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Wednesday
Dec292010
Caryn Hartglass interviews doctors, nutritionists. athletes, chefs, authors and activists about the connection with our food on health, the environment and animal exploitation.
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Dec222010
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Dec152010
It's All About Food - 12/15/10
December 15, 2010 Download this episode (right click and save)
Whitewash: The Disturbing Truth About Cow's Milk And Your Health with Joseph Keon
Joseph Keon, PhD, has been a wellness consultant and nutrition and fitness expert for over twenty-five years. He is considered a leading authority on public health and has written three books, including Whole Health: The Guide to Wellness of Body and Mind and The Truth About Breast Cancer: A Seven-Step Prevention Plan.
Wednesday
Dec082010
It's All About Food - 12/08/10
December 8, 2010 Download this episode (right click and save)
InGREEDients with David Burton
Raised in the sticks of Southeastern Connecticut, David has always been amazed by the human body and how it functions. Burton received his Associates of Science degree in Nursing in 2005 and has since been working as a registered nurse in the hospital setting on medical, surgical, cardiac, and intensive care units. For 2 years straight he was the President of the International Honors Society, Phi Theta Kappa, and named to the All-Connecticut Academic Team. Now living in Tampa, FL he continues working at a community hospital while pursuing his independent filmmaking career as President and Founder of Sir Rebel Films. David has shot, directed, produced, and edited three short films, two music videos and a documentary. David has spent the past 2 years writing, directing, and editing the documentary inGREEDients, a film that has successfully blended his career as a health care professional with his passion for filmmaking. He is currently focusing all his efforts on getting inGREEDients into every school, health care center and home in America and plans to continue making movies that entertain and make a difference.
Wednesday
Dec012010
It's All About Food - 12/01/10
December 1, 2010 Download this episode (right click and save)
Vegan Unplugged with Robin Robertson
Robin Robertson is a food writer and author of 19 cookbooks. She has worked with food for over 25 years as a restaurant chef, caterer, and cooking teacher. She is a regular columnist for VegNews Magazine and has also written for Vegetarian Time, Cooking Light, Better Nutrition, and Health Naturally, among many others. Her cookbooks include Vegan Planet, Vegan Fire & Spice, 1,000 Vegan Recipes, Vegan on the Cheap, and Party Vegan. She also developed the recipes for Vegan Unplugged, a pantry cookbook and emergency preparedness guide she co-wrote with her husband, Jon Robertson.
Wednesday
Nov242010
It's All About Food - 11/24/10
November 24, 2010 Download this episode (right click and save)
Healthy Food Choices For Families with Cathe Olson
Cathe Olson is the author of several natural foods cookbooks. She has had articles published in national magazines such as Mothering, Natural Awakenings, Vegetarian Voice, and VegFamily Magazines. Cathe is also the Library Media Technician in charge of an elementary school library. She directed the Central Coast Writers’ Conference for four years and has served on the boards of the Central Coast Book and Author Festival, Friends of the Nipomo Library, and SLO Nightwriters. She is currently at work on a fictional chapter book series for children.
Wednesday
Nov172010
It's All About Food - 11/17/10
November 17, 2010 Download this episode (right click and save)
The Queen of Vegan Desserts with Fran Costigan
Fran Costigan is a nationally recognized culinary instructor, author, consultant, recipe developer and innovative pastry chef who marries healthy eating with sumptuous tastes. Fran’s new book, More Great Good Dairy Free Desserts Naturally , offers a complete course in exceptional desserts that are vegan by design, not by taste! Fran’s recipes use organic minimally processed ingredients to make rich, moist cakes, flaky piecrusts, delightful cookies, puddings and more. All are trans fat and cholesterol free and absolutely delicious. A graduate of the New York Restaurant School and the Natural Gourmet Institute, Fran was a pastry chef in both traditional and vegan kitchens. Today Fran teaches her distinctive courses (including her Vegan Baking Boot Camp) in NYC at the Institute of Culinary Education and at the Natural Gourmet Institute, and she presents demonstration classes and lectures at venues throughout the US and Canada. Fran was recently featured making her celebrated "Chocolate Cake to Live For” on the Discovery Health Channel’s show, “Get Fresh With Sara Snow.” Professional affiliations include the New York Women’s Culinary Alliance (NYWCA) , International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP) and Women Chefs and Restaurateurs (WCR) , and she is proud to work with the New York Coalition for Healthy School Foods.
Wednesday
Nov102010
It's All About Food - 11/10/10
November 10, 2010
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Noam Mohr is a physicist at Queens College with degrees from Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania. He has worked on global warming campaigns for the U.S. Public Interest Research Group and EarthSave International, publishing a number of reports on climate change including A New Global Warming Strategy, Flirting with Disaster, Pumping Up the Price, and Storm Warning.
