Affiliated organisations
British Society of Lifestyle Medicine
BSLM is a multidisciplinary society aiming to prevent, improve, manage and treat lifestyle-related conditions. BSLM aims to establish Lifestyle Medicine as central to health and wellbeing by promoting the prevention of avoidable lifestyle-related diseases, by advocating treatment of diseases of the 21st century with a realistic approach and by influencing healthcare and health policy. Raising awareness of Lifestyle Medicine principles and providing leadership, education and support for healthcare practitioners is a primary objective. We acknowledge there are social and environmental determinants of disease which should be addressed at national and international level. BSLM wishes to play its part. We are delighted to be part of the global movement of Lifestyle Medicine.
BSLM members include GPs and medical specialists, allied health practitioners, public health physicians, educators, and researchers. We advocate for a multidisciplinary, multi-system approach to the chronic disease problem and we provide education, training and support for members in their practice of Lifestyle Medicine.
The British Society of Lifestyle Medicine is a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation.
Website: bslm.org.uk
Double-Zero
Care about your health? Your diet? Your planet? So do we.
Double-zero is a health and wellness non-profit association, a free resource to make your life easier by curating information and bringing you ‘Something New’ along the way.
I wish it had existed when I was diagnosed with cancer; I was fifty years old (5-zero), only half-way to my own Double-zero. Pressured into making quick decisions, I set about researching my options. Much of the information I found was conflicting, irrelevant and confusing.
Today I’m healed and ready to help you ‘Maximise Your Healthy Years’.
Denise Stevenson, Founder
Website: double-zero.org
Eco Medics
Eco Medics is a non-profit organisation that aims to put healthcare professionals at the forefront of the response to the global health emergency that is the climate and ecological crisis. By offering free networking events, educational content and resources, and an annual international conference, Eco Medics aims to educate, energise and empower healthcare professionals to become leading voices in the global response to the climate emergency.
Website: ecomedics.co.uk
Ethical Global
Ethical Globe is a directory and community of vegan people, businesses, organisations and projects that launched in 2020. We founded Ethical Globe after realising that there was little support for the vegan community. In particular, vegans who also wish to make other ethically conscious decisions.
Ethical Globe aims to provide information and support to the growing vegan population. It will empower people to live in alignment with their values by helping them with their everyday choices. This will contribute to creating a fairer world for all.
Ethical Globe will provide a platform for communities to build and to unite. In time, it will help create a worldwide network of like-minded people, projects and businesses who care about justice for all. Justice for humans, justice for other animals and justice for the planet.
Website: ethicalglobe.com
European Alliance for Plant-based Foods
The European Alliance for Plant-based Foods (EAPF) brings together like-minded organisations in the plant-based value chain around a unique mission: To put plant-based foods at the heart of the transition towards more sustainable and healthy food systems.
More people are turning to plant-based foods – products made from vegetables, grains, pulses (including soy), nuts, fungi, algae – out of concerns for climate change, biodiversity loss, human health or animal welfare. The Alliance strives for making this shift a reality, allowing consumers to access true, safe and sustainable alternatives to animal-based products.
The Alliance represents the entire plant-based value chain: Food producers and manufacturers, NGOs, nutritionists, research & academia and consumers.
Evidence Based Eating (New Zealand)
Evidence Based Eating is a member based organisation with a mission to raise awareness of and promote the benefits of a Whole Food Plant-Based (WFPB) diet in New Zealand. They hold educational talks and provide advocacy of WFPB nutrition at events and to other organisations.
Website: https://www.ebe.nz
Farmacy
Farmacy’s flagship restaurant opened in Notting Hill in 2016. Its abundant menu is alive with truly delicious and healthy seasonal food, all served in a beautiful setting. Open for breakfast, lunch & dinner, Farmacy promotes plant-based organic eating and a chemical free approach, connecting everything between the soil and the sun. All ingredients are either grown on the farm, or sourced from local, sustainable and environmentally conscious suppliers. The restaurant is a true supporter of local farming, and champions biodynamic sustainability, aligning with The Biodynamic Association and Demeter certified growers and farmers.
Website: farmacylondon.com
Instagram: @farmacyuk
Fizzeek Media
Plant-based filmmaker and music producer Jay Cox rediscovered his lust for life after a cancer diagnosis. After a tough fight and with the disease in remission, he didn’t need any more reminders how short life really is, or any more encouragement to follow his passion. He changed his diet, became totally plant-based and, with new-found energy, got back on his mountain bike. He also got his camera out again and began looking for places he could make a real difference. This reinvention of himself, his life and his purpose lead him by chance to Tarifa in Spain with endurance athlete Luke Tyburski as he embarked on an insane 2,000km solo triathlon in 12 days. The result was the Ultimate Triathlon documentary, and the revelation of Jay’s formidable natural talent.
