TY - JOUR T1 - It’s time for healthcare professionals to demand a plant-based food system JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 554 LP - 554 DO - 10.3399/bjgp21X717857 VL - 71 IS - 713 AU - Shireen Kassam AU - Laura Freeman Y1 - 2021/12/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/71/713/554.abstract N2 - Diet-related diseases are at an all-time high and the latest UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report on climate change has been called a ‘code red for humanity’. These two issues are intimately related. Our food system is at the centre of three global crises: health, climate, and ecology. We also have a crisis of ethics whereby more than a billion people remain hungry despite the production of enough food to feed two planets. If everyone ate a diet typical of the wealthiest nations, we would need seven planets to feed the world.We have a simple solution in plain sight. A healthy plant-based diet (PBD) would not only improve global health, preventing an estimated 1 in 5 deaths, but would also keep the food system within the planetary boundaries necessary to avert climate disaster, while also promoting biodiversity and feeding more people. The Planetary Health Plate created by the Eat-Lancet Commission is predominantly plant based, with more than 85% of energy derived from healthy plant foods, and acknowledges that a 100% PBD is not only nutritionally … ER -