PYP 030: Sam Carpenter on Working the System to Upgrade Your Health
Sam 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.
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PYP 029: Jessica Porter on the Diet that Cannot Be Named (on NBC prime time, anyway)
Jessica 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 MorePYP 028: Jill Nussinow: The Veggie Queen Demystifies the Pressure Cooker
Jill Nussinow, aka The Veggie Queen, has been helping people eat healthy and delicious for over 20 years.
As an “alternative” (or, as I prefer to think of her, “renegade”) dietitian, a chef, and a cookbook author and cooking instructor, Jill has helped thousands of people transition to a plant-based diet.
Read MorePYP 027: Tracy Ryan on Losing 200 Pounds and Gaining Her Life
At 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 MorePYP 026: Lucinda Duncalfe on Real Food
After 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 MorePYP 025: Milton Mills on “Soul Food,” Liberation, and the Myth of Predatory Eyes
Milton 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 MorePYP 024: Margarita Restrepo on the Achievable Way to Optimal Health
Margarita 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 MorePYP 023: Julie Morris on Superfood Smoothies
Julie 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.
Read MorePYP 022: Laura Bartels: Natural Building and a Mindful Life
Laura Bartels is the founder/owner of Greenweaver, Inc., a consulting and education company that promotes sustainable building and community development.
In this interview, she discusses the connections between creating a nurturing external environment and cultivating a mindful interior environment.
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PYP 021: Dustin Rudolph, the Plant-Based Pharmacist, on Getting Healthy Without Pills
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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