Extended essay: To what extent does a plant-based diet lower the risk of coronary artery disease?
fat without developing atherosclerotic plaques.When comparing human characteristics with
the characteristics of other animals, evidence suggests that humans are rather
herbivorous and thus it’s self evident why individuals with plant based diets stand a lower
risk of getting heart disease.12
10 ‘’Where is Cholesterol Produced in the Body?’’, Disabled World, http://www.disabled-world.com/
artman/publish/body-cholesterol.shtml 16.10.2016
11Ella Haddad,’’Dietary intake and biochemical, hematologic, and immune status of vegans
compared with nonvegetarians’’, the American journal of clinical nutrition, http://ajcn.nutrition.org/
content/70/3/586s.full 16.10.2016
12William Roberts,’’Twenty questions on atherosclerosis’’, US National Library of Medicine
National Institutes of Health, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1312295 16.10.2016
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