea.

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The Whole "You Need Complete Proteins" Rule Was Debunked in 1994. Doctors Are Still Repeating It.

A 1994 paper in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition quietly ended the rule that plant-based eaters must combine foods to get complete amino acids.

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Almond Milk's Water Problem Is Real. It Is Also Smaller Than the Dairy Industry Wants You to Believe.

The most-cited comparison gives dairy milk a 70 percent higher water footprint than almond milk. That is a real number, and it is worth understanding before the next viral post about California almonds.

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Vegan Diet for Kids: What a Randomized Cholesterol Trial Actually Showed

Cleveland Clinic ran a randomized trial putting overweight children on a low-fat vegan diet for four weeks. The results, quietly, are the strongest cholesterol data yet on plant-based eating for kids.

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World Menopause Day Just Named a Theme That Vegans Have Been Living for Decades.

On October 18, the International Menopause Society will hold its annual World Menopause Day under a theme it has never used before. Vegans have been living it for decades.

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At 52, He Is the First Vegan Bodybuilder Ever to Reach the Mr. Olympia Stage. His Diet Is Almost Comically Simple.

Torre Washington has spent 27 years hearing the same sentence: you cannot build that body on plants. On September 27, in Las Vegas, he will stand under the lights and answer.