Plant-based Diets for Pregnancy & Young Kids - Live Webinar (05/11/2020)
Around the world, more and more people are following the scientific literature and choosing a plant-based lifestyle for optimal diets. But are plant-based diets healthy during pregnancy and for raising young children? Are there any specific precautions that need to be followed? And how do you even get young kids to eat their veggies?
To answer these questions, ProVeg South Africa has brought together three leading experts in this field; Dr Brenda Davis - one of the most internationally respected plant-based dietitians, author and public speaker; Dr Reshma Shah, a board-certified pediatrician, affiliate clinical instructor at Stanford University School of Medicine and acclaimed author; and Jessica Kotlowitz - also known as the Green Dietitian - South Africa’s leading plant-based dietitian.
These experienced experts discuss healthy diets for pregnancy and raising young kids, highlighting the benefits of plant-based diets, adding some practical tips, and finally answering audience questions.
Our experts:
Dr Brenda Davis is a registered dietitian, a pioneer in plant-based nutrition and an internationally acclaimed speaker. As a prolific nutrition and health writer, she has authored/co-authored 12 books with nearly a million copies in print in 15 languages. Her most recent works include Nourish: The Definitive Plant-based Nutrition Guide for Families (to be released Nov. 17, 2020), Kick Diabetes Essentials (2019), and The Kick Diabetes Cookbook (2018). Brenda is the lead clinical nutrition specialist for the diabetes intervention research project in the Marshall Islands. She lives with her husband Paul in Calgary Alberta, Canada.
Dr Reshma Shah, MD MPH, is a board-certified pediatrician and affiliate clinical instructor at Stanford University School of Medicine. She has additional training and certification in plant-based nutrition and cooking and is the co-author of 'Nourish: The Definitive Plant-Based Nutrition Guide for Families', due out in November. She lives in the Bay Area in America with her husband and two children.
Jessica Kotlowitz is a Registered Dietitian who is passionate about the use of plant-based diets for the treatment and prevention of obesity and chronic diseases of lifestyle such as Diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, and cancer. Jessica qualified with a Bsc. in Dietetics from Stellenbosch University in 2012 after which she completed her Community Service year at Baragwaneth hospital in Johannesburg where she focused on all aspects of clinical nutrition. She began her Masters degree in 2014 and began to research the effects of plant-based diets in an attempt to find solutions to some of her own health problems. She also focuses on helping athletes, pregnant women, lactating women and children to achieve optimal health, well-being, and performance while following vegan or vegetarian diets.
The webinar will be facilitated by Dr Nanine Wyma, the Programmes Coordinator at ProVeg South Africa.
