Neal Barnard, MD, FACC

This session will highlight the ethical and scientific concerns surrounding the use of animals in human nutrition research, emphasizing the harm animals endure and the limitations of these studies in producing reliable human health outcomes.

Learn how certain foods and dietary strategies affect weight and promote weight loss. Understand how dietary fiber affects calories and learn tips for using familiar ingredients to be successful with the Power Foods Diet.

Learn best practices for nutrition counseling and understand the role of dietary fat in insulin resistance.

In this presentation, we will review the methodology of the plant-based dietary index (PDI), healthful plant-based dietary index (hPDI), and unhealthful plant-based dietary index (uPDI), which were developed based on observational studies. We will then explore the usefulness of these indices in the context of randomized clinical trials with plant-based diets.

Learn about the impact of processed and ultra-processed foods of both animal and plant-based origin in the context of plant-based nutrition.

This presentation will examine the culture around eating fish and shellfish with special attention to environmental factors as motivation for change.