Children following vegan and vegetarian diets have good intakes of many micronutrients and essential fatty acids, however, more attention is needed for vitamins B2 and B12, calcium and ALA.

There are indications that plant-based diets may be more beneficial for the gut microbiota.

Proceedings of online symposium

Healthy lifestyle and weight reduction remains crucial for the prevention and treatment of NAFLD.

Could a shift in our food consumption patterns help reverse the negative trend of reactive nitrogen?

Alpro Foundation Award for best scientific publication for a young researcher goes to Perrine Laroche for her research on the global impact of more plantbased eating in the Western world.

This scientific update is dedicated to different plant-based eating patterns and some specific plant-based foods and how these impact cardiometabolic health.

Identifying which areas have the biggest potential to shift to more plant-based land-friendly foods which could lead to largest carbon benefits.

Most FBDGs were not compatible with a set of global environmental targets related to climate change and environmental resource use as described in the EAT planetary health diets.

This 12 weeks intervention study on either soy or whey protein providing 2g of leucin found significant increases in muscle strength and lean body mass in response to resistance training.

e-book focusing on the global dietary shift towards more plant-based diets needed to improve human and planetary health

Check our interview with Dr Reynolds about the affordability of sustainable diets.

Many people don’t realise that there is an 80% overlap between healthy and sustainable diets.

e-book Part 3: Health and environmental impacts of plant-based diets.

e-book Part 2: Food security, Climate change, GHGe, Land use, Energy use, Water use, Biodiversity, Food waste.

e-book Part 1: What is a sustainable food system & What are the planetary boundaries

Healthy and sustainable diets are neutral in taste, and include less umami, salt, fat and bitter tastes.

Eating more whole plant foods linked to healthier weight status.

Adherence to a healthful plant-based diet is favorably associated with lower concentrations of biomarkers for adiposity and inflammation

Consumption of 25g soy protein daily modestly but significantly reduced LDL-cholesterol by -3.2% and total cholesterol by -2.8%

A more plant-based diet is accompanied by lower weight gain and less body fat over time.

Consumption of a soy drink has may alleviate vasomotor symptoms in post-menopausal women without affecting mood or cognition.

Strategies towards healthy and sustainable protein consumption: A transition framework at the levels of diets, dishes, and dish ingredients.

The team of 37 international experts comprising the EAT Lancet Commission has compiled a comprehensive, authoritative review of the scientific evidence around healthy diets and sustainable food systems. …

The Alpro Foundation welcomes the EAT-Lancet report and its cut-through recommendations for feeding people healthily while protecting the planet.

The EAT Lancet report is without any doubts a landmark in the publications regarding effects of nutrition on health and envirroment.

One Blue Dot is the British Dietetic Association's Environmentally Sustainable Diet Project.

Based on the results of this meta-analysis soyfoods and soy protein supplements can be considered suitable protein sources for building strength and increasing muscle mass while undertaking resistance

To bring about the greatest environmental benefit, they emphasise dietary change is required, in particular a reduction in total animal production.

Two recent studies strengthen dietary recommendations to adopt a more plant-based diet to help manage diabetes.