Plant-based diets – an underutilised way to tackle our health and climate crises Could cutting our meat and dairy consumption be key to improving our health as well as instrumental in dealing with climate change? Originally posted on rcpath.org on 6 March 2024 In this article, Dr Shireen Kassam, Consultant Haematologist and founder of Plant-Based Health Professionals UK, discusses how healthcare systems can influence the adoption of plant-based diets for the benefit of patients and the planet. As healthcare professionals we are naturally interested in and supportive of actions that i ..read more

Members AGM 2024 – online via Zoom Monday 10th June, 7pm BST London   Members - please log in to find details of how to join the session. Not a member? Please join us here. This content is for members only. The post Members AGM 2024 appeared first on Plant Based Health Professionals UK ..read more

Should I wear a Continuous Glucose Monitor (CGM) to track my blood sugar? By Rohini Bajekal, Nutritionist and Communications Lead Plant-Based Health Professionals UK Blood sugar monitoring has become a recent trend, especially among influencers and a host of new companies promoting the use of continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) to optimise health, manage body weight and improve wellbeing.  A continuous glucose monitor (CGM) is a medical device that estimates what your glucose level is every few minutes and keeps track of it over time. CGMs are currently available on the NHS for peo ..read more

To the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board and the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, We are writing on behalf of NHS healthcare professionals to express our concern about your “Let’s Eat Balanced/This and That” campaign. As doctors and allied healthcare professionals, we have a duty to speak out against inaccurate and misleading public health messaging. This campaign is at odds with established scientific evidence on healthy and sustainable diets 1. Your health claims are disingenuous. Although meat is a source of protein, zinc, iron and vitamin B12, these nutrie ..read more

Open letter to the European Commission regarding EU promotion of meat and dairy Written by Rohini Bajekal, communication lead for PBHP UK Plant Based Health Professionals UK, an organisation of over 800 health professionals, are welcoming the Commission’s aim to review the agricultural promotion policy “with a view to enhancing its contribution to sustainable production and consumption, and in line with the shift to a more plant-based diet, with less red and processed meat and more fruit and vegetables.[1] We are therefore urging the Commission to ensure a positive outcome of this review ..read more

We are proud to be supporting this important legal challenge. Please do donate to the crowd funder if you are able. Our factory farm legal challenge is now live ! The team of volunteers really needs your help – we have Michael Mansfield- an absolutely top QC – taking a legal challenge to the Government. We want factory farms closed down. It is an essential ask to protect people from disease, animals from cruelty and the planet. Nothing has been done like this before but we can’t do it without donations. Please please please donate if you can and share. Thank you! www.crowdjustice.com/case/s ..read more

Open Letter to NHS Leaders and the UK Government, May 28th 2020 UPDATE: We’ve received responses from the four nation governments we contacted. Read their responses below. England – Response from Jo Churchill, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Prevention, Public Health and Primary Care Northern Ireland – Response to open letter from CMO Michael McBride Scotland – Response to NHS letter Wales – Response to NHS letter If you’re part of the NHS and want to add your support, please follow this link. Watch the video below: We, NHS doctors and staff, are writing to urge NH ..read more

We are proud supporters of the Plant Based Treaty, which is a landmark international treaty and first of its kind to put food systems at the heart of combating the climate crisis. The Treaty aims to halt the widespread degradation of critical ecosystems caused by animal agriculture, to promote a shift to more healthy, sustainable plant-based diets and to actively reverse damage done to planetary functions, ecosystem services and biodiversity. The Plant Based Treaty | Eat Plants, Plant Trees View all campaigns The post Plant Based Treaty appeared first on Plant Based Health Professionals ..read more

Why we need a plant-based food system Watch a replay of Rohini Bajekal speaking about the link between zoonotic disease and pandemics and benefits of plant-based diet for human health and planetary health on facebook. Read her speech below: My name is Rohini Bajekal and I’m a nutritionist representing Plant-Based Based Health Professionals UK – a group of doctors, nurses, dieticians and nutritionists who are dedicated to promoting a plant-based diet. We are here to support the call for an urgent transition to a plant-based food system. This is essential for the health of humans, non-huma ..read more

Members Journal Club Members are invited to join our member-led journal club. These sessions are aimed at healthcare professionals but all are welcome to join. Alternate months, an interesting scientific paper on nutrition, lifestyle medicine or planetary health will be presented by a PBHP UK member and then opened up for discussion. The session will last for a maximum of an hour. Monday June 3rd 2024, 7pm BST Paper TBC. Members - please log in to find details of how to join the session. Not a member? Please join us here. This content is for members only. The post Members Journal Club ..read more