Plant Based Health and Nutrition – Session I

Plant Based Health and Nutrition – Session I

The position of the Medical Executive Committee of SUNY Downstate Medical Center, as recommended by the Committee and Plant-based Health and Nutrition, is as follows:

Plant-based nutrition – emphasizing consumption of vegetables, whole grains, nuts, seeds, legumes, and fruits – can prevent, treat, or reverse certain chronic diseases in adults based on current best research evidence.

The chronic diseases studied most include obesity, high body mass index, hypertension, type 2 diabetes, coronary artery disease, and hyperlipidemia. Plant-based diets, however, are not a cure-all and should not be substituted for existing medication or therapy unless supervised by a physician.

Statements Based on Research Evidence
Individuals who report eating more plants have lower body mass index (BMI) and lower blood levels of total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, fasting glucose, C reactive protein, and inflammatory profiles than do individuals who report eating fewer plants in their diet. Strong evidence based on over 700,000 subjects in population and cohort studies.
Plant-based diets can reverse existing coronary artery disease (evidenced by angiography) and can reduce body weight, oral diabetic medication needs, and blood levels of total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, fasting glucose, c reactive protein (CRP), and hemoglobin A1c. Moderate evidence based on randomized trials and cohort studies that are mostly short-term (weeks to months) and have varying rates of adherence to plant-based diets over time.
Individuals who report eating more plants are less likely to develop hypertension, ischemic heart disease, type 2 diabetes, colon cancer, gastrointestinal cancer, and cancer overall in subsequent decades. Moderate evidence based on population and cohort studies that lose some subjects over time and have diverse methods and outcomes (e.g., are heterogeneous).
Individuals who report eating more plants are less likely to die from cardiovascular disease, ischemic heart disease, cerebrovascular disease, some cancers (pancreatic, lymphatic, hematopoietic), and from all-cause mortality. Moderate evidence based on population and cohort studies that lose some subjects over time and have diverse methods and outcomes.
Individuals who eat exclusively plant-based diets have lower rates of obesity, hypertension, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular disease than those who eat plant-based diets with some animal products. Weak evidence based on population and comparative studies with minorities of participants on exclusively plant-based diets and with variations in how these diets are defined.
Additional Considerations
The evidence mostly supports increased consumption of plants as beneficial, in contrast to simply removing animal products from the diet. Within the category of plant-based diets there is some evidence that eating only plants is best, with growing evidence that a whole food plant-based diet has more benefits than one that contains refined plant foods.
Many different plant-based diets have been used in research studies, making it difficult to generalize results and raising concerns in some cases (e.g., highly restrictive low-fat diets) about the ability of individuals to adhere to these diets for long periods of time.
Some of the observed health benefits of plant-based diets may be due to other lifestyle interventions that often accompany these diets, such as smoking cessation, limited alcohol consumption, stress reduction, and a greater emphasis on exercise and fitness.
We support the American Medical Association’s resolution from 2017 to “call on US hospitals to improve the health of patients, staff, and visitors by providing a variety of healthful food, including plant-based meals and meals that are low in fat, sodium, and added sugars”

50 Comments

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  4. Renee Ubry on August 3, 2021 at 9:24 pm

    Nice to hear this from this hospital. My son was born there in 1972.



  5. peace mood on August 3, 2021 at 9:25 pm


  6. Winnie on August 3, 2021 at 9:26 pm

    This is great.



  7. Bronwyn Evans on August 3, 2021 at 9:26 pm

    Good to watch this video. There are so many brilliant, humanitarian whole food plant based doctors. They speak with one voice on this matter, at least the ones I read and watch. Great to hear a couple of them mentioned in this talk.



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  9. Leticia Sambeli on August 3, 2021 at 9:33 pm

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  10. MemeL C on August 3, 2021 at 9:34 pm

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  11. emmy last on August 3, 2021 at 9:34 pm

    Genesis 1:29 simple!



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  13. Steven P on August 3, 2021 at 9:35 pm

    I’m a carnivore, this seems unnatural to me.



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  16. John Smith on August 3, 2021 at 9:41 pm

    I was vegan for 2 years & by the end I felt awful. Bad sick awful. Then I added fish or fowl once a week & started feeling great. Again. So that 123 lb dude at the end with the creepy glam pix telling me that, no, I really don’t feel better? I got some words for him.



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  18. Ridwan Monjur on August 3, 2021 at 9:44 pm

    Sir Jagdish Chandra Bose proved plants have life, too. #stopplantcruelty #eat_meat



  19. Low Ceilings on August 3, 2021 at 9:44 pm

    I have never heard "synaptic connection" so much in my life.



  20. Dee on August 3, 2021 at 9:48 pm

    I realize those who are committed to the plant based nutrition push must believe this is THE answer to good health. I don’t disagree. But it is ONLY PART of the answer, because while you save some from "sugar and meat’, others in the Green Movement are heavily pushing injections & medical devices disguised as ‘vaccines’ and ignoring the population’s issues with shoring up natural immunity while throwing the world’s best known virologists into prison.



