Groundbreaking campaign on breast cancer and diet launches with London talk
A GROUNDBREAKING campaign to raise awareness of diet and breast cancer is being launched on Wednesday (27 February) with a talk featuring top scientist, Professor Jane Plant CBE.
One in Nine – from Viva!Health, aims to raise awareness of how breast cancer cases are rising, now affecting one in nine women, and the major role of diet in this disease.
Professor Plant will be joined by two other speakers, Viva!Health founder and director, Juliet Gellatley and Dr Justine Butler, author of the One in Nine report.
The talk is being held at Lecture Theatre 1, New Hunt’s House, Guy’s Campus, off Great Maze Pond and Newcomen Street, London SE1, 6.45pm for 7.15pm start.
Tickets cost £5 and are available by calling Viva!Health on 0117 970 5190.
The nearest tube and mainline station is London Bridge.
For further information or press passes for the talk, contact Dr Justine Butler or Juliet Gellatley on 0117 970 5190 (out of hours): 07939 051351.
Notes for Editors
Professor Jane Plant joins the Viva!Health to raise awareness of the links between diet and breast cancer.
The public talk – One in Nine – is on Wednesday 27 February 2008 at Lecture Theatre 1, New Hunt’s House, Guy’s Campus, off Great Maze Pond and Newcomen Street, London SE1. Standing alongside the VVF will be eminent academic and accomplished speaker, Professor Jane Plant. Find out why breast cancer cases are rising, now affecting one in nine women and hear about major the role of diet.
Professor Jane Plant CBE: top scientist, author of best sellers Your Life in Your Hands – Understanding, Preventing and Overcoming Breast Cancer and Prostate Cancer and world authority on how animal products (and other food and lifestyle factors) can cause breast cancer. Jane will describe her own moving story of how she overcame breast cancer by changing her diet. Hear how she used her scientific training to research diet and breast cancer and devise a diet plan that has helped many other women.
Juliet Gellatley: founder and director of the largest vegetarian and vegan organisation in Europe, Viva! and of the health charity Viva!Health. Juliet will explain what it is about modern dairy farming methods that makes cow’s milk so harmful.
Dr Justine Butler: Viva!Health senior health campaigner and author of Viva!Health’s new ground breaking One in Nine report and A Fighting Chance guide. Justine will discuss the latest research on how red meat and dairy are linked to breast cancer and explain how you can protect yourself by changing your diet.
Viva!Health is increasingly being seen as the UK’s premier authority on health and dietary matters with a growing number of health professionals and journalists contacting us for information.
To read the report and guide go to: http://vivahealth.viva.org.uk/breast-cancer-campaign.
For photos of the speakers, images and/or copies of Viva!Health’s report and guide or more information contact Dr Justine Butler or Juliet Gellatley at Viva!Health on 0117 970 5190 (out of hours): 07939 051351 or email info@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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