Jay has teamed up with plant-based health professionals to help achieve their mission to promote evidence based nutrition education.
Website: fizzeekmedia.com
Food Matters Live
The aim of Food Matters Live is simple but ambitious – to inspire a better future for food by stimulating industry innovation, technology and people.
We’re delighted that Food Matters Live continues to be an ever-growing community of people from all over the world. Professionals who are embarked on the same journey towards a future defined by sustainable food production, and optimum nutrition and health for everyone.
We see great value in bringing people together too, so becoming part of the Food Matters Live community means you can not only learn from others, but actively make connections with them.
Website: foodmatterslive.com
Green Seed
Green Seed is a platform supporting pregnancies and families wishing to pursue a vegan or plant-based diet. With evidence-led guidance, we aim to empower expecting-parents and parents, with the knowledge that will allow them to have: healthy pregnancies, healthy children, and a healthy life for themselves in the long term.
Green Seed has been created due to the lack of support and understanding in this area. Many people are facing negativity from family, friends and healthcare professionals in relation to their plant-based diet, especially when it comes to growing and raising children.
With our actions, we intend to impact the current health and environmental crises that we face, and contribute to creating a better world for today, and for tomorrow.
Website: www.mygreenseed.co.uk
The Hayek Hospital
Hayek Hospital is a private institution established by Dr. Selim Hayek, whose aim was to serve Beirut’s periphery and provide patients with Quality healthcare. It is located in the region of Sin-El-Fil, which is known for its calm and peaceful atmosphere.
Through the years, the hospital dedicated itself to applying international norms for its establishment. A long ongoing quality improvement plan was implemented which allowed its activities to meet the requirements of ISO 9001: 2008 and the Ministry of Public Health Accreditation.
Since the beginning of March 2021, Hayek Hospital has gone 100% vegan in a world’s first. The hospital will no longer serve its patients meat and dairy, and will instead replace its menu with a number of healthy plant-based dishes in alignment with existing scientific data evidencing the wide range of health benefits associated with a plant-forward diet.
The Health Habit
The Health Habit is a plant-based husband & wife team of nutrition coach, and chef, food writer & presenter. Their simple mission is to ease the path into a more plant-based way of living. Between them they create and share amazing recipes, teach people how to cook, and coach anyone looking to move to a plant-based diet. They advise food businesses on creating & implementing plant-based recipes, as well as offering a full nutritional analysis service.
Website: thehealthhabit.co
Email: hello@thehealthhabit.co
Henry & Henry
Henry & Henry is a partnership providing plant-based nutrition education, information and resources to support and inspire people to successfully transition to a whole food plant-based way of eating. As a result of resolving their own diverse health challenges through diet changes, leading them ultimately to a whole food plant based diet, Annette and Graham Henry know first hand the concerns that arise when making such changes: concerns about dietary deficiencies, coping with probing and sometimes unsupportive questions from others, as well as practical questions about how to make a new diet work.They have both trained as whole food plant based nutrition educators under the tutelage of two of America’s leading exponents in the field, Drs Rick and Karin Dina. Subscribers to their online hub can access a number of resources and also sign up for direct consultations with Annette and Graham on any matter relating to becoming more plant-based, becoming fully plant-based or improving the quality of an already established plant based or vegan diet as a means of making it healthier and thus more sustainable. Their overarching aim is to generate a conversation about plant-based nutrition in a safe and supportive environment as a way of contributing to the creation of a plant-based world.
Website: henryandhenryeu.com
Email: henryandhenryeurope@gmail.com
High Carb Health
High Carb Health aims to give people realistic advice on how to get healthy and reverse illness via a scientifically proven nutrition based approach to healing the body. Our goal is to provide long term, lasting solutions. Our speciality is digestive health, especially assisting with the healing of Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn’s Disease. We have helped hundreds of people heal from Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn’s Disease.
Shamiz Kachwalla (Co-founder of High Carb Health) suffered from severe Ulcerative Colitis in 2012 and was told he would be on medications for life. We then found out how a plant-based diet can help with the healing of Ulcerative Colitis and implemented it as soon as possible. Shamiz has not taken a single pill since he was released from the hospital and all his symptoms are now history.
We offer personalised education and coaching programs online, and face to face in Auckland, New Zealand and Melbourne, Australia.
Website: highcarbhealth.com
Life After Hummus
Lifeafterhummus Community Benefit Society (FCA registration number 7808)
150 Ossulston Street, NW1 1EE
Sessions on Mondays, Fridays and Saturdays.
Provider of evidence-based low-fat and vegan nutrition and cooking classes and activities.
