Key Takeaways:

• Pulls together one of the largest nutritional studies ever conducted and makes a startling claim: whole plant-based diets seem to protect against many of the diseases that dominate modern life.
• Challenges long-held nutrition dogmas by showing strong correlations between animal protein and chronic illness, sparking both enthusiasm and heated debate.
• Presents food not as a “lifestyle choice,” but as a powerful lever capable of altering health outcomes at population scale.
• Broke open the cultural floodgates for the modern whole-food, plant-based movement—its optimism, its evangelism, and its scientific controversies.