Effect of vegan diet on cardiovascular health

Abstract Introduction: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death globally, and in the United States, regardless of socioeconomic strata. Current diet guidelines in the US endorse the consumption of animal products, but research show retrospective, prospective and cross-sectional studies that a vegan diet is more effective at reducing BP, cholesterol, blood sugar levels, and body mass index (BMI) as compared to a non-vegan diet. This paper will focus on the benefits of a vegan diet (I) in reducing CVD risk (O) in adults (P) as compared to a non-vegan diet (C). It is the hope that increased focus on the benefits of a vegan diet will lead to amendments to global dietary guidelines and ultimately to better health outcomes. Methods: A literature search was conducted through PubMed and Google Scholar in November 2019. Six articles were selected based on a publication date within the past 10 years and nature of intervention. The results of these RCT, retrospective, prospective and cross-sectional studies will be discussed in this paper. Results: Five of the six studies discussed above found that the vegan diet has a significant effect in increasing cardiovascular health by reducing BP (Appendix A). Jenkins et al., Lajous et al. Jakse et al. and Campbell, Fidahusain and Campbell found that BP was significantly (p \u3c .001) reduced after each respective intervention. Discussion: While the majority of the research in this meta-analysis found the vegan diet to be effective in reducing BP, weaknesses if the studies include study design and limited generalizability of results. Additional research is needed to solidify the implications found in the studies discussed in this paper

Collaborative knowledge creation in the higher education academic library

Collaboration has become a core competency of the 21st century workforce. Thus, the need of collaboration is reshaping the academic library in higher education to produce competent future workforce. To encourage collaboration in the academic library, knowledge commons that integrate technology to infrastructure and system furniture are introduced. The article examines college students’ collaborative activities for knowledge creation at a university academic library via a survey, using the theory of organizational knowledge creation. It analyzed student group activities, based on the four types of activities in knowledge creation. A total of 385 undergraduate students completed the survey. The survey results indicated that the most frequent group activity is individual-oriented activity, followed by socialization activity, creating contents as a group, and group learning activity. However, when analyzed by frequent activities by the same users, the majority of users were doing all four activities, followed by individual-oriented activity only, and individual-oriented and socialization activities. The results revealed different trends in the engagement of the four knowledge creation activities between knowledge workplace and the academic library. Several implications to encourage collaborative activities are suggested

Can Coaching Help Community Partnerships Promote Health Equity, Community Engagement, and Policy, Systems, and Environmental Changes? Results From an Evaluation

Foundations and other entities have increasingly funded coaching and technical assistance to support multisector community partnerships to promote health and health equity. However, much remains to be learned about how coaching can best support these partnerships. As part of its efforts to build a culture in which everyone in the United States has a fair opportunity to be healthy, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation partnered with the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute to provide structured coaching to strengthen the capacities of community partnerships. The foundation contracted with Mathematica to evaluate the coaching program, focusing on whether it had an effect on strengthening the capacity of partnerships to prioritize policy, systems, and environmental changes; promote health equity; and increase community engagement. The evaluation found that the coaching program provided valuable support to many partnerships, helping some focus on policy, systems, and environmental changes. Integrating health equity and community engagement into a general health-promotion coaching model might be best suited for partnerships just beginning to develop a strategy to improve health equity. Partnerships that already have a strong understanding of health equity might benefit most from intensive, specialized technical assistance to address inequities. Some partnerships reported that coaching shifted their thinking around community engagement, but none reported increasing engagement as a result of coaching. To advance health equity and engage communities, we propose that funders consider investing in partnerships that already prioritize leadership of community members most affected by inequities. Specialized technical assistance may help leaders not affected by inequities to think critically about their community’s history and structures of power, ongoing racial and power dynamics, and their own personal stories and levels of privilege

Exceptional Judgments: Revising the Terrorism Exception to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act

In 2016, family members of victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks sued Iran in the Southern District of New York for aiding and abetting al Qaeda in the perpetration of those attacks. They proceeded under the terrorism exception to foreign sovereign immunity, which allows plaintiffs to sue foreign nations appearing on the State Department\u27s list of state sponsors of terrorism. When Iran failed to appear in court, a judge awarded the class a default judgment of $1.8 billion in damages. The massive judgment was consistent with other terrorism­ exception judgments against Iran; to date, plaintiffs have won at least$50 billion in default judgments of this kind

Genetic and environmental factors in human carcinogenesis

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In appreciation

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Prostate cancer screening practices and cancer control research (United States)

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