Tag: healthy recipes
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Blogpost: Why do We Fear Push-ups but not Cheese
After 21 years of a traditional medical practice, I made a huge change to a membership practice. It has been official for just over a year. The emphasis of the practice is reversing lifestyle diseases, and achieving optimal health for as long as possible. You would think that would be the emphasis of all medical…
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Blogpost: We Physicians need to Teach more and Tell Less
What is the role of a physician? We undergo the most extensive training in the sciences of the human body and are in training a minimum of seven years after college, with some fellowships extending that by another four years. We are taught to diagnose, educate, and treat the sick. However, if we know the…
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Blogpost: In Search of the Perfect Burger
Most people that have recently started their transition to plant based nutrition are looking for a “good” veggie burger. You know, the one that tastes like a “real” hamburger. What do you associate with the perfect burger? McDonalds BigMac? The Whopper? Backyard BBQ? Or a giant burger topped with bacon and cheese and onion rings and…
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Blogpost: Learning to Speak the Plant Based Language
Learning to speak a new language can be very difficult especially if that language was selected for you. I took German in college because I was told that it was was a good language for chemistry majors. The most fun I had with the language was translating letters that a family friend used to…
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Blogpost: My fruit started out in a pie
Most of us did not start our lives eating just vegetables and fruits. We ate the “American Diet” which was a meat, a starch and a vegetable. In my grandmother’s house there was usually desert and most of the time there was a choice of pie. Fruit pie or filled pie. Why pie? Because it…
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Blogpost: What do I do to fight the common cold or virus?
The one medicine that has been shown to prevent death from a bacterial infection is an antibiotic. It has markedly improved the lifespan of humans from the treatment of wounds to dysentery to pneumonia. It has also changed the course of heart disease with regard to rheumatic fever that results from a particular streptococcus infection. So…
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Podcast: An Interview with PlantPositiverunning Kattie and Gwen during Nutriton Class
Welcome and thank you for listening. This episode features Katie and Gwen from Plantpositiverunning.com. I stumbled upon their YouTube channel of the same name and was hooked. They are two of the most positive people I have met in a long time. They are both quite the ultra running athletes and have podiumed several times in…
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Are Kale chips equivalent to Kale salad?
The word “Kale” is not the problem. It is more that “Chips” bring to mind a better image for most than “Salad”. Chips mean snack and eat what you want. Salad is associated with health food and no body wants that. Yet we are all trying to get healthy. We want health, but we…
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Jackfruit Burgers
Our fruit appreciation continues with this new burger recipe you will need to try! Perfect consistency, great flavor, and best of all – Whole Food Plant Based! This burger is great on a bun, over a large salad, and freezes well for saving for a later date! Ingredients: 2 cans of jackfruit 2 cups of…
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Podcast Episode 151: How to Take Care of Your Heart
Welcome and thank you for listening. Happy Heart month. I hope your are taking care of the most precious thing you possess, your heart. If you don’t take care of your own, you cannot take care of another persons. It starts beating 21 days into life and is the last thing to stop as you…