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Health Study Plant nutrition prevents severe inflammation
According to surveys, fewer and fewer people eat meat. They also do good for their health. Because researchers have now found that the absence of animal foods can reduce the risk of inflammation.
Vegetable diet is good for your health
In Germany alone, around one million people live vegan. Instead of animal foods such as meat, fish, milk, eggs and honey, they rely on herbal food. In addition to ethical and ecological reasons, health foods also speak in favor of vegetarian food. Because this diet reduces the risk of inflammation, as researchers have now found out.
Obesity is often associated with chronic inflammation, which increases the risk of certain diseases. A plant-based diet can reduce this risk. (Image: Yasonya / fotolia.com) Obesity is often associated with chronic inflammation
A team of scientists headed by Krasimira Aleksandrova and Fabian Eichelmann from the German Institute for Human Nutrition (DIfE) has evaluated 29 scientific papers investigating the effects of a plant-based diet on the levels of inflammatory markers in overweight people. Important to know: "Overweight is often associated with chronic inflammation, which increases the risk of cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes and cancer," the institute wrote in a statement.
Overweight people can reduce the risk of disease through herbal diet
As the meta-analysis published in the journal "Obesity Reviews" shows, the values of the inflammatory marker C-reactive protein (CRP) decreased by an average of 0.55 mg / l and the values for interleukin in a plant-rich diet compared to a control diet. 6 by 0.25 ng / l.
"Our findings indicate that overweight people can significantly improve their inflammatory marker profile through a plant-based diet and may thereby be able to do a great deal to prevent so-called folk diseases such as heart attacks and diabetes," said study leader Aleksandrova.
"A plant-based diet is defined to be based primarily on foods such as vegetables, grains, legumes and fruits. In addition, it contains no or very little meat, but may include moderate amounts of eggs, dairy products and fish, "said first author Eichelmann.
Number of obese people is increasing
As stated in the message, the body's fat deposits not only save energy, but also release messenger substances. Because some of these substances promote inflammatory processes in the body, inflammatory marker levels in the blood of overweight people are often elevated. A condition which, in turn, is associated with a significantly increased risk of metabolic diseases.
Since not only in Germany, but also worldwide, the number of people with obesity is constantly increasing, researchers and physicians are also looking for scientifically based nutritional strategies that help to stay healthy despite an excessive body weight.
Derive recommendations from investigation
Although observation and intervention studies have already pointed out in the past that a plant-based diet counteracts overweight-related inflammatory reactions. However, the observed effects were sometimes weak.
"Therefore, we carried out a comprehensive, systematic literature review and summarized the individual results of corresponding intervention studies for the first time to an overall result. This makes it possible to better assess the effect size of such a diet on the development of chronic inflammation. An important prerequisite for deriving recommendations, "explained Eichelmann.
The current analysis examined all eligible nutritional studies that appeared in Medline, EMBASE and the Cochrane central Register of Controlled Trials from January 1946 to January 2016. From a total of 2,583 identified studies, only 29 publications, with data from a total of 2,689 study participants between the ages of 28 and 68, met the selection criteria set for the meta-analysis.
Sick by overweight
More and more people around the world are suffering from overweight and obesity. In Germany alone, seven million patients were on therapy for obesity in the penultimate year. Too much weight increases the risk of, among other things, coronary heart disease, diabetes, stroke, respiratory disease and cancer. According to health experts, a strong overweight can cost around ten years of life reasons enough to develop effective counterstrategies. (Ad)