Plant-Based Canada

🆕🌱Plant-Based Canada🌱 Podcast episode!
Join us for a chat with esteemed professor and veterinarian, Prof. Andrew Knight.
Andrew Knight is a veterinary Professor of Animal Welfare affiliated with the Murdoch University School of Veterinary Medicine and Griffith University, both in Australia, and with the University of Wi******er in the UK. An experienced small animal veterinarian, he’s also a UK, European, American and New Zealand Veterinary Specialist in animal welfare. In 2024 he received a PhD focused on vegan food for animal companions (including investigation on aspects health, behavioural and environmental implications). He has around 150 academic and 80 popular publications, including his recent article https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S240584402411609X, and an extensive series of social media videos and several websites (including www.sustainablepetfood.info), on vegan companion animal diets, climate change and the livestock sector, invasive animal research, educational animal use, humane clinical and surgical skills training, and other animal welfare issues. His studies on vegan food for out animal companions are regularly reported in news outlets globally. He often works with animal advocacy charities, and is frequently interviewed by the media. To add to this he has received over 20 awards and research grants for this work.

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A NEW STUDY INVESTIGATES THE HEALTH BENEFITS A VEGAN DIET MAY HAVE ON OUR DOG COMPANION’S HEALTH

Professor Andrew Knight and two colleagues have published a study to calculate the size of the health benefits that might occur for average dogs after controlling for age, s*x, neutering status, breed size and exercise level. Dog guardians for 2536 dogs completed a survey of the care of their dog over one-year eating conventional meat (54%), raw meat (33%), and vegan (13%).

There was a decrease in the seven general indicators of illness, and among the 22 most common health disorders, 11 were common in dogs fed conventional meat, 8 in dogs fed raw meat, and 3 in dogs with vegan diets. Dogs reportedly considered unwell by veterinarians were 39% for those fed vegan diets, versus 49% for conventional foods and 43% fed raw meat. The chart pictured indicates some of the key reported findings.

The study notes that dogs were not exclusively fed the study diet, and assessments were based on guardian opinions which the study tried to mitigate by asking guardians to report their vet's health assessments. Yet the study felt the findings were statistically significant, indicating a higher likelihood of true differences rather than random variation.

Prof. Andrew Knight stated: “Dogs fed vegan diets clearly had the best health outcomes in this very large-scale study, and these results are consistent with prior studies in this field. Nutritionally-sound vegan diets offer extremely large environmental benefits, so this is very good news for dog owners who want to protect the environment whilst also maximising their dogs’ health. However, care should always be taken to ensure diets are nutritionally-sound, by checking package labelling and purchasing from reputable pet food companies.”

LINK TO STUDY: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S240584402411609X

🌱 Free event THIS Sept 2-3 (2024) - Summit Highlights:

Inside, you will find expert advice, proven practices, and powerful tools to accelerate the healthy lifestyle you envision for yourself

Practical Cooking and Exercise demonstrations to maintain normal blood pressure

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Between working so much on devices, the uncertainty in the world, and keeping on top of everything else – it is very easy to get guarded around our heart centre at the front and back of the body.

This simple stretch can be done for 1 to 5 minutes to help us release, stretch through the shoulders and chest, and make room for more breath.

Nothing fancy is needed just a rolled or folded blanket or yoga mat - you can even do it on your bed for a gentler version:

1. Lie down with pillow/mat under head to based of the shoulder blades.

2. Find a position for arms and legs that does not strain neck, shoulders or back such as these options:
- knees bent
- knees bent and resting together
- leg straight, rolling out naturally
- legs straight with a pillow/blanket under knees
- arms open to the side with hands no higher than waist
- elbows out to side with palms resting on body

3. Lie comfortable for a few minutes – any strain in breath or body are signals you done this position long enough.

4. Bend knees and gently roll to the right off the blanket/mat.

5. Pause and take 3-5 breaths for the transition.

6. Sit up for 2-5 breaths.

7. Option – stretch, smile and shake! 😉😀

🌱 Free event at University of Toronto on 26th September 2024 to listen to these wonderful world renowned plant-based physicians including Canadian based .michaelklaper 💕

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🌱 Our friends at Gift of Health are hosting a free on line 2 day summit on the 2nd and 3rd of September 2024. What a stellar line up of plant-based practitioners! Please share widely. 💚

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Carolyn Scott-Hamilton (The Healthy Voyager )is a plant-based chef, cook-book author, and television personality who specializes in how to stay healthy while travelling abroad. Carolyn has travelled the world for her show – the Healthy Voyager -- and offered her services as a health and nutrition expert, recipe developer, writer, speaker, consultant, and media spokesperson.

The Healthy Voyager show was born with the goal of helping people with dietary restrictions navigate international travel while also having fun and enjoying themselves. As of 2006, Carolyn has travelled and dined healthfully, all while documenting through her Healthy Voyager Web Series.

Her cookbook, The Healthy Voyager’s Global Kitchen, launched in 2012, with a cooking show of the same name launching in 2014. Her shows have won multiple awards and accolades over the years.

