One World Day To Set New Diet Record: Follow Clinton And Oprah For Global Health & Sustainability

One World Day Champions the diet that has been recommended by President Bill Clinton, Oprah Winfrey, Natalie Portman and Mike Tyson amongst many others could save health and the fate of the planet

by Tony Bishop-Weston

(WireNews+Co) - London, England - 01 October 2011

In January 2011 Yvonne Bishop-Weston a leading London Nutritionist launched Plantarian, a new concept in healthy eating and One World Day a global awareness day. Yvonne wanted to apply some nutritional science to the claim that vegetarian and vegan diets are healthier for you.

“Unless we start eating more fruit and vegetables we are doomed to be more obese, more diabetic, more cancerous, have more heart disease and more emotional disorders” says the nutritionist.

“Although the UK government suggests people should eat at least 5 portions of fruit and vegetables a day research from Oxford University suggests  one needs at least 8 portions a day to be rewarded any meaningful  reduction in risk of ubiquitous chronic diseases,”

“Obviously there are some other dietary factors that affect health apart from just eating more vegetables, if you ate more French fries and doughnuts your risks of disease would be increased yet these could be classed as vegetarian and vegan foods”

“A number of Doctors have set out to prove what aspects of the vegetarian and vegan diets provide the health benefits. The essence of health is now presented as a Plantarian Diet. This simple, easy to follow diet that has helped president Clinton to battle his heart disease is founded on eating a rainbow of fresh vegetables and fruit but there are a few other basic rules too”

Yvonne Bishop-Weston reveals 5 key simple principles

1) Eat Plants - Eat fibre, vitamin, mineral, anti oxidant rich vegetables, grains, seeds, legumes, berries and mushrooms.

2) Eat ‘Whole Food’ not ‘Half Food ‘– Eat wholemeal products such as wholemeal bread, pasta and rice that contains natural fibre. Avoid heavily  processed foods made with added sugar , oil and fats

3) Eat Essential Fats – Oil is not a whole food, hydrogenated ‘trans fat’ is a ‘mutant’ food , saturated fat is a waste of your calorie quota. To process essential fats you need the vitamins and minerals in the whole plant so use olives rather than olive oil when cooking and hemps seeds, grated walnuts or avocado on salad rather than an oil dressing.

4) Eat a Rainbow every day – Although science has yet to categorically prove anti-oxidants will save your life, we know they have various positive effects and that those people that eat the most antioxidant rich foods tend to be far healthier than those that don’t.

5) Love life and stay cool – The more you heat plants the more they tend to lose their potency of vitamins and antioxidants, so eat as many washed raw vegetables as you enjoyably can.

Yvonne’s husband, Tony Bishop-Weston is a renowned author of a number of vegan and vegetarian cookbooks; he says “It’s not just about health! Eating more plants and eating less fish, meat and dairy is probably the single most productive thing you can do to save the planet from imminent environmental collapse of our planet”

“There are not enough resources left in the world for us to continue to eat second hand food.  Intensive farming of animals for food  (see UN report ‘Livestock’s long shadow’) has a dramatic and detrimental effect on the environment using up precious extra water, energy  as well as gobbling up tonnes of fish, grain, beans, it’s no longer economically viable without huge subsidies and our planet just can’t cope. Our oceans have been industrially over fished to the brink of collapse, the lungs of the planet in the sea and rainforests have lung cancer thanks to naively using our knives and forks as weapons of mass destruction” says Tony.

The idea behind One World Day is a global awareness day where everyone tries to take at least one friend and encourage them to take their first small step on a road towards a healthier more sustainable lifestyle.  Even though the Plantarian concept is quite simple some people still find it daunting because they’ve been raised on the idea that meat, fish and cheese are essential for health.  Actually the opposite is the reality; too much saturated animal fat found in meat, cheese and fish is implicated as a risk factor in nearly all the common chronic diseases that plague modern society. 

Tony says “we know if people are encouraged to try the food they are nearly always surprised to find it’s delicious, fulfilling and enjoyable– Plantarian food can be delicious and if they plan it right people nearly always feel so much better after just a few short weeks as the vibrancy of their new diet kicks in.

The Bishop-Westons  hope http://www.1worldday.org (http://www.1worldday.org/)  will be an annual global version of Meat Free Monday and Fish Free Friday and do for health and world sustainability what Peace One Day has done for a day of world peace. They want restaurants, retailers and manufacturers to get involved and are looking for sponsors for next year for their “world’s healthiest sandwich competition” with help from The daughter in law of The Earl of Sandwich and a “world’s healthiest pizza” competition with someone like Jamie Oliver or Oprah Winfrey’s favourite chef Tal Ronnen.

Their new cookbook – ‘Plantarian a taste for life’ will be published in 2012 along with another cookbook “Non-Fish-a-Liscious” in conjunction with The Sea First Foundation the organisation behind Sea The Truth the movie.

Tony says “apart from Clinton and Oprah singing the praises of Plantarian style diets on TV there are a plethora of new films out that present the health facts and environmental issues behind the reasoning to eat more plants rather than meat and dairy. Forks over knives, PlanEat,  Food Matters and a list of others are following in the footsteps of “Supersize me” to paint a picture of the food industry that makes the tobacco industry look like school bullies by comparison.

Like many others they are just praying for a call from Sir Paul McCartney or the Clinton Global Initiative to make their dreams, hopes and ideas a reality.

One World Day was set up to inspire people to encourage their friends to take the first steps on the path towards a healthier more sustainable lifestyle.