Dr Alan Desmond (@dralandesmond) 's Twitter Profile
Dr Alan Desmond

@dralandesmond

👨‍⚕️ Medical Doctor 🌱 Plant-Based diet 😷 Gastroenterologist 🇮🇪 Irish, Lives in Devon. 📖 Best-selling author: ‘The Plant-Based Diet Revolution’

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It’s true that no dietary change can make us disease-proof. But if a plant-based diet was a pill, your doctor would prescribe it all day long.

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Another Country Recommends Eating Mostly Plants in their Dietary Guidelines. Makes sense. Great job Norway. vegconomist.com/health/norway-….

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Leaving Washington DC. Thank you so much Physicians Committee for a wonderful conference, the opportunity to share knowledge with colleagues and friends. What an honour to be a part of your faculty. See you at ICNM 2025.

Leaving Washington DC. Thank you so much <a href="/PCRM/">Physicians Committee</a> for a wonderful conference, the opportunity to share knowledge with colleagues and friends. What an honour to be a part of your faculty. See you at ICNM 2025.
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Deputy Director of the NYC Mayor's Office of Food Policy Rachel Atcheson is working every day to help improve the quality of food served in NYC hospitals, schools, correctional facilities and more. A true gamechanger.

Deputy Director of the NYC Mayor's Office of Food Policy <a href="/r_atcheson/">Rachel Atcheson</a> is working every day to help improve the quality of food served in NYC hospitals, schools, correctional facilities and more. A true gamechanger.
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Had a great visit today. Incredibly impressed by the policies that Mayor Eric Adams NYC Mayor's Office of Food Policy is successfully implementing to improve the food served in public hospitals, schools, and correctional facilities. Leading the way!

Had a great visit today. Incredibly impressed by the policies that <a href="/NYCMayor/">Mayor Eric Adams</a> <a href="/nycfood/">NYC Mayor's Office of Food Policy</a> is successfully implementing to improve the food served in public hospitals, schools, and correctional facilities. Leading the way!
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Even if you are somehow not persuaded by the environmental case for cutting out meat, or all the other health impacts, these findings on the link between meat consumption and diabetes 2 should cause you to rethink. thelancet.com/journals/landi…

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The last thing the UK & Ireland need is 200 more fast food outlets serving the kinds of foods that are already placing them amongst the world leaders in rates of obesity, type 2 diabetes and heart disease. thetimes.com/business-money…

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What allowed our ancestors to thrive was not just MEAT - it was their ingenuity in securing access to FOOD - protein, carbohydrates, fats, minerals, vitamins and everything else needed to survive and thrive. In the 21st century we can access everything we need in our diets to be

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Soya milk is less healthy than cow’s milk because it’s processed and has added sugars. Right? Wrong. Just published: Soya milk is the better choice. bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…