Meantime, Carolyn expertise has been a “go-to” source across the media landscape. She’s been featured on the Discovery Channel, CNN, USA Today, and Martha Stewart Radio. She is currently the travel correspondent for Hallmark Home & Family, while her shows are syndicated on MSN Travel, The Food Channel, AOL and more.

🌱 DRINKING SOY MILK INSTEAD OF COW'S MILK HAS BENEFITS FOR YOUR HEALTH BASED ON THIS RECENT SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND META-ANALYSIS from our friends at University of Toronto, including our team member Dr. Laura Chiavaroli 💚

Better for your health and the planet. A no brainer.

Conclusions
"Current evidence provides a good indication that replacing cow’s milk with soymilk (including sweetened soymilk) does not adversely affect established cardiometabolic risk factors and may result in advantages for blood lipids, blood pressure, and inflammation in adults with a mix of health statuses. The classification of plant-based dairy alternatives such as soymilk as ultra-processed may be misleading as it relates to their cardiometabolic effects and may need to be reconsidered in the transition to plant-based diets."

https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12916-024-03524-7

🌱 MORE DATA TO SUPPORT THAT TYPE 2 DIABETES IS ASSOCIATED WITH MEAT CONSUMPTION

A new systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies just published supporting plant-based nutrition for prevention of Type 2 diabetes (T2D).

Title: Association between total, animal, and plant protein intake and type 2 diabetes risk in adults: A systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies.

Conclusions:
"Our findings indicate that long-term consumption of animal, but not plant, protein is associated with a significant and dose-dependent increase in the risk of T2D, with the implication that replacement of animal with plant protein intake may lower the risk of T2D."

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0261561424002309

Graphics by Ayesha Patel-Jhaveri and Ankur Jhaveri 💚

🌱 Today is Burlington VegFest! The event is so much fun and looking forward to sharing some myth busting health information at 4.15pm! Come join us if you can! 💚

🆕🌱Plant-Based Canada🌱 Podcast episode!

Join us for a chat with the Canadian cookbook author, Laura Wright, of “The First Mess”.

Laura Wright is a plant-based chef, gardener, and blogger from the Niagara region of Southern Ontario. Her website, The First Mess, was awarded Best Special Diets Blog by SAVEUR Magazine. She is the author and photographer of "The First Mess Cookbook: Vibrant Plant-Based Recipes for Living Well Through The Seasons," which is available internationally through Penguin and Avery publishers. Laura focuses on seasonal flavour combinations and produce-heavy recipes that appeal to all types of eaters.

Links:
Website: https://thefirstmess.com/
Newsletter signup: https://thefirstmess.com/newsletter/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thefirstmess/
Cookbook: https://thefirstmess.com/cookbook/the-first-mess-cookbook/

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In this episode of the Plant-Based Canada Podcast, we talk to Dr. Neha Pathak. Dr. Pathak is board certified in both internal medicine and lifestyle medicine and works as Chief Physician Editor for Health and Lifestyle Medicine and host of WebMD’s Health Discovered podcast. She reports on topics related to lifestyle, climate change, and environmental impacts on health for WebMD and Medscape, and is a regular contributor to Yale Climate Connections.

She graduated with a BA in psychology and biology from Harvard University, and received her MD with honours in community service from Cornell University's Weill Medical College. She completed her primary care, internal medicine residency at New York Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical College. She obtained her certificate in climate change and health communication from Yale School of Public Health.

She is a member of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine board of directors and Chair of the Global Sustainability Committee. Dr. Pathak is also a lecturer at the Yale School of Public Health, where she facilitates coursework on climate change and health.

Through all of her work, she hopes to educate healthcare professionals and the public about the health impacts of climate change and environmental pollution, and the health benefits of climate action. Her research focuses on the intersection of lifestyle medicine and planetary health.

Graphics by Ayesha Patel-Jhaveri and Ankur Jhaveri 💚

Dr. Matthew Nagra, ND 💚

This incredible film is available to watch for free for the next few days only.

It is the directors cut of Eating Our Way to Extinction 💚🔥

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A new report just out by Changing Markets Foundation: The New Merchants of Doubt: How Big Meat and Dairy Avoid Climate Action.

"This report shows the power of Big Meat and Dairy lobby groups, fighting across the world to maintain status quo, blocking climate action, such as dietary shifts and the adoption of alternative proteins".

"While tactics resemble Big Oil, which have now been widely discredited as harming public interest, Big Meat and Dairy
influence still flies under the radar, and they continue to benefit from agricultural exceptionalism."

"The climate science is clear: actions that we take in this decade will define temperatures and the world we live in for the decades to come. The livestock sector is both a significant source of GHG emissions and uniquely vulnerable to the impacts of climate change that are already being felt by farmers and ordinary people everywhere."

https://changingmarkets.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Report-Summary-Eng.pdf

Available for download now! Dr. Matthew Nagra joins the Plant-Based Podcast again to break down a new review he and his colleagues recently published in the Canadian Journal of Cardiology on plant-based meat alternatives (PBMAs) and their impact on heart health.
This review, which is linked in the show notes, is called “Animal vs. Plant-Based Meat: A Hearty Debate”, and looks at studies spanning from 1970 to 2023.

