News and Reviews

A review of the week's plant-based nutrition news April 19th 2020 This week I cover some controversial topics, including potential benefits of nut and olive oil consumption, diet and bone health, vegan diets and renal stones, and point you to resources covering some...

This week the review covers studies on various diet plans and two papers on breast cancer prevention. The take home message has to be that macronutrient combinations are less important than the overall quality of the diet and fibre intake is a good measure of diet...

A review of the week's plant-based nutrition news April 5th 2020 Another week and hoping you are all remaining safe and well. Some more interesting studies to report. Full paper MACRONUTRIENT INTAKE AND RISK OF CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE (CVD)AND DEATH: A complex study...

A review of the week's plant-based nutrition news March 28th 2020 Another week and now in full lock-down in the UK. I hope you are all staying safe and that this review provides some distraction from the current challenges.   Full paper SOYA AND HEART HEALTH —...

A review of the week's plant-based nutrition news March 22nd 2020 For those of you who want to briefly take your minds off the current pandemic, I will try and continue providing a summary of some important papers on plant-based nutrition in the coming weeks. Full...

A review of the week's plant-based nutrition news 8th March 2020 The impact of diet on risk of stroke and frailty, benefits of fruit and vegetable consumption and effect of meal timings are all covered this week. WHICH FOODS IMPACT THE RISK OF STROKE? There are two...

A review of the week's plant-based nutrition news 1st March 2020 So many nutrition studies in the last few weeks, its hard to pick the best! Here are my top picks. Full paper TMAO LEVELS PREDICT FOR CORONARY HEART DISEASE. PLANT-BASED DIETS LOWER THIS RISK: A simple...

A review of the week's plant-based nutrition news 23rd February 2020This week’s review highlights some benefits of the Mediterranean diet pattern. There is also less good news around the health of our children and the planet. Full paper ADOLESCENT OBESITY AND RISK OF...

A review of the week's plant-based nutrition news 16th February 2020The highlight of the week has got to be the review of Milk and Health in the New England Journal of Medicine. So unusual to see such an extensive review on one food type in a high impact medical...

A review of the weeks plant-based nutrition news 9th February 2020Another good week in the world of plant-based nutrition. I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to speak about plant-based diets at the House of Lords on Feb 4th 2020. The All Party...

A review of the weeks plant-based nutrition news 2nd February 2020It has been a busy week preparing and attending Plant Powed Expo. We had a wonderful time meeting our members, those new to plant-based diets and signing up many new members. The health talks were very...

A review of the weeks plant-based nutrition news 26th January 2020 COCONUT OIL IS NOT HEART HEALTHY: Highly successful Industry marketing has convinced many that coconut oil is a ‘health food’. This well conducted meta-analysis of 16 studies confirms this not to be...

A review of the weeks plant-based nutrition news 19th January 2020This week has seen the publication of several interesting papers on nutrition and lifestyle. There has also been controversy with the reputation of several nutrition researchers called into questions....

A review of the weeks plant-based nutrition news 12th January 2020Happy new year to you all. The year started off with the U.S. News and World Report rankings of 35 diets. For the last 10 years, a national panel of experts in diet, nutrition, obesity, food psychology,...

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 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 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 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 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 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...