The UK governments National Food Strategy’s, ambitious proposals are long overdue and highlight the how the UK’s current food system is harming our health and our planet.  The report offers solutions that can reverse a broken system.

Henry Dimbleby, the Independent lead appointed by UK government to conduct the year-long review and will discuss his finding for his multi-disciplinary National Food Strategy, the first of its kind for 75 years.  

How do we transition to a more sustainable food and farming system that nourishes the health of both people and planet? Why soil health is important and how does this link to our health? Just some of the questions that will be raised and discussed in this panel discussion.

Patrick Holden, Chief Executive of the Sustainable Food Trust, will chair a panel discussion between Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, a well known campaigner on food and environmental issues, Sir Jonathon Porritt, the Co-Founder of the Forum for the Future and eminent broadcaster and commentator on sustainable development and Prof Margaret Rayman, Surrey Distinguished Chair, Professor of Nutritional Medicine, University of Surrey.

Forty years of peer reviewed work has shown that the programme Professor Dean Ornish developed to treat heart disease, has now been shown that it can help to reduce the risk factors associated with type 2 diabetes, high cholesterol, obesity, depression as well as prevent cancers and slow the aging process itself.   

Prof Tim Spector’s years of research into the microbiome, clearly shows the important role that the microbiome plays in our health and why a healthy biome matters when our body responds to infection, including COVID. 

Prof Robert Thomas will explore the emerging evidence why one person gets more severe consequences of covid than others. Age, underlying genetic susceptibility and having other chronic conditions features strongly but it is now clear that underlying gut health is fundamental.  

Dr David Unwin, is a GP who is well known for his pioneering work with patients with Type 2 diabetes and the low carb diet.  Here he discusses the implications for the treatment of heart disease and will present findings from his research with 107 case studies of patients on a low carb diet.  

We are at a turning point in our understanding of how to prevent and fight disease. Rates of cancer, heart disease, strokes, diabetes, obesity and other common health problems are skyrocketing. However, the latest scientific research and clinical evidence is revealing that the power to protect ourselves against these threats and resist them lies in a simple solution: the foods we eat everyday.  Dr William Li has spent decades researching how you can use food to combat disease and is the author of the New York Times bestseller “Eat to Beat Disease: The New Science of How Your Body Can Heal Itself.