News Reviews

Review of the plant-based nutrition news November 2023This month I highlight key evidence for shifting diets towards consuming more plants. The benefits include reduction in chronic diseases, increase in life expectancy, better cardiometabolic health and lower risk of...

Review of the plant-based nutrition news October 2023This month I cover healthy ageing, including cognitive health, adverse impacts of red meat consumption, benefits of plant-based diets for pregnancy and athletic performance, optimising iron absorption and more data...

Review of the plant-based nutrition news September 2023As we recover from the VegMed conference, our education and learning continues with a number of new and important studies. There is little doubt that a plant-based diet can prevent and treat chronic conditions and...

Review of the plant-based nutrition news August 2023; a focus on cancer.This month I focus on diet and cancer, ahead of my talk at the VegMed conference in September and to mark the launch of our new short course on cancer at University of Winchester. Many people...

Review of the plant-based nutrition news July 2023This month I cover the latest report on global nutrition, how to do a low-carb diet well, plant-based diets for kidney disease, diet and brain health, the latest results from the Plant for Joints study, the Nordic...

Review of the plant-based nutrition news June 2023This month I highlight studies on plant-based diets and blood lipids, cancer prevention and longevity. In addition, I cover how to do a low-carb diet well, and the impact of diet choices on planetary health....

Review of the plant-based nutrition news May 2023A busy month with a large number of studies. I cover healthy diet patterns for cardiovascular health and type 2 diabetes, the impact of plant-based meat alternatives and fruit and veg on cardiometabolic risk factors,...

Review of the plant-based nutrition news April 2023: Chronic kidney diseaseTo mark the release of our first of 3 factsheets on plant-based diets and chronic kidney disease, I summarise recent data on the benefits of eating more plants. Until recently the dogma has...

Review of the plant-based nutrition news March 2023: Haematological cancersThis month I cover the emerging role of plant-based lifestyle medicine for haematological cancers. This coincides with my preparation for the annual British Society of Haematology conference in...

A review of the week's plant-based nutrition news 22nd January 2023This week I focus on diet patterns and foods that promote longevity. No surprises, it’s all the healthy plant foods. This week the Time Health Commission reports on the rising level of chronic ill...

A review of the week's plant-based nutrition news 15th January 2023This week I focus on non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), a condition that is at pandemic proportion, the commonest cause of liver disease globally and the fastest growing indication for liver...

A review of the week's plant-based nutrition news 8th January 2023Happy new year to you all. Welcome to the 10th anniversary of the Veganuary campaign and the international year of millets. I start the year with a reminder that plant-based diets are front and centre...

The Top Science Papers of 2022 supporting plant-based nutritionThis past year the world has been in turmoil. This has affected food security globally. Diet quality has significantly deteriorated, yet the evidence supporting plant-based diets for cardiovascular...

A review of the week's plant-based nutrition news 4th December 2022This week I cover the topic of diet and multiple sclerosis to coincide with the latest publication from our team. We have reported the case histories of two of our members who have successfully used a...

A review of the week's plant-based nutrition news 27th November 2022This week I bust some myths about nut consumption. Despite the well documented health benefits, there remains a lot of confusion amongst health professionals and in general, most people in the UK and...

A review of the week's plant-based nutrition news 20th November 2022This week I cover nutrition and cancer, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, kidney failure and the impact of animal agriculture on infectious threats. Full paper WHAT SHOULD I EAT? This is a very...

A review of the week's plant-based nutrition news 30th October 2022This week I provide an update on studies that have investigated health outcomes in vegans. This includes cardiovascular health and the health status of vegan children and athletes. A healthy vegan or...

A review of the week's plant-based nutrition news 23rd October 2022This week I focus on diet, lifestyle and colorectal cancer. This is one of the most preventable cancers, yet rates are rising especially in younger people. Bowel cancer or colorectal cancer is the 4th...

A review of the week's plant-based nutrition news 16th October 2022This week I focus on prostate cancer. It is a cancer for which there is a good level of evidence to support a plant-based diet for prevention and survival. Prostate cancer is the commonest cancer in...

A review of the week's plant-based nutrition news 2nd October 2022This week I focus on type 2 diabetes. Plant-based diets and lifestyle interventions are hugely beneficial for preventing and treating this condition. I summarise some new studies, including one on...

A review of the week's plant-based nutrition news 18th September 2022A short review highlighting three new studies using the plant-based diet index to demonstrate the impact of a healthy plant-based diet. THE PLANT-BASED DIET INDEX (PDI): I talk about this index a lot...

Update on nutrition and lifestyle factors and COVID-19, 11th September 2022 It has been a few months since I wrote on this topic. During this time, we have created two new COVID-19 factsheets. It seems timely to provide an update. I have been following with great...