PYP 015: Juan Carlos Asse: UnSuperSize Me and Escaping Our Various Prisons

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PYP 015: Juan Carlos Asse: UnSuperSize Me and Escaping Our Various Prisons

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Mar 11, 2014

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Award-winning film-maker and fitness trainer Juan Carlos (Carly) Asse had everything going for him. High school valedictorian, good-looking, popular, and enjoying college in Florida on a tennis scholarship.

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Mar 11, 2014

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Better Than Vegan: Del Sroufe on PYP 003: 10 years ago, Del Sroufe ate his way to 475 pounds - on a vegan diet! Now, 200+ pounds thinner (and counting), Chef Del is the culinary genius behind the Forks Over Knives cookbook. by Plant Yourself - Embracing a Plant-based Lifestyle
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It's Never Too Late: Char Nolan on PYP 004: Howard had a lovely chat with the kind and courageous Char Nolan, Connector at Real Food Works and powerful promoter of a plant-based diet in the Philadelphia area. by Plant Yourself - Embracing a Plant-based Lifestyle
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The Magic of Sriracha, and Learning to Love Our Veggies: Randy Clemens on PYP 005: Randy Clemens is the Sriracha-loving author of two Sriracha-based cookbooks. (In case you haven't tried it, Sriracha sauce is a fairly spicy, totally amazing Vietnamese hot sauce that has generated a cult following in the past few years.) Randy's first book was a general introduction to Sriracha cooking. His latest, The Veggie-Lover's Sriracha Cookbook, is dedicated to getting us to eat - and love - our veggies. In this fun chat, Randy and Howard bond over hot sauce, discuss cool (and totally crazy) uses of Sriracha, and wax philosophical about how a condiment can change the world. by Plant Yourself - Embracing a Plant-based Lifestyle
51 min listen
PYP 011: Dreena Burton: Plant-based cookbook author, mother, and hummus lover: Dreena Burton is the author of one of my favorite plant-based cookbooks: Eat, Drink & Be Vegan. by Plant Yourself - Embracing a Plant-based Lifestyle
54 min listen
Goodbye Diabetes: Dr Wes Youngberg on PYP 007: Dr. Wes Youngberg, author of Goodbye Diabetes, was just a boy when his mother died of cancer. At the age of 13, he was already obsessed with discovering and mitigating his own risk factors of disease. by Plant Yourself - Embracing a Plant-based Lifestyle
53 min listen
PYP 020: Dr. Ana Negron: The Living Experience of Healthy Eating: Dr. Ana Negron is a family physician in the Philadelphia area who treats her patients with healthy food, empowerment, community, and love. by Plant Yourself - Embracing a Plant-based Lifestyle
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Healthy by Choice, Not by Chance: Hans Diehl on PYP 006: Hans Diehl is founder of CHIP (The Complete Health Improvement Program), a 30-day health education program that has been changing lives for the better for decades. In this interview, Hans and Howard discuss the simple and incredibly powerful health effects of a few simple choices. by Plant Yourself - Embracing a Plant-based Lifestyle
78 min listen
PYP 016: Brian Wendel: Producer of Forks Over Knives: Today I had a lovely chat with the amazing Brian Wendel, creator of the #1 amazon bestselling documentary Forks Over Knives. by Plant Yourself - Embracing a Plant-based Lifestyle
22 min listen
PYP 014: Cathy Fisher on Straight Up Food: Cathy Fisher's plant-based food blog, StraightUpFood.com, is a popular and delicious source of whole food, plant-based recipes. by Plant Yourself - Embracing a Plant-based Lifestyle
36 min listen
PYP 021: Dustin Rudolph, the Plant-Based Pharmacist, on Getting Healthy Without Pills: When we get sick, most of us go to the doctor. And most of the time, the doctor prescribes a pill. Or two. Or a whole handful. by Plant Yourself - Embracing a Plant-based Lifestyle
60 min listen
