Men s Health
THE CURRENT DEFINITIONS for the term plant-based are hazy. So food-manufacturing companies can slap a “plant-based” label on anything and collect a health halo.
That’s why in creating our new book,
“A plant-based diet should be an inclusionary diet of plants rather than an exclusionary diet of animal products,” says Eric Helms, Ph.D., C.S.C.S., a steroid-free bodybuilder and a nutrition and exercise researcher who has been eating a high-protein plant-based diet for almost ten years.
David Katz, M.D., M.P.H., the founding director of the Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center, uses the term plant-predominant.