Plant-based Mediterranean diet lowers women's early death risk by 23%

The original study [1] doesn't say it was plant based at all:

> the Mediterranean diet score ranged from 0 to 9, with a higher score representing better adherence to Mediterranean diet. This Mediterranean diet score is commonly used for assessing adherence to the Mediterranean diet and is based on regular intake of 9 dietary components. Higher-than-median intake of vegetables (excluding potatoes), fruits, nuts, whole grains, legumes, and fish and the ratio of monounsaturated-to-saturated fatty acids was given 1 point, while the less-than-median intake of red and processed meat was given 1 point.

So not plant based, not even vegetarian!

[1] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...

Simply not eating the SAD diet (Standard American Diet) of fast food, seed oils, and frozen dinners full of garbage will improve your health.