Association of Animal and Plant Protein Intake With All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality
JAMA Intern Med, 2016. Song M, et al.
Funding and competing interests (as published with the paper): Disclosures: None.
- Study type
- Human cohort study (not about the FMD)
- Journal
- JAMA Intern Med
- Published
- 2016
- Authors
- Song M, et al.
- DOI
- 10.1001/jamainternmed.2016.4182
- PubMed ID
- 27479196
Summary
This is a large population study, used here as background and comparison research, not a study of the Fasting Mimicking Diet or Prolon. Researchers followed over 131,000 US health professionals over decades, using repeated diet questionnaires, to look at how the source of dietary protein (animal versus plant) related to death rates.
The authors reported that, after adjusting for other lifestyle and diet factors, higher plant protein intake was associated with lower all-cause and cardiovascular mortality, and higher animal protein intake was associated with higher cardiovascular mortality but not with all-cause mortality. These associations were seen only in people with at least one unhealthy lifestyle factor (smoking, heavy drinking, overweight or obesity, or physical inactivity), not in people with none of them.
This paper has no Fasting Mimicking Diet content and does not evaluate Prolon, an FMD, or any fasting protocol. It is general nutrition epidemiology about protein source, cited here only as background literature, not as evidence that any product lowers mortality or extends life.
A large population study used here as background and comparison research. It is not a study of the Fasting Mimicking Diet or Prolon.
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