Postmenopausal women whose eating patterns most closely matched the Planetary Health Diet had roughly 28 percent lower cardiovascular disease risk than women whose diets matched it least, according to an analysis of nearly 67,000 Women's Health Initiative participants presented on July 25. The finding lands on a question millions of women ask in their fifties and sixties, when cardiovascular risk climbs after menopause. This is observational research presented as a conference abstract, and it cannot establish that the eating pattern itself produced the difference. Diet was measured once at study entry using a food frequency questionnaire and converted into a Planetary Health Diet Index score, with participants grouped from least to greatest adherence. The Eating Pattern Is Plant Forward, Not VegetarianThe Planetary Health Diet was proposed by the EAT-Lancet Commission as a reference diet designed to work for both human health and food system sustainability.