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A look back at 2019 for Plant-based Health Professionals UK
Shireen Kassam | Dec 28, 2019
A review of the week’s plant-based nutrition news 15th December 2019
A review of the weeks plant-based nutrition news 15th December 2019 DIETARY CHOLESTEROL DOES MATTER: A flash back to a study from earlier in the year. Large analysis of nearly 30,000 participants in 6 observational studies from the US followed for a median of 17.5...
A review of the week’s plant-based nutrition news 8th December 2019
A review of the weeks plant-based nutrition news 8th December 2019 CHOLESTEROL AND THE RISK OF CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE: This very large study examines the long term effects of high blood non-HDL cholesterol and the future risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Non-HDL...
A review of the week’s plant-based nutrition news 1st December 2019
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...
A review of the week’s plant-based nutrition news 24th November 2019
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 week’s plant-based nutrition news 17th November 2019
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 week’s plant-based nutrition news 10th November 2019
A review of the weeks plant-based nutrition news 10th November 2019OMEGA-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...
A review of the week’s plant-based nutrition news 3rd November 2019
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 week’s plant-based nutrition news 27th October 2019
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 week’s plant-based nutrition news 20th October 2019
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 week’s plant-based nutrition news 6th October 2019
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 week’s plant-based nutrition news 29th Sept 2019
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 week’s plant-based nutrition news 22nd Sept 2019
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...
A review of the weeks plant-based nutrition news 14th Sept 2019
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...
A look back at 2018 for plant-based health professionals UK
Shireen Kassam | Jan 2, 2019
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