PYP 084: Julieanna Hever on the Vegiterranean Diet
Julieanna Hever, the Plant Based Dietitian, was torn.
As an expert on nutrition, she knew that the healthiest diet for humans is plant-based whole foods.
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PYP 082: Susan Levin on the Truth about Diet and “a Bad Game of Telephone”
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine Director of Nutrition Education Susan Levin grew up on a high-fat, highly-processed Alabama diet.
After discovering for herself the benefits of a plant-based diet, she found herself stymied when trying to tell others about it. “What do you know about nutrition?” they’d sneer.
Not to be silenced, Susan completed a career about-face and enrolled in the Nutritional Science and Clinical Counseling programs at Bastyr University (and transplanted herself from New York to Seattle).
Now an expert in nutritional research as well as an engaging educator, Susan helps spread the good news about eating plants
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PYP 081: Robert Cheeke on a Vegan Teen Rebellion and Refusing to be Average
Robert Cheeke was a scrawny, scrappy teenager who embraced veganism – and raised hell in the process.
Born to a family deeply steeped in animal agriculture, he took a different path. And all his life, Robert has kept that rebellious spirit alive in the service of health, fitness, and compassion.
His new book, Shred It!, is an encyclopedic reference for people who want to become fit and ripped – low body fat, fully developed muscles.
Yeah, it’s got workout routines, photos of exercises, eating plans, and recipes – but the book starts with an impassioned plea to the reader: Don’t Be Average.
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PYP 080: Mike Crockett on Overcoming Addiction, Reconnecting with His True Nature, and Becoming an Unlikely Love Warrior
Mike Crockett, aka Big Bald Mike, has an amazing and inspiring story.
A young, gentle giant whose soul hungered for music and peace.
A childhood in Marlin, Texas, being fattened up like a calf for slaughter so he could dominate high school football games.
A carnivorous hunger that had him eating 2600 pounds of meat in a single year – and had him topping out at 571 pounds.
A long spiral into addiction, crime, violence, and self-loathing. A world in which numbing out the pain – physical and emotional – became a full-time job.
A dark night of the soul that culminated in a attempted-suicide overdose that would have killed five ordinary men.
And a path to redemption that includes professional wrestling, a caring lady, kale, and bunnies.
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PYP 079: Plant-Based Katie on Healing Her Relationship with Food and Experiencing True Pleasure
Katie Mae grew up eating chicken, beef, mashed potatoes – and overcooked frozen vegetables (when her parents forced her). In high school she exhibited disordered eating patterns, and thought of herself as an “ice cream addict.”
Fast forward to today, and Katie is an unabashed foodie and flavor ambassador for a cuisine that most people don’t associate with hedonistic pleasure: whole food, plant-based, minus the sugar, oil, and salt.
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PYP 077: Julie Piatt on Influencing Others, Coming Back to Ourselves, and “Meditating on One Foot in the Moonlight”
Julie Piatt is a musician, plant-based chef and healer, yogi, home-schooling mom, cookbook author, and contributor to MindBodyGreen.com.
She’s also the muse and support system that her husband Rich Roll leaned on to transform himself from sedentary, junk-food and late-night TV addicted couch potato to one of the world’s fittest men in the span of just a couple of years. (Read his story in his bestselling book, Finding Ultra.)
In some sense, Julie “lived the fantasy”: influencing her spouse to change in a big way.
Don’t most of us have a fantasy like that? If not about our spouse, then about our kids, or co-workers, or boss, or politicians, or customer-service reps on the other end of the phone, or – probably most common – ourselves?
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PYP 076: Katherine Nilbrink on Evolution, Diet, and the 24/7 “Open For Sex” Sign
Katherine Nilbrink’s resume is too long and varied to cover here.
Highlights: avid athlete, advanced degrees in evolutionary biology, work as a fitness trainer and with Reebok, Culinary Therapist and Sustainable Living Consultant for a residential eating disorder treatment facility, Healthy Eating coordinator for Whole Foods Market, instructor at the T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies, and really smart person.
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PYP 075: Ann Crile Esselstyn and Jane Esselstyn on Healthy Cooking Made Really Easy
Mother and daughter Ann Crile Esselstyn and Jane Esselstyn are co-authors of the brand spanking new Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease Cookbook. The recipes are inspired by two things: the nutritional profile of heart-protective foods validated by their husband and father Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, and a knack for making healthy food prep as easy and familiar as the Standard Western Diet.
When Dr. Esselstyn began his study of severely ill heart patients, he knew he’d have to start eating the same diet he was mandating for them. And since, in the words of Ann, “he didn’t know how to make toast,” he needed help. Enter Ann.
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PYP 074: Tom Campbell, MD on Writing The China Study and Talking to Doctors About Nutrition
Thomas M. Campbell is a family practice doctor in Rochester, NY, an instructor of Clinical Family Medicine at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, and executive director of the T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutritional Studies. He’s also co-author of what’s probably the most influential book on science-based nutrition, The China Study.
Despite being the child of T. Colin Campbell, Tom was never groomed for a leadership role in the nutritional or medical fields. He was pursuing an acting career in Chicago when his dad asked him to help translate decades of scientific communication into a book for the public.
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PYP 069: How to Keep Kids Healthy Even if They’re in Daycare
Sparked by a situation in my own family, I devoted this episode to supporting parents who send their kids to daycare and still want to feed them well. I reached out to my network of “Here’s how to do it” genius educators and collated the short interviews into this comprehensive and hopefully valuable resource.
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