Why you should make “Be Kind to Myself” your #1 New Year’s Resolution
Recently, I received an email from one of my clients, whom I had just introduced to EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques, popularly known these days as ‘tapping’). This woman, whom I’ll call Dixie, has lived a full and interesting life. Along with her many personal and professional achievements have come significant challenges, including a brush with…
International Plant-Based Nutrition Heathcare Conference Round-up – Part 12
Fuelling The Plant-Based Athlete Born to run Dr James (Jim) Loomis knows a thing or two about helping athletes perform at their best. Not only is he a keen triathlete himself, he has also served as team internist for the St. Louis Rams football team and the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team. (He has also…
International Plant-Based Nutrition Heathcare Conference Round-up – Part 11
The Role of Plant-Based Diets in the Treatment of Erectile Dysfunction A hard man is good to find Mae West’s risqué play on the well-worn adage ‘A good man is hard to find’ has always made me giggle. But for men suffering the devastating impact of erectile dysfunction (ED) on their relationships and self-esteem, it’s…
International Plant-Based Nutrition Heathcare Conference Round-up – Part 10
Total Health: A Social Movement I thought I was dreaming… …when Dr Phil Tuso took the stage at the International Plant-Based Nutrition Healthcare Conference. And let me tell you, it was a good dream! Dr Tuso is the National Clinical Lead for Total Health with the Care Management Institute of Kaiser Permanente, the largest health maintenance…
International Plant-Based Nutrition Heathcare Conference Round-up – Part 9
The Garden of the Gut: Cultivating Optimal GI Function Through Plant-Based Nutrition Are you growing weeds or flowers in the garden of your gut? Dr Michael Klaper is one of my favourite plant-based docs. A wonderfully gentle, humble and generous man, he epitomises the ideal of the old-style family doctor – someone with all the…
International Plant-Based Nutrition Heathcare Conference Round-up – Part 8
Two Sources of a Serious Misunderstanding of Nutrition Do you notice what you’re swimming in? Professor T. Colin Campbell should need no introduction to students of plant-based nutrition. The co-author of the seminal books The China Study, The Low-Carb Fraud and Whole, Professor Campbell has published over 300 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals, throughout a…
International Plant-Based Nutrition Heathcare Conference Round-up – Part 7
Whitewashed: How Industry and Government Promote Dairy Junk Foods How your taxes help push junk food to kids Michele Simon is a remarkable woman. With degrees in biology, public health and law, she has devoted her career to holding the processed food and alcohol industries to account for the multitude of ways in which they…
International Plant-Based Nutrition Heathcare Conference Round-up – Part 6
Can Nutrition Reverse Cardiovascular Disease: Fact or Fiction? The biggest lie ever told about heart disease Dr Caldwell Esselstyn – affectionately know as ‘Essie’ to his family, friends and patients – is a living legend in the field of nutritional medicine. The extraordinary results he has achieved with so-called ‘cardiac cripples’ (people whose heart disease…
International Plant-Based Nutrition Heathcare Conference Round-up – Part 5
Solving Diabetes: The Sweet Spot of Plant-Based Nutrition What’s the best diet for preventing and reversing type 2 diabetes? Dr Scott Stoll left the audience of over 400 doctors, nurses, dietitians, nutritionists, naturopaths, health coaches, personal trainers and lay people from 15 countries attending the conference in no doubt about the answer to this question:…
Good mood food
Depression, anxiety, feelings of overwhelm and general stress are modern-day epidemics. Yet when people go to see a doctor or psychologist about their mental health, they are hardly ever asked what they eat. According to this fascinating study, that’s a huge mistake. Researchers at Arizona State University have found that a diet free of all flesh…