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Dr Alan Desmond

2 years

It’s true that no dietary change can make us disease-proof. But if a plant-based diet was a pill, your doctor would prescribe it all day long.

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Dr Alan Desmond

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2 years

Promoting meat as a muscle-building superfood is irresponsible and based on out-of-date science.

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Dr Alan Desmond

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1 year

Eggs v tofu. Which are you scrambling?

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1 year

As a frontline NHS doctor, I fully support the @ExeterCouncil decision to promote meals without meat, eggs or dairy. A plant-based diet offers significant protection against the three most urgent threats to our health and wellbeing.

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Dr Alan Desmond

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1 year

Name a Group 1 carcinogen, a substance known to cause cancer in humans. I’ll start us off: bacon.

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1 year

If you can eat only in the lower half of this list, you’ll be doing a lot to protect your health, and the health of the planet.

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Dr Alan Desmond

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1 year

Three powerful reasons for every doctor to support @veganuary 1. Disease prevention. 2. Pandemic prevention. 3. Tackling climate change.

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@DrAlanDesmond

1 year

In school aged children, cow’s milk is now the most common single cause of fatal anaphylaxis, responsible for 26% of deaths due to severe food allergy. Yet cow’s milk is still promoted in schools across the country. Why?

Food anaphylaxis in the United Kingdom: analysis of national data, 1998-2018

Objective To describe time trends for hospital admissions due to food anaphylaxis in the United Kingdom over the past 20 years. Design Analysis of national data, 1998-2018. Setting Data relating to...

www.bmj.com

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Dr Alan Desmond

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1 year

The healthiest amount of red meat to include in your diet is probably zero.

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1 year

For 2 out of 3 adults, dairy milk is indigestible and wreaks havoc with their gut health. Bloating, excess gas, and diarrhoea are the price of a milky drink.

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Dr Alan Desmond

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3 years

“Whether you’re considering eating less meat or giving it up entirely, the benefits are clear: less risk of disease and improved health and well-being.” - The American Heart Association

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Dr Alan Desmond

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2 years

A new book claims to ‘disprove the benefits of a plant-only diet’. This book is a con.

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Dr Alan Desmond

@DrAlanDesmond

2 years

Young vegan men have the same average muscle mass as young meat-eating men. Yes, vegans tend to be thinner, but this is because they carry less fat. Not less muscle.

Skeletal muscle properties and vascular function do not differ between healthy, young vegan and...

A vegan diet is associated with reduced cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, but protein deficiencies may be detrimental to skeletal muscle structure and function. The aim of this study was to...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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1 year

Plant-based diets consistently reduce the risk of digestive cancers. Less meat, less cancer. A Meta-Analysis Based on 3,059,009 Subjects.

The Relationship Between Plant-Based Diet and Risk of Digestive System Cancers: A Meta-Analysis...

Diets containing red or processed meat are associated with a growing risk of digestive system cancers. Whether a plant-based diet is protective against cancer needs a high level of statistical...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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Dr Alan Desmond

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8 months

When it comes to gut health, the #carnivore crew have got it all wrong.

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2 years

Conclusion: Promoting meat as a muscle-building superfood is irresponsible and based on out-of-date science. For your overall health and longevity, plants remain the preferred source of dietary protein. Need to build muscle? Eat plants and hit the gym!

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Dr Alan Desmond

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2 years

Thoughts on high quality protein. Citations are in the comments.

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Dr Alan Desmond

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2 years

A healthy vegan diet CORRECTS the nutrient deficiencies that drive chronic illness!

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10 months

Conservationist and TV presenter ⁦ @ChrisGPackham ⁩ has shown his support for climate-friendly school meals by celebrating ten million UK school lunches going meat-free.

Chris Packham celebrates 10m school dinners going meat-free

Packham is an ambassador for ProVeg UK’s School Plates programme, which helps school caterers create healthier and more sustainable menus. He said: “What we put in our mouths links us directly and...

