{"id":14845,"date":"2018-03-05T09:13:24","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T16:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uchealth.org\/today\/?p=14845"},"modified":"2023-06-23T10:57:01","modified_gmt":"2023-06-23T16:57:01","slug":"plant-based-diets-gain-in-popularity-for-many-reasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uchealth.org\/today\/plant-based-diets-gain-in-popularity-for-many-reasons\/","title":{"rendered":"Plant-based diet gains in popularity for many reasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><figure id=\"attachment_14857\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14857\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14857\" src=\"https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/03\/12090611\/rosenbaum8.jpgeee.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/03\/12090611\/rosenbaum8.jpgeee.webp 1200w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/03\/12090611\/rosenbaum8.jpgeee-300x225.webp 300w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/03\/12090611\/rosenbaum8.jpgeee-1024x768.webp 1024w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/03\/12090611\/rosenbaum8.jpgeee-768x576.webp 768w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/03\/12090611\/rosenbaum8.jpgeee-150x113.webp 150w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/03\/12090611\/rosenbaum8.jpgeee-200x150.webp 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14857\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. David Rosenbaum, a cardiologist at UCHealth Memorial Hospital North, cooks a vegan meal for a segment on KOAA News 5 with morning anchor Ira Cronin.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Once thought to be a diet only for the Birkenstock and tie-dyed-clad crowd, vegan diets have become fashionable and more popular over the years. In 2015, a New York Times Magazine cover story titled \u201cVegans Go Glam,\u201d featured a group of beautiful, slim, trendy looking people who espoused a vegan lifestyle. They claimed that a vegan diet kept them looking young and radiant, and healthy. Who wouldn\u2019t want to sign up for that? Bill Clinton, Beyonc\u00e9 and Jay-Z, to name just a few famous folks, have all claimed to have given up animal products.<\/p>\n<p>A vegan diet consists of only plant-based foods. Not only do vegans avoid all types of meat and fish in their diets, as do vegetarians, they also eschew dairy, eggs and honey, as well as all products made from animals like leather shoes or handbags and any products tested on animals. With the complete avoidance of anything that involves harming animals, many people choose this restrictive diet more for ethical reasons than health.<\/p>\n<p>The Vegan Society website defines veganism as \u201ca way of living which seeks to exclude, as far as is possible and practicable, all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, animals for food, clothing or any other purpose.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uchealth.org\/provider\/david-a-rosenbaum-md-cardiology\/\">David A. Rosenbaum<\/a>, MD, a UCHealth cardiologist at Memorial Hospital North, has been eating a plant-based diet for the last eight years. He turned to veganism while training for a 100-mile bike race.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was really sort of going nuts about improving and training to become faster,\u201d he said. \u201cMy trainer said, \u2018Think about consuming more of a plant-based diet. Also, it dovetails with what you believe in at work.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"su-callout-box col-xs-6 col-sm-6 right\" style=\"background-color:#dce4e7; color:#2e3b44;\">\n<p><strong>Tofu Brown Rice Noodle Stir Fry<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1 package brown rice noodles<\/p>\n<p>1 package extra firm tofu<\/p>\n<p>1 cup Orange Juice<\/p>\n<p>\u00bc cup Tamari<\/p>\n<p>1 T sesame oil<\/p>\n<p>1T garlic or 3 gloves<\/p>\n<p>1 T lime juice<\/p>\n<p>2 T agave nectar<\/p>\n<p>Sweet chili sauce for tofu marinade<\/p>\n<p>Cilantro, bean sprouts, peanuts<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Press liquid out of tofu and marinade in sweet chili sauce.<\/li>\n<li>Prepare noodles according to directions on package<\/li>\n<li>Mix all ingredients together in large bowl. Add noodles and toss.<\/li>\n<li>Grill tofu after marinade has sat for 15-30 min.<\/li>\n<li>Dish noodles on plate or bowl, garnish with chopped cilantro, chopped peanuts and bean sprouts. Top with grilled tofu and serve.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<p>Rosenbaum sees vessels and vascular systems that are clogged with plaque all the time. While he stops short of saying that a vegan diet can absolutely reverse heart disease, he does feel that it can improve your health and lower your risk for plaque build-up in your arteries. Less plaque build-up means that it\u2019s less likely a piece of plaque will break away from a vessel wall and cause a heart attack or stroke.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14858 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/03\/12090609\/tofucropped.pngeee.