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PYP 047: Lani Muelrath on Debunking the Fitness Myths

Lani Muelrath is the author of Fit Quickies: 5-Minute Targeted Body-Shaping Workouts, which is a lot more comprehensive than it sounds. It covers exercise physiology, diet, health, mindset, and just about everything else relevant to a happy and healthy life.

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PYP 046: Kelly Coffin on Making Healthy Delicious

Kelly Coffin is founder and CEO of Wayfare Foods, a Montana company dedicated to making healthy and animal-free versions of many of our favorite foods, including ice cream, pudding, cheese, sour cream, and even bacon bits.

To drive home the point (and to avoid legal hassles), all their products’ names start with “We Can’t Say It’s…”

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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 042: Jon Hinds on Getting Fit Like a Gorilla

Jon Hinds is founder of the successful and rapidly growing Monkey Bar Gym chain of contrarian gyms. He believes in using the body the way nature intended:joyfully, freely, and naturally.

Unlike typical gyms, there are no mirrors or machines. Classes are fun, hard, and motivating.

Unlike Crossfit, exquisite care is taken to prevent and even reverse injuries.

And unlike just about any gym anywhere, Monkey Bar Gym participants are encouraged to grow strong and lean and healthy on a plant-based diet.

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PYP 041: Nick Freudenberg on 5 Lethal But Legal Industries

Nicholas Freudenberg is Distinguished Professor, Public Health and Social/Personality Psychology at Hunter College campus of the City University of New York (CUNY).

His recent book, Lethal but Legal: Corporations, Consumption and Protecting Public Health, is a shocking expose of the way five industries – pharmaceutical, tobacco, alcohol, food, and automotive – literally get away with murder.

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PYP 040: Nava Atlas: Plant-based Cooking, Holidays, Greens, and Transitioning Your Pantry

I had a lovely chat with legendary cookbook author Nava Atlas, whose first vegetarian cookbook was published in 1984! (Had tofu even been invented then? 😉

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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 036: Mimi Kirk, the “World’s Sexiest Vegan Over 50”

75-year-old Mimi Kirk looks and acts like someone in her 40s, not a person shopping for an assisted living facility.

In this freewheeling conversation, we talk about aging, travel, being a “foodie,” going completely plant-based and mostly raw at the age of 69, and getting what we want out of life.

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