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

February 07, 2024 Why you should try tempeh
Second nugget detailing why you might choose tempeh for dinner due to its protein, calcium and other wholefood benefits.
6 min
January 31, 2024 How to plant-power your children: with Paula Hallam RD
In episode 2 we welcome Paula Hallam to the Nutshell.
Paula is a Paediatric Dietician, founder of ‘Plant Based Kids’ and author of the book ‘Plant Powered Little People.’
Paula has been a children’s dietitian for 25 years, graduating in 1998 from the University of Cape Town and gaining a wide range of experience working in many different settings and hospitals such as Great Ormond Street Hospital and Evelina Children’s Hospital London, as well as consulting to charities and providing expert advice to baby food companies.
She has also completed a Post Graduate Certificate in Advanced Paediatric Dietetics from the University of Plymouth and in addition, in 2021 she undertook the additional training 'Plant-Based Nutrition: A Sustainable Diet for Optimal Health' at the University of Winchester.
Contact Paula:
https://plantbased-kids.com
Buy Paula’s book:
https://www.waterstones.com/book/plant-powered-little-people/paula-hallam-rd/9781915538222
Join Paula's webinar on 8th February for free by joining PBHP-UK
https://plantbasedhealthprofessionals.com/membership
Studies Discussed:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8157583/
https://www.leapstudy.co.uk/index.html
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4852987/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28838083/
For our Spanish speaking listeners Miriam Martinez Biarge’s book:
https://www.amazon.es/familia-vegana-alimentaci%C3%B3n-saludable-equilibrada/dp/8409512394/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

1 hr 5 min
January 24, 2024 The diet to cut NHS costs
We discuss the Office of Health Economics article which calculates savings to the NHS of the adoption of vegan diets based on estimates of Quality Adjusted Life Years (QALYs).
https://www.ohe.org/news/a-switch-to-vegan-diets-could-save-the-nhs-6-7-billion-per-year-new-research-reveals/
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.12.26.23300536v1?
6 min
January 17, 2024 How diet affects multiple sclerosis: with Sam Josephs and Karen Lee
This week we discuss the chronic neurological condition Multiple Sclerosis.
Samantha Joseph BA (Hons), DipBCNH, mBANT, CNHC, is a Nutritional Therapist. Her husband Danny was diagnosed with MS in 2002 which led her to specialise in this area.
She has been a guest lecturer for colleges of Integrative Nutrition covering modules on MS, Parkinson's disease, mental & behavioural health. In 2018 she joined the charity Overcoming MS as a senior facilitator.
Samantha also worked together with the MS Academy (www.neurologyacademy.org) giving nutritional advice for their Healthy Living Services clinics and collaborated on the a paper pending in Frontiers of Neurology, highlighting holistic management of MS,
https://linktr.ee/nutritionista_uk
Karen Lee, previously intensive care nurse and practising registered nutritionist, combines her love of food with her professional background to inspire others to experience the powerful effects of food as medicine.
As ‘The Sensitive Foodie’, Karen has run courses, workshops and cooking classes, and has a blog – The Sensitive Foodie Kitchen. In 2019, Karen published her first book Eat Well Live Well with The Sensitive Foodie and is currently working on her second.
Karen is an Ambassador for Overcoming MS and helped to create The PBHP-UK factsheet on MS. She was co-author on a case study in The American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine. She is also Events Manager for Plant-Based Health Professionals UK.
Website: https://thesensitivefoodiekitchen.com
Facebook: https://facebook.com/thesensitivefoodie
Instagram: https://Instagram.com/the.sensitive.foodie
Historical Swank Evidence:
Swank RL, Dugan BB. Effect of low saturated fat diet in early and late cases of multiple sclerosis. Lancet. 1990 Jul 7;336(8706):37-9.
Swank, RL. MS: a correlation of its incidence with dietary fat. Am J Med Sci. 1950;220:421-30
Bjørnevik, K. Polyunsaturated fatty acids and the risk of multiple sclerosis. Multiple Sclerosis Journal, 2017. 23(14), 1830–1838
Jelinek GA, et al. Association of fish consumption and Ω 3 supplementation with quality of life, disability and disease activity in an international cohort of people with multiple sclerosis. Int J Neurosci. 2013 Nov;123(11):792-800
Esparza ML, et al. A brief original contribution: Nutrition, Latitude, and Multiple Sclerosis Mortality: An Ecologic Study. American Journal of Epidemiology, 1995. 142(7):733–737
Simpson-Yap S, et al. Longitudinal associations between quality of diet and disability over 7.5 years in an international sample of people with multiple sclerosis. Eur J Neurol. 2023 Jul 11. doi: 10.1111/ene.15980
Ayroza Galvão Ribeiro Gomes AB, et al. Immunoglobulin A Antibodies Against Myelin Oligodendrocyte Glycoprotein in a Subgroup of Patients With Central Nervous System Demyelination. JAMA Neurol. 2023 Aug 7:e232523
Agranoff BW & Goldberg D. Diet and the geographical distribution of multiple sclerosis. Lancet. 1974; 2:1061-6
Munger KL, et al. Vitamin D intake and incidence of MS. Neurology. 2004;62:60-5
Richards JB. Vitamin D and Risk of Multiple Sclerosis: A Mendelian Randomization Study., 2015. PLoS Medicine. Aug 25;12(8):e1001866
Hadgkiss EJ et al. The association of diet with quality of life, disability, and relapse rate in an international sample of people with multiple sclerosis. Nutritional Neuroscience. 2015;18(3):125-136.
Fitzgerald KC, Tyry T, Salter A, Cofield SS, Cutter G, Fox R, Marrie RA. Diet quality is associated with disability and symptom severity in multiple sclerosis. Neurology. 2018 Jan 2;90(1):e1-e11.
Simpson-Yap S, et al. Longitudinal associations between quality of diet and disability over 7.5 years in an international sample of people with multiple sclerosis. Eur J Neurol. 2023 Jul 11. doi: 10.1111/ene.15980
Evers I, et al. Adherence to dietary guidelines is associated with better physical and mental quality of life: results from a cross-sectional survey among 728 Dutch MS patients. Nutr Neurosci. 2022 Aug;25(8):1633-1640
1 hr 7 min
December 27, 2023 Dr Toni Vernelli: Veganuary is coming
In episode 13 we talk to Dr Toni Vernelli, Veganuary’s International Head of Policy and Communications. She tells us how and why Veganuary started, how it's grown and what you can expect if you take part in 2024. We also have some great listener contributions on their experiences, as well as reflective input from Psychotherapist and PBHP member Gemma Davies on some of the barriers to starting and maintaining a plant-based diet, and how to overcome them. You can connect with Gemma at: https://www.gemmadaviescounselling.co.uk/
A huge thanks to our listeners who contributed to this episode. In order of appearance: Richard Lund, Bart Govaert, Christelle Blunden and Richard Keith.
All the resources for Veganuary can be found at:
www.veganuary.com
Vegan cycling book:
https://shop.globalcyclingnetwork.com/products/gcn-the-plant-based-cyclist-book
We hope you enjoy listening and if so please could we ask you to leave us a review on your streaming platform, and perhaps share us with one other person. All our episodes are free but if you would like to donate to the work of Plant Based Health Professionals U.K. please follow this link:
https://plantbasedhealthprofessionals.com/donate

