If you want lower 'bad' cholesterol, trade your steak for plant protein

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Adding more vegetables to your diet and cutting back on meat is a simple way to trim your waist and reduce your risk for chronic disease. (It's also better for the environment: Going vegetarian could help fight climate change, because livestock actually emit more greenhouse gases than cars do, according to a 2006 United Nations study.)

But if you're like most Men's Fitness readers, you're focused on one thing: gains. Fortunately, you can build plenty of muscle on a plant-based diet and reap the health benefits.

Changing up your diet to focus more on plant protein could help lower "bad" cholesterol, which clogs arteries and ramps up your risk of a heart attack, stroke, or arterial disease, according to a recent meta-analysis published in the Journal of the American Heart Association. In the review, researchers investigated more than 100 studies of people who started eating mostly plant proteins for at least three weeks; the researchers found that plant-eaters reduced three of...

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