Today’s podcast guest, Martin Gibala of McMaster University in Ontario, Canada, has been studying that question in his lab for a decade. And his answer is a great piece of news for folks like me who may have only 10-15 minutes in which to get in that daily workout.
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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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When John Bruna was 10 years old, he was already stealing from liquor stores. Born into an environment of poverty, violence, and substance abuse, John began to turn his life around at the age of 22.
Along the way to his current leadership of the Mindful Life Program and Way of Compassion Foundation, John served as a dishwasher, auto mechanic, school teacher, substance abuse counselor, corporate manager, graduate student, and spiritual practitioner.
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Kathleen Melanson, Director of the University of Rhode Island’s Energy Metabolism Laboratory, is conducting a series of brilliant and simple experiments about the connection between how fast we eat and how many calories we consume.
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Dr Garth Davis is medical director of Surgical Weight Loss at Memorial Harmon Memorial City Hospital in Houston, Texas.
After years of performing weight loss surgery, with himself overweight and faced with a medical recommendation to start taking cholesterol-lowering drugs, Garth woke up one day and asked the question, “Why are Americans so overweight and unhealthy?”
Which led him to a second question: “Where in the world are people slim and healthy?”
Which led him to a comprehensive study of nutrition, a complete overhaul of his personal lifestyle and diet, and a totally new way of working with his obese patients.
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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.
Read MoreJoseph Gonzales is Staff Dietitian for PCRM, the Physicians’ Committee for Responsible Medicine.
Read MoreI had a lovely chat with legendary cookbook author Nava Atlas, whose first vegetarian cookbook was published in 1984! (Had tofu even been invented then? 😉
Read MoreAfter 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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Stephanie Dignan was working as a financial advisor when she was asked to help people with a whole different set of goals: health and fitness.
Fast-forward a bunch of years, and Stephanie’s got a training company, TheBootCampGirl.com, with a great track record of success.
One of the foundations of her success is dietary: Stephanie is 100% plant-based, and encourages and empowers her students to add more plants to their diets.
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