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Presenters: Hever, Knight, Norris, J. Sheridan

Julieanna Hever, M.S., R.D., C.P.T.
The Plant-Based Dietician

• Weight loss
• Current weight statistics
• Why weight matters
• Energy density vs. calorie density
• Whole foods for weight loss
• Pitfalls of processed foods
• Tips to Take Off Weight
• Mind your fats and sugars
• Reintroducing your internal cues
• Working out for weight management
• Demystifying metabolism
• Slowing down for success

Andrew Knight
Director, Animal Consultants International

Vegan companion animal diets

‘Little Tyke’ the vegetarian lioness

Meat-based diets: health hazards

1. US 2007 pet food recall due to melamine contamination. Signs of kidney failure: inappetence, lethargy, markedly increased thirst, vomiting
2. Meat meal and byproducts: slaughterhouse waste, 4-D meat, supermarket rejects and rendered dogs and cats
3. ‘Digest’: partially dissolved chicken entrails
4. Restaurant grease
5. Fish contaminants
6. Infectious diseases
7. Endotoxins: bacterial toxins
8. Mycotoxins: fungal toxins
9. Hormones and antibiotics
10. Preservatives
11. Processing
12. ‘Premium’ brands
13. Diseases associated with meat-based diets: kidney, liver, heart, neurologic, visual, neuromuscular and skin diseases, bleeding disorders, birth defects, immunocompromisation and infectious diseases.

Vegan companion animal diets

1. Requirements: palatability, bioavailability, nutritional soundness
2. Natural behavior: exploding the myths
3. Health benefits: ectoparasites and coat condition, allergy control, weight control and arthritis, improved vitality, urogenital disease and stool odor
4. Key evidence:
1. vegan cats: Wakefield et al. J Amer Vet Med Assoc. 2006; 229: 70–3.
2. sprint-racing sled dogs: Brown et al. Brit J Nutr. 2009; 102: 1318-23.

Transitioning to a vegan diet

Safeguarding health

1. Ensure the diet is nutritionally complete and balanced, if necessary, via supplementation
2. Prevent urinary alkalinization and urolithiasis (urinary stones)

Jack Norris
President and co-founder, Vegan Outreach

Vegan Health Parameters
1. Cholesterol and Triglycerides
2. Body Mass
3. Blood Pressure
4. Diabetes

Nutrition Recommendations for Vegans
1. Vitamin B12
2. Vitamin D
3. Calcium
4. Iodine
5. DHA

Jameth Sheridan
HealthForce Nutritonals

Raw Foods:  Friend or Foe to the Vegan and Animal Rights Movement

Did you know that the Raw Foods Movement (of which I have been a part of for approximately 25 years) is famous and infamous for 2 things:

1. Bringing more people to Veganism in recent years than anything else.
2. Causing more current Vegans to go Anti-Vegan than anything in history.