Healthy Human Revolution

How many of us think about the food that our children are eating on a daily basis or much less how that accumulates over a week? Would you be surprised how much junk food your child is consuming? Would you do anything about it? These are the exact questions that Gregg Segal's book, Daily Bread, stirs in the consciousness of any adult who looks at these amazing photos. I was so moved by the photos that I bought the book and then of course I had to speak to Mr. Segal about this fascinating project of chronicling what children around the world ate for one week. Here is the description on Mr. Segal's website, "In an 8 x 8 aluminum hut on a construction site outside Mumbai, Anchal Sahni sits down to dinner with her family: homemade aloo bhindo (okra and potatoes simmered in curry) and chapati (flatbread) with a side of lentils. Anchal has a healthier diet than many middle-class kids in India, who can afford to eat out. In Mumbai, a medium Dominoes pizza runs 13 bucks – about 3 times what Anchal’s father earns a day. Sensing a sea change in Western attitudes about diet and the effects of junk food, fast food companies have begun investing heavily in foreign markets where public awareness isn’t as keen – and Big Macs aren’t junk – they’re a status symbol. In 2015, Cambridge University conducted an exhaustive study, identifying countries with the healthiest diets in the world. 9 of the top 10 countries are in Africa, where vegetables, fruit, nuts, legumes, grains are staples and meals are homemade, a stark contrast to the US where nearly 60% of the calories we consume come from ultraprocessed foods and only 1% come from vegetables. As globalization alters our relationship to food, I’m making my way around the world, asking kids to keep a journal of everything they eat in a week. Once the week is up, I make a portrait of the child with the food arranged around them. I’m focusing on kids because eating habits, which form when we’re young, last a lifetime and often pave the way to chronic health problems like diabetes, heart disease and colon cancer. Despite growing awareness here in the US about the harm of eating processed foods, awareness hasn’t yet led to widespread change. Obesity rates are still soaring. 40 years ago, 1 out of 40 kids were obese. Today, 10 in 40 are. Since corn syrup came along, the incidence of diabetes has tripled. For the first time in many generations, life expectancy in America is declining and the main culprit is empty calories. I’ve been encouraged to find regions and communities where slow food will never be displaced by junk food, where home cooked meals are the bedrock of family and culture, where love and pride are sensed in the aromas of broths, stews and curries. When the hand that stirs the pot is mom or dad, grandma or grandma, kids are healthier. The deeper goal of Daily Bread is to be a catalyst for change and link to a growing, grassroots community that is moving the needle on diet." Gregg Segal studied photography and film at California Institute of the Arts (BFA) dramatic writing at New York University (MFA) and education at The University of Southern California (MA). Segal approaches his work with the sensibility of a sociologist – using the medium to explore culture – our identity, memory, behavior, roles, beliefs, and values. His photography utilizes stark contrast and juxtaposition to engage viewers and provoke reflection. He draws on his background in writing and film to make pictures that are single frame dramas with a sense of something that has or is about to happen. Learn more about Gregg Segal's work here. http://greggsegal.com Thanks as always for listening! We appreciate all who allow us to be apart of your busy lives. Want to learn more about how to get your kids to eat healthier? Check out http://healthyhumanrevolution.com we have all the resources you need to get your kids to eat healthier!

In this interview Jason interviews Dr. Steven Lome who is a Chicago area Cardiologist who has lost over 90lbs. Dr. Lome has seen the amazing power of a plant based diet to change his own life as well as many of his patients. He currently works in the Rush University Healthy System alongside Dr. Kim Williams and more information can be found on Dr. Lome at https://www.heartstrong.com

Meet my friend, Matt Tullman, a vegan/plant-based entrepreneur. Matt has launched and sold businesses and currently working with Matt Frazier, the No Meat Athlete. They have launched a vegan supplement that is excellent! I tell you this because first I take it and give it to my family and second because it meets all the possible needs of someone who is vegan or strictly plant-based. Matt has tremendous integrity as do his partners. You can check out the link below to order and if you use the code heatlhyhumanrev it will save you some money! Matt is also a vegan business advisor and athlete himself. We had an awesome discussion about a wide variety of topics including parenting as Matt has new little one at home. We had a great time and I am looking forward to bringing Matt back on to continue our discussion. Learn more at http://alpineorganics.com Don't forget about the first Healthy Human Revolution conference in partnership with John Pierre from Living with Harmony and Chloe Stein from Chloe's Clean Cuisine! You don't want to miss this one. You have never been to a plant based conference like this one! Time is running out for registration. Click here now to learn more! https://www.healthyhumanrevolution.com/pblconference Also, I wrote a special blog just about supplements if you want to learn more click here. https://blog.healthyhumanrevolution.com/do-you-need-to-take-a-supplement-as-a-vegan/

