Viva! Health

Vegetarian & Vegan Foundation
Founded 1994 (1994)
Founder Juliet Gellatley[1]
Type Health and nutrition charity
Registration no. 1037486
Focus Vegetarianism, veganism
Location
Origins Vegetarians' International Voice for Animals
Area served
 United Kingdom
Method Campaigning, education
Key people
 Juliet Gellatley
Website vegetarian.org.uk

Viva! Health, formerly The Vegetarian and Vegan Foundation (VVF), founded by Juliet Gellatley (along with Viva!), is a science-based health and nutrition charity. Viva! Health monitors and interprets the growing body of research linking diet and health. Viva! Health helps the public, health professionals and the food industry make informed choices about diet by providing information and advice about healthy eating. Viva! Health also runs health and education campaigns, presents school talks, cookery demonstrations, contributes to the magazine Viva!life and produces a wide variety of materials, including the free online Vegetarian Recipe Club. Viva! Health also answers nutritional queries from the public, industry and health sector and publishes diet and health-related stories regularly in national, regional and specialist press. The majority of diseases that kill most Westerners prematurely can be prevented by consuming a plant-based diet – Viva! Health explains why and provides information and advice about healthy eating.

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References

  1. ↑ "About Viva!". Viva! Website. Retrieved 2012-01-24.


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