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Viva! Health are the experts in vegan nutrition – the number one place to go for information on diet and health! We provide the latest research on why a vegan diet can help prevent and treat disease. Whether you want basic or complex information – we have the answers.

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Vegan Health FAQs

Need some nutritional knowledge or answers to quandaries, queries or questions? Drop a line or email to Viva!Health’s vegan health experts

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Soya

Used to fuel the increasing global demand for meat and animal-based foods, soya has now become one of the world’s biggest crops.

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Health articles

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Healthy vegan diet

Health conditions

Why animal products harm

Why Animal Products Harm – Meat

You don’t need to eat meat. In fact, cutting meat out of your diet can do you a lot of good because humans are not true carnivores and meat-eating has a wide range of detrimental health effects.

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Why Animal Products Harm – Dairy

Cow’s milk and dairy products are not natural foods for us – we are best suited to drinking breastmilk as babies only. Consuming dairy products made from the milk of a different species is not just unnatural, it’s also unnecessary and may harm your heath.

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Global health threats

Sports nutrition

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Campaigns

Zoonotic diseases – 3 in 4

Three in four of the world’s new or emerging infectious diseases come from animals. Responsible for three million deaths a year, these diseases are largely transmitted through trading wildlife (legally and illegally) and factory farming.

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Slash the Risk

Our Slash the Risk campaign involves placing huge billboards in the West Midlands and Bristol in November and December which will reach 12 million people.

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Scary Dairy

Scary Dairy reveals the hidden cruelty of the dairy industry. Discover the truth and find out how you can help.

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Latest news & blogs

Coconut oil…

04/08/2015  |  

Apparently it can help you lose weight, stave off all manner of illnesses and even prevent Alzheimer’s disease. Previously shunned for its high saturated fat content, coconut oil has experienced…

Joint venture

08/07/2015  |  

Never mind the text books, what does rheumatoid arthritis really feel like? I found out through the Healing Well arthritis forum:  “I feel like I’ve been run over by a…

Mood Food

23/06/2015  |  

Information comes belting at us from across the world and it’s impossible to keep up, to know everything you feel you should. Our diet has changed, too – becoming more…

Nanny State

03/06/2015  |  

“It’s a goat’s life! Waited on hand and foot, with ‘room service’ delivering the perfect menu of food. In these pampered conditions… our goats enjoy all of life’s home comforts…”…

Turkey Twizzlers

03/06/2015  |  

The Royal College of Physicians’ report on diet and heart disease in 1976 encouraged us to eat white meat in place of red on the grounds that it contains less…

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