44 min
December 13, 2023 Tanya Haffner: a cool take on sustainable diets amidst COP28
In Episode Twelve we welcome Tanya Haffner RD.
Tanya is a registered dietician, and leads on healthy and sustainable diets strategy and partnerships to help people, organisations and businesses to elevate their nutrition and sustainable credentials.
She’s an academic author and has recently co-written a food research policy paper with City University, London entitled: “The food marketing environment: A force for or against human and planetary health”.
She is also current Chair of the British Dietetic Association Sustainable Diets Group, helping the BDA to embed sustainability across the dietetic and nutrition professions.
Tanya is CEO of Nutrilicious ( https://nutrilicious.co.uk/) as well as My Nutri Web (https://mynutriweb.com/) .
My NutriWeb Sustainable Diets Course that Clare is doing:
https://courses.mynutriweb.com/courses/sustainable-diets:-fundamentals-for-human-and-planetary-health
My NutriWeb are kindly offering our listeners a code for £20 off: sd1pbhp20
BDA One Blue Dot Diet Project:
https://www.bda.uk.com/resource/one-blue-dot.html
Eat Lancet:
https://eatforum.org/eat-lancet-commission/
FAO Sustainable Diets:
https://www.fao.org/3/ca6640en/ca6640en.pdf
Books Discussed:
https://www.waterstones.com/book/diet-for-a-small-planet-20th-anniversary-edition/frances-moore-lappe/9780345321206
Studies Discussed:
https://josephpoore.com/Science%20360%206392%20987%20-%20Accepted%20Manuscript.pdf
https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m2322
https://foodresearch.org.uk/publications/the-food-marketing-environment-a-force-for-or-against-human-and-planetary-health/
IPCC Report:
https://www.ipcc.ch/srccl?s=plant-based+diet
UK Climate Change Committee Net Zero:
https://www.theccc.org.uk/publication/net-zero-the-uks-contribution-to-stopping-global-warming/
Our World In Data:
https://ourworldindata.org/
https://ourworldindata.org/faqs-environmental-impacts-food
WWF Data:
https://www.worldwildlife.org/initiatives/food
ELM Scheme:
https://defrafarming.blog.gov.uk/2023/01/26/environmental-land-management-schemes-details-of-actions-and-payments/
55 min
December 06, 2023Dr Michael Greger: plant-based for healthspan, not lifespan.
This week we had the pleasure of speaking with Dr Michael Greger, M.D. FACLM.
Dr Greger is an internationally recognised expert speaker and New York Times bestselling author, as well as founder of NutritionFacts.org ( https://nutritionfacts.org/), a non profit organisation delivering free evidence based nutritional information. We had a fascinating discussion about how to lead a longer healthier life, which is the topic of his new book ' How Not to Age'.
We hope you are enjoying the episodes and if so please could we ask you to leave us a review on your streaming platform, and consider sharing us with a friend, colleague, or family member.
All our episodes are free but if you support our aims and would like to donate to the work of Plant-Based Health Professionals U.K, please follow this link:
https://plantbasedhealthprofessionals.com/donate

