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Why Plant Proof?

Welcome to Plant Proof™ – a resource created by Nutritionist, and podcast host, Simon Hill, to assist those looking to add more plants to their plate and upgrade their health. Think of him as your personal guide to help you successfully adopt and maintain a plant-based diet.

Prior to transitioning from animal foods to a plant-based diet, Simon shared many common fears among men, and many women, in this position: am I going to lose muscle? Will I gain fat and feel bloated? What about my iron? Will I get enough protein?

Through reading countless scientific studies and books, interviewing health professionals across the globe and studying a Masters in Nutrition Simon has been able to answer all of those questions and more.

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This weeks podcast with @dougevans, Author of The

This weeks podcast with @dougevans, Author of The Sprout Book, is about affordably taking your nutrition to the next level by tapping into the magical process that is Sprouting. Why sprout? How to sprout? What equipment you need? Where to buy seeds? What type of seeds? It’s all covered.⠀
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This my friends is an absolute game changer. Simon 🙏🏼🌱

While this not a common question, from time to tim

While this not a common question, from time to time I do get asked about Vitamin A so I thought I would do a post to help summarise the most important things to consider for those following a plant-exclusive diet, or perhaps planing to in the future. In short, pre formed Vitamin A, which can be toxic in high concentrations, is only found in animal products. Plants on the other hand contain carotenoids which are precursors to Vitamin A. As long as you consume enough carotenoid rich plant foods (major sources shown on slide 5), such as sweet potato, your body will convert the amount it requires to Vitamin A. The only caveat to this is a very small percentage of people, who have a specific gene mutation (BC01), where a higher intake may be required - but you do not need to stress about this unless a blood test shows you have low Vitamin A levels despite consuming a lot of carotenoid rich plant foods. Such people can either consume a higher volume of carotenoid rich plant foods, to make up for their lower conversion, or take a vegan Vitamin A (retinol supplement). Also, as shown in this slider, Vitamin A is a fat soluble vitamin - another reason to make sure foods such as avocados, nuts and seeds are in your diet. Among other things, Vitamin A is super important for eye health and immune function so it’s certainly not something we want to be low in. Hope this info helps. Any questions let me know below 👇🏼. If you have any friends or family members that may benefit from reading this, please do share it with them. Thanks friends. Simon 🌱🙏🏼

I really don’t mind what diet anyone adopts. But

I really don’t mind what diet anyone adopts. But we need to move past this idea of being scared about reducing or removing animal products in fear of deficiencies which quite frankly are easy to plan for. Why? Because we are missing the point. The standard omnivorous diet isn’t working for us. Diet is the number one risk factor for chronic disease per the 2017 Global Burden Of Disease report. So no matter what changes you make to your plate, some level of planning is required if you want to move away from the ‘norm’, or typical western diet, and upgrade your health. If you don’t want to make changes that’s completely fine too but remember if you do the same thing as everyone else, chances are you’ll experience the same results. It’s easy to convince ourselves we are different to those being affected by chronic disease, to avoid making changes, but we are not. While we may feel healthy eating as we please in our early years, these decisions hugely impact our likelihood of developing chronic disease that typically becomes symptomatic as we get over the age of 40-50. This is when people start to experience health issues such as heart attacks, strokes and cognitive decline. My podcast, social content and book that’s being published by @penguinbooksaus Feb 2021, sets out to help you do this planning so that you can make changes to your plate with confidence that you are upgrading your health. The enormous upside is worth the small amount of planning. Simon 🙏🏼🌱

We’ve got to move past this idea of demonising c

We’ve got to move past this idea of demonising carbohydrates and being unable to understand that the word ‘carbohydrates’ does nothing to describe the quality of one’s diet. The simple fact is that the healthiest populations in the world are not scared of carbohydrates, they just tend to eat more of the healthy ones (those found in whole or minimally processed plants) and less of the less healthy ones (those found in junk food). But hang on Simon I personally experienced good results with a low carbohydrate diet? I’m glad you raised that point. I’m not saying that removing all carbohydrates cannot lead to health improvements. It’s great that ultra-processed foods are off the menu. What I’m saying is that it doesn’t have to be all carbohydrates and foods like legumes, whole grains, fruit and vegetables, that all contain carbohydrates, are consistently associated with good health outcomes and consumed regularly by the healthiest living populations. Are these long living populations really doing it wrong? 🤷🏼‍♂️

As microbiologist Julian Davies famously said “I

As microbiologist Julian Davies famously said “In a map for human life, count the microbes too“.

