Europe’s biggest scientific conference on plant-based nutrition coming to the UK

Europe’s biggest scientific conference on plant-based nutrition is coming to the UK for the very first time.

VegMed will be held at King’s College London on 12 and 13 October 2019. It will be the sixth edition of VegMed, and the first outside of Germany.

The UK edition is titled The Power of Plants: bringing plant-based nutrition into mainstream medicine and will be a two-day conference. The first day is for medical professionals only: physicians, scientists, medical students, nutritionists and those in related fields. The second day is open to the general public.

The full programme of speakers will be announced in early 2019 although two high-profile US physicians have already been confirmed to give keynote talks: Dr Michael Greger and Dr Michael Klapper.

It is expected that the conference will sell out each day. Tickets are available now at proveguk.eventbrite.co.uk

Manager of VegMed for ProVeg UK, Amy Odene, said: “It is widely accepted that some of the UK’s biggest killers are preventable with diet and lifestyle, yet only a handful of hours are dedicated to nutritional education in medical professional training here in the UK.

“So we’re hosting VegMed to provide a much-needed platform for the latest research and information in plant-based nutrition, which can play a major and still largely underestimated role in preventing and reversing disease, improving overall health and reducing the strain on our increasingly under-pressure NHS.”

VegMed is being brought to the UK by ProVeg UK in partnership with Plant-Based Health Professionals UK, whose co-founder Shireen Kassam added: “I am delighted to be involved in bringing VegMed to the UK. The health benefits of a predominantly plant-based diet are still not fully appreciated by the medical community in the UK.

“The conference will give us the opportunity to share UK expertise alongside some of the international pioneers in the field of plant-based nutrition. I hope the conference will inspire a new generation of healthcare professionals to use plant-based nutrition for disease prevention and reversal in their own clinical practice.”

VegMed was founded back in 2012 by ProVeg International and Charité University Clinic for Naturopathy at Immanuel Hospital Berlin.

The first day of VegMed London, 12 October, will be CPD accredited. Tickets are available for both days at proveguk.eventbrite.co.uk.