Plant-based diets with nuts and virgin olive oil can reduce risk of heart disease by 30%

Spanish researchers chose Loma Linda University as the place to make the international announcement of their landmark study showing that plant-based Mediterranean diets reduce the risk of heart disease better than a low-fat diet. In this video, Miguel Angel Martinez, MD, MPH, PhD, lead investigator, discusses the findings, which were announced Monday, February 25, at LLU’s 6th International Congress on Vegetarian Nutrition. The results were also just published in The New England Journal of Medicine.