In this special episode the Healthy Human Revolution team, Laurie, Jason and Anthony share some VERY EXCITING news! Have you ever felt like giving up on the plant based diet or creating healthy habits? Are you struggling with not enough time, money, lack of inspiration or don't even know where to start? Here’s what to do. Join us at the Plant-based Living Conference. We have joined forces with John Pierre and Chloe Stein to bring you the most useful and unique plant-based conference! This conference will help you right where you are NOW and help you figure out what YOU need and want to do. You will learn the most important and vital steps to make your journey a success. Learn to focus on the small behaviors and decisions every day that will lead to the outcome you desire. Click here to learn more! https://www.healthyhumanrevolution.com/pblconference We also want to up date you on the expansion of our mission to help you even more! Don't forget click here to learn more about this opportunity before time runs out! https://www.healthyhumanrevolution.com/pblconference

(Hey, check out the link below for our first ever conference information!) I am so thrilled to share this interview of my dear friend, Marco Borges. Marco is a New York Times bestselling author and CEO of 22 Days Nutrition, Marco Borges introduces one of the most inclusive, practical, and revolutionary plant-based lifestyle plans – The Greenprint. By following its 22 proven effective guidelines, you will shift your mindset, improve your health, lose weight, and impact the planet for the better. Accessible and easy-to-follow, The Greenprint is a movement to embrace your absolute best and healthiest life. Through his more than two decades of experience working with clients, including some of the world’s biggest celebrities, and spearheading exercise and nutrition research, Borges developed the groundbreaking “22 Laws of Plants,” which he’s determined are the most important plant-based diet, exercise, and lifestyle secrets for losing weight, increasing energy, boosting metabolism, and reducing inflammation, not to mention helping minimize your carbon imprint to help the planet. The Greenprint outlines three simple, step-by-step plans to implement the 22 Laws into your life, depending on where you are on your journey. Whether you are ready for a gradual shift or excited to tackle them all full-on, in just weeks you will be on your way to a healthier, cleaner approach to eating that includes plenty of whole grains, bountiful veggies, legumes, nuts and more. You’ll also find meal plans, more than 60 delicious recipes, countless tips, and inspirational stories to help you along the way. Take control of your diet, create your own Greenprint and forever alter your weight, your health and the planet. WE HAVE SOME EXCITING NEWS! We are having our first Healthy Human Revolution conference and we are partnering with John Pierre (trainer to stars like Ellen DeGeneres and Emily Deschanel) and Chloe Stein, an amazing and talented plant based chef. This conference will help you right where you are NOW and help you figure out what YOU need and want to do. You will learn the most important and vital steps to make your journey a success. Learn to focus on the small behaviors and decisions every day that will lead to the outcome you desire. We value your time and we have brought together 5 experts to help you learn the essentials. No more fluff! We get down to the nitty gritty details of how to live a healthy life! Click below to learn more! Hope to see you there! https://www.healthyhumanrevolution.com/pblconference

Five million 18-34 year olds took up gardening in 2016, and 37% of all millennials own plants. The houseplant trend is poised to explode on an international scale, becoming less of a trend and more of a global movement. According to the New York Times, the original "plantfluencer" behind the sudden outburst of enthusiasm might be Summer Rayne Oakes. Summer Rayne is an environmental scientist, entrepreneur, model and author of the new book "How to Make a Plant Love You: Cultivate Green Space in Your Home and Heart." Summer Rayne keeps over 1000 live houseplants in her tiny Brooklyn apartment. She even installed a sub-irrigation system and helpful watering hacks, such as a 150-foot expandable hose that connects to pipes under her kitchen sink, so she only has to spend 30 minutes a day tending to her plants-an activity that she describes as a "moving meditation." Do not be mistaken in thinking this book is only about how to grow houseplants, it much more about mindfulness, psychological benefits of being in the presence and caring for plants. I was blown away by the testimonials in her book about individuals with anxiety and depression feeling alive again by caring for their plants. Summer Rayne is such a beautiful soul inside and out and I absolutely had a delightful and insightful conversation. I am certain we could have talked for hours and she inspired me to buy my own plants again as I have not owned any for many years. Learn more about Summer Rayne here: http://homesteadbrooklyn.com On IG as @homesteadbrooklyn On YouTube as Summer Rayne Oakes I hope you enjoy this conversation is much as I did! Summer Rayne was absolutely a delight and looking forward to watching her future success. Thank you for listening and if you want to learn more about how plants can radically improve your health check out our free 7 day course at https://www.healthyhumanrevolution.com/store/HQv6KMvT

Meet the lovely Kristin Kaelber, MD, PhD who is authentic and honest about a difficult subject of physician burnout and her personal journey. She describes how yoga science has brought her peace to her mind, heart and soul. Dr. Kaelber is a graduate of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics in Cleveland, Ohio. She received her PhD in Developmental Neurosciences from Case Western and currently serves as a member of the AMI Department of Medical Education. Dr. Kaelber has been practicing Yoga Science as Holistic Mind/Body Medicine since 2015. She shares her journey in a moving article, "Rediscover Your Love of Medicine and Life," and it can be found here. https://americanmeditation.org/rediscover-your-love-of-medicine-and-life/ She is also a speaker at the American Meditation Institute and you can learn more here. https://americanmeditation.org/physicians-cme-conference/ As always thank you for listening and I hope you enjoy this conversation is much as I did. Please learn more about how you too can reach your optimal health at http://healthyhumanrevolution.com.

