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Plant-based eating may be the pathway to a happy heart. One study, in , found that plant-based diets protected the heart. It found that a high-protein diet does increase the risk of plaques in the blood, and the most ‘unstable’ type of plaque is linked with an amino acid that’s found in high levels in red meat. What’s for lunch?

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