User:Cbbrandn/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Plant-based diet

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article because I had to recently research whole-food, plant-based diets for a culinary medicine course and I found some possible inconsistencies with this article.

Evaluate the article
The lead section provides a good concise overview of what a plant-based diet is; however, this section does not provide a description of the article's major sections (i.e., health outcomes, sustainability, etc.). The content is up to date and relevant with some citations occurring from 2023, but the author(s) do go over the origin of the term without giving an idea on the origin of the practice. The tone is primarily neutral and addresses health outcomes from an objective view, but fails to address the possible complications from a plant-based diet. For instance, the CDC has performed studies to show that among individual food categories, leafy vegetables accounted for the most foodborne illnesses. That being said, most sources are current and accurate; however, the terminology section does hold some references that are from magazines/news articles. The terminology section is hard to validate because I cannot find peer-reviewed citations validating "Dr. T. Campbell coined the term plant-based diet". The article is well-written, no grammatical errors that I could find during first read-through, and contains headers that address the subsequent content. The article has a fine image, but appears to be just a stock image from a google search. The article may benefit the reader by providing something similar to an infographic that compares a plant-based diet to a vegetarian and vegan diet, so that the reader may understand the basic differences between the diets. There are no current discussions, but there was one previously in 2015 about whether to keep the article. The article was nominated for deletion due to the fact that some individuals believed this was the same as vegetarianism. Overall, I enjoyed this article because it provided a lot of incite into the health outcomes, sustainability, and the politics surrounding the lifestyle; however, some images, citations, and viewpoints could be added as described above to make the article more complete.