Seventh-day Adventist
The Seventh-day Adventist Church (SDA) is an Adventist Protestant Christian denomination which is distinguished by its observance of Saturday, the seventh day of the week in the Christian (Gregorian) and the Hebrew calendar, as the Sabbat ...
doctor who specialises in
lifestyle medicine
Lifestyle medicine (LM) is a branch of medicine focused on preventive healthcare and self-care dealing with prevention, research, education, and treatment of disorders caused by lifestyle factors and preventable causes of death such as nutrit ...
and plant-based nutrition.
Career
Ngwaba trained in surgery and lifestyle medicine at
Johns Hopkins University
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and
University College London
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. He worked at
Royal Free Hospital
The Royal Free Hospital (also known as the Royal Free) is a major teaching hospital in the Hampstead area of the London Borough of Camden. The hospital is part of the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, which also runs services at Barnet Ho ...
. He is a founding board member of the European Society of Lifestyle Medicine. He is founding director of a lifestyle medicine clinic on
Harley Street
Harley Street is a street in Marylebone, Central London, named after Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer.
In 2002, Ngwaba established a vegetarian restaurant with his wife Uchenna known as "Plant" on Poland Street, Soho. It was described as "the UK's first fast-food takeaway dedicated to vegetarian food".
Nhwaba is an international speaker on health and wellness and has appeared on television including ITV's '' Good Morning Britain'' and
Sky News
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Ngwaba is of Nigerian descent and as a child lived in a foster home in
Brighton
Brighton ( ) is a seaside resort in the city status in the United Kingdom, city of Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, England, south of London.
Archaeological evidence of settlement in the area dates back to the Bronze Age Britain, Bronze Age, R ...
. He is married to Uchenna who ran her own dentistry practice on
Fleet Street
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. Despite running a vegetarian restaurant in the past, neither Ngwaba or his wife are vegetarian. In the 2000s Ngwaba avoided
red meat
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but ate chicken and fish. More recently he has defended the health benefits of a
vegan diet
Veganism is the practice of abstaining from the use of animal products and the consumption of animal source foods, and an associated philosophy that rejects the commodity status of animals. A person who practices veganism is known as a vega ...
.
Politics
He was selected as the
Brexit Party
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Ngwaba is an ordained elder within the Seventh Day Adventist church and was awarded an honorary Leadership Award for Adventist Health Educator in 2016.