Toni Okamoto is the founder of Plant Based on a Budget, the popular website, food blog, and meal plan that shows you how to save dough by eating veggies. She’s also the author of The Super Easy Vegan Slow Cooker Cookbook, and the co-author of The Friendly Vegan Cookbook. Plant Based on a Budget has been featured in Reader’s Digest, US News and World Report, and more. Toni is also a regular presence on the FOX affiliate in Sacramento, where she teaches viewers how to break their meat habit without breaking their budget, and she also appears in the popular documentary, What the Health. There are a lot of reasons to eat more plants, and a lot of misconceptions about what that means. What Toni does at Plant-Based on a Budget is to show how affordable, easy, and delicious eating a plant-based diet can be, how you don’t have to shop at specialty grocery stores or restock your pantry with all kinds of unfamiliar products and substitutes, and, most of all, how you don’t have to sacrifice time, taste, or money in the pursuit of healthier, tastier eating. Toni was an absolute delight to speak to and I hope you enjoy and learn as much as I do that eating healthy can be done on a very tight budget. Check out Toni at http://plantbasedonabudget.com and at http://PlantBasedMealPlan.com On Instagram @plantbasedonabudget On Facebook https://www.facebook.com/PlantBasedOnABudget/ Want to learn more about the resources and mission of Healthy Human Revolution? Not sure how to start on a plant based diet? We got you covered...check out our free 7 day course all about starting on a whole food plant based diet. Not sure where to eat...it is in there, curious about nutrients in foods, supplements, eating out, pantry essentials and more...it is all available in our 7 day course and there is much more on our blog and other courses and downloads. Check it out! Share with your friends! Who doesn't want to share the message of health? Find us here http://healthyhumanrevolution.com

Disillusioned with the unsustainable, reactionary, “sick-care” nature of conventional medicine, Dr. Casey Means (MD) LEFT her ENT surgical residency in her 5th and final year in order to devote her life and practice to Functional Medicine, and to help lead the movement towards a more sustainable model of healthcare. On this episode, she shares about why she walked away from surgery, what it really means to “fix” a disease and our skewed perspective of what is considered “heroic” in conventional medicine, and why a “food is medicine” approach is the future of healthcare. Through Functional Medicine, she draws on her background in genetics, systems and network biology, and a passion for nutrition to help patients understand the root-causes underlying disease. She aims to shift the paradigm to practicing medicine in a way that restores biologic functioning and empowers patients to “heal from within” through evidence based approaches in diet and lifestyle, rather than just symptom management. She received her undergraduate and medical degrees with honors from Stanford University, where she was class president, published numerous peer reviewed articles, and was awarded the university’s top Human Biology research award. She writes about plant based nutrition on her Instagram account @drcaseyskitchen, and sees patients in her Functional Medicine private practice in Oregon (and soon to be seeing patients in California, as well). You can find more information about her practice at http://www.caseymeansmd.com. I hope you enjoyed this conversation as much as I did! Please check out her site and if you want more help on how to get started on the plant based diet, how to raise healthy children, recipes and much more check us out at http://healthyhumanrevolution.com.

Health care professionals - from doctors to therapists to coaches – are starting to understand that mindfulness can be an effective new tool to help their patients overcome health issues, build healthier habits, and create better long-term outcomes. But what exactly *is* mindfulness? What is the evidence behind it? What conditions does it help with? And how do you introduce it to your patients or clients in a way that fits into your already busy schedule? Dr. Brewer put together a new 7-module video course to answer these questions. https://www.drjud.com/health-care-provider-course/ The course will help primary care and other health care providers understand how our brains form unhealthy habits that lead to common yet difficult to treat conditions such as obesity and anxiety, what mindfulness is (and isn’t), how mindfulness works in the brain to effect behavior change, what the current evidence base is behind it, how it can help us “hack” our brains for better health, and how you can apply the learnings to your patients. Even if you are not a healthcare provider you will learn from this series. I encourage everyone to check it out. Thanks, as always for listening and don't forget to check us out at http://healthyhumanrevolution.com for free stuff, join the Healthy Human Nation, get free recipes and see what we are up to next!