  21. Priscilla Cornelius on August 3, 2021 at 9:49 pm

    -c7 t.



  22. Jana Boď on August 3, 2021 at 9:50 pm


  23. T Sealy on August 3, 2021 at 9:52 pm

    The Caribbean, Hispanic and East Indian diets don’t seem to affect those in their corresponding countries only in the U.S.



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    The mental illness diet



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    This is so inspiring. Thank you.



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  31. Werld Browzer on August 3, 2021 at 9:58 pm

    I’m going to be pessimistic: You can’t change these big businesses because you’re addicted to their food and you are not willing to hold your government at all levels accountable and you aren’t willing to speak out. Prove me wrong. I am begging everyone to prove me wrong because I want a world that’s plant based and environmentally friendly.



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  34. Dre Hardin on August 3, 2021 at 10:01 pm

    🤔Have you guys dropped ALL meat… Or have you simply minimized it while raising your vegetable/fruit intake?



  35. SANTUARY on August 3, 2021 at 10:05 pm

    20:58 – WOW!!



  36. Mark Middendorf on August 3, 2021 at 10:06 pm

    FANTASTIC! Thank you for sharing this video! Such an important topic for the future of ourselves, our families, our loved ones, for America, and for the world!



  37. H M on August 3, 2021 at 10:07 pm

    God he sounds so stupid no matter what he says



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  39. #ĀVREEEVANS on August 3, 2021 at 10:07 pm

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  40. MZ WALLACE on August 3, 2021 at 10:10 pm

    Obama signed a deal to protect GMO
    GLYPHOSATE SHOULD BE BANNED IN THE US



  41. Just Say No to Pseudoscience on August 3, 2021 at 10:10 pm

    Simplistic at best. At lot more is known about weight, weight gain, longevity, etc Please read more widely, a lot has changed over the last 25 years.



  42. Emma William on August 3, 2021 at 10:12 pm

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  43. Debra Hurtado on August 3, 2021 at 10:15 pm

    Plant based is the NEXT BUZZ PHRASE of western meds who won’t mention REAL NON-GMO food as medicine. Plants are as plants have been TREATED!! GMO PLANTS FROM GREEN GIANT??? EVIL AND BAD!! SOY, CANOLA, CORN, SAFFLOWER OILS ARE PLANT-BASED!! DON’T BELIEVE THIS CRAP, PEOPLE!!! THEIR HUGE RHETORIC IS BLATANTLY MISLEADING BY THEIR OMISSION OF REGARD TO GRASS-FED NUTRITION — which has been medicine for the Blue Zones over THOUSANDS OF YEARS!! They give lip service lto them — while intimating their unity with VEGANS — as if that option were the ONLY wise choice. No mention of GLOBALISTs’ backing of this little rendezvous… Which is inherently obviously if held at the Javitz Center. Monsanto BAYER must be orchestrating in the background… 😐. The last speaker even took a jab at OLIVE OIL… saying it was not so good if compared to… Well, he DIDN’T give a comparison — so, we’re left to guess. Probably didn’t want to offend some Blue Zone people who might actually REFUTE his cold sniping with HOT FACTS…🧐🕯️… THIS SYMPOSIUM IS A WASTELAND OF CALCULATED RHETORIC devised to mislead the public AWAY from KETO, FASTING, and REAL, GRASS-FED, nature-based fats that have ACTUALLY begun to REVERSE DIABETES and it’s STRING OF ILLNESSES when implemented CORRECTLY. SEE DOCTORS ERIC BERG, JASON FUNG, KEN BERRY, ANNETTE BOSWORTH, THOMAS DELAUER, and others who promote CLEAN KETO, CLEAN PALEO, NON-GMO FOODS — WHICH DON’T INCLUDE THE "plant-based" BLANKET title term so MONSANTO can get you to accept their "Beyond Meat" ROUND-UP READY burgers from Bill Gates — and his DEPOPULATION PLAN FOR THE WORLD!! 🤦. These "choir boys" talk a good game… But it’s a slick presentation based on NO FACTS!!!



  44. Marie Ghislaine Audant on August 3, 2021 at 10:15 pm

    I enjoyed every word he said!



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  46. mike gielczyk on August 3, 2021 at 10:19 pm

    I been on plant base for 6 months now and been feeling very weak and shaky and light headed any advice



  47. Vicki Ioannidou on August 3, 2021 at 10:19 pm

    Thank you, this was so inspiring and helpful. Want more of the same thing



  48. Monika Kress on August 3, 2021 at 10:19 pm

    came for the info on nutrition, was blown away by the future Mayor of New York City.



  49. Michael Pun on August 3, 2021 at 10:19 pm

    Plant based is BS. I only eat meat and have never been healthier.



  50. SANTUARY on August 3, 2021 at 10:20 pm

    Anybody here went to P.S 224?