It explores the nutritional profiles of PBMAS compared to their animal-based counterparts and explores their effects on markers of cardiovascular health.

They found that compared to meat, plant based meat alternatives were: generally lower in saturated fat, higher in polyunsaturated fat, and higher in dietary fibre. They also found improvements in cardiovascular disease risk factors when meat was replaced with plant-based alternatives.

If you haven’t already, check out our other podcast with Dr. Nagra on episode two when he debunked common nutrition myths and misinformation, and on episode 47 when he discussed misinformation around the “Food Compass System” designed by Tufts University researchers.

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Available for download now! Dr. Matthew Nagra (Dr. Matthew Nagra, ND) joins the Plant-Based Podcast again to break down a new review he and his colleagues recently published in the Canadian Journal of Cardiology on plant-based meat alternatives (PBMAs) and their impact on heart health.

This review is called “Animal vs. Plant-Based Meat: A Hearty Debate”, and looks at studies spanning from 1970 to 2023.

It explores the nutritional profiles of PBMAS compared to their animal-based counterparts and explores their effects on markers of cardiovascular health.

They found that compared to meat, plant-based meat alternatives were: generally lower in saturated fat, higher in polyunsaturated fat, and higher in dietary fibre. They also found improvements in cardiovascular disease risk factors when meat was replaced with plant-based alternatives.

If you haven’t already, check out our other podcasts with Dr. Nagra on episode two, when he debunked common nutrition myths and misinformation, and on episode 47, when he discussed misinformation around the “Food Compass System” designed by Tufts University researchers.

https://plantbasedcanadapodcast.buzzsprout.com

🌱 A presentation by the brilliant Dr. Matthew Dr. Matthew Nagra, ND on the healthfulness of plant-based meat alternatives. This is so needed given the huge amount of propaganda and deliberate misinformation on the subject by vested interests. If you are in Vancouver this is not to be missed! 💚

Plant-based Meat Alternatives: With Dr Matt Nagra: Snackluck , Fri, Jul 26, 2024, 6:40 PM | Meetup Dr. Nagra will review the research on plant-based meat alternatives and whether they can be a healthy addition to one's diet. This will include a look at the nutritional pr

In this episode of the Plant-Based Canada Podcast, we talk to Dr. Thomas Hedley – a certified lifestyle medicine doctor who also practices as a GP oncologist at BC Cancer in Vancouver, Canada. His interest in lifestyle medicine started while working in a research lab that showed eating ground flaxseed, which comes from the flax plant, could lower blood pressure as much as medication. Since then, he shifted toward a plant-based eating pattern and personally experienced increased vitality as a result.

As a lifestyle medicine doctor, Dr. Heldley has worked with patients wanting to adopt a plant-based diet to improve their health. Through his work, he has witnessed people of all ages experiencing the benefits of adding more plant-based foods into their life.

Dr. Hedley gives us a crash course in how, what, and when to eat when shifting to a healthier diet. From swapping foods out for healthier ones, to managing cravings, to easing into plant-based diets.

Graphic by Ayesha Patel-Jhaveri and Ankur Jhaveri 💚

From keynote speaker Dr Michael Klaper MD DipABLM

Mechanisms of Disease Reversal Utilizing Plant-based Nutrition: Why and How Does it Work 💚

🌱 So excited to be a speaker at Burlington VegFest again this year, it is such a fun event!
Come and join us on Saturday 17th August 2024 ❤️💚🔥

We are thrilled to welcome back Dr. Zahra Kassam of Plant-Based Canada as one our 2024 speakers! 🤩

Dr. Zahra Kassam is a radiation oncologist at the Stronach Regional Cancer Centre in Newmarket, Ontario, and assistant professor at the University of Toronto. Zahra is certified in Lifestyle Medicine through the American Board of Lifestyle Medicine, and is co-Chair of the Canadian member interest group of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine.

Zahra co-founded Plant Based Canada to promote plant-based whole food nutrition that is sustainable, healthy, and promotes the well-being of the planet and all its inhabitants.Her first book, co-authored with her sister Shireen, was published in January 2022 and is called Eating Plant-Based, Scientific Answers to Your Nutrition Questions. Zahra has also co-edited an academic textbook Plant-Based Nutrition in Clinical Practice, with her sister Shireen and Lisa Simon RD, released in September 2022.

🌱 Breath work and Yogic sleep under the trees at Sherwood Farm Retreat. Just lovely 💚

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Today’s episode of the Plant-Based Canada Podcast is Dr. Richard Twine. Dr. Twine is a Reader in Sociology and Co-Director of the Centre for Human-Animal Studies (CfHAS) at Edge Hill University, UK. His latest book is The Climate Crisis and Other Animals (Sydney University Press, 2024). He is also co-editor of The Rise of Critical Animal Studies – From the Margins to the Centre (Routledge, 2014), and author of Animals as Biotechnology – Ethics, Sustainability and Critical Animal Studies (Routledge, 2010). He has also published several articles on ecofeminism, vegan transition, the food system, and the animal-industrial complex.