More support for a Whole Food Plant Based Diet (WF

More support for a Whole Food Plant Based Diet (WFPBD) for truly reversing type 2 diabetes and achieving remission in this Position Statement from the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. Unlike low carbohydrate diets, a WFPBD actually gets to the root cause of type 2 diabetes - ectopic or intramyocellular lipid (fat in the wrong place) that causes insulin resistance. If you’ve listened to my podcasts you will have heard many guests explain this - it’s not ‘sugar’ or ‘carbohydrates’ that cause type 2 diabetes. The reason people get confused by this is when you develop insulin resistance you become very poor at handling carbohydrates. But they weren’t what caused the issue in the first place. Blaming carbs is akin to blaming fire fighters for starting fires because they’re first to the scene. ⠀⠀
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Why is this important? Because Type 2 diabetes, a condition that increases ones risk of cardiovascular disease, kidney failure, blindness, amputations and other complications will soon be the most prevalent disease in the world. In the year 2000, 151 million people were living with type 2 Diabetes. As of last year that number had increased to 463 million, with millions more living with pre-diabetes. By 2045 the prevalence of Type 2 diabetes is predicted to increase to 700 million people globally. A disease that is largely driven by lifestyle - unhealthy diet, obesity and physical inactivity. The good news? We don’t need to wait for a miracle cure - because we already have it. Adopting a healthy lifestyle can help us prevent and reverse this disease. Swipe for details. For those of us lucky to have this information and the means to make change we should. Why wait for the food system to catch up? Know someone with Type 2 diabetes or someone who wants to avoid developing this disease? Share this info 🙏🏼⠀ ⠀⠀
P.S did you know it’s politically correct to say “living with diabetes” rather than “diabetics”. We shouldn’t define someone by a disease they are affected by. Something I have learned along the way and thought I would share with you to help your own communication.

By and large, the key to a healthy diverse microbi

By and large, the key to a healthy diverse microbiome (lots of good bugs and few bad bugs) is consuming a wide variety of plants. These plants contain prebiotic fibre, resistant starch and polyphenols, all of which pass undigested through your small intestine to your large intestines where they act as fuel for the bacteria that reside in your gut. Yes, when we eat we are really eating for two - us and our friendly gut bugs. Research shows people who eat 30+ unique plants per week have a much more diverse microbiome compared to those eating less than 10. And so #plantproof40 was born, a challenge to the community to consume 30-40 unique plants a week. ⠀
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What about probiotics you ask? Latest guidelines suggest other than a few very specific circumstances there is no need to take a daily probiotic. In the future as science progresses, and we can test individuals and prescribe specific probiotics on an individual basis this is likely to change. But for now, unless directed by your Doctor, you’re going to get much better bang for your buck consuming a wide variety of foods. I also have a prebiotic supplement - about 5g of prebiotic powder that I add to my smoothie most days - it’s a mix of chicory root, beta glucans, slippery elm and inulin powder. ⠀
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Oh and get outside in nature and play with lots of puppies. That’ll help expose you to more bacteria.

To celebrate another lap around the sun (34 today)

To celebrate another lap around the sun (34 today) I have uploaded a second episode to the podcast. Episode #106 with Dr Valter Longo, PhD on slowing ageing, fighting disease and managing your weight. Happy listening. ⠀
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and yes, that makes me a Gemini.⠀
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Simon 🌱🙏🏼

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Firstly, records of what our ancestors ate millions of years ago is murky at best. There’s honestly a ginormous degree of speculation on either side of the fence. Secondly, both plant and animal foods today are drastically different to what was available then due to our industrialised food system. You won’t be finding wooly mammoths in Woolworths or Whole Foods (unless cellular agriculture can bring them back). Thirdly, even if we knew exactly what they ate, eating out of necessity to survive to an age that allowed for procreation is different to eating optimally to thrive into your 70’s, 80’s, 90’s and for some of you even 100’s. Moral of the story? Reading about the ancestral diet is interesting but I certainly wouldn’t be using it to make personal health decisions or public health recommendations. ⠀ ⠀

Note: I do have to acknowledge, because this post is a tad cheeky, that one big area of common ground that I share with the paleo enthusiasts is that we should be doing our best to get rid of ultra-processed foods and factory farms. I also believe a paleo diet can be healthier than many diets out there but it should be more plant focussed than many suggest.

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