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Dr Alan Desmond

@DrAlanDesmond

2 months

Just published: Germany’s new dietary guidelines are plant-strong. Meat is optional. For those who do eat animals; beef, pork and poultry limited to a 120g portion once or twice a week.

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2 years

If you’re aiming to build a lot of muscle through strength training, adding protein from beans to your diet is just as effective as adding protein from cows.

No Significant Differences in Muscle Growth and Strength Development When Consuming Soy and Whey...

There are conflicting reports regarding the efficacy of plant versus animal-derived protein to support muscle and strength development with resistance training. The purpose of this study was to...

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Dr Alan Desmond

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2 months

It surprises me that in 2024 I am still called out for advising that people do not eat meat on the basis that plant-proteins are of “poor quality”. This concept of protein quality needs to be flipped on its head!

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2 years

Young vegan men eat less protein, less saturated fat, and far less cholesterol than meat-eaters. They also have the same muscle mass, strength, and cardiovascular fitness as meat-eaters. Interesting.

Skeletal muscle properties and vascular function do not differ between healthy, young vegan and...

A vegan diet is associated with reduced cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, but protein deficiencies may be detrimental to skeletal muscle structure and function. The aim of this study was to...

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Dr Alan Desmond

@DrAlanDesmond

1 year

Eating a whole-food, plant-based diet is one of the smartest things you can do to optimize your digestive health now and into the future. Take it slowly if you need to. Progress over perfection. Enjoy the process. @veganuary

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2 years

A recent 12-week head-to-head trial of resistance training compared vegans to meat eaters, with everyone on a high protein diet (1.6g protein per kg body weight). Result: Vegans built just as much muscle mass and strength. No meat required.

High-Protein Plant-Based Diet Versus a Protein-Matched Omnivorous Diet to Support Resistance...

NCT03907059. April 8, 2019. Retrospectively registered.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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@DrAlanDesmond

1 year

It’s hard to imagine a world without meat and dairy. @GeorgeMonbiot asks, what if it was the other way around?

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4 years

The evidence overwhelmingly favours a whole food, plant-based diet as the optimal choice for human health and longevity. The more plant-based, the better!

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Dr Alan Desmond

@DrAlanDesmond

1 year

Are soya beans bad for you?

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Dr Alan Desmond

@DrAlanDesmond

2 years

If your doctor tells you that “food doesn’t matter”, it’s time to get another doctor.

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Dr Alan Desmond

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1 year

Leftovers. Meat-free. The best.

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1 year

Lentil veggie soup, hummus, toasted whole grain sourdough with garlic, broccoli and nutritional yeast. The perfect combo of fibre and ferment?

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6 months

“A new study has shown that vegan mums are deficient in important nutrients and are putting their babies at risk.” Except: the cited study shows that 90% of mums-to- be have nutrient deficiencies and didn’t identify or compare vegans, vegetarians and omnivores. Bizarre from

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Dr Alan Desmond

@DrAlanDesmond

2 years

Recipe for a healthy gut microbiome: Eat a variety of plants - more than 30 a week is a great start. Spend time in nature, spend time with friends if you can. Get enough sleep. Exercise. Avoid unnecessary medications. Add some fermented foods. No probiotic supplements required!

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@DrAlanDesmond

7 months

How much protein in my lunch? I have 250g of beans and lentils, 40g of sprouts, one whole meal pittta.

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Dr Alan Desmond

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29 days

Happy Earth Day! A shocking proportion of the habitable land on 🌍 is used exclusively to produce meat and dairy. You can change this. Learn more:

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Dr Alan Desmond

@DrAlanDesmond

1 year

Brussel sprouts, smoky tofu, toasted edamame, red pesto. All the plants!!! Delicious.

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Dr Alan Desmond

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2 months

Doctors who promote a plant-based or plant-predominant diet are doing so in good faith and with the confidence that nutritional science shows that diets built around fruits, veggies, legumes, and wholegrains make humans healthier.

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@DrAlanDesmond

1 month

Regardless of diet quality, vegan women are more than twice as likely as omnivorous women to report high levels of overall well-being. Why?

