Plant-based eating and cardiometabolic health

The Alpro Foundation e-Symposium brought together students, tutors and health professionals to learn from leading experts the latest evidence and practice supporting the role of plant-based eating and cardiometabolic health.

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Summary

The leading cardiometabolic risk factors for the number one global disease burden – cardiovascular disease (CVD) – include high blood pressure, body mass index and fasting plasma glucose. Lifestyle factors are well documented to significantly contribute to the risk of CVD incidence and mortality.

Plant-based food patterns including the Mediterranean, Portfolio, vegetarian and Nordic diets have established benefits for cardiometabolic health.

The Alpro Foundation e-symposium open to all health and nutrition professionals, brought together leading international experts to present and explore the latest evidence and practice for plant-based eating and cardiometabolic health. Since the symposium, a fully referenced and comprehensive review of the evidence has also been published by the experts - view the report.

Agenda

Welcome

Chair - Professor Bruce Griffin, Professor of Nutritional Metabolism at University of Surrey

The Alpro Foundation and what it offers to tutors, students and health professionals

Stephanie De Vriese, External Scientific Affairs Manager, Alpro Foundation

How plant-based diets benefit cardiometabolic health

Dr Hana Kahleova, Director of Clinical Research at Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, Washington D.C

The Portfolio Diet

Professor David Jenkins, Departments of Nutritional Sciences and Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto

Plant-based eating and the gut brain axis

Bridgette Wilson, PhD RD, Senior Specialist Dietitian & Research Associate at Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust/ City Dietitians/ King’s College London

Achieving a healthy plant-based diet

Lynne Garton, Consultant Dietitian

Initiatives that are driving healthy more sustainable eating policies and consumer habits

Jo Lewis, Partnerships Manager, The British Dietetic Association

Panel discussion and audience Q&A

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