We are a BME-Led, London-Based social enterprise providing a mixture of free, low-cost, private and corporate classes.
Contact us on info@lifeafterhummus.com and 079 0676 0576 to discuss your needs.
The objects of the Lifeafterhummus Community Benefit Society shall be to carry on any business for the benefit of the community by pioneering nutrition and lifestyle intervention solutions for a changing health and care landscape to improve the physical and mental health of the public and reduce health inequalities, tackle food poverty and reduce social isolation whilst operating within an intersectional framework.
Website: www.lifeafterhummus.com
Email: info@lifeafterhummus.com
Social media: @lifeafterhummus
Lifestyle Medicine Global Alliance
Creating a substantial, global network of country-based Lifestyle Medicine societies. — Medical Professionals prescribing lifestyle, improving human health and wellbeing, and addressing the epidemic of non-communicable disease.
The Lifestyle Medicine Global Alliance represents a convergence of health care professionals who connect and inspire one another to be an authoritative voice for Lifestyle Medicine globally; to manifest the vision of a world without non-communicable disease.
By providing connection, collaboration, tools, and best practice frameworks, LMGA plays a key role in assisting countries to develop vibrant, sustainable Lifestyle Medicine organizations. These organizations then advance the evidence-based practice of Lifestyle Medicine to prevent, treat, and reverse chronic disease internationally.
Made In Hackney
Made In Hackney is London’s original plant-based community cookery school. Since 2012 they’ve collaborated with over 100,000 people by inspiring them to cook and eat more plants. Their cookery school offers in person and online food education classes in healthy, culturally diverse, planet-friendly food. They are humbled and delighted to work across the capital with groups most in need such as young carers, people with long term health challenges, BAME groups and low income families. They are proud to have been the first 100% plant-based organisation to work with Public Health, within the NHS and also in schools and nurseries settings – helping to shift hearts, minds and stomachs to accept, appreciate and normalise the benefits of a plant-based diet. They were featured on Jamie Oliver’s Meat Free Meals TV show.
Website: www.madeinhackney.org
Planetary Health Alliance
The mission of the Planetary Health Alliance (PHA) is to promote, mobilize, and lead an inclusive, transdisciplinary field of planetary health and its diverse science, stories, solutions, and communities to achieve the Great Transition, a comprehensive shift in how human beings interact with each other and Nature. Launched in 2016, the PHA is now a highly effective coalition of 250+ member institutions from 50+ countries – supported by a small staff team based at Harvard University; a Steering Committee of international experts; ten PHA Regional Hubs; global fellows, volunteers, and ambassadors; and thousands of individual supporters – all committed to understanding and addressing the human health impacts of global environmental change, or planetary health.
Website: planetaryhealthalliance.org
PlantEurope Network
The PlantEurope Network by NAHhaft e.V. brings actors from all over Europe together, offers most recent practical and scientific information, best-practices and political recommendations as well as organizes networking events for discussion and fruitful exchange.
The immediate goal of the PlantEurope project is the connection of pioneers and flagship projects, start-ups, organizations, associations, scientists and stakeholders within the gastronomy and communal catering sector. By creating and expanding this European network, alongside other measures taken, the ultimate goal of changing the food system to one rooted in a plant-based diet is to be accelerated.
The network offers amongst others the PlantEurope website for knowledge transfer, the online community for exchange as well as panel discussions and numerous smaller events for networking!
You can become a member free of charge here.
Plant-based Canada
Plant-based Canada is a non-profit organization co-founded in 2019 by Dr. Zahra Kassam and Michelle Fedele RD, dedicated to the well-being of humans, the environment and all its life forms.
Our guiding principles include:
- To educate the public and health professionals on plant-based whole food nutrition, promote research, support and collaborate with sister organizations
- To promote plant-based whole food nutrition for humans that is sustainable and the healthiest possible
- To promote the well-being of the planet and all its life forms
Website: www.plantbasedcanada.org
Plant Based Data
This website holds a library of resources supporting a plant-based lifestyle, created by Dr. Tushar Mehta, M.D. and Nicholas Carter, M.A.
Website: plantbaseddata.org
Plant-based Food Alliance UK
The Plant-based Food Alliance UK is a not-for-profit limited company formed of NGOs and businesses who are committed to driving forward plant-based diets in the UK.
The Alliance seeks to represent food and drink producers, manufacturers, non-governmental organisations, retailers, nutritionists, academic bodies, and consumer organisations in influencing policymakers to develop legislation and Government positions that support the growth of plant-based foods.
Working with farmers and businesses through to retailers and consumers, the Alliance wants to deliver a healthier and more sustainable food system that sees a shift away from intensive farming.
