In a Nutshell: The Plant-Based Health Professionals UK Podcast

By Clare Day and Daisy LundHealth & Fitness Nutrition

In a Nutshell: The Plant-Based Health Professionals UK Podcast episodes

June 26, 2024 Plant-based diets in pregnancy
We've had a listener question! Do you need to do anything differently if planning a pregnancy on a plant-based diet? Or if you are pregnant and want to eat plant-based? Daisy and Clare outline the main considerations in diet planning.
Don't forget Monday 9th September and Saturday 9th November are the dates of the Nutrition and Lifestyle Conference.
https://plantbasedhealthprofessionals.com/nlmc-2024
We are calling on NHS trusts, Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) and all other healthcare organisations across the United Kingdom to adopt a ‘Plant-Based by Default’ food menu. Sign the letter by heading over to:
https://plantsfirsthealthcare.com/
7 min
June 19, 2024 Food coaching: opening your mind and your cupboard, with Vanessa Sturman
In episode twelve we welcome Vanessa Sturman, a Plant Based Health Coach and founder of Energise and Thrive Plant Based. She helps people reduce fatigue, get a healthy weight and glow with vitality using the most delicious plant-based food (whether you want to be fully plant-based or not). No fads, no ‘dieting’ and no missing out. Her approach is to make healthy and plant based eating fun, filling and satisfying, and something anyone can do and benefit from.
She graduated from Cambridge University with a BA(Hons) and MPhil in Biological Anthropology and spent years as a plant-based recipe creator. Vanessa is unique as a coach in having extensive knowledge of helping people create the most delicious plant based food using accessible and familiar ingredients.
She has been featured on Sky News, BBC and LBC as an authority on plant based eating and speaks regularly at conferences and events.
Vanessa is known for making a healthy and plant based lifestyle non-restrictive, fun and inclusive, and this episode is full of great tips and tricks to make eating healthier easier and accessible to all.
To connect with Vanessa:
www.linkedin.com/in/vanessa-sturman-plant-based-health-coach/
www.facebook.com/vanessa.a.sturman/

54 min
June 12, 2024 Help with wholegrains
In this nugget we explain what is meant by wholegrains, discuss good examples of edible ones, and why it's important to eat them above their white alternatives.
5 min
June 05, 2024 Cholesterol and diet: beans over genes, with Dr Sundhya Raman
In episode eleven we focus on one of the top causes of premature death in the western world - cardiovascular disease, as we speak with Dr Sundhya Raman about how cholesterol, diet and lifestyle can have an impact on the risk of developing heart disease and stroke. Sundhya is the co-founder and director of My Wellness Doctor - a Lifestyle Medicine Health consultancy. She has a degree in Pharmacology & Physiology, a Medical degree from Guys, King’s and St Thomas’s, London, a PhD in Genetics & Epigenetics from Oxford University and is a qualified Lifestyle Medicine physician with the International Board of Lifestyle Medicine/British Society of Lifestyle Medicine. She qualified as a medical doctor in 2007. Since then she has worked in a broad range of clinical specialties including acute and general medicine, cardiology, general surgery, endocrinology, gastroenterology, respiratory medicine and infectious diseases. Prior to working as a doctor, Sundhya completed her PhD at Oxford University researching genetic and epigenetic factors in inherited cognitive conditions. She went on to work with many well known scientists in labs around the world including cancer genetics at Yale University, and Alzheimers’ cellular physiology at the Wolfson Institute in London.
She has always considered suboptimal lifestyle factors to be the underlying driver to most chronic illness and unnecessary suffering. She has therefore taken a keen interest in the evolving evidence base for lifestyle medicine throughout her working life, and has regularly seen first hand the extraordinary benefits that can be attained through implementation of a holistic lifestyle approach. To connect with Sundhya : https://mywellnessdoctor.co.uk/https://www.linkedin.com/in/drsundhyaraman/
And try her fantastic chickpea spinach curry :https://mywellnessdoctor.co.uk/chickpea-spinach-curry
And don't forget to watch us cooking a full vegan English breakfast with Chef AJ:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zacmh6nk8Ps&t=2s
Studies discussed:https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35886124/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6361299/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9316578/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7515757/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35192610/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10167955/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12876093/
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1800389
https://www.sevencountriesstudy.com/#:~:text=What%20is%20the%20Seven%20Countries,an%20extended%20period%20of%20time.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5492032/https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2777338
https://www.bhf.org.uk/informationsupport/heart-matters-magazine/news/behind-the-headlines/cholesterol-and-statins
1 hr 18 min
May 29, 2024 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'.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38748667/
6 min
May 22, 2024 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:
https://hasfit.com/

52 min
May 15, 2024 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:
https://veryveganval.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/seitan.pdf
7 min
May 08, 2024 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:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenny-chapman-sustainability/
57 min
May 01, 2024 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

8 min
April 24, 2024 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
1 hr 22 min

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This podcast is hosted by NHS GP's, Dr Clare Day and Dr Daisy Lund who will take you through all things health and plant based. They are both experienced clinicians with an interest in plant-based nutrition and lifestyle medicine, and a passion to share nutritional education with colleagues and the general public.