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@DrAlanDesmond

9 months

This is Bob. Vietnam veteran, Harley-Davidson riding biker and a loving father, Bob joined the revolution at age 75. What a legend! Thanks for the intro @TanyaOCallaghan

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2 years

Key health tips for people who don’t eat animal products. 1. Celebrate your vastly reduced risks of obesity, heart disease, type 2 diabetes & cancer. 2. Be mindful of your intakes of protein, calcium, vitamin B12 and D. This will protect your bones.

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1 year

An NHS doctor, two MP’s and a man from the National Farmer’s Union discussing plant-based diets on TV. Thanks for having me on @BBCSpotlight Watch the full segment:

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1 year

@SBakerMD Shawn - you have an LDL of 149 mg/dl, elevated BUN, super low free testosterone at 5.5, and fasting blood glucose in the diabetic range. If red meat is a health food, it isn’t working for you! But @veganuary is around the corner!!

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1 year

Whole-food, plant-based: Nutrient dense, not calorie dense. A variety of plants, fibre-rich, protein packed. Delicious. Satisfying.

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Dr Alan Desmond

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3 years

Bacon causes colon cancer. Fact. Check out this mushroom sandwich instead!

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Dr Alan Desmond

@DrAlanDesmond

2 years

Whether you’re a GP, hospital doctor, dietician, or medical student, this is the comprehensive textbook on plant-based nutrition that you’ve been waiting for. Plant-Based Nutrition in Clinical Practice

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@DrAlanDesmond

1 year

Gut-healthy dietary change starts with going dairy-free. Time and again in my GI clinic, this is a game changer. Milk is for babies!

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@DrAlanDesmond

1 year

Smoked tofu, harissa hummus, and spinach on sourdough toast. Absolutely delicious. Not a turkey in sight!!

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Dr Alan Desmond

@DrAlanDesmond

9 months

The next time you hear a doctor or dietician who is funded by the meat, egg or dairy industry telling you that those foods are really healthy and you should just eat more of them, pause for a second. Ask yourself, “Whose interests do they really have at heart?

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Dr Alan Desmond

@DrAlanDesmond

1 month

Why doctors go vegan. Conversation with @PeterEgan6 at the “I Could Never Go Vegan” premiere.

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@DrAlanDesmond

1 year

“Red meat is not essential and appears to be linearly related to total mortality and risks of other health outcomes in populations that have consumed it for many years, optimal intake might be 0 g/day, especially if replaced by plant sources of protein.”

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1 month

The Pickering brothers have absolutely knocked it out of the park with this compelling new documentary, covering all the arguments and reasons to go vegan, with a humble, evidence based and educational style that I’ve not seen before in a documentary of this calibre. Plus, it’s

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3 years

It’s not about labelling yourself as vegan or vegetarian, it’s about choosing to build your meals from the foods that are consistently shown to benefit human health.

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2 years

Researchers checked hormone levels in 750 healthy men. Which group had the highest testosterone levels?

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2 years

It astounds me when people continue to draw a line between human health and planetary health. I mean, what planet are they living on?

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@DrAlanDesmond

2 years

“Farms can act as incubators for potentially fatal drug-resistant diseases in humans, and antibiotic resistance is now considered one of the world’s biggest public health threats.” One more reason to skip the meat.

Potentially deadly superbug found in British supermarket pork

Tests found more than 10% of sampled products resistant to antibiotic used to treat serious illnesses in humans

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Alan Desmond

@DrAlanDesmond

8 months

Dinner: Lentils, veggies, mixed leaves, whole-grains flatbreads, hummus, nooch, seasonings, and water. Fibre rich. Nutrient dense. Feeding my body and my gut bugs ✌🏻🌱💩

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Dr Alan Desmond

@DrAlanDesmond

1 year

Raising the bar for avocado toast in Perth, Australia. Check this out…

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Dr Alan Desmond

@DrAlanDesmond

9 months

If a plant-based diet was a pill, your doctor would prescribe it all day long ✌🏻🌱

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Dr Alan Desmond

@DrAlanDesmond

25 days

Beans, beans, good for the heart. The more you eat, the lower your risk of cardiovascular disease.

