Abstract
Adequate vegetable consumption is one of the cornerstones of a healthy diet. The recommendation to increase vegetable intake is part of most dietary guidelines. Despite widespread and long-running public health messages to increase vegetable intake, similar to other countries worldwide, less than 1 in 10 adult Australians manage to meet target advice. Dietary guidelines are predominantly based on studies linking diets high in vegetables with lower risk of chronic diseases. Identifying vegetables with the strongest health benefits and incorporating these into dietary recommendations may enhance public health initiatives around vegetable intake. These enhanced public health initiatives would be targeted at reducing the risk of chronic diseases, such as cardiovascular diseases (CVD). Specific vegetable types contain high levels of particular nutrients and phytochemicals linked with cardiovascular health benefits. However, it is not clear if increasing intake of these specific vegetable types will result in larger benefits on risk of chronic diseases. This review presents an overview of the evidence for the relationships of specific types of vegetables, including leafy green, cruciferous, allium, yellow-orange-red and legumes, with subclinical and clinical CVD outcomes in observational epidemiological studies.
Highlights
Poor diet is a major contributor to the risk of chronic diseases
The improvement of dietary guidelines to include targeted advice on consuming specific types of. This narrative review focuses on the cardiovascular health benefits of specific vegetable types vegetables may enhance population health approaches to increase vegetable intake
Vegetables can be classified according to their chemical. This narrative review focuses on the cardiovascular health benefits of specific vegetable types in constituents or by biological classifications based oncan similarities suchaccording as evolutionary observational epidemiological studies
Summary
Poor diet is a major contributor to the risk of chronic diseases. Chronic diseases, including cardiovascular diseases (CVD), cancer, chronic respiratory diseases and diabetes, account for 90% of all deaths in Australia [1] and 70% of all deaths worldwide [2]. Dietary guidelines promote increase in intake of all vegetables [5,6,7] These guidelines chronic Current disease [12], and are supported byan data suggesting that individual nutrients found abundantly are mainly are based on epidemiological evidence linkingmay dietshave high substantially in vegetables with lower incidence in vegetables protective [13,14,15]. The improvement of dietary guidelines to include targeted advice on consuming specific types of This narrative review focuses on the cardiovascular health benefits of specific vegetable types vegetables may enhance population health approaches to increase vegetable intake. Vegetables can be classified according to their chemical This narrative review focuses on the cardiovascular health benefits of specific vegetable types in constituents or by biological classifications based oncan similarities suchaccording as evolutionary observational epidemiological studies. Types of vegetables discussed in this review include leafy green, cruciferous, allium, yellow-orange-red and legumes
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