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Healing Food

PYP 108: Del Sroufe on the Joys of Planning Meals

Chef Del Sroufe is a master of efficiency, which is a good thing. As co-owner and head chef at Wellness Forum Foods, Del feeds a crazy amount of people every week. If he didn’t have his act together, his business would be a hot mess of chaos and waste.

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Date Bars from the PlantPure Nation Cookbook

I like to bring whole food, plant-based refreshments when I give local talks. I typically just lay them out and don’t highlight the fact that they don’t have added sugar, or eggs, or dairy, or bacon, or whatever else the young people are putting into their treats these days. At the end of the talk,…

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PYP 107: Annie Oliverio on the Dance of Cravings, Denial, and Pleasure

Annie Oliverio’s mind works differently from most people’s. When she sat down to write a cookbook, she didn’t come up with chapter headings like Breakfasts, Lunches, Snacks, Soups, Desserts, and so on.

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PYP 106: Corey Rennell on Food as the Foundation of a New Economy

Corey Rennell doesn’t do things halfway.

After discovering that what passes for convention wisdom on the topic of nutrition is a contradictory, confusing, reductionist mess, he stopped listening and started looking for himself.

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PYP 105 Kerrie Saunders on Navigating Cravings and Overcoming Addictions

Dr. Kerrie Saunders, MS, LLP, PhD, started life by almost dying of a food allergy, and that experience set her on the exploration of food, emotions, addictions, cravings, and healing that has become her passion and her career.

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PYP 104: Robert Ostfeld on Healing Individuals and Communities from the Roots Up

Robert Ostfeld was collecting Ivy League degrees like some people collect state quarters. With a BA from Penn, an MD from Yale, and a Masters in Epidemiology from Harvard, Robert was well on the way to a prestigious and lucrative career at the pinnacle of conventional medicine.

But he threw that plan away when he decided to become amazing.

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PYP 103: Lee and Larry Newlin on Healthy Soil, Healthy Farms, Healthy Food, and Healthy People

Lee and Larry Newlin are the proprietors of Peaceful River Farm in southern Orange County, North Carolina. Larry runs the ecological farm, and Lee takes the produce and teaches people how to prepare healthy food and live a healthy lifestyle.

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PYP 102: Nelson Campbell on Bottom-Up Revolutions that Transcend Left and Right

Nelson Campbell is the eldest son of Dr. T. Colin Campbell, co-author of The China Study, and author of Whole, and The Low Carb Fraud. (I helped with those last two.) For the past two years, Nelson has been quietly working on a remarkable project with the potential to change everything for the better.

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PYP 101: Amie Hamlin on Healthy School Food 2007

Today’s podcast is the first half of a double-header with Amie Hamlin, founder and executive director of the New York Coalition for Healthy School Food.

Amie was a concerned parent who got involved at her own kids’ school after seeing the crap they were being served in the cafeteria. What she discovered when she hit hurdle after hurdle led her to full-time, full-court activism on behalf of children’s health.

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PYP 100: Rich Roll on the Transformative Power of Mindful Authenticity

Rich Roll, along with his wife Julie Piatt, has just released The PlantPower Way. Already #38 on the amazon bestseller list, the book is a wonderful introduction to a family-centered, plant-based lifestyle, and a font of recipes, advice, and philosophical guidance.

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