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Healing Food

PYP 131: Anthony Dissen, RD, on Empowering vs Preaching

December 1, 2015

Dietitian Anthony Dissen has the plant-based science down cold, like many of us. What sets him apart is his research in and experience with group programs to change behaviors in an engaging, positive, and sustainable fashion.

We met through an email correspondence over Proteinaholic, and quickly discovered several common elements in our histories and interests. When he told me his story about running plant-based wellness programs for employees of a hospital, and showed me the results of the pilot run, I knew he’d be a great guest.

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PYP 130: Dr Ted Crawford on Healing Himself and His Patients

November 25, 2015

Ted “Dr Herbivore” Crawford grew up in Iowa, eating meat and dairy at every meal. Even as a Doctor of Osteopathy, he thought that healthy eating meant less red meat, and more chicken and fish.

His own health was a mess: medicated for high cholesterol and hypertension (the latter at the highest allowable doses), suffering from Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease, overweight and experiencing frequent migraines. His wife had survived breast cancer, and was dealing with osteoporosis and osteoarthritis.

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PYP 129: Dr Rekha Chaudhary on Giving Hope to Cancer Patients

November 17, 2015

Dr Rekha Chaudhary is an oncologist and assistant professor of medicine at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Until a chance viewing of the documentary Forks Over Knives, Dr Chaudhary had never once encountered the concept that diet could affect cancer intiation, progression, or outcome.

Unwilling to shove this new data under the rug, she invited T. Colin Campbell to conduct Grand Rounds at her university, and was amazed at the animal studies showing that environment (specifically, the amount of animal protein in the diet) could turn cancer cells on and off.

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PYP 128: Queenie Moore on Being Black, Plant-Based, Fit, and Curvy

November 10, 2015

I met Queenetta (Queenie) Moore at her booth at the Raleigh VegFest, where she was promoting a “21 Day to Plant-Based” Challenge: Soul Food edition.

Her outreach to the Black community fascinated me as a marketer, and I wanted to explore the differences between her approach and what I’m used to in the suburban white world. When we got talking, however, it turned out that there were dozens of fascinating things about Queenie and her work and her take on life.

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Breast Cancer on the Rise in African-American Women

October 29, 2015

It’s a sad irony that the one area where African-Americans have, after many decades of inequality, finally achieved parity with whites is in rates of breast cancer among women. According to a recent report by the American Cancer Society, rates of breast cancer in African-American women rose almost half a percent every year from 2008 to 2012….

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PYP 125: (Bonus) Glenn Livingston and Howard Jacobson on Proteinaholic and Suspect Science

October 20, 2015

So I helped Dr Garth Davis write Proteinaholic, which came out this month (and is getting lots of love at the bookstores and in amazon reviews, so thank you very much).

(Note to reader: for maximum effect, this next paragraph should be read in one long breath.)

And the book basically says (spoiler alert) that we’re obsessed with protein, and we’re eating way too much of it, and excluding many other important nutrients because we’re so obsessed with protein (I’m looking at you, fiber), and we would be healthier and slimmer if we just calmed down a bit and ate a plant-based diet that limited our protein intake to levels appropriate for humans.

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PYP 124: Samantha Carrie Johnson on Eating Real and Living Our Passion

October 20, 2015

Samantha Carrie Johnson, at age 30, has already accomplished several lifetimes worth of personal and social achievement. A chef, restauranteur, entrepreneur, actor, model, Miss Pennsylvania 2007, and MTV reality show star, Samantha devotes her energy and her time to raising consciousness, promoting plant-based health, and keeping her own life balanced.

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PYP 123: Dina Rose on Helping Parents End the Food Fights

October 13, 2015

Dina Rose, PhD, grew up in a household rife with dysfunctional lessons, attitudes, and behaviors related to food and eating. Her mother struggled with food and obesity, and ultimately died of obesity-related illness when Dina was 5 months pregnant with her daughter.

Dina did not want to repeat history, so she dove into the question of how to teach kids to eat healthy and develop a positive relationship with food. Her background in sociology allowed her to step back from the parenting fads of the moment, and look at the big picture issue of socialization: how we pass values and habits and mindsets to our children.

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PYP 122: Howard Jacobson on Proteinaholic

October 7, 2015

Today, something a little different. To mark the publication of Proteinaholic, which I worked on with Garth Davis, MD, I wanted to talk about, well, Proteinaholic.

So since it’s my show, I grabbed the microphone – and stared at my mixer for about 20 minutes. Then I asked my wife, Mia, to come into the studio and help me.

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PYP 121: Dr. Ron Weiss on the Healing Power of Farming

September 29, 2015

After 7 years in the emergency room and 15 years running a traditional medical clinic in suburban New Jersey, Dr. Ronald Weiss decided to radically change his practice.

He moved to a centuries-old working farm in rural New Jersey and began treating his patients with fresh, organic, sustainably grown produce.

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Hi, I’m Howard Jacobson, host of the Plant Yourself Podcast, co-author of You Can Change Other People and Sick to Fit, and co-founder of WellStart Health Coach Academy.

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