A plant-based intervention heart trial that was conducted in 2014 involved 198 people who had heart disease being put on a wholefoods plant-based diet. Of the 177 people who stuck with the diet, one of them had a stroke. However, of the 21 people who didn’t stick with the diet, 13 of them suffered a cardiac event – meaning they either had a stroke, a heart attack or a bypass operation.42
