Chewing the Fat
WANT to find out how a plant-based diet provides all the essential fats you need – and why animal fats are particularly detrimental to health? Health charity, the Vegetarian & Vegan Foundation (VVF) has just published a new leaflet which tackles this topic in easy-to-digest detail. Chewing the Fat offers lots of informative tips on improving your health in terms of the fats to avoid and how to make the most of oils gained from a plant-based diet. Topics include: how to reduce your intake of saturated fat, dietary cholesterol and trans-unsaturated fatty acids; improving the balance of omega-6 to omega-3 fats in your diet; and how pollutants in fish may cancel out the beneficial effects of the “good’ omega-3 fats they contain. Author, VVF senior nutritionist, Amanda Woodvine, says: “It is easy it is to obtain all the essential omega-3 fats you need without taking expensive supplements or eating meat, fish or dairy. Our handy chart details exactly how to get these from plant-based sources and how much of these foods you should aim to eat each day. Chewing the Fat is essential reading for anyone with raised cholesterol levels, looking to lose weight, or with concerns about getting enough omega-3 fats.” Chewing the Fat is available to download free from www.vegetarian.org.uk or can be ordered for 40p by calling 0117 970 5190. ENDS For more information about this media release, contact Amanda Woodvine, on 0117 970 5190, or press officer Helen Rossiter on 0117 944 1000, or email press@viva.org.uk.
About the author
Dr. Justine Butler
Justine joined Viva! in 2005 after graduating from Bristol University with a PhD in molecular biology. After working as a campaigner, then researcher and writer, she is now Viva!’s head of research and her work focuses on animals, the environment and health. Justine’s scientific training helps her research and write both in-depth scientific reports, such as White Lies and the Meat Report, as well as easy-to-read factsheets and myth-busting articles for consumer magazines and updates on the latest research. Justine also recently wrote the Vegan for the Planet guide for Viva!’s Vegan Now campaign.
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