Deliciousness

Saying Goodbye to Lupus and Other Autoimmune Diseases with Brooke Goldner, MD: PYP 227

September 12, 2017

When Brooke Goldner, MD, was 16 years old, she was told by her doctors that she probably had about six months to live. Her lupus, a chronic autoimmune condition that commonly attacks joints and skin, had gone after her kidneys, and it didn’t look like they (and she) could be saved.

Thankfully, the weekly chemotherapy worked well enough to stomp on her immune system, and it gave her kidneys and the rest of her a break and allowed her to grow up and have a fairly normal life.

Overcoming Disordered Eating Through Self-Love and Education with Tara Kemp: PYP 222

August 8, 2017

Tara Kemp is one of the happy luminaries of the plant-based movement. Spend an hour in her presence and you’ll be charmed and delighted into eating better – no lectures or harangues required.

When I first met Tara, I just assumed she was a natural-born positive person, never given to depression or anxiety or even garden-variety snarkiness. But as I discovered in our conversation, she has overcome a great deal to get to where she is now.

Hacking the Instant Pot and Air Fryer with Kathy Hester: PYP 214

June 13, 2017

My good friend and neighbor Kathy Hester is a combination cookbook factory and mad scientist. I like having her on the podcast partly because I get lonely and it’s fun to have in-studio guests, and partly because she brings me vegan goodies to share with my family, and partly because she is always pushing the boundaries on how to make healthy plant-based meals easier and tastier and mainstreamier.

Making Familiar Food Healthy with Kim Campbell: PYP 205

April 10, 2017

Kim Campbell is the author of two really useful cookbooks: The PlantPure Nation Cookbook, and The PlantPure Kitchen. Her recipes are featured in the Jumpstarts chronicled in the documentary PlantPure Nation, directed by her husband, Nelson Campbell.

The Universal Language of Food with Katie Simmons: PYP 187

December 6, 2016

Katie Simmons was working as a traditionally trained chef and moonlighting as a fitness instructor when the dare happened.

She was struggling – as she had been her whole life – with her weight and her health. She managed to achieve a tentative balance between compulsive overeating and compulsive overexercising, but still dealt with feeling lousy and often ashamed of herself.

Then the dare – go vegan for one month – changed everything.

Being an “Ayurvegan” with Darshana Thacker: PYP 183

November 8, 2016

Darshana Thacker is the culinary project manager for Forks Over Knives, as well as the chef responsible for 125 kid-friendly recipes in the brand new Forks Over Knives Family book. She has been a Forks Over Knives (FOK) insider since the very beginning (in addition to being a top-notch plant-based chef, she’s also FOK producer Brian Wendel’s girlfriend).

The Power of One Plate at a Time with Ken Botts: PYP 176

September 30, 2016

Ken Botts has been in food service for over 35 years, since he discovered the financial rewards of frying chicken and slinging pizza as a teenager trying to pay for his own car insurance. At age 18, he discovered Diet for a Small Planet, by Francis Moore Lappé, and made the connection between the food we eat and the world we inhabit.

Timaree Hagenburger on Making Food that Loves You Back: PYP 164

July 19, 2016

Timaree Hagenburger is a full-time nutrition professor at Cosumnes River College, a professional speaker working in corporate wellness and is a Certified Exercise Physiologist. She discovered plant-based nutrition a few years ago, and hasn’t looked back.

PYP 142: Alan Goldhamer on the Fastest Way to Improve Health

February 16, 2016

Alan Goldhamer, DC, is coauthor, with Doug Lisle, of The Pleasure Trap, and co-founder and director of one of the most important medical institutions in the world: The True North Health Center in Santa Rosa, California. Using lifestyle medicine and supervised water fasting, the staff at True North achieve medical miracles on a daily basis.

Simply by letting the body heal faster than it can be made sick.

The healing power of water fasting is so remarkable that reputable medical journals feared for their credibility when asked to publish Goldhamer’s results. Only recently has the British Medical Journal published a case report of a woman whose follicular lymphoma disappeared after 21 days of water fasting and 9 months of clean eating.

PYP 141: Antonia Demas on Overhauling Food Education

February 8, 2016

Antonia Demas, PhD, is founder and director of the Food Studies Institute, an organization that creates and promotes nutrition-based curricula for elementary schools.

From the Food Studies Institute website: “Her curriculum, Food Is Elementary, has been used successfully in more than 3,000 schools in 33 states. She consults throughout the U.S. and abroad and trains and certifies teachers as food educators. Dr. Demas is a Visiting Scholar at Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health and at the University of Illinois Medical School.”

Dr Demas was an early student of T. Colin Campbell at Cornell, and upon discovering his research, immediately began working to translate it from the Ivory Tower into the Real World.

Saying Goodbye to Lupus and Other Autoimmune Diseases with Brooke Goldner, MD: PYP 227

Overcoming Disordered Eating Through Self-Love and Education with Tara Kemp: PYP 222

Hacking the Instant Pot and Air Fryer with Kathy Hester: PYP 214

Making Familiar Food Healthy with Kim Campbell: PYP 205

The Universal Language of Food with Katie Simmons: PYP 187

Being an “Ayurvegan” with Darshana Thacker: PYP 183

The Power of One Plate at a Time with Ken Botts: PYP 176

Timaree Hagenburger on Making Food that Loves You Back: PYP 164

PYP 142: Alan Goldhamer on the Fastest Way to Improve Health

PYP 141: Antonia Demas on Overhauling Food Education

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