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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Sharon McRae runs Eat Well, Stay Well, a plant-based health coaching service. She’s an expert at balancing a full life with feeding her family (busy husband and three kids) well, and knows how to help others transition to a healthy plant-based lifestyle.
Read MoreSam Carpenter is an entrepreneur and author of Work the System, a book about the easiest way to make meaningful and permanent improvements in your work, life, and health.
Read MoreJessica Porter is co-author of The Kind Diet, with Alicia Silverstone, and the author of The Hip Chick’s Guide to Macrobiotics, and the recently published The MILF Diet.
Read MoreAt age 29, Tracy Ryan weighed 350 pounds, and was comfortable in her role as the “funny fat girl.”
Then she embarked on an ambitious journey of self-discovery: to lose 200 pounds in one year.
Her story is now public, thanks to the gripping award-winning documentary, UnSuperSizeMe, produced by her trainer, Carly Asse.
Read MoreAfter Lucinda Dulcalfe sold her latest tech startup, she began casting around for her next project. After watching Forks Over Knives and wondering a) if this could possibly be true, and b) if it was, why hadn’t she ever heard about it, Lucinda transitioned to a whole-foods, plant-based diet and discovered the benefits for herself.
Read MoreMilton 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.
Read MoreMargarita Restrepro is the founder and editor-in-chief of Naked Food Magazine.
In this conversation, Margarita shares her journey and motivation behind Naked Food Magazine. She believes that optimal health is accessible to just about everyone, and started the magazine to bring that message to the public.
Read MoreJulie Morris is a cookbook author and recipe developer for “Superfoods” companies.
I’ve always been suspicious of Superfoods, thinking that the term is more about marketing than fact. So I was looking forward to grilling Julie about Superfoods, and the role they can play in a whole food, plant-based diet.
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When we get sick, most of us go to the doctor. And most of the time, the doctor prescribes a pill. Or two. Or a whole handful.
The number of Americans on prescription meds is just staggering. Doctors know that patients expect to leave the office with a prescription. Pharma companies spend hundreds of thousands of marketing dollars per doctor per year to make sure that their patented blockbusters are the ones getting written down on the prescription pads.
All this would be fine, I guess, if the pills actually made us better. And it would probably be close to fine if the pills didn’t actually make us worse.
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