Sentences with phrase «increase plant disease»

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As the proportion of plant foods in the diet increases, the risk of heart disease, diabetes, and cancer goes down.

Meat consumption has been linked to serious health risks including heart disease, stroke, and certain types of cancer, while an increase in consuming plant - based foods shows numerous health benefits, namely decreasing the risk of many of those diseases caused by excessive consumption of animal products.

Vegetable production intensification will see increased plant pest and disease pressure and significant on - farm losses for the majority of subsistence and small - holder cooperative farmers if the goal to meet WTO / SPS requirements for exports to the ASEAN economic community and international markets is to be met.

Chemically intensive farming methods can produce short - term benefits for farmers, but they result in the degradation of soil over time, increasing the susceptibility of plants to pests and diseases and requiring ever greater applications of fertilizer in the long - run.

Organic farmers increase organic matter in soil through the use of cover crops, compost and biologically based soil amendments, producing healthy disease and insect resistant plants.

Pioneers like Dr Dean Ornish and Dr Caldwell Esselstyn where among the first to show that if you combined a low fat, plant based diet, with walking and stress management, not only could you prevent and reverse heart disease (and many other chronic conditions), but you could also increase telomerase activity.

He mentioned the Free Seedlings Distribution programme which provides early bearing and high yielding planting materials to farmers at no cost, the Free Fertilizer Distribution Programme which is helping to improve upon soil fertility and increase yield, the National Cocoa Rehabilitation Programme which has facilitated the replanting of large hectares of over-aged, moribund and diseased farms as well as the Youth in Cocoa Initiative which is curbing the ageing - cocoa - farmers situation in Ghana.

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Williams said, the long - term follow up allowed authors to examine dietary patterns and analyze the effect of gradual adherence to a plant - based diet through reduced animal food intake and increased plant food intake on heart disease risk.

Recently, the UD team found that when rice plants are subjected to multiple threats — including increasing concentrations of poisonous arsenic in water and soil, an urgent concern in Southeast Asia, plus a fungal disease called rice blast — the plants aren't necessarily goners.

Understanding how this immune system is regulated at the appropriate level of activity gives the researchers more ideas of points in the immune signaling pathway that could targeted to increase the plant's baseline ability to resist disease.

«Practically speaking, we need to understand how to sustain plants with all of the mounting stressors today, such as drought and an increase in pathogens (e.g., plant disease),» Fitzpatrick says.

The study looked at a way to substitute animal - based saturated fats for plant - based unsaturated fats in muffins made for patients with the metabolic syndrome, a group of risk factors that affect about a third of adults in the United States, increasing their chance of cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes.

Felicia Keesing of Bard College in Annandale, New York, and her colleagues reviewed 15 diseases of plants and animals and found that for 13, contagion increased when biodiversity fell.

When a member of Rozen's team spotted the same type of mutation in liver cancer, the group wondered if plants that contain aristolochic acid might increase a person's risk of developing the disease.

Domestication of plants is done in order to increase yield, improve disease resistance and drought tolerance, ease harvest, and to improve the taste and nutritional value of plants.

Some climate change effects will be beneficial for plant growth (e.g., elevated CO2 concentrations and longer frost - free seasons), while others will be detrimental (e.g., plant damage due to extreme events, increased weed growth, new or expanded pests and diseases).

Ecosystem impacts include changes in basic processes such as photosynthesis; large - scale shifts in the distribution of plants and animals; and increased threats from fire, pests and disease.

Multi-species cover crops add to the biological diversity of soils — and as diversity increases, the incidences of plant diseases and pests are reduced.

Fertilizer plays a key role in agriculture by increasing the production of staple crops, controlling fertility and reducing the risk to plants from pathogens and subsequent plant diseases.

Studies dating back to the 1960s found a positive correlation between saturated fats and the risk of cardiovascular disease; nutritional guidelines encouraged people to reduce saturated fats (mostly found in meat and dairy products) and instead increase polyunsaturated fats found in plant oils, such as soybean oil.

Those respondents enjoyed a powerful 25 percent reduction in their risk of coronary heart disease while those eating the unhealthy plant foods actually increased their risk by as much as 30 percent!

So with even small increases in animal products and with the plant nutrition reduced, it seems only logical that the diseases of affluence would be beginning to take hold.

In this study of 12 patients with elevated LDL cholesterol levels, a diet containing almonds and other nuts, plant sterols (also found in nuts), and soluble fiber (in high amounts in beans, oats, pears) reduced blood levels of all LDL fractions including small dense LDL (the type that most increases risk for cardiovascular disease) with near maximal reductions seen after only 2 weeks.

But overall, plant protein does not appear to have any sort of negative effect on health, whereas animal protein has clearly been shown to lead to increased risk of heart disease, cancer, type II diabetes, etc..

Plant - based advocates argue that anything greater than 15 % of total calories increases your risk for chronic disease, whereas animal - based advocates claim that a protein intake as high as 25 % does not increase your risk for chronic disease in the long - term.