Dr Greger's Books:
https://nutritionfacts.org/book/how-not-to-age/
https://nutritionfacts.org/book/how-not-to-diet/
https://nutritionfacts.org/book/how-not-to-die/

Tickets to UK January 2024 events
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-not-to-age-with-dr-michael-greger-sunday-21st-january-2024-registration-745161557277
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-not-to-age-tickets-764001146997
Studies we discussed on today's episode:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-023-00868-w

https://academic.oup.com/biomedgerontology/article/60/7/862/539576

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9863851/

https://www.thelancet.com/gbd
Resources we discussed:
https://www.bluezones.com/dan-buettner/

https://plantbasedhealthprofessionals.com/wp-content/uploads/Bloating-factsheet-FINAL.pdf

https://plantbasedhealthprofessionals.com/wp-content/uploads/Plant-Basted-Eatwell-Guide-A4.pdf
44 min
November 18, 2023 Claire Lynch: a dietitian straight talking on plant-based eating to tackle diabetes
This week we welcomed Claire Lynch, RD, MNutr, Dip IBLM/BSLM, to focus on type 2 diabetes.
Claire is a Plant-Based Dietitian and Lifestyle Medicine Practitioner, as well as Education Lead for Plant-Based Health Professionals.
You can connect with Claire via her website: plantlifenutrition.co.uk
Instagram: plantlifenutrition_
Facebook: Plant:lifenutrition
Studies discussed:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0002916523661192
https://www.ceu.ox.ac.uk/research/epic-oxford-1
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41387-019-0074-0
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2671114/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27299701/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19825820/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21831992/
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/612f9de2e90e070418e4af32/SACN_report_on_lower_carbohydrate_diets_for_type_2_diabetes.pdf
https://www.forksoverknives.com/success-stories/
https://www.pcrm.org/health-topics/diabetes
https://plantbasedhealthprofessionals.com/plant-based-diets-for-the-prevention-and-treatment-of-type-2-diabetes
51 min
November 03, 2023 Josh Gibbs: are plant-based meat alternatives better for us
This week we welcome Josh Gibbs to the podcast. Josh graduated from the University of Warwick with a BSc in Biomedical Sciences and an MA in Social Science Research. He is now working towards a PhD on plant-based diets and green recovery.
He has shown through his research that plant-based diets could lower blood pressure and that replacing meat with plant-based meat alternatives could reduce heart attack risk by lowering LDL cholesterol. His latest research is looking at the links between the consumption of plant-based meat alternatives and psychological well-being.
Josh’s papers:
https://www.mdpi.com/2674-0311/2/1/9/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35458176/
https://journals.lww.com/jhypertension/abstract/2021/01000/the_effect_of_plant_based_dietary_patterns_on.4.aspx
The swap meat trial:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32780794/
Dr Michael Greger’s comments:
https://nutritionfacts.org/audio/are-plant-based-meat-substitutes-healthy/
Review of the plant-based nutrition news October 2023:
https://plantbasedhealthprofessionals.com/review-of-the-plant-based-nutrition-news-october-2023

54 min
October 15, 2023 Dr Gemma Newman: No bossing - motivating change in health behaviours
Episode 8 of In a Nutshell features Dr Gemma Newman, NHS GP and lifestyle medicine practitioner, PBHP-UK Ambassador and author of books ‘The Plant Power Doctor’ and ‘Get Well, Stay Well’. Gemma tells us not only how plant-based eating took her away from her fears of having inherited poor cardiovascular health, but discusses one of the most challenging areas for time-pressed health practitioners: the art of inspiring behaviour change in patients. She reminds us why telling people what to do does not work and can actually consolidate unhealthy behaviours. With her acronym ‘BLEND-IT’, we could all support another person out of a cycle of cognitive dissonance.
Pre-order Gemma’s new book 'Get Well, Stay Well' at: https://www.waterstones.com/book/get-well-stay-well/dr-gemma-newman/9781529107692
And the science and practical steps to eating plant-based in one book, 'The Plant Power Doctor': https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-plant-power-doctor/gemma-newman/9781529107746
Also discussed:
https://ukhealthalliance.org/news-item/health-leaders-call-on-government-to-do-more-to-protect-nature-for-the-benefit-of-health/
World Cancer Research Fund reference:
https://www.wcrf.org/diet-activity-and-cancer/cancer-prevention-recommendations/eat-wholegrains-vegetables-fruit-and-beans/
American College of Cardiology dietary guidance: https://www.acc.org/latest-in-cardiology/ten-points-to-remember/2021/11/23/19/45/2021-dietary-guidance-to-improve
https://plantbasedhealthprofessionals.com/the-plant-based-eatwell-guide
TJ Waterfall book: https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-plant-based-power-plan/tj-waterfall/9780241472446

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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.