ReviewAmerican journal of lifestyle medicine
A Whole Food Plant-Based Diet Is Effective for Weight Loss: The Evidence.
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- A Narrative Review of Weight Management Strategies: From Lifestyle Interventions to Emerging Pharmacotherapies.Journal of obesity · 2026Review
- Effectiveness of a Remotely Delivered Whole Food Plant-Based Diet Intervention With Online Community Support: Pilot Study.American journal of lifestyle medicine · 2025Article
- Lifestyle Medicine as a Pathway to Longevity: The Impact of the Healthy Lifestyle Community Program (Cohort 2, HLCP-2) on Oxidative Stress Biomarkers in the Adult Rural German Population.American journal of lifestyle medicine · 2025Article
- Effects of nutritional counseling on dietary patterns in patients with mild cognitive impairment: insights from the BrainFit-Nutrition study.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
- Analysis of the Nutritional Composition of Ready-to-Use Meat Alternatives in Belgium.Nutrients · 2024Article
- Plant-based and vegetarian diets are associated with reduced obstructive sleep apnoea risk.ERJ open research · 2024Article
- Association of plant-based dietary patterns with the risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus using cross-sectional results from RaNCD cohort.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Plant-based alternative proteins-are they nutritionally more advantageous?European journal of clinical nutrition · 2023Article
- The health and economic impact and cost effectiveness of interventions for the prevention and control of overweight and obesity in Kenya: a stakeholder engaged modelling study.Cost effectiveness and resource allocation : C/E · 2023Article
- Plant-based and vegetarian diets: an overview and definition of these dietary patterns.European journal of nutrition · 2023Review
- Modern Diets and the Health of Our Planet: An Investigation into the Environmental Impacts of Food Choices.Nutrients · 2023Review
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- The effect of gestational weight gain on serum total oxidative stress, total antioxidant capacity and gut microbiota.Bioscience of microbiota, food and health · 2022Article
- Validation and results of a novel survey assessing decisional balance for a whole food plant-based diet among US adults.Frontiers in nutrition · 2022Article
- Healthy Eating for Successful Living in Older Adults™ community education program-evaluation of lifestyle behaviors: A randomized controlled trial.Frontiers in aging · 2022Article
- Plant-based diet for obesity treatment.Frontiers in nutrition · 2022Review
- Placing a Well-Designed Vegan Diet for Slovenes.Nutrients · 2021Review
- Nutrition in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes: Present Knowledge and Remaining Challenges.Nutrients · 2021Review
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Abstract
What does the best available balance of scientific evidence show is the optimum way to lose weight? Calorie density, water content, protein source, and other components significantly influence the effectiveness of different dietary regimes for weight loss. By "walling off your calories," preferentially deriving your macronutrients from structurally intact plant foods, some calories remain trapped within indigestible cell walls, which then blunts the glycemic impact, activates the ileal brake, and delivers prebiotics to the gut microbiome. This may help explain why the current evidence indicates that a whole food, plant-based diet achieves greater weight loss compared with other dietary interventions that do not restrict calories or mandate exercise. So, the most effective diet for weight loss appears to be the only diet shown to reverse heart disease in the majority of patients. Plant-based diets have also been found to help treat, arrest, and reverse other leading chronic diseases such as type 2 diabetes and hypertension, whereas low-carbohydrate diets have been found to impair artery function and worsen heart disease, the leading killer of men and women in the United States. A diet centered on whole plant foods appears to be a safe, simple, sustainable solution to the obesity epidemic.
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