“The Best Diet for Weight Loss and Disease Prevention” Why are vegetarian diets so effective in preventing and treating diabetes? Maybe it’s because of the weight loss. Those eating more plant-based tend to be significantly slimmer, and not just based on like looking at a cross-section of the population, but you can do interventional trials and put it to the test: a randomized, controlled community-based trial of a whole food plant-based diet. The key difference between…