For this week's nugget we are joined by NHS dietitian Didem Varol, who guides us through the delights and challenges of opting for plant-based food when eating out in Turkey, or when re-creating Middle Eastern flavours at home.

Follow Didem on Instagram @plantgevity or find her at www.plantgevity.com

This week we are delighted to welcome Professor Paul Behrens to the Nutshell.

Paul is a British Academy Global Professor based at the Oxford Martin School at the University of Oxford where his research focuses on the impacts of food system transformations.

His research and writing on food and energy systems, land use and climate change has appeared in scientific journals and media outlets and he is the editor and author of the textbook ‘Food and Sustainability’.

As an academic with a background in Physics, Professor Behrens is an environmental expert, and he combines this expertise with a communication style that is accessible to all in his book ‘The Best of Times, The Worst of Times: Futures from the Frontiers of Climate Science’ which we discuss in this episode.

To buy the book:

https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/PaulBehrens

To connect:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-behrens-6b586427/?originalSubdomain=uk

Links to further information discussed in this episode:

https://eatforum.org/eat-lancet-commission/the-planetary-health-diet-and-you/

https://en.fvm.dk/Media/638484294982868221/Danish-Action-Plan-for-Plant-based-Foods.pdf

https://www.carbonbrief.org/cropped/

https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/author/zacharyboren/

https://www.ft.com/susannah-savage

https://www.theguardian.com/profile/arthurneslen

https://www.food.systems/

https://foodfoundation.org.uk/publication/meat-facts

https://foodfoundation.org.uk/sites/default/files/2025-05/TFF_Meat%20Facts.pdf

https://foodfoundation.org.uk/initiatives/broken-plate

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2514664525000104

This week's 'nugget' episode showcases the work of Dr Camille Hirons, a GP with special interest in lifestyle medicine and reducing health inequalities.

Esselstyn CB Jr, Ellis SG, Medendorp SV, Crowe TD. A strategy to arrest and reverse coronary artery disease: a 5-year longitudinal study of a single physician's practice. J Fam Pract. 1995 Dec;41(6):560-8. PMID: 7500065.Buettner D, Skemp S. Blue Zones: Lessons From the World's Longest Lived. Am J Lifestyle Med. 2016 Jul 7;10(5):318-321. doi: 10.1177/1559827616637066. PMID: 30202288; PMCID: PMC6125071.The Core 20 NHS work on health inequalities:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/about/equality/equality-hub/national-healthcare-inequalities-improvement-programme/core20plus5/

Connect with Dr Cami:

https://www.lifestylemedicineaccelerator.co.uk/

On Instagram: the_lifestyle_med_gp

Get qualified:

https://plantbasedhealthprofessionals.com/iblm/iblm-certification

And to get tickets for the upcoming Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine in person and online conferences:

https://nlmc.org.uk/