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Plant-based Diet
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Plants are
the best source of herbs
Plant - based diet
When aiming for a healthy lifestyle, building eating habits is the first consideration. Plant-based foods are becoming an increasingly frequent topic of discussion, both scientific and social.
Plant-based diets are considered beneficial for human health due to the supply of many valuable nutrients, including health-promoting compounds. Replacing meat-based foods with plant-based products will provide many valuable compounds, including antioxidants, phenolic compounds, fibers, vitamins, minerals, and some ω3 fatty acids. Due to their high nutritional and functional composition, plant-based foods are beneficial in acute and chronic diseases.
A properly structured plant-based diet not only provides the necessary nutrients but also can help in the prevention of many diseases.
Changing your eating habits to protect the earth's resources and environment, even ethical issues related to animal care.
Herbs on current medicinal practices
The use of plant-based natural products in the treatment and prevention of diseases and health enhancement due to nutritive importance and pharmacological benefits has led to the significant attention of the scientific community and the general public nowadays.
Medicinal plants are readily available and provide a cost-effective source with lesser side effects to develop new drugs. Plant-based traditional medicine is the stronghold of societies of many Asian countries in dealing with health and has a long history since ancient civilization, which uses plant materials as a significant ingredient in synthesizing drugs in different forms such as decoctions.
It is a widely accepted fact that the rapid development of deriving pharmacologically active drugs from medicinal herbs has a tremendous impact on current medicinal practices. For instance, in cancer treatment, more than 60% of all pharmaceuticals on the current market are natural products or mimics of natural products.
Furthermore, research has showed that plant-based diets rich with medicinal herbs are low-risk interventions that lower body mass index (BMI), blood pressure, glycated hemoglobin (HbA1C), and cholesterol levels. Therapeutic herbs may also reduce the number of medications needed to treat many metabolic and noncommunicable diseases, including diabetes, cancers, cardiovascular diseases, obesity, and the majority of metabolic and noncommunicable diseases are linked with higher mortality and morbidity rates.
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Plants &
Traditional medicine
Presently, huge numbers of people in developing countries depend on medicinal plants for healthcare, skin care, economic benefits, and cultural development.
For centuries, medicinal plants have been widely used in traditional medicine in countries like India, China, Germany, Thailand, etc. The World Health Organization (WHO) projected that 80% of the population relies on traditional medicine, which is clearly elucidated by the 19.4 billion USD global revenue for herbal remedies in 2010.
Moreover, the demand for traditional medicinal plants is increasing; for instance, the market for medicinal plants is expanding at an annual rate of 20% in India. Likewise, in China, 30% to 50% of the total medicinal consumption is from preparations of traditional medicine. Nearly 76.7% of the citizens of Thailand have reported mainly using traditional herbal medicine for their primary healthcare. Around 90% of the German population uses natural remedies for certain health issues.
Therefore, the medicinal plants used in traditional medical treatments are significant in both developing and industrialized countries. This is clearly demonstrated by the worldwide market for traditional medicine. This market continues to gradually increase.