Nelson Campbell is director of PlantPure Nation, and the son of renowned biochemical researcher and future Nobel Prize-winner T. Colin Campbell.
Nelson has a staggeringly ambitious vision for our world: one in which we all work together in love, compassion, and respect to solve our collective problems.
And you know what? If we don't achieve that vision, we're not in good shape as a civilization or a species. So I'm all in favor of us striving to make it happen?
But how? Isn't that just hot air, unrealistic, Utopian thinking? Aren't we humans just hardwired to mess things up for others in the pursuit of our own selfish needs?
Nelson believes otherwise. And he's just announced a launch of a staggeringly ambitious project: Healing America.
I'm honored that he chose the Plant Yourself Podcast as the platform to announce the project to the world, and that he answered my questions (and doubts and fears and objections) with such clarity and generosity.
We discussed:
- the origins of the vision of Healing America
- why focusing on food, or even health, is far too narrow a lens to address our problems
- how to involve local leaders, grassroots organizations, and other stakeholders in large-scale change
- “it all starts with how we see the world”
- there are larger truths that can unite us – left and right, rural and urban, you name it
- how we can empower communities to solve seemingly intractable problems
- the importance of a more distributed world
- how to speak with people not as adversaries
- the problem with relying on government to take care of things
- “people are unhappy, and have lost sight of their own humanity”
- the importance of loving and empathizing with others
- vision: the taproot of transformative change
- the missing ingredient in our political and social debates: a wholistic perspective
- why healthy food is the “carrier” of positivity and empowerment
- how you can help
- and much more…
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If I can be of help contact me. I have coached age group swimming 38 yrs in my life. During those years I improved the health of many young kids. I also believe if we could go into nursing homes and get them on whole foods instead of processed foods. I read where this nurse presented the idea and it was turned down. If that could be accomplished many drugs would be eliminated. Along with an exercise program. I am 75 eat mostly plants base and exercise about 400 minutes per week.
I’ve just started my plant based life. Looking forward to my doctors visit in April, I turn 60. I’m a a black female, menopausal, migraines and allergies. Would love to get off migraine meds.
Well I picked up the book The China Study at goodwill! I knew it was going to be diet focused but I admit to being shocked as I read.. that this book was saying no meat…no diary…including milk. Wow.
But I read the book in 2 days and on Oct 1st I am starting a plant based whole food diet.
I mean..no fish! No eggs? No butter at all? Well this will not be easy. But nothing else has helped at all. Not calorie counting… not weight watchers. .. not intermittent fasting. So I am going to do this 30 days…at a time! Wish me luck. If it works , my next children’s book will be about fresh whole foods!!! 🙂
Best of luck to you, Robin!
If you’re looking for tips about changing your diet and your food habits, please check out my book Sick to Fit, which is available as a free digital download most places books are sold.
And please let us know how it goes for you!
The page “start a pod” is not available on the plant pure pod page. I’m interested in this for my community in Bowie, Maryland.
How can I help in Rhode Island? The video is truthful and inspiring. Grassroots in numbers has always made changes. I was born in Kentucky. And spent summers to raise tobacco for family. I recall picking a watermelon for my 10th birthday nearly 50 years ago. The land was plush with streams of fresh water and vast amounts of fruits and vegetable gardens on my aunt’s land. As time changed and no one in the family interested in farming or land, my uncle and aunt sold the 60+ acres. Yes, we must turn our country around and reclaim the health and lives of our people and restore the land and earth God gave us.