Wednesday
Nov032010
It's All About Food - 11/03/10
November 3, 2010 Download this episode (right click and save)
Kathy Stevens, Founder and Director of Catskill Animal Sanctuary, spent her childhood on a Virginia horse farm. It was in many ways an idyllic youth, one that instilled in her a deep love of and respect for all animals. Kathy left the south for graduate school in Boston, MA, where she spent eleven years as a high school English teacher. In 2000, she was asked to head a charter school in Boston. Instead, one year later, she opened Catskill Animal Sanctuary, one of the country's leading havens for farm animals and a center for raising public awareness of their sentience and their suffering. Kathy lives behind the barn with her dog Hannah, CAS's Director of Canine Pursuits, and her cats Fat Boy and Mouse. She's an avid reader, loves to hike, swim, and bike, and spends rare quiet time with her partner David and her close friends.
Wednesday
Oct272010
It's All About Food - 10/27/10
October 27, 2010 Download this episode (right click and save)
Founders Jenny Brown and Doug Abel moved to Woodstock as full-time residents in May 2004. Doug is a film editor and Jenny previously worked as a producer, director and post-production supervisor. They met while working for the filmmaker Errol Morris in Boston, while Doug played a key role in editing the Academy Award award-winning documentary The Fog of War. Jenny’s credits include work on the PBS series Frontline and Nova, ABC’s 9/11 special Report From Ground Zero, and most recently she produced and directed a show for Discovery Channel’s Extreme Engineering series, A Trans-Atlantic Tunnel. Since the early 90’s, Jenny would occasionally volunteer her time working undercover as a videographer for PETA and Farm Sanctuary. After her last week-long trip undercover visiting stockyards in Texas, she decided to give up her TV career and dedicate her life to helping these animals that society seems to have forgotten. Jenny moved to Watkins Glen, NY, to live and work at Farm Sanctuary and learn all she could about shelter operations. It was that essential experience that gave the couple the confidence to open up a sanctuary of their own.
Wednesday
Oct132010
It's All About Food - 10/20/10
October 13, 2010
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Debbie Merrill is making a name for herself as the Rolling Raw Vegan Guru. As host of her own popular TV show along with her diet program called” Raw Foods On The Roll: Getting America Healthy” she is teaching people how to “eat less and live more” everyday and for the rest of their lives. Having been a vegetarian for 25 years and now what Debbie likes to call a “raw fooder” for 10 years she is finally teaching people her secrets to looking and feeling amazing. Debbie’s Raw Foods On The Roll program is designed around the consumption of food while in its natural state and as she is teaching the world that there are amazing raw food substitutes for all food, even meat! She is educating people on how the nutritional content of food changes once you cook it and how after food reaches a certain temperature a lot of the nutritional value is lost. Raw Foods On The Roll is about eating to look and feel great, the program not only aids in weight loss and improves ones energy but can also help lower blood pressure and cholesterol.
Wednesday
Sep222010
It's All About Food - 10/06/10
September 22, 2010 Download this episode (right click and save)
Husband and wife team Brian and Jody Calvi, are health enthusiasts. Their respective histories with disease and long fights for recovery inspired them to open Farm of Life. They are grateful for the healing journey they’ve experienced, and feel their higher purpose is to give back to others in need. Brian and Jody assist guests, support their healing journey, arrange tours and services. Both Brian and Jody are health coaches. Brian is passionate about fitness, leads cycling tours and is a dynamic workshop facilitator. Jody is responsible for behind-the-scenes action and loves that they made their Costa Rica dream a reality. Brian and Jody together are studying for a PhD in Natural Health and Nutrition.
Wednesday
Sep152010
It's All About Food - 09/15/10
September 15, 2010 Download this episode (right click and save)
James A. May is the founder, President and CEO of Wisdom Natural Brand, producer of SweetLeaf brand products and Wisdom of the Ancients herbal teas. Originally learning from the natives of Paraguay, he is now a recognized authority on several South American herbs. Jim introduced stevia, Yerba Maté and other health-conscious herbal products to the U.S. in 1982 and is considered one of the world’s foremost authorities on these herbs. SweetLeaf brand stevia products are the clear category leader in the U.S. Jim previously held positions as Vice President of United Healthcare Association (UHA), Inc. and President of the United Dialysis Services (UDS), Inc. Jim has participated in numerous professional organizations and activities, including Director of the Artificial Organs and Transplant program at Good Samaritan Hospital in Phoenix, Executive Director and member of the Board of Directors of the Arizona Kidney Foundation and consultant to the Chief of the government’s End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) program in Washington, D.C.
