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China Study co-author T. Colin Campbell on writing WHOLE

In 2004, T. Colin Campbell rocked the worlds of nutrition and science with his outspoken and powerful book, The China Study. Nine years later, Dr. Campbell is back, and feistier than ever, taking on the medical, research, government, media, non-profit, food, and supplement industries. Nutrition, he asserts, is the “master key” that controls our health….

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PYP 052: Michele Simon on the Unholy Influence of the Junk Food Industry

In WHOLE, we wrote an entire chapter about the sleazy influence of the junk food industry on the powerful Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.

Michele Simon of Eat Drink Politics is a public health lawyer whose investigations and advocacy have shined a bright and uncomfortable light on these shenanigans.

In January 2013 she published an in-depth expose, titled “And Now a Word From Our Sponsors.”

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PYP 051: John Robbins: “Speak to the Queen and the Queen Will Reply”

Wow, a second interview with John Robbins!

After the first one, John graciously contacted me because he felt he had more to say about advocacy and persuasion.

I wasn’t about to say no.

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PYP 044: Julieanna Hever on Raising Healthy Kids in a Junk-food World

Julieanna Hever is the author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Plant-Based Nutrition. She hosts Veria Network’s “What Would Julieanna Do?”, is the nutrition columnist for VegNews.com, and is a frequent guest on The Doctor Oz Show.

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PYP 043: Joseph Gonzalez on Diabetes Reversal, Common Supermarket Killers, and Peanut M&Ms

Joseph Gonzales is Staff Dietitian for PCRM, the Physicians’ Committee for Responsible Medicine.

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PYP 038: Ocean Robbins: Leverage, Kindness, and Justice

Ocean Robbins co-founded YES! (Youth for Environmental Sanity) at the age of 16, and hasn’t slowed down since. He’s co-founder, with his dad John Robbins (author of Diet for a New America and many other awesome books), of the Food Revolution Network, which advocates and educates about food justice, safety, compassion, and sustainability.

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PYP 037: Ruth Heidrich: 78-Year-Old Breast Cancer Survivor, Triathlete, and Marathoner

Today I got to fulfill one of my dreams – I spent an hour on the phone with Dr. Ruth Heidrich, one of the fittest women in the world (of any age).

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PYP 035: Mary Wendt, MD: Get Waisted

After Mary Wendt had been practicing medicine for several years, she discovered that despite exercising like crazy and eating “right” (lots of meat for protein and dairy for calcium), she was pre-diabetic and had dangerously high cholesterol.

That shock led her on a search for a solution that didn’t rely on pills and surgery.

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PYP 025: Milton Mills on “Soul Food,” Liberation, and the Myth of Predatory Eyes

Milton Mills, MD, is Associate Director of Preventive Medicine for the Physician’s Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), as well as a practicing internist at Fairfax Hospital in Virginia. He also provides medical care and counseling in several free clinics in Washington, DC. In this conversation, Dr Mills shared his provocative views – all of them supported by overwhelming evidence – on the ideal human diet.

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PYP 020: Dr. Ana Negron: The Living Experience of Healthy Eating

Dr. Ana Negron is a family physician in the Philadelphia area who treats her patients with healthy food, empowerment, community, and love. Read More