Fruit, vegetable, and legume intake, and cardiovascular disease and deaths in 18 countries (PURE):...

Higher fruit, vegetable, and legume consumption was associated with a lower risk of non-cardiovascular, and total mortality. Benefits appear to be maximum for both non-cardiovascular mortality and...

www.thelancet.com

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@DrAlanDesmond

2 years

A balanced diet that contains no animal products has been recommended as having significant health benefits at all stages of life by the health professionals who know nutritional science inside out.

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1 year

It’s #worldbookday Here are just a few of the books that continue to inspire me every day. The ones that I’ve read, and re-read, and will read again.

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@DrAlanDesmond

2 years

My body makes all the human cholesterol that I need. I don’t need to supplement that by eating cow cholesterol, or sheep cholesterol, or chicken cholesterol. Why would I?

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Dr Alan Desmond

@DrAlanDesmond

2 years

Using out-dated science and disproven theories - including the 'complete protein myth' and the concept that humans need to drink cow's milk throughout their life to be healthy - that new book has made a lot of headlines. Don’t panic. It’s a con.

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2 years

Bean and veggie stew with sourdough and hummus. The perfect winter comfort foods.

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3 years

The evidence overwhelmingly favours a whole food, plant-based diet as the optimal choice for human health and longevity. The more plant-based, the better!

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Dr Alan Desmond

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2 years

Thank you for sharing this @veganuary ✌🏻

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1 month

Why is is so difficult for people to acknowledge scientific papers showing that vegans tend to have healthier dietary intakes than non-vegans? This reply is pretty typical.

Tom Andersen

@twitevit

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@DrAlanDesmond It's not science - it's fantasy !

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Dr Alan Desmond

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5 months

Climate breakdown, a food system on the brink of collapse, and terminally dysfunctional politics: can we ever hope to solve the "multi-crisis"? Join me and @GeorgeMonbiot for dinner on March 21st to find out.

Hungry For Change: George Monbiot in Conversation with Dr Alan Desmond.

Hungry For Change: George Monbiot in Conversation with Dr Alan Desmond. by Alan Desmond - Thursday, March 21, 2024 06:00 PM at The Hall Exeter in . Buy tickets and find information on Universe.

www.universe.com

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@DrAlanDesmond

2 years

All edible plants contain varying proportions of all 20 amino acids required for human health. A varied plant-based diet ticks all the right boxes for amino acid consumption.

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3 years

You don’t need a probiotic supplement to ‘balance’ your gut microbiome.

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1 year

We’ve already lost almost 7 million people to COVID-19. What’s the number one thing we can do to prevent the next zoonotic pandemic? Get animal protein off of our plates.

Preventing the next pandemic - Zoonotic diseases and how to break the chain of transmission

In this time of crisis, thousands of papers and guidelines have already been published about COVID-19. Most of these consider the important questions of how to respond to the ongoing public health...

www.unep.org

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3 years

“A diet rich in plant-based foods and with fewer animal source foods confers both improved health and environmental benefits.” - EAT Lancet Report 2019

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2 years

The 6 foods that consistently benefit human health and minimise our impact on the environment. Fruits, vegetables, whole grains, legumes, nuts, and olive oil. True superfoods.

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@DrAlanDesmond

2 years

Masterclass on diet and IBD. More plants! @charlie_lees #Frontiers2022

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1 year

At that time, Harvard School of Public Health noted that processed meat was likely responsible for a total 644,000 preventable deaths each year due to bowel cancer, heart disease, and complications of type 2 diabetes combined.

WHO report says eating processed meat is carcinogenic: Understanding the findings

Last week the World Health Organization (WHO)’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) announced that consumption of processed meat is “carcinogenic to humans (Group I ),” and that cons…

www.hsph.harvard.edu

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2 years

Tofu on fresh whole-grain flatbread, with spinach, Dijon mustard and chilli flakes. Practical, tasty, nourishing, vegan food.

