Eating a more plant-focused diet has numerous science-backed benefits: healthier aging, lowering colorectal cancer risk, and could even reduce the amount of dangerous chemicals in your blood.
Within those healthy plant foods are superfood compounds like antioxidants that can reduce inflammation and phytosterols that help lower cholesterol. New research, which is not yet peer reviewed and presented at the American Society for Nutrition’s conference in Orlando on Tuesday, reveals that eating more of the latter is linked to lower risk of chronic disease and better indicators of health.
