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Dr. Shayla Toombs-Withers, plant-based doctor

Duncan — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 04:00:28 +0000

Dr. Shayla Toombs-Withers, who runs a medical clinic in Chattanooga, Tenn. called The Essence of Health Wellness Clinic, describes her plant-based, concierge-style medical practice.

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Mark Reinfeld, vegan chef, author & educator

Duncan — Wed, 29 Jun 2022 04:00:36 +0000

Mark Reinfeld— the award-winning vegan chef and author of numerous books, including “Healing The Vegan Way: Plant-Based Eating for Optimal Health and Wellness”—returns to the show, this time offering more early biographical information than we’ve discussed in past conversations. This includes growing up in Stony Brook, Long Island, where he and his family ate a […]

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Kristie Middleton, author of Meatless: Transform the Way You Eat and Live—One Meal at a Time”

Duncan — Wed, 22 Mar 2017 04:00:35 +0000

Kristie Middleton—the Senior Director of Food Policy for the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), and author of the new book “Meatless: Transform the Way You Eat and Live—One Meal at a Time”–discusses her job at HSUS, and what the duties entail. Middleton, who’s done animal rights/welfare work for many years, and earlier in […]

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Dr. Michael Greger, nutrition wiz & author of “How Not To Die”

Duncan — Wed, 17 Feb 2016 05:00:15 +0000

Dr. Michael Greger—the physician, author, speaker, internationally-recognized expert on nutrition, and majordomo of NutritionFacts.org—recounts how his Grandma’s story of being riddled with heart disease in her 60s, all but written off by her doctors, embraced the diet then being pioneered by Nathan Pritikin, saw her condition improve dramatically, living into her 90s, and in the […]

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Internationally-noted nutrition expert Dr. Michael Greger

Duncan — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 09:31:57 +0000

Dr. Michael Greger–physican, author and internationally-noted expert on nutrition and public health issues–reviews some of the notable and positive developments he discussed a few weeks prior in a panel entitled “Advances In Farm Animal Protection” at the Taking Action For Animals conference in Washington, DC. Dr. Greger, who also serves as The […]

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Brian Wendel – Creator and executive producer of “Forks Over Knives”

Duncan — Wed, 25 May 2011 15:00:59 +0000

Brian Wendel – the creator and executive producer of “Forks Over Knives,” a powerful, acclaimed new documentary that presents an array of scientific and anecdotal evidence that most degenerative diseases (heart disease, Type 2 Diabetes, some cancers) can be controlled, if not reversed, by adopting a whole foods, plant-based diet– discusses the impetus to he […]

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Dr. Neal Barnard, M.D.–founder of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine

Duncan — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 15:00:31 +0000

Dr. Neal Barnard, M.D.–who in 1985 founded the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), a nonprofit organization that promotes, among other things, a plant-based diet, preventative medicine, higher standards of ethics and effectiveness in research (and, overlapping that objective, ending animal research)–discusses the impact of President Clinton talking enthusiastically in national interviews […]

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