In a Nutshell: The Plant-Based Health Professionals UK Podcast Clare Day and Daisy Lund
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- Health & Fitness
GPs Daisy Lund and Clare Day take you through all things health and plant based.
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Plant-based diets, health risks, and an umbrella review.
In this nugget we spend a few minutes unpacking the recent study from researchers at the University of Bologna, 'Cardiovascular health and cancer risk associated with plant based diets: an umbrella review'.
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Healthy ageing: the power of plants and movement, with Jane Thurnell-Read
In episode 10 we have a wonderful chat with Jane Thurnell -Read on the subject of older adults, plant-based diets, and health.
Jane is an author, blogger and is a real inspiration as she promotes healthy ageing through lifestyle interventions.
And her message is very much that it’s never too late to start eating healthier and moving more. In fact there’s very little in what we discussed with her that you won’t get even more benefit from through starting early in life.
When you’ve finished this episode, members of PBHP can head on over to April’s Plant-Based Health Professionals-UK webinar, ‘Move it or Lose it’ with Dr Hussain Al Zubaidi, a GP and lifestyle medicine practitioner:
https://plantbasedhealthprofessionals.com/move-it-or-lose-it
Have a look and share PBHP’s protein fact sheet:
https://plantbasedhealthprofessionals.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Proteinfactsheet-240501.pdf
Link to join PBHP:
https://plantbasedhealthprofessionals.com/membership
Link to Walk with a Doc:
https://walkwithadoc.org/
Article and studies discussed:
https://plantbasedhealthprofessionals.com/plant-based-eating-for-older-adults
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0002916523662823
https://www.bluezones.com/
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaotolaryngology/article-abstract/2813302
To connect with Jane:
https://www.janethurnellread.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/janethurnellread/?originalSubdomain=uk
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCylFXUsxQL_TXyk_E4dyVkg
https://www.instagram.com/thrivingjane/?hl=en
To register on Jane’s Love Healthy Eating Course:
https://www.janethurnellread.com/lhe-register/
The exercise website Jane recommends:
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The goodness in seitan
In this nugget we take a few minutes to sing the nutritional praises of seitan. If you're keen to make your own, like Daisy:
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Ultra-processed foods and health: hard evidence or hysteria, with Jenny Chapman
In episode 9, we had an informative discussion with Jenny Chapman, a Churchill Fellow and food systems researcher.
Jenny has a degree in Biology from the University of Oxford, a Masters in Taxonomy from Imperial College London, and a lifelong love of the natural world.
Her work has involved researching safe, healthy, sustainable and ethical protein sources.
Jenny was awarded a Churchill Fellowship in 2023 to investigate the adoption, acceptance and trust of plant-based meat.
Jenny recently published a report entitled’ Processing The Discourse over Plant-Based Meat’ which is an essential read for anyone who is trying to understand more about the “ultra-processed foods” debate.
You can find her report here:
https://www.churchillfellowship.org/ideas-experts/ideas-library/processing-the-discourse-over-plant-based-meat/
Reports and Studies Discussed:
https://www.nationalfoodstrategy.org/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37356502/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31055621/
https://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/pdf/S1550-4131(19)30248-7.pdf
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnut.2022.826162/full
https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lanepe/PIIS2666-7762(23)00190-4.pdf
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35314769/
To connect with Jenny:
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Keeping up with men's health
In this nugget we look at the evidence for diet to improve prostate cancer outcomes and the influence diet can have on erectile dysfunction.
ED HPFS paper
https://bjui-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bju.15765
2022 PC review
Gupta, N., Patel, H.D., Taylor, J. et al. Systematic review of the impact of a plant-based diet on prostate cancer incidence and outcomes. Prostate Cancer Prostatic Dis 25, 444–452 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41391-022-00553-2
UK Biobank study - Parra-Soto S, Ahumada D, Petermann-Rocha F, Boonpoor J, Gallegos JL, Anderson J, et al. Association of meat, vegetarian, pescatarian and fish-poultry diets with risk of 19 cancer sites and all cancer: findings from the UK Biobank prospective cohort study and meta-analysis. BMC Med. 2022;20:79.
PC in HPFS study
Loeb S, Fu BC, Bauer SR, Pernar CH, Chan JM, Van Blarigan EL, et al. Association of plant-based diet index with prostate cancer risk. Am J Clin Nutr. 2022;115:662–70.
https://plantbasedhealthprofessionals.com/optimising-prostate-health-on-a-plant-based-diet -
Food: seeking environmental and social justice, with Dr Tushar Mehta
In episode 8, we talk to Dr. Tushar Mehta, about how the impact of our food choices goes way beyond climate change. Dr Mehta completed medical school and residency at the University of Toronto. Currently, he practices Emergency Medicine and participates in international health projects. Formerly an annual volunteer in rural India, he is now doing work in Haiti (HEP-Haiti / Ecole Communautaire De Santo). He has also worked with Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and is medical advisor for Project CANOE in Toronto.Along with a small team, Dr. Mehta co-founded Plant Based Data, an online database which collects and organizes academic literature regarding the impact of plant and animal agriculture on health, environment, food security, and pandemics.
Dr. Mehta is interested in an evidence and data based approach to health, ecological issues, and global justice issues.
For tickets to the 'I could never go vegan' film screening at Kings College Hospital, 2nd May:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/i-could-never-go-vegan-film-screening-tickets-855878524707
www.plantbaseddata.org
CAPE 2021 Environment and Animal Agriculturehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=_0fqd0AzJak&feature=emb_logo&ab_channel=CAPE%7CACME
Dr Tushar Mehta's slide deck which he is happy for people to use for education purposes:https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/3ya4ks3xepj47zj5l6wzn/2022-03-11-Western-University-Animal-Ag-and-Global-Eco-Impact-Shortest.pptx?rlkey=9lmnrk5rsk7vjj9z6pcs80in2&dl=0
Nicholas Carter’s recent report on disinformation from the animal agriculture industry: “Harvesting Denial Distractions & Deception" https://www.thefreedomfoodalliance.org/report/home
Nicholas Carter’s recent report on GWP* - a methane metric promoted by animal agriculture which undercounts their impact https://changingmarkets.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Seeing-stars-report.pdf
State of the Ocean report from Plant Based Data team https://www.plantbaseddata.org/post/stateoftheocean