In this edition: New plant-rich tools and celebrating champion Dr. Darrel Juriansz.

Eating plant-rich is a quadruple win as it improves health, reduces the costs and carbon footprint of healthcare, and reduces the carbon footprint of livestock production.

The attendees at the June 2022 plant-rich webinar gave us so many ideas for how we can encourage our patients to go plant-rich. Based on their suggestions, we built some new tools and updated our existing ones. Thank you. All of these resources can be found on our Plant-Rich Eating page and here is a quick summary of each of them:

  • Plant-Rich Online Interactive Group Education for Patients (new): Patients self-refer for two 90-minute online sessions. Sessions are ongoing. Led by HFHT Registered Dietitians. Open to anyone regardless of health care provider affiliation. Check out the invitational flyer.
  • Clinical Quick Reference Talking Points (new): A one page, double-sided, laminated summary of plant-rich health and environmental benefits and nutritional considerations for quick clinical use. Available via the poster order form.
  • Plant Rx (updated): EMR and Ocean embedded prescription for plants. We’ve added a new second page to include additional health benefits and nutritional considerations. Downloadable from our website for Oscar, Telus, PDF and within Ocean as eform PlantRx.
  • Poster (updated): We added more health benefits on this poster to help motivate patients. Order for free here!
  • Plant-Rich Background Guide (updated): Our most in-depth written resource with evidence-based information, guidance, tools and resources on prescribing plant-rich eating, including an extensive reference section.
  • Webinar recording (new): A 25-minute overview of our June 2022 webinar including patient health and planetary benefits, nutritional considerations, and tools to help you prescribe plant-rich. Featuring Dr. Meghan Davis, Michele MacDonald-Werstuck, R.D., and Dr. Brian McKenna. Slides available upon request.
  • “What’s for Dinner?” Waiting Room Video (updated): A 4-minute patient-facing video describing the benefits of plant-rich eating with tips to get started and including information for self-referral to the new plant-rich education group. Also available through Spectrio.

Please keep sending us your ideas. As we build this environmentally sustainable healthcare community, we can all learn from each other.

CHAMPIONS: Dr. Darrel Juriansz

Dr. Juriansz regularly suggests eating plant-rich to his patients for their health and he takes this advice to heart; he and his wife have personally been vegan for more than 25 years. Recently, they attended the 10th Annual International Conference on Nutrition Medicine in Washington, D.C. hosted by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. Here’s what he had to say about what he learned:

 

“The evidence for plant-rich eating is accumulating and it is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore the opportunity we have to make a huge impact without resorting to medications. Considering the rising costs of healthcare and pharmaceuticals, we need to acknowledge the importance of lifestyle factors on both preventing and treating prostate, breast, and colorectal cancer, and cardiovascular and gastrointestinal diseases. The research even indicates that plant-rich eating might be a cure for early type 2 diabetes, returning A1C levels to normal and allowing patients to discontinue medications. If I can get my patients to eat plant-rich, it would be a huge success.”

"We can all eat well, for our health and the planet’s."


- Dr. David Suzuki

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Special Edition: Plant-Rich | October 5, 2022

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