Tag: optimal nutrition
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Podcast: Navigating Thanksgiving with Addie Dulaney Majnaric, RDN
Welcome and Thank you for listening. Next week is Thanksgiving and chances are you will be asked to cook or eat food that is not plant based. It may be a vegetable that is prepared with dairy or meat or oil. You may be asked why you do not want to eat turkey or other…
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Podcast 187 with Addie Dulaney Majnaric-Navigating Eating Season. We Can Help
Welcome and Thank you for listening. Addie Dulaney Majnaric RDN joins me today as we discuss navigating your nutrition through the holiday season. Yes, the eating season is upon us. Halloween kicked things off with sugary temptations. Thanksgiving brings advertisements for high calorie, fat laden foods along with more deserts. Holiday parties are beginning. We…
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Blogpost: What is Your Purpose for Eating Out?
When I was growing up, my family would go out to dinner occasionally on Saturday night. I can recall about three or four restaurant choices. We got dressed up and were joined by my parents friends. It was a time that I learned to sit in a chair and learn appropriate behaviors. There were few…
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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: Breast Cancer Prevention
October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. Pink labels on products line the shelves. The focus in on early detection and donating to find a cure. One in 8 women will develop breast cancer over the course of a lifetime. There will be an estimated 266,120 new cases of invasive breast cancer and 63,960 cases of…
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Blogpost-Choose Plant Based Nutrition to Achieve Optimal Body Composition and Performance
I just completed Ironman Chattanooga last weekend. While being around the athlete village for three days and racing, I observed every body size and type imaginable in all age groups. That might come as a surprise given the magazines and TV coverage of endurance athletics. So one might conclude that it does not matter what…
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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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The Survey Says………Get Back in the Kitchen
I recently posted a question on my general Facebook page that asked why people did not like to cook. I was looking to see if anything in particular was hindering people from the joys of cooking plant based meals. The most popular responses were: They do not enjoy cooking for one, or separate meals, for…
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Podcast:Episode 176-Can a Single Measure of Fitness Predict Longevity?
Welcome and thank you for listening. Lance Armstrong had one of the highest V02 max readings at 84. Killian Jornet, the world class ultra runner clocks in at an amazing level of 92. In a study published in the Journal of the American Cardiology, August, 2018 investigators in Copenhagan followed 5000 males for 42 years…