Thursday
Sep092010
It's All About Food - 09/08/10
September 9, 2010 Download this episode (right click and save)
His early life was tumultuous, but changing how he thought about food saved him from the same early death many of his peers faced. Today, almost 30 years since first swearing off meat, John is training for an Ironman Triathlon, rocking insane mosh pits with the Cro-Mags, and hitting the gym every day. Needless to say, he has more energy than most dudes half his age.The knowledge contained in Meat is for Pussies worked for John, and picking up this book can be seen as the first step to transforming your life. To read more about John's amazing journey, pick up his memoir, The Evolution of a Cro-Magnon, available on punkhouse.
Wednesday
Sep012010
It's All About Food - 09/01/10
September 1, 2010 Download this episode (right click and save)
Rhio, a leading proponent of the raw/living foods lifestyle, through her lectures, radio shows and website provides information about health-related issues and raw and living foods. Rhio is also the author of Hooked on Raw, a comprehensive 358-page book on the raw/live food lifestyle. It has 32 chapters, half of which feature 350 gourmet, live food recipes. The other half of the book deals with many pressing issues impacting our health, such as the irradiation of foods, genetic engineering of seeds/plants, and the extensive hybridization of seeds. Other topics covered are the value of organic foods, wild foods and fertile soil; the wonderful, rejuvenating effects of fasting; ideas on how to integrate into a raw/live food lifestyle, and much, much more.
Wednesday
Aug252010
It's All About Food - 08/25/10
August 25, 2010
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Maribeth Abrams is a nutritionist, cooking instructor, public speaker, corporate chef for Vitasoy USA and spokesperson for the North American Vegetarian Society. Known for her enthusiastic demeanor, Maribeth has appeared on radio and television discussing food and nutrition, hosts the cooking DVD Tofu 1-2-3 with Olympic athlete Carl Lewis, and is the author of the cookbook Tofu 1-2-3, the forthcoming 4-Ingredient Vegan, and the column Ask Maribeth in Vegetarian Voice Magazine for which she is also an associate editor. Maribeth provides nutritional counseling for weight loss, detoxification, food allergies, and healthy eating for the treatment and prevention of various diseases. She is a Certified First Line Therapy Lifestyle Educator. Maribeth received her Bachelor’s Degree from Emory University, her Masters Degree from Georgia State University, and her nutrition training from the Global College of Natural Medicine. She is board certified by the American College of Drugless Practitioners.
Wednesday
Aug182010
It's All About Food - 08/18/10
August 18, 2010
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Leading American foraging expert "Wildman" Steve Brill has been guiding foraging tours in and around New York City since 1982, both for the city and independently, but he's best known for having been arrested and handcuffed by undercover park rangers for eating dandelion in Central Park. He also lectures for schools and youth programs, museums, libraries and environmental groups. He is the author of Identifying and Hrvesting Edible and Medicinal Plants in Wild (and Not So Wild)Places, The Wild Vegan Cookbook and Shoots and Greens of Early Spring in Northeastern North America. He has created a wild food Web site, www.wildmanstevebrill.com, produced a video series, Foraging with the "Wildman" and has been profiled numerous times on television shows and in newspapers and magazines.
Wednesday
Aug112010
It's All About Food - 08/11/10
August 11, 2010 Download this episode (right click and save)
Neal Barnard, M.D., is a physician, clinical reseacher, Adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine at the George Washington University of Medicine and principal investigator of a major study on diet and type 2 diabetes, funded by the National Institutes of Health. He is the author of numerous books and has hosted a popular public television program on diabetes. He is the founder and president of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM). Dr. Barnard is also president of The Cancer Project, a nonprofit organization advancing cancer prevention and survival through nutrition education and research.
Wednesday
Aug042010
It's All About Food - 08/04/10
August 4, 2010 Download this episode (right click and save)
Brian M. Delaney is the president of the Calorie Restriction Society International and has studied the CR diet for more than eighteen years.. He lives in New York City and Stockholm.
Wednesday
Jul282010
It's All About Food - 07/28/10
July 28, 2010 Download this episode (right click and save)
Alan Roettinger has been a private chef for over 28 years, serving a broad spectrum of high-profile clients, from entertainers to presidents. A world traveler, he absorbed elements from many cuisines to synthesize a unique, creative, personal style. Alan’s first cookbook, Omega-3 Cuisine, showcases his ability to bring health and flavor together, offering a wide range of dishes that are simultaneously exotic and accessible to the home cook. In Speed Vegan, Alan has kept flavor and health, but expanded these parameters to include quick, easy, and strictly plant-based.
