In a Nutshell: The Plant-Based Health Professionals UK Podcast Clare Day and Daisy Lund

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

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/

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

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

In this week's nugget, we unpack the often painful experience of kidney stones and how to reduce your chances of them through diet and lifestyle.

In episode 7 we discuss the role of the gut microbiome in weight management, and how weight loss injections like Ozempic and Wegovy are inspired by the body's own hormones.

Chris Damman is Clinical Associate Professor and a practising gastroenterologist at the University of Washington in the Department of Medicine/Division of Gastroenterology and editor-in-chief at Gut Bites MD.  

He is former Initiative Lead of Gut Health in the Enteric and Diarrheal Diseases team at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.  He holds an M.D. from Columbia University, an M.A. in Molecular Biology & Biochemistry from Wesleyan University, and is board certified in Gastroenterology.  Chris holds research interests focused on food- and microbiome-based therapeutics for metabolic disease. He is a frequent contributor to the press as an expert in gut microbiome.



To connect with Chris:

www.gutbites.org

https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-damman



Studies/ Articles  Discussed:

https://theconversation.com/your-body-already-has-a-built-in-weight-loss-system-that-works-like-wegovy-ozempic-and-mounjaro-food-and-your-gut-microbiome-220272

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(23)02750-2/fulltext

https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(21)00754-6