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? 😉
Read MoreMiyoko Schinner cooks gourmet plant-based food for omnivores, demonstrating that there’s no need to “give anything up.” She’s a popular speaker, teacher, and cookbook author whose latest book is Artisan Vegan Cheese.
As far as I’m concerned, Miyoko should receive the Nobel Prize for Innovative Deliciousness for her work. The air-dried gouda and brie (both cashew-based) are amazing.
Read MoreOcean 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.
Read MoreToday 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).
Read More75-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.
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.
Read MoreTami Noyes of VeganAppetite.com has tackled the biggest, baddest bastion of carnivory with her latest cookbook, Grills Gone Vegan.
Read MoreRonda Collier is CEO and founder of Sweetwater Health, a technology company that sells a couple of neat little iPhone apps called SweetbeatLife and Sweetbeat.
They measure heart rate variability (HRV), which turns out to be a very good proxy for the body’s resilience and health.
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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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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.
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