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Shifting to a plant-based diet can reduce your risk for chronic illnesses

People who ate more plant-based foods had a lower risk of cancer, heart disease and type 2 diabetes

Specifically, they had a lower risk of developing two or more of those illnesses at the same time

FRIDAY, Aug. 29, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Shifting to a plant-based diet can help keep people from being plagued by multiple health problems as they age, a new study says.

People whose diets included more veggies, fruits, whole grains, legumes and plant-based foods had 32% lower odds of developing two or more chronic illnesses, researchers report in The Lancet Healthy Longevity .

Specifically, people who adhered more strongly to a healthy plant-based diet had a lower risk of cancer, heart disease a

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