Tag: optimal nutrition
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Podcast Episode 174-International Conference on Plant Based Nutrition with Addie Dulaney Majnaric RDN
Welcome and thank you for listening. I am joined in this episode by Addie Dulaney Majnaric to discuss our trip to Washington, D.C. to attend the International Conference on Nutrition in Medicine. It was great traveling with Addie not only as my daughter but representing our practice as the only mother-daughter, MD-RDN team practicing plant…
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Blogpost: Trying Hard not to be an Angry Vegan Doctor
I agree we are entitled to our own opinions and choices, but we have to be very in tune from where our nutritional information is being derived. My vegan feathers got ruffled last evening while lifting weights with the TV on for distraction. The Five, a Fox News channel show, had a segment reporting on…
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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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Podcast Episode 170 with Mushroom Expert Jeff Chilton
Welcome and thank you for listening. Today I have a special guest, Jeff Chilton. He is the president of Nammex, nammex.com, a company that supplies certified mushroom extracts to the US supplement industry. He has been a leader in the field of mushroom science beginning in the late sixties and worked on a mushroom farm…
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Blogpost: Hormone replacement and the fountain of youth
How do we do what we want to, and eat what we want and yet stay young. Funny thing is we don’t have the desire to be young until our chronologic age is no longer considered young. Since hormone levels decrease as we age, we assume that it is the hormones that are causing us…
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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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Podcast-Episode 158 The Game of Plant Based Nutrition
Welcome and thank you for listening. Why can’t plant based nutrition be fun and a game. Would lives the longest? Who has the best cholesterol? Who can eliminate medications? Who eats the most colorful plate? Who creates the best meal of the week? This is not punishment but a challenge. Not unlike golf or tennis.…
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Why does fruit get a bad rap?
I often connect with my audience when I relate that growing up I never ate fruit that was not in a pie. We laugh and it amazes me each time that I say it because it is so absurd. Now, I eat fruit at all three meals and mainly fruit at breakfast. My audience always…
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Podcast Episode 156- Happy Spring to All Beings
Welcome and thank you for listening. Spring is in the air. What a great time to dial up your health and fitness. It is also a time that processed foods spring up and grab you. One of the processed foods that complicates glucose processing is CRACKERS! They are marketed as containing quinoa, beets, spelt and…
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Blogpost: Sometimes we get in own way
I watched two of my favorite basketball teams play this past weekend. Both lost their games not because they did not have the physical skills but because of their mindset. The first team was leading the whole game and lost in the closing minutes the same way they have lost to several other teams that…