Dr Gemma Newman

Holistic Health

Plant based nutrition

Because true wellbeing lies within us all

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Dr Gemma Newman has worked in medicine for 16 years and is the Senior Partner at a family medical practice where she has worked for 10 years. She studied at the University of Wales College of Medicine and has worked in many specialities as a doctor including elderly care, endocrinology, paediatrics, obstetrics and gynaecology, psychiatry, general surgery, urology, vascular surgery, rehabilitation medicine and General Practice.

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@plantbasedhealthprofessionals ON WORLD NUTRITION

@plantbasedhealthprofessionals ON WORLD NUTRITION DAY 28th May 2020, more than 200 NHS doctors and staff have written an open letter to NHS leaders and the UK Governemnt urging them to make radical changes to the current unsustainable & unhealthy food system
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We, NHS doctors and staff, are writing to urge NHS leaders and the Government to pass bold post-COVID-19 legislation to allow for rapid, nationwide changes to the obesogenic and unsustainable food environment in which we currently live. This environment has added to the UK’s COVID-19 pandemic death toll
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As healthcare professionals we are concerned that business will restart as usual after the pandemic. It is not acceptable that the NHS is collapsing under the burden of chronic diseases, the majority of which could be prevented and treated by addressing diet and lifestyle factors. We are willing to take on the task of shifting the NHS focus from a reactive healthcare system to one that promotes health and prevents chronic illness. However, this action needs to be fully embraced by NHS leaders and the Government, who should now place the nation’s long term health at the centre of their policy
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The proposed changes include
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1. Further taxation and cessation of subsidies for junk food/fast foods/soft drinks producers as well as industrial animal farming
2. Ban on junk food advertising and any market manipulations which aim to increase consumption of unhealthy, processed foods or drinks
3. Subsidies to support the UK population in adopting a predominantly whole food plant based diet for both human and planetary health
4. Promotion of a plant-based food system through the adoption of Conservation Agriculture (No-Till) systems to lower carbon emissions and reduce the risk of entering a ‘post-antibiotic era’
5. Protection of the oceans by discouraging over-fishing and reducing the reliance on fish consumption, finding alternate sources of long-chain omega-3 fats
6. Showcase healthy, sustainable eating through public sector catering in schools, hospital & prisons
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On May 26, 2020, over 350 organisations (including

On May 26, 2020, over 350 organisations (including the BMA and Royal College of Surgeons) representing 40 million health professionals and over 4,500 HCPs from 90 different countries, wrote a letter to the G20 leaders.

An abridged version is below. To share your support for the letter, join me and repost #healthyrecovery:

Dear G20 leader,
Health professionals stand united in support of a science-based approach to managing the COVID-19 pandemic.

We have witnessed first hand how fragile communities can be when their health, food security and freedom to work are interrupted by a common threat. The layers of this ongoing tragedy are many, and magnified by inequality and underinvestment in public health systems. We have witnessed death, disease and mental distress at levels not seen for decades.

These effects could have been partially mitigated, or possibly even prevented by investments in pandemic preparedness, public health and environmental stewardship.

Before COVID-19, air pollution was already weakening our bodies. It increases the risk of developing pneumonia, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, lung cancer, heart disease and strokes, leading to seven million premature deaths each year. Air pollution also causes adverse pregnancy outcomes like low birth weight and asthma. A truly healthy recovery will not allow pollution to continue to cloud the air we breathe and the water we drink. It will not permit unabated climate change and deforestation, potentially unleashing new health threats upon vulnerable populations.
In a healthy economy the most vulnerable among us are looked after. Nature is thriving, our bodies are more resilient to infectious diseases, and nobody is pushed into poverty because of healthcare costs.
Please make major reforms to current fossil fuel subsidies, shifting towards clean renewable energy, powering an economic recovery that would spur global GDP gains of almost 100 trillion US dollars between now and 2050.
Involve your CMO directly in the economic stimulus packages to ensure our health is prioritised.
What the world needs now is a #HealthyRecovery. Your stimulus plans must be a prescription for just that.

Yours sincerely

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Instalive tomorrow Saturday 16th May 4.30pm BST. With @theguthealthmd 💩 🌱 💪
This gastroenterologist knows all about the gut. Not just how to treat illnesses of the gut, but how to prevent them. He has spent years researching the microbiome and nutrition as well as diving into how to give patients practical support for their gut health issues. Got questions about bloating, inflammatory bowel, cancer or anything related to feeling good from the inside out? Post them below and we will cover it all!
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Will (or Dr. B) is a great and inspirational doctor, with a passion for his message that shines through. His new book, Fiber Fueled is really special, and provides practical help in a friendly style that will drop knowledge bombs in a ‘digestible’ way. I reckon you’ll love it, I certainly did. 💩 👍🏻🌱
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VE Day We celebrate 75 years since the end of Worl

VE Day
We celebrate 75 years since the end of World War II today. The sacrifices made by this generation are unfathomable to me. It must have felt as though war was going to be a part of life forever. My great grandparents survived The Great War, only to be met with another. This is a photograph of my great grandparents. I do not know my great grandmother’s name, perhaps now lost in history. Only that she was married to Tom Robinson, the man she sits with here, alongside some rather impressive animals! She died when my grandfather, her son, was just 14 years old. She was born in India, and she was matron in charge of the German and hostile women’s camp near Mumbai during the Great War. Her husband was superintendent of police in the Surat district, and according to an article in The Times, published in 1936, he had been awarded the Jubilee Medal and had fought a panther who had mauled two locals! Quite the hero. History does not look back on British occupation quite so kindly though, and I have mixed feelings about the praise that was heaped upon him by the Maharajah for his arrest of a certain Mr. M. K. Ghandi. 👮🏻‍♂️
His son, my grandfather, was to be a part of the Indian Army and met his future wife, my grandmother during the Second World War. (Swipe right). She was in India as a doctor, having just graduated medical school. They married in India during the war. I often wonder what a whirlwind romance that must have been... People say I am going to war, fighting this new coronavirus, but no. For me, there have been zero sacrifices, just gratitude that I am currently well and able to do the job I love. Wherever you are, celebrate freedom and cherish it. Lockdown may mean huge personal freedom shifts, and the irony is that although India has been emancipated from the British, current circumstances mean many lives are at risk due to lockdown, with so many people who must live hand to mouth. I am so grateful to be free in a way that so many are not. VE Day reminds me of the sacrifices made for us, and the importance of consciously maintaining our personal freedoms once lockdown eases.

Covid-19 is a tricky virus, some of us don’t eve

Covid-19 is a tricky virus, some of us don’t even know that we have it, others lose their lives. Dr Jo Ward experienced severe symptoms, was hospitalised and one month after her first fever, has recovered enough to share her story.

Tonight at 7pm BST, she shares with me her first symptoms, what happened as she deteriorated, and what she did to help herself. We also talk about all the questions that have been submitted via my Instagram page around breathlessness, pregnancy, chronic diseases and much more.

Come and join us for what is sure to be an insightful and inspiring conversation.

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