A Whole-Food Plant-Based Diet Reversed Angina without Medications or Procedures

A 60-year-old man presented with typical angina and had a positive stress test. He declined both drug therapy and invasive testing. Instead, he chose to adopt a whole-food plant-based diet, which consisted primarily of vegetables, fruits, whole grains, potatoes, beans, legumes, and nuts. His symptoms improved rapidly, as well as his weight, blood pressure, and cholesterol levels. Plant-based diets have been associated with improved plasma lipids, diabetes control, coronary artery disease and with a reduction in mortality. Adoption of this form of lifestyle therapy should be among the first recommendations for patients with atherosclerosis.

• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  Case Reports in Cardiology

• Publication date

  2015-02-10

• Fields of study

  Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1155/2015/978906PMID 25755896PMCID 4338379
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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