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

March 11, 2014

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 009: Emerson Wickwire: The Secret World of Sleep

March 11, 2014

Dr. Emerson Wickwire is Sleep Medicine Program Director at Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Associates in Columbia, Maryland, and Assistant Professor, part-time, at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He is board certified in behavioral sleep medicine and cognitive and behavioral psychology.

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PYP 008: Char Nolan interviews Howard Jacobson

March 11, 2014

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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PYP 007: Dr Wes Youngberg: Goodbye Diabetes

February 19, 2014

Dr. Wes Youngberg, author of Goodbye Diabetes, was just a boy when his mother died of cancer. At the age of 13, he was already obsessed with discovering and mitigating his own risk factors of disease.

After earning degrees in nutrition and lifestyle medicine, Wes spend 14 years on Guam, researching that island’s diabetes epidemic and directing a wellness clinic dedicated to reversing diabetes among the island’s population.

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PYP 006: Hans Diehl: Healthy by Choice, Not by Chance

February 11, 2014

Hans Diehl is founder of CHIP (The Complete Health Improvement Program), a 30-day health education program that has been changing lives for the better for decades.

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PYP 005: Randy Clemens: The Magic of Sriracha, and Learning to Love Our Veggies

February 11, 2014

Randy Clemens is the Sriracha-loving author of two Sriracha-based cookbooks. (In case you haven’t tried it, Sriracha sauce is a fairly spicy, totally amazing Vietnamese hot sauce that has generated a cult following in the past few years.)

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PYP 004: Char Nolan: It’s Never Too Late

February 10, 2014

Howard had a lovely chat with the kind and courageous Char Nolan, Connector at Real Food Works and powerful promoter of a plant-based diet in the Philadelphia area.

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PYP 003: Chef Del Sroufe: Better Than Vegan

February 10, 2014

10 years ago, Del Sroufe ate his way to 475 pounds – on a vegan diet!

Now, 200+ pounds thinner (and counting), Chef Del is the culinary genius behind the Forks Over Knives cookbook, as well as co-owner of the brilliant Wellness Forum.

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Fran Costigan’s Vegan Chocolate: Unapologetically Luscious and Decadent Dairy-Free Desserts: PYP 002

May 15, 2013

Fran Costigan believes there’s more to life than veggies. Like luscious chocolate cakes, for example.

A world-renown pastry chef and educator, Fran has done wonders for the plant-based movement’s PR and sex appeal.

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Lindsay Nixon is The Happy Herbivore: PYP 001

May 15, 2013

In this first Pant Yourself Podcast episode, Howard has a lovely chat with the Happy Herbivore, Lindsay Nixon, about her transition to a whole-foods plant based diet, her evolution from kitchen klutz to accomplished cookbook author, and the Happy part of being plant-pure and strong.

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