[CPD-CEU] Guest Lecturer: Anthony Warner AKA The Angry Chef on Plant Diets: How Can We Feed the World Without Destroying It?

In an era where information is as accessible as it is abundant, the health and nutrition space has become a breeding ground for misinformation – celebrity diets, risky hearsay, and faddy theories. Research has shown that falsehoods are 70% more likely to be shared than the truth, affecting how misinformation can mislead people into making poor choices for their health​.

This special CPD-CEU webinar featuring our VIP guest lecturer, Anthony Warner AKA The Angry Chef, aims to peel back layers of myths and reveal the truth beneath current fad diets, unsupported health claims, and the often contradictory advice peddled by self-appointed health gurus. Anthony will also delve into the complexities of plant-based nutrition and the broader implications of dietary choices on our planet's health and our own.

If you want to understand what’s wrong with global food systems and how the food landscape could look by 2050, join this exclusive guest webinar with Anthony Warner – co-hosted by Maurice Castelijn, CEO of The Health Sciences Academy and Alex Ruani, UCL Doctoral Researcher and Chief Science Educator of The Health Sciences Academy.

Here’s what you will discover in this special guest webinar:

• Discover how misinformation pervades the field of nutrition, misleading individuals to make poor decisions for themselves and the planet
• Dissect the truth behind trending diet myths, pesticides, organic farming, red meat, buying local, GMOs, and bioengineered foods
• Delve into the cognitive and social reasons why individuals may accept and act on misinformation, sometimes against their own interests
• Examine why nutrition science is particularly susceptible to misinformation and how this may affect the progress of sustainable global food systems
• Explore which plant oils are the least sustainable and the urgency of overcoming challenges related to plant-based fats

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About our VIP guest – The Angry Chef - Anthony Warner, Freelance Development Chef, Author of The Angry Chef: Bad Science and the Truth About Healthy Eating

An experienced and professional chef, who moved from a successful career in restaurants and outside catering to developing products as the Head Development Chef of the UK's largest food manufacturer. Now consults for food manufacturers and retailers on matters of innovation, communication and health. Associate of the Fruition Food Accelerator, supporting nascent food businesses in the North of England.

Blogs as The Angry Chef, exposing lies and pseudoscience in the world of food. Writes about food for The Sunday Times, The Telegraph, and New Scientist. Was once asked live on Radio 4's 'The Moral Maze' if he would eat his own dog.

Author of 'The Angry Chef - Bad Science and the Truth About Healthy Eating', published by Oneworld in July 2017. Winner of the Hearst Big Book Awards Health and Lifestyle Category in 2018, and double nominated by the Guild of Food Writers in the same year. Second book, 'The Truth About Fat' was published by Oneworld in January 2019, and was The Times Book of the Week on release. 'Ending Hunger', the third book in the Angry Chef Trilogy, was published by Oneworld in January 2021.

Remember you also have the option of claiming your smart CPD certificate when you complete this webinar!