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"278\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/03\/12090609\/tofucropped.pngeee.webp 1200w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/03\/12090609\/tofucropped.pngeee-278x300.webp 278w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/03\/12090609\/tofucropped.pngeee-950x1024.webp 950w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/03\/12090609\/tofucropped.pngeee-768x828.webp 768w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/03\/12090609\/tofucropped.pngeee-139x150.webp 139w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/03\/12090609\/tofucropped.pngeee-200x216.webp 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 278px) 100vw, 278px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Erin (Wren) Cahoon, a UCHealth registered diet technician, says that cutting back on meat, especially processed meat, can also reduce your risk of certain cancers such as colorectal and stomach cancer. Processed meats, she notes, contain nitrates and nitrites, which the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hsph.harvard.edu\/nutritionsource\/2015\/11\/03\/report-says-eating-processed-meat-is-carcinogenic-understanding-the-findings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">World Health Organization<\/a> (WHO) has classified as carcinogenic.<\/p>\n<p>Cahoon also touts the benefits from the increased vegetable intake you\u2019d get from following a vegan diet. \u201cYou\u2019re going to get more fiber, and fiber is healthy for your digestive system and heart. You\u2019re going to get the added benefits of phytonutrients that only come in fruits, vegetables, and other plant-based foods.\u201d Phytonutrients, such as beta-carotene and lycopene, are thought to reduce inflammation, improve eye health and bone health and reduce your risk for certain cancers.<\/p>\n<p>There is research that suggests that a vegetarian diet has numerous health benefits including lowered risk for cardiovascular disease and some cancers. One study showed that a vegan diet might have the added benefits of protecting against obesity, hypertension, type-2 diabetes, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC4073139\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cardiovascular mortality<\/a>. But more research is still needed.<\/p>\n<p>For both vegan and vegetarian diets, the growing popularity may be attributed, in part, to a growing awareness about the environmental impacts of meat consumption, said Cahoon. \u201cThere\u2019s been a lot of documentaries recently about abusive farm practices. I think more people are aware of those issues and choose to go vegetarian or vegan for those reasons,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>But eating a vegan diet can be hard because of how restrictive it is, even harder than a vegetarian diet, because you are cutting out even more foods. Careful meal planning is important to make sure you get the right number and quantity of vitamins and minerals your body needs, especially B12 and calcium that are primarily found in animal and dairy products.<\/p>\n<p>Rosenbaum\u2019s diet is filled with tofu, beans, rice, oats, nuts, legumes, vegetables and fruit. He says he doesn\u2019t even miss meat. \u201cTofu is high in protein and low in fat. Learning how to infuse flavor into tofu, which is mashed soybeans, is the trick to not getting bored with a vegan diet,\u201d he said. He does eat fish periodically, though, but said that he and his wife, Tamera Dunseth Rosenbaum, associate chief nursing officer at Memorial Hospital North, follow a vegetarian or vegan diet 95 percent of the time.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14860\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14860\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14860\" src=\"https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/03\/12090607\/rosenbaum4.jpgeee.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/03\/12090607\/rosenbaum4.jpgeee.webp 750w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/03\/12090607\/rosenbaum4.jpgeee-225x300.webp 225w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/03\/12090607\/rosenbaum4.jpgeee-113x150.webp 113w, https:\/\/uchealth-wp-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/03\/12090607\/rosenbaum4.jpgeee-200x267.webp 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14860\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. David Rosenbaum, a caridologist at UCHealth Memorial Hospital North, prepares to plate his recipe called Tofu Brown Rice Noodle Stir Fry.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When he sees patients with cardiovascular disease, Rosenbaum discusses\u00a0diet with them as a means of improving their health. \u201cWhen you have someone in the hospital who has had a heart attack, you can say \u2018You need to change what you are doing with your diet,\u2019\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>People choose to go vegetarian or vegan for many reasons, including ethical, health, financial (meat can be pricey) and environmental. All good reasons. \u00a0\u201cI think, if done mindfully, [vegetarian and vegan diets] are some of the healthiest diets and truly help to prevent some of the chronic diseases that are common in our society,\u201d said Cahoon.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once thought to be a diet only for the Birkenstock and tie-dyed-clad crowd, vegan diets have become fashionable and more popular over the years. In 2015, a New York Times Magazine cover story titled \u201cVegans Go Glam,\u201d featured a group of beautiful, slim, trendy looking people who espoused a vegan lifestyle. 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