Tag: plant based doctor
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Podcast: The Doctor, the Dietitian, and the Diva Introduce the new Plant Based Wellness Cookbook
Welcome! and thank you for listening. It has arrived. I am joined today by my mom, the Diva, my daughter, the Dietitian to announce that our cookbook is finally available for purchase. I could not be more pleased than to have created this cookbook with 2 of my favorite people. My mother is a lighthouse…
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Blogpost: What to do with the Vegan Police?
Wonder if we kept it a secret. We didn’t offer any explanation or justification at all. We just ate our fruits, vegetables, and whole grains. No thank you to oil, salt or sugar. What? Are you vegetarian? No, this is just what I like. If that were the end of the conversation, would there be…
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Podcast: Sometimes You Just Have to Play
Welcome! and thank you for listening. I just got back from Houston, Texas where we celebrated Addie Majnaric, RDN and the Diva aka my Mother’s birthdays. We celebrated by playing. We ran, went to TopGolf, and to the University of Houston’s football training facility. A family that play’s together stays healthy together. The world…
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Blogpost: Fear of not getting enough
You know the vegan drill. Where do I get my protein? How about calcium? What about good fats? Will I be hungry? Will I be satisfied? Yes, satisfaction is the real problem that is feared when considering becoming a plant strong vegan. I heard a discussion about food deserts. It is a real problem in…
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Blogpost: Is a Vegan Diet the Best?
We all want to be the best we can be. So why not eat the best so we can be the best. However, when it comes to nutrition, I am more likely to hear, I eat “pretty healthy”. It seems as though most people are quite satisfied with “pretty healthy”. We lower the bar when…
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Podcast: Happy Mother’s Day Special
Welcome! and thank you for listening!. Happy Mother’s day or perhaps Happy Women’s day to all of you who care for humans, animals, neighbors, run households and support others. This is a really short episode wishing all of you a peaceful and healthy day. I hope that includes some exercise because it is important everyday.…
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Blogpost: How TV can Reinforce Misconceptions
Pharmaceutical advertisements are aimed to sell wellness through medications. They are also aimed at diverting the causation of the illnesses, and taking away any power of the individual to influence their diseases. The overweight kind man wants to spend more time with his grandchildren so he takes a diabetic medication or cholesterol medications to control…
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Podcast: Sarasota Vegefest and More
Welcome! and thank you for listening. Addie Majnaric RDN and I attended the Sarasota Vegefest last weekend. We had an information tent, and I was on the physician’s speaker panel and 2 of our members were on the success story panel. I discuss our day and the panel discussions on this podcast. Who goes to…
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Podcast: Mendocino 50K recap and more
Welcome! and Thank you for listening. The Mendocino 50K is in the books. It was a great race with great support and great post race food. It was great to do a vegan race and meet a lot of plant strong people. Slowly more evidence is coming out to support plant based nutrition in…
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Blogpost: You are Not the only One.
A table of 4 sits across from me at a local restaurant. They are all overweight. Their heads are too heavy for their necks to support. There is a marked curvature of their upper backs with their heads coming off 45 degrees to their bodies. It is an effort for them to get up from…