Lean beef can be part of a healthy plant-based diet without hurting your heart or blood sugar markers — at least in the short term for overweight women.

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Effect of Including Lean Red Meat in a Plant-Based Dietary Pattern on Biomarkers of Cardiometabolic Disease Risk

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This study gave overweight women two servings of lean beef a day while keeping the rest of their diet plant-based, and found it didn’t make their blood markers for heart and metabolic health worse than when they ate no meat at all. So yes, lean beef can fit into a plant-based diet without hurting your health in the short term.

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Effect of Including Lean Red Meat in a Plant-Based Dietary Pattern on Biomarkers of Cardiometabolic Disease Risk

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DOI: 10.1152/physiol.2024.39.s1.826

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