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1 year

Making the switch to plants this January? Start prepping your gut microbiome today!

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2 years

Airport lounge breakfast. Decided to skip the buffet of group 1 carcinogens.

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4 years

Meat and dairy. Not required. Harmful to health. According to the American Medical Association

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3 months

Carnivore king Dr Shaun Baker has finally admitted that he has no data to show that a meat-only diet is healthy. Many of his clients and followers will have incurred serious harm. What do they do now?

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1 year

@BearGrylls @AncestralSupps Bear. Bacon is a class 1 carcinogen. It causes colon cancer. A lot of kids follow you passionately. Enjoy your food, but please stop promoting these incredibly unhealthy meals to your legions of young followers.

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1 year

A healthy plant-predominant or plant-exclusive diet encompasses every version of a healthy diet and can accommodate every cuisine. I firmly believe that it can be adapted to everyone’s dietary needs and preferences.

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1 month

A whole food plant-based diet builds a healthier gut microbiome, one meal at a time. How are you feeding your microbiome today?

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In 2015, the WHO IARC classified all processed meats as known carcinogens. Quote: “Eating processed meat causes colorectal cancer”. We are still waiting for cancer warning labels on packets of bacon.

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8 months

The true population explosion. 8 billion humans and 92 billion captive animals combined make up almost all the land animals on planet Earth. Staggering.

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1 year

Day 16 of Veganuary! How’s it going?

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1 month

Oats for breakfast, a little cacao powder, walnuts. Used unsweetened soya milk. So good!

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Plant-based diets are healthier, but it’s “whole-food, plant-based” for the win!

Degree of Adherence to Based Diet and Total and Cause-Specific Mortality: Prospective Cohort Study...

A greater adherence to a plant-based diet was associated with substantially lower total mortality in this large population of veterans. These findings support recommending plant-rich dietary patterns...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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10 months

Why is Dr Gundry so confused about lectins?

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1 year

Bear Grylls has been badly misinformed. A gut microbiome that is starved of plant-fibre and fed red meat twice a day is the true “worst case scenario”. @BearGrylls #microbiome #health

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@CakeNutrition About 70% of adults have the same issue as you, not surprising. Milk is for babies. Adults have no biological need for milk. Drink water. Get your nutrients from food.

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2 years

Vegan pancakes are just better in every way. There. I said it.

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1 year

Last night @GeorgeMonbiot made a powerful argument. Our approach to food needs a complete overhaul. Watch our full conversation here:

Dr Alan Desmond (@dr.alandesmond) • Instagram video

www.instagram.com

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Foods made from soya beans “reduce risk of coronary heart disease and breast and prostate cancer… and may favorably affect renal function, alleviate depressive symptoms and improve skin health.” What’s your favourite way to eat soya?

Soy and Health Update: Evaluation of the Clinical and Epidemiologic Literature

Soyfoods have long been recognized as sources of high-quality protein and healthful fat, but over the past 25 years these foods have been rigorously investigated for their role in chronic disease...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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My patient with ulcerative colitis has entered remission, lost 5kg of excess body weight, almost achieved a healthy BMI, and reversed his hypertension. What treatment did I prescribe at our last consultation?

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On Saturday I’m interviewing renowned environmental campaigner @GeorgeMonbiot and then eating a gorgeous plant-based meal. What questions should I ask George?

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Vemondo tofu with basil is fantastic! Easy to cook with and 20g+ of healthy plant-based protein per block. Nice. Loving the @veganuary options @LidlGB

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Meat rich diets may fuel leaky gut and accelerate the onset and progression of type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome. Fascinating new publication in @Gut_BMJ from @USFHealth :

A mechanism by which gut microbiota elevates permeability and inflammation in obese/diabetic mice...

NCT02869659 and NCT03269032.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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1 year

How do you like your Brussels Sprouts?

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2 years

The actual list of foods that maximise human health while minimising the impact on Mother Nature is short: Fruits, vegetables, beans, nuts, seeds, whole-grains and olive oil. Notice the common factor? All plants.

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