We are delighted to host the College of Medicine's fourth annual food conference under the umbrella of the Integrative & Personalised Medicine Congress.
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Welcome from the Co-Chairs Dr Rupy Aujla, NHS GP and Founder of ‘The Doctor’s Kitchen’ and Dr Catherine Zollman, GP & Medical Director of Penny Brohn UK cancer charity. This is the Fourth College of Medicine annual food conference. Healthy Food: For Everyone, is a key chapter in the College manifesto and part of The College of Medicine's vision for a better healthcare in the next decade, which underlines the importance of good nutrition at both a local and national level.
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Healthy Food: For everyone, is a key chapter in the College manifesto and part of The College of Medicine’s vision for better healthcare in the next decade, which underlines the importance of good nutrition at both a local and national level.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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When it comes to fertility, healthy eating can affect reproduction health. More than just folic acid, learn about key vitamins and nutrients that need to be in the diet for both men and woman looking to get pregnant.
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Dr Indra Barathan will highlight the importance of getting to the root cause of digestive issues and how nutrition plays an important part. Find out what to look for and what to recommend for your patients.
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Having experience autoimmune diseases first-hand, Dr Sarah Davies is passionate about help helping her patients to make the simple and life-changing interventions that have helped her to live a pain-free, healthy and active life.
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Dr Nasha Winters, a global healthcare authority and best-selling author in integrative cancer care and research will discuss the importance of metabolic flexibility in cancer care and prevention and will highlight the various dietary interventions to achieve that?
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An opportunity to visit the Exhibition hall
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This presentation will explain what social prescribing is and how social prescribing link workers are being trained to support a range of food related issues that their clients are reporting. These issues include the need to manage excess weight and improve their lifestyle, issues with malnutrition and starvation from poverty. You will hear what a short CPD on supporting food-related issues is covering and how Chloe, a social prescribing link worker has benefitted from this course.
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With immune health at the forefront of everyone's minds, nutrition plays a key role. Learn about the vitamins and minerals that play a key role in supporting immune health as well as the deficiencies that can lead to a weakened immune system and greater susceptibility to infection. Ben Brown is a science writer and speaker. He teaches nutritional medicine, speaks internationally, and contributes regularly to magazines and scientific journals. Ben also works in the research and development of herbs and natural supplements. He is author of The Digestive Health Solution.
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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.
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