Website: plantbasedfoodalliance.co.uk
Plant Powered Metro New York (PPMNY)
PPMNY empowers people to find better health and overcome chronic disease through whole food, plant-based nutrition. We offer evidence-based education, resources, and support to inspire change and advance health equity throughout the New York metropolitan area.
PPMNY serves residents from many diverse cultures, ages, and stages throughout New York City and its surrounding counties, many of whom are living with a diagnosed chronic disease or a health concern, caring for others who do, or seeking healthy living strategies that will optimize their health and well-being over the long term. Through our community partnerships, we work integrally with community and healthcare organizations that serve specific populations, including older adult communities, faith-based communities, and hospitals.
Website: www.plantpoweredmetrony.org
Proveg
Proveg is a leading international food awareness organisation working across four continents. Their mission is to reduce the global consumption of animals by 50% by the year 2040. You can find out more about their work at here.
True Health Initiative
We have joined True Health Initiative (THI), a global voice for lifestyle as medicine. In doing so, we publicly and proudly align our organisational values with the core principles of healthy living and with a commitment to the THI vision. THI exists to make the fundamental truths about healthy, sustainable living and eating common knowledge. Shifting the global understanding of practices that most likely help people live longer and envision a world with less chronic disease. As a member organisation, we are helping build a movement that supports individuals and communities in directing their resources toward this goal.
UK Health Alliance on Climate Change
The UK Health Alliance on Climate Change brings together doctors, nurses and other health professionals to advocate for responses to climate change that protect and promote public health. The Alliance was formed in March 2016 to coordinate action, provide leadership and help amplify the voices of doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals across the UK, and we are pleased to be a member organisation.
Website: UK Health Alliance
Vegan Chemist
Vegan Chemist was founded in 2019 by a pharmacist to help consumers better understand vegan and vegetarian alternatives to common medicines and help health organisations reduce costs by aiding compliance and reducing medication wastage. In addition to drugs, our healthcare platform will also provide vitamins, supplements, hair care, foot care, travel care, make-up, and much more, all ethically sourced and in line with your vegan principles.
Our Vision is to build a legacy that will improve the lives of those deprived of this choice in their medicinal and healthcare products and get the world to think in a different way when it comes to choice and medication. So we plan to take small steps to achieve this goal without compromising our values or beliefs.
Website: veganchemist.com
VeganFitness
VeganFitness seeks to revolutionize the fitness industry and empowers people to take control of their health and fitness through the use of evidence-based nutrition. They’ve coached and inspired tens of thousands of people from over 90 countries into adopting sustainable plant-based lifestyles centred around an abundance of whole foods. They also offer immersive health retreats in exotic locations around the world.
Website: VeganFitness.com
Vegan Inclusive Education
Vegan Inclusive Education is a free service designed to help schools become more supportive and accommodating of their vegan pupils. We support schools to adopt more plant-based menu options, and beyond that to safeguard pupil’s mental health by ensuring their beliefs are understood and respected in all other areas of school life beyond the dinner hall. We support parents by giving them resources they can share with their schools, to learn about vegan perspectives and deliver quick wins to avoid inadvertently leaving children feeling excluded and unsupported. You can register for a pack to be sent to your school on the website.
Website: vieducation.co.uk
VeganMed
VeganMed was founded in 2018 by pharmacists to create a kinder world where medications, supplements and cosmetics are made without animal-derived ingredients. We are the world’s most credible, freely available source for patients and healthcare providers to find health products without animal-derived ingredients. For manufacturers, we offer a one-of-a-kind “Animal-Free” Certification program. Our certification mark is the most consistent with the policy of the American Medical Association. It is simple, inclusive and comprehensive enough to support a broad range of different lifestyles and beliefs.
Website: https://www.veganmed.org/
Vegan Organic Network
An educational charity established 1996.
The Vegan Organic Network is the only organisation in the UK solely working for food to be grown the veganic way.
What is veganic?
‘Veganic’ is a combination of two words ‘vegan’ and ‘organic’. It’s a guarantee that food is grown in an organic way with only plant-based fertilizers, encouraging functional biodiversity so pesticides are not necessary. No chemicals, no GMO and no animal by products in any part of the chain.
Veganic food is resilient to the largest problems facing humanity i.e. environmental destruction, pollution of the sea and air and soil erosion.
Veganic otherwise we are dependent on animal agriculture, chemicals, pesticides and herbicides.
In essence, veganic is a logical step beyond organic for those who seek safe food grown in a sustainable manner.
Website: veganorganic.net
Veganism in Education
VinE’s aim is to provide children and young people with the knowledge and skills to critically think about the way we define and use animals and inter-related health, social justice and environmental issues. This teaching will enable them to develop their own moral values and flourish as empathetic and ethically responsible citizens.
Website: teachvine.org