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A review of the weeks plant-based nutrition news 1st December 2019 PLANT-BASED DIETS FOR KIDNEY HEALTH: A number of papers and articles in the last month have assessed the benefits of a plant-based diet for prevention of renal (kidney) failure and for delaying the...

Why are nutrition and lifestyle so important? There is a global epidemic of chronic disease termed non-communicable diseases (NCDs). According to the World Health Organisation, 71% of all deaths globally each year (41 million people) are caused by NCDs. Four...

A review of the weeks plant-based nutrition news 24th November 2019 AN EXCELLENT SET OF REVIEW PAPERS: Advances in Nutrition have published a set of open access papers based on the presentations at the 7th International Congress on Vegetarian Nutrition held in Loma...

A review of the weeks plant-based nutrition news 17th November 2019 LOW CARB HIGH FAT DIETS CAN NOT BE RECOMMENDED FOR DIABETES PREVENTION: This is a useful paper from the UK trying to answer the question as to whether low carbohydrate, high fat (LCHF) diets are...

A review of the weeks plant-based nutrition news 10th November 2019 OMEGA-3 SUPPLEMENTS: There is an open question as to whether those following a 100% plant-based diets should take a long chain omega-3 supplement. There are 3 main omega-3 fatty acids. The short chain...

Bacon on hospitals’ menu — an oxymoron of our health system?Would hospital patients be better off if they could bring their own meals from home? Data obtained via a Freedom of Information Request revealed earlier this year that 113 NHS hospitals serve...

A review of the weeks plant-based nutrition news 3rd November 2019 AMERICAN COLLEGE OF LIFESTYLE MEDICINE ANNUAL CONFERENCE (ACLM): This week was the ACLM annual conference, which I had the privilege of attending. The ACLM was founded in 2004 and has gone from...

​A review of the weeks plant-based nutrition news 27th October 2019 It has been great to be part of London VegFest this weekend, one of the UK’s largest vegan festivals. We organised and hosted the health talks and had a stall sign posting attendees to our educational...

​A review of the weeks plant-based nutrition news 20th October 2019What an incredible 10 days for plant-based health professionals UK. Our first international conference. We partnered with ProVeg to bring the very successful VegMed conference from Berlin to London on...

A review of the weeks plant-based nutrition news 6th October 2019New ‘guidelines’ suggest that there is no need to reduce consumption of red and processed meat? WHAT! Five new systematic reviews and meat-analyses were published in Annals of Internal Medicine and based...

A review of the weeks plant-based nutrition news 29th Sept 20191)MORE FAKE NEWS! WILL SMITH’S VEGAN SON ‘TURNED GREY’ DUE TO LACK OF PROTEIN I can’t believe the protein myth still persists. If you eat a healthy vegan diet composed of whole plant foods — fruits,...

A review of the weeks plant-based nutrition news 22nd Sept 2019Another media story caused a storm and worry amongst those parents raising vegan children. The story relates to new guidelines published by Healthy Eating Research, a national program of the Robert Wood...

Plant-based diet indexMuch of what we know about diet, nutrition and health comes from prospective cohort studies, which follow large groups of people, usually healthy at baseline, for a number of years and analyse associations between dietary intake and health...

A review of the weeks plant-based nutrition news 14th Sept 2019It is increasingly difficult to keep up to date with nutrition science and media stories and the number of publications on the subject continue to increase. So I bring you my weekly highlights on the...

Are Dairy-Free Diets A Risk To Bone Health?I applaud the Duchess of Cornwall for highlighting the issue of osteoporosis, which can be a debilitating condition. However, to cite dairy-free diets as harmful to bone health is just ignorant and not based on scientific...

A look back at 2018 for plant-based health professionals UKPlant-based health professionals UK (PBHP UK) was conceived in October 2017 at London Vegfest in a chance meeting between myself (Shireen Kassam) and Tom Hubbard, a GP based in Ireland. We realised we had a...

The PURE study and dairy consumptionDAIRY INTAKE AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE: Recent headlines suggest that the more dairy products you consume, the lower the risk of cardiovascular disease. So, have dairy products really been exonerated? Do we now ignore the...

​Cancer; ignoring nutrition at our perilIn the UK, cancer is now the commonest cause of death, the top cause of avoidable death and accounts for 42% of cases of premature death. These statistics are in the face of an ever-increasing number of treatments. So where have...

Healthy diet following cancer treatmentI am very grateful for the opportunity to write an article on a subject that is extremely close to my heart. I hope I will be able to convince you that a healthful life is a choice open to all of us if only we allow ourselves the...

Response to ‘meat is crucial to balanced diet, Michael Gove tells farmers’, Fri 27th April 2018I write on behalf of a growing number of health professionals in the UK who advocate a predominantly plant-based diet for optimal health. We are disappointed to read the...