The reason I don't anymore is that thousands and thousands of peer - reviewed clinical medical studies, as Dr. G has shown, clearly demonstrate that a Whole Food Plant Based lifestyle will decrease death and disabling disease significantly, and that animal products increase risk... a lot.

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Significant information on beneficial effects from increased intake of plant fibres and so called prebiotics exists mainly for two large groups of diseases:

According to an article titled, «Management of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus by Lifestyle, Diet and Medicinal Plants (2011)», among the non-communicable diseases diabetes is increasing at an alarming rate.

After adjusting for lifestyle and dietary risk factors, a major study involving 131,342 participants found that for every 3 - percent increase in plant protein the participants worked into their diets, they saw their risk for death from causes including heart disease drop by 10 percent over a 32 - year period.

Focusing especially on immigrants who had abandoned traditional, largely planted - based, diets in favor of meatier fare in the U.S., the lead researcher said, «There can not be the slightest question that the great increase in cancer among the foreign - born over the prevalence of that disease in their native countries is due to the increased consumption of animal foods....

Research shows that eating more plant - based foods and less meat increases your intake of key nutrients, such as dietary fiber, and reduces the risk of heart disease, type 2 diabetes and even some cancers.

And, you can do similar charts for all the other so - called Western diseases, which Burkitt thought related to the major dietary changes that followed the Industrial Revolution — a reduction in healthy plant foods (the sources of starch and fiber), and «a great increase in consumption of animal fats, salt, and sugar.»

Lupo: Americans (among whom every disease is increasing) already eat mostly plant - based.

Because careful analysis of past and present scientific research inspires every honest seeker of truth to conclude that the consumption of animal foods greatly increases the risk of most dangerous diseases I've been always recommending a completely plant - based diet.

Price noted that all healthy African groups had good sources of animal fat, and that the healthiest groups consumed less, not more, of plant foods; Burkitt and Trowel, however, postulate that the increase in Western diseases among Africans is due to a reduced consumption of plant foods containing dietary fiber.

They indicate that whilst Ghee can increase the risk of cardiovascular disease if it is consumed at too high a level, (experts suggest this to be 3 tablespoons or more per day); when consumed at more moderate levels, (experts suggest between 1 and 2 tablespoons per day), that it can help to lower the risk of cardiovascular disease, particularly when any other fats consumed are fats from plants or plant oils.

In this study of 12 patients with elevated LDL cholesterol levels, a diet containing almonds and other nuts, plant sterols (also found in nuts), soy protein, and soluble fiber (in high amounts in beans, oats, pears) reduced blood levels of all LDL fractions including small dense LDL (the type that most increases risk for cardiovascular disease) with near maximal reductions seen after only 2 weeks.

: «An increasing body of research and the [latest] Dietary Guidelines... supports the benefits of a plant - based diet, and legumes specifically, in the reduction of chronic disease risks.»

What's most surprising is that even after controlling for fiber intake, those on plant - based diets still had significantly lower risk, leading the researchers to suggest that meat itself may increase the risk of diverticular disease «by altering the metabolism of bacteria in the colon, which could lead to a weakening of the colon wall....»

Many studies have suggested that increasing the consumption of plant foods such as grapefruit decreases the risk of obesity, diabetes, heart disease and overall mortality while.

This plant - based diet eliminates all animal products, and the results include resistance to serious disease, better heart health, and increased energy.

Added to soil, biochar can remain for centuries with potentially positive benefits for plant life, including increased growth and disease resistance, thus reducing the need for standard greenhouse gas — intensive fertilizers.

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With more carbon dioxide in the air, plants grow better in warmer and cooler temperatures and wetter and drier soils, make better use of soil nutrients, and resist diseases and pests better, increasing their fruit production, expanding their range, and greening the earth.

Heat, flood and drought - related mortality and morbidity may increase; changes in the distribution of plant species and animals are likely to contribute to changing ranges of infectious diseases and allergic disorders; higher concentrations of ground - level ozone and particulate matter in urban areas may increase the frequency of cardio - respiratory and cardio - vascular diseases.

Current farming methods erode and degrade topsoil, but we could reverse that by adopting methods that are less disturbing to the soil and plant roots and by more use of cover crops or «green manures» that add organic matter to the soil, increase soil fertility and water retention, and reduce pests and diseases.

When the earth's temperature rises on average by more than two degrees, interactions between different consequences of global warming (reduction in the area of arable land, unexpected crop failures, extinction of diverse plant and animal species) combined with increasing populations mean that hundreds of millions of people may die from starvation or disease in future famines.

* 20 to 30 % of plant and animal species likely to be at increased risk of extinction * many millions more people than today projected to experience floods every year due to sea level rise * increases in malnutrition; increased deaths, diseases and injury due to extreme weather events; increased burden of diarrhoeal diseases; increased frequency of cardio - respiratory diseases due to higher concentrations of ground - level ozone in urban areas * hundreds of millions of people exposed to increased water stress