New research on people who ate plant-based meats and animal meats found no significant differences in heart health measures.
Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health and wellness content.People who ate plant-based meat products had no significant differences in cardiometabolic health metrics compared to people who ate animal meat, a new study found.
The team divided participants into two groups. For eight weeks, one group ate fixed quantities of beef, pork, or chicken breast. The other group ate an assortment of plant-based meat analogs from OmniFoods and The Vegetarian Butcher in addition to Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat products. Saturated fat in plant-based meats, often derived from coconut, increases LDL cholesterol. And a high-sodium diet can raise blood pressure, leading to greater heart disease risk.Before you throw out your meatless burgers, keep in mind that the study didn’t find meatless alternatives to be any worse than real meat for heart health—merely that they weren’t all that different.
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