> These data convey a strong message of patients accepting empowerment to be the locus of control to arrest their disease and confirm that patients will adopt a significant lifestyle transition to plant-based nutrition to halt and regress what we believe is a largely food- borne illness.
In other words, they conclude that diet can impact CAD and some people will be willing to change their diet. No surprise there. The fact that the study was for plant-based nutrition holds very little relevance since there was no control group. It could simply be that people transitioned to a healthy diet. We can't know for sure without proper controls.
I don't think the effectiveness of a whole foods plant based diet is really in question here. There are enough robust studies showing that it prevents and reverses CAD (look for Dr. Dean Ornish and Dr. Collin Campbell).
Knowing that CAD is the number one killer in several countries, I am all for studies like this being published, even with the lack of formal control group, after all, the numbers are pointing in one direction. If I had heart disease, I would have liked to know about this data.
> These data convey a strong message of patients accepting empowerment to be the locus of control to arrest their disease and confirm that patients will adopt a significant lifestyle transition to plant-based nutrition to halt and regress what we believe is a largely food- borne illness.
In other words, they conclude that diet can impact CAD and some people will be willing to change their diet. No surprise there. The fact that the study was for plant-based nutrition holds very little relevance since there was no control group. It could simply be that people transitioned to a healthy diet. We can't know for sure without proper controls.