The expert said that a third of early deaths can only be prevented by a healthy diet based on plant foods.

Walter Willett, a professor at Harvard University at a conference in the Vatican, said that recently the question of the influence of nutrition on mortality has sparked interest among scientists..

According to experts, about a third of all deaths could be prevented by reducing meat to a minimum in the diet and increasing the amount of plant foods..

The expert emphasized that this figure could be much higher, because the calculations did not take into account some important factors, such as obesity.. A healthy diet reduces the risk of "

Dr. Neil Barnard added that well-designed vegetarian diets can have quite a strong effect, helping not only to get rid of extra pounds, but to improve health..

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