PYP 031: Sharon McRae on Healthy Eating Made Easy: Sharon McRae runs Eat Well, Stay Well, a plant-based health coaching service. She's an expert at balancing a full life with feeding her family (busy husband and three kids) well, and knows how to help others transition to a healthy plant-based lifestyle. by Plant Yourself - Embracing a Plant-based Lifestyle
22 min listen
PYP 018: Brenda Davis: Defeating Diabetes and Debunking Paleo: Brenda Davis is a plant-based Registered Dietitian, and co-author of eight books, including Defeating Diabetes and Becoming Vegan. by Plant Yourself - Embracing a Plant-based Lifestyle
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PYP 040: Nava Atlas: Plant-based Cooking, Holidays, Greens, and Transitioning Your Pantry: I had a lovely chat with legendary cookbook author Nava Atlas, whose first vegetarian cookbook was published in 1984! (Had tofu even been invented then? ;) by Plant Yourself - Embracing a Plant-based Lifestyle
39 min listen
PYP 054: Joel Kahn, MD on The Whole Heart Solution: Joel Kahn, MD is a preventive cardiologist, a rare breed in Western medicine. He's the author of The Whole Heart Solution, available for purchase on September 16, 2014. by Plant Yourself - Embracing a Plant-based Lifestyle
71 min listen
PYP 029: Jessica Porter on the Diet that Cannot Be Named (on NBC prime time, anyway): Jessica Porter is co-author of The Kind Diet, with Alicia Silverstone, and the author of The Hip Chick's Guide to Macrobiotics, and the recently published The MILF Diet. by Plant Yourself - Embracing a Plant-based Lifestyle
44 min listen
PYP 013: Chef AJ: Unprocessed and Utterly Transformed: Chef AJ is well known in the plant-based world for her entertaining and bawdy cooking demos. She sings, does handstands, tells dirty jokes about kale and avocados (really), and wows audiences with her energy, fitness, and lean and radiant demeanor. by Plant Yourself - Embracing a Plant-based Lifestyle
83 min listen
PYP 028: Jill Nussinow: The Veggie Queen Demystifies the Pressure Cooker: Jill Nussinow, aka The Veggie Queen, has been helping people eat healthy and delicious for over 20 years. by Plant Yourself - Embracing a Plant-based Lifestyle
39 min listen
PYP 038: Ocean Robbins: Leverage, Kindness, and Justice: Ocean Robbins co-founded YES! (Youth for Environmental Sanity) at the age of 16, and hasn't slowed down since. He's co-founder, with his dad John Robbins (author of Diet for a New America and many other awesome books), of the Food Revolution Network, which advocates and educates about food justice, safety, compassion, and sustainability. by Plant Yourself - Embracing a Plant-based Lifestyle
48 min listen
PYP 037: Ruth Heidrich: 78-Year-Old Breast Cancer Survivor, Triathlete, and Marathoner: Today I got to fulfill one of my dreams - I spent an hour on the phone with Dr. Ruth Heidrich, one of the fittest women in the world (of any age). by Plant Yourself - Embracing a Plant-based Lifestyle
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PYP 044: Julieanna Hever on Raising Healthy Kids in a Junk-food World: Julieanna Hever is the author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Plant-Based Nutrition. She hosts Veria Network's "What Would Julieanna Do?", is the nutrition columnist for VegNews.com, and is a frequent guest on The Doctor Oz Show. by Plant Yourself - Embracing a Plant-based Lifestyle
28 min listen
PYP 033: Ronda Collier on Heart Rate Variability and the hidden causes of weight gain and “falling off the wagon”: Ronda Collier is CEO and founder of Sweetwater Health, a technology company that sells a couple of neat little iPhone apps called SweetbeatLife and Sweetbeat. by Plant Yourself - Embracing a Plant-based Lifestyle
36 min listen
PYP 035: Mary Wendt, MD: Get Waisted: After Mary Wendt had been practicing medicine for several years, she discovered that despite exercising like crazy and eating "right" (lots of meat for protein and dairy for calcium), she was pre-diabetic and had dangerously high cholesterol. by Plant Yourself - Embracing a Plant-based Lifestyle
47 min listen

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PYP 015: Juan Carlos Asse: UnSuperSize Me and Escaping Our Various Prisons

PYP 015: Juan Carlos Asse: UnSuperSize Me and Escaping Our Various Prisons

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