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PYP 020: Dr. Ana Negron: The Living Experience of Healthy Eating

Dr. Ana Negron is a family physician in the Philadelphia area who treats her patients with healthy food, empowerment, community, and love. Read More

PYP 019: Ashley Flitter: The Unintentional Vegan

When Ashley Flitter, the Unintentional Vegan, discovered that she was lactose intolerant, she began a transition that culminated in her adopting a 100% plant-based diet.

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PYP 018: Brenda Davis: Defeating Diabetes and Debunking Paleo

Brenda Davis is a plant-based Registered Dietitian, and co-author of eight books, including Defeating Diabetes and Becoming Vegan.

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PYP 017: Brendan Brazier: How Athletes (and the Rest of Us) Can Thrive on a Plant-Based Diet

Brendan Brazier is a professional Ironman triathlete, author, and formulator of Vega plant-based nutritional supplements.

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PYP 016: Brian Wendel: Producer of Forks Over Knives

Today I had a lovely chat with the amazing Brian Wendel, creator of the #1 amazon bestselling documentary Forks Over Knives.

We talked about Brian’s introduction to plant-based living in 2001, and his determination to spread the word about the powerful effects of this way of living on our health.

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PYP 015: Juan Carlos Asse: UnSuperSize Me and Escaping Our Various Prisons

Award-winning film-maker and fitness trainer Juan Carlos (Carly) Asse had everything going for him. High school valedictorian, good-looking, popular, and enjoying college in Florida on a tennis scholarship.

It all came crashing down when a federal SWAT team smashed down his door and took him into custody for selling drugs.

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PYP 014: Cathy Fisher on Straight Up Food

Cathy Fisher’s plant-based food blog, StraightUpFood.com, is a popular and delicious source of whole food, plant-based recipes.

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PYP 013: Chef AJ: Unprocessed and Utterly Transformed

Chef AJ is well known in the plant-based world for her entertaining and bawdy cooking demos. She sings, does handstands, tells dirty jokes about kale and avocados (really), and wows audiences with her energy, fitness, and lean and radiant demeanor.

It’s hard to believe what AJ’s overcome in order to get there.

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PYP 010: Ellen Jaffe Jones: Obliterating the Obstacles to Plant-based Eating

Ellen Jaffe Jones is an Emmy-winning investigative reporter, a crack financial analyst, a chef and cookbook author, and a multiple-event running champion.

During this rollicking interview with Howard Jacobson, she explains how she went from being a part of “the world’s most unhealthy family” to a healthy eater. (And how she escaped the “inevitable” health consequences that the rest of her family has suffered.)

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PYP 008: Char Nolan interviews Howard Jacobson

Char Nolan is a health coach, community connector at RealFoodWorks in Philadelphia, and graduate of the same Health Education program that bestowed a PhD upon me (the no-longer-existing school of HPERD at Temple University).

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