UCLP

UCLP© & Vegan Diets

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Published October 2020: HEART UK and Alpro have joined forces with the Vegan Society to produce two new complimentary UCLP© resources specifically for individuals following a vegan diet. Those of you familar with the UCLP© will be aware that it is made up of predominantly healthy plant foods. Following a vegan diet nowadays does not necessarily mean heart healthy plant foods are included especially with many vegan options high in coconut, shea and palm oils and fats. In collaboration with the Vegan Society, we have therefore produced two vegan informations sheets to help those already on a vegan diet follow a plan that is as heart healthy as possible.

Downloadable UCLP© consumer information sheets: top tips & step by step practical guideance

Our consumer downloadable information sheets have been refreshed and updated to provide the consumers with highly visual and practical advice on how to adopt the UCLP© in a step-by-step manner. Each individual downloadable focuses on one specific aspect of the UCLP© and explores an array of practical solutions.

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The UCLP© 12-page consumer leaflet (Oct 2019)

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The UCLP© consumer booklet has been fully revised to provide consumers with a highly visual and practical step-by-step guide to the UCLP©. The leaflet discusses the 3 key stages of the UCLP©: Getting into the right mindset, the heart healthy foundation diet and the four UCLP© foods. The consumer is provided with exercises and practical options to adopt at each step with the emphasis on taking on board just one or two new dietary changes at a time, committing to the changes by completing their own UCLP© plan, encouraging 2-3 weekly reviews of progress and setting targets to make more dietary changes. The key message is one step at time and to take each component within each step at their own pace.

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UCLP© fully referenced scientific review

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The findings from the recent extensive review of the scientific evidence relating to all aspects of the UCLP© recommendations is summarised in our new fully referenced 8-page fact sheet. The fact sheet discusses the current heart health status of both the UK and Ireland and current government initiatives before presenting the scientific evidence for all components of the UCLP©, the practical implications including guidance on how to apply behavioural strategies during patient consultations to optimise its uptake. The evidence strongly supports the UCLP©'s unique flexible approach which allows the plan to be tailored to meet any individual's personal preferences and capabilities whilst still having the potential to lower serum cholesterol levels as well as providing overall heart health benefits.

UCLP© webinar (Oct 2019): The Science & The practice

An 1-hour free webinar starting with the latest statistics for heart disease in the UK & Ireland and the key risk factors that need to be modified. Insights into the UCLP© then follow; the scientific evidence underpinning it and its practical implications for consumers. As the webinar takes you through the step-by-step application of the UCLP©, it highlights its ability to be tailored to any individual's personal preferences and capabilities whilst still providing potentially significant cholesterol-lowering and cardioprotective benefits.

About the UCLP©

Written by HEART UK – The Cholesterol Charity in collaboration with seven leading health professionals. The UCLP© is the practical, realistic and evidence based cholesterol-lowering programme.

The UCLP© brings the core principles of the Portfolio diet and its significant benefits, to a wider range of patients through its flexible and tailored approach. Intergral to the success of the UCLP© is the use of behavioural strategies throughout its application. The UCLP© is made up of multiple dietary components, which individually have been proven to improve heart health outcomes and/or significantly lower cholesterol. The more of the components adopted by an individual, the greater the potential benefits. This, in combination with behavioural strategies allows the patient the autonomy to choose which and how many of the food components to select at any one time, thus accommodating different motivation levels and capabilities.

The UCLP store tour

With more and more people shopping on-line and seeking health information from retail websites, HEART UK and Alpro have joined forces with Waitrose and Lucy Jones to offer the public the ultimate cholesterol-lowering retail shopping experience. The store tour offers the public practical in-store advice on how to adopt the UCLP© recommendations.