Changing the healthcare system; transforming the world
The Zoom call crackled into life, and I was greeted with the open smiling face of Dr Shireen Kassam, founder of Plant Based Health Professionals UK. It is the statement that wraps itself across their website homepage that is surely set to resonate throughout the medical world.
‘Take back control of your health with our plant-based health online service’.
This groundbreaking Community Interest Company is dedicated to providing education and advocacy on wholefood plant-based nutrition for prevention and treatment of chronic disease, promoting health and wellbeing using wholefood plant-based nutrition in addition to practicing conventional medicine.
Dr Shireen Kassam didn’t experience a ‘eureka’ moment or a harrowing encounter that took her on the plant-based road; it was a journey that naturally evolved before her.
“I became vegan in 2013, having been vegetarian since 2001. I gradually began to realise that being vegetarian was not enough and that the egg and dairy industry were contributing to the confinement, abuse and slaughter of animals and in some