This is a story of a mother on a mission. A mission to to change an industry and a culture. Meet Audrey Sanchez, Executive Director and Founder of Balanced. This story begins with the birth of Audrey's daughter and the pull to make the world a better place for her. ​ Becoming a mother changed everything for her including a shift of her focus shifted to public health and our food system. As a former educator, she knew firsthand the impact that nutrition has on the quality of a child's life. She watched parents struggle to feed their children well in a food system designed to create disease with highly processed foods. Hence came the motivation to change things and the birth of Balanced.org, a place to learn how every day parents can learn how to advocate for healthy school meals. I had such a wonderful conversation with Audrey, learning about her mission and drive to help others. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Please learn more at http://balanced.org. As always thank yo for listening and if you want to learn more about the healthiest diet on the world we have all you need at http://healthyhumanrevolution.com. Don't forget to sign up for our free emails for recipes and so much more!

Dr. Andrew Freeman is a friend of mine and I am so excited to share with you his amazing work as the Director of the Cardiovascular Prevention and Wellness at National Jewish in Denver, CO. Dr. Freeman combines both traditional Western medicine with a holistic approach on overall wellness and disease prevention through a combination of advanced cardiology diagnostics and lifestyle medicine in the form of a whole foods plant-based diet (vegan diet), regular exercise, mindfulness and support. He has been often nicknamed “The Vegan Cardiologist,” and his approach which integrates the latest evidenced-based medicine and lifestyle medicine achieves excellent results for his patients. He started his website VeganCardiologist.com in 2014 where he shares helpful information and recipes. If you would like to see Dr. Freeman as a patient you can schedule an appointment at NJHealth.org or call 303-398-1355. VeganCardiologist.com started in 2014, to help enable the public to use food as medicine and reduce dependence on medicines, procedures, and bad outcomes. Founded by Andrew Freeman, MD, FACC, a preventive cardiologist in Denver, CO. As always we want to thank you for listening to us! Please share this podcast with your friends and family as it could save a life. Are you struggling with a weight? Want to learn more about a plant based diet? We have the solution for you! Check out our free course at http://healthyhumanrevolution.com

“Health is having a body that moves without pain, breathes without distress and allows us to perform the activities of life with complete presence and focused energy. Then, we can love fully and enjoy our lives to the fullest.” - Dr. Michael Klaper Dr. Michael Klaper is a gifted clinician, internationally-recognized teacher, and sought-after speaker on diet and health. Dr. Klaper is an author and has produced numerous health videos, webinars and dozens of articles for both scientific journals and the popular press. He has practiced medicine around the world most recently at True North in California. But now he has been called to follow a new horizon, in awakening tomorrow’s young physicians to the power of plant-based healing. All who seek to heal — patients and practitioners alike — must start with the reality that our daily food choices can either foster good health or spawn dangerous diseases. Yet, most Western-trained physicians practice medicine as if what our patients are eating has no effect upon the diseases they seek to cure.The Moving Medicine Forward initiative is bringing the revolutionary ideas of disease reversal through plant-based nutrition and lifestyle medicine to medical schools across the country! In this interview Dr. Klaper and I discuss his journey and his current focus of leading a new generation of physicians. I hope you enjoy this delightful conversation as much as I did because Dr. Klaper is a rare kind and humble soul. Please stop by http://doctorklaper.com to learn about the Moving Medicine Forward movement and how you can help! Thank you for listening and please share this podcast with anyone you think would enjoy it. Don't forget there are amazing resources at http://healthyhumanrevolution.com and find us on Facebook and Instagram where we share daily inspiration, recipes, and motivation to find your way to the healthiest you!

Dr. Jud Brewer (MD PhD) is one of my favorite people to interview because I learn so much with every conversation. Dr. Brewer is a cofounder of MindSciences, and his work is focused on the field of habit change and the “science of self-mastery”, combining over 20 years of experience with mindfulness training and a career in scientific research. He is passionate about understanding how our brains work, and how to use that knowledge to help people make deep, permanent change in their lives — with the goal of reducing suffering in the world at large. Dr. Jud is the Director of Research and Innovation at the Mindfulness Center and associate professor in psychiatry at the School of Medicine at Brown University, as well as a research affiliate at MIT. Before that, he held research and teaching positions at Yale University and the University of Massachusetts’ Center for Mindfulness. In this conversation we talk about everybody's everyday addictions...yes you read that right...you have addictions as do I and Dr. Brewer has a brilliant way for us to identify them and conquer them. I hope you enjoy this interview and we hope to continue to bring more Dr. Jud conversations to you soon. You can learn more about Dr. Brewer, his work, apps that can help you, watch his amazing TED talk and much more at http://DrJud.com Please share this conversation with your family and friends. We appreciate your support and don't forget to subscribe to our channel or podcast to get interviews, videos and more. Want to learn more about the whole food plant based diet don't forget to check out our free resources at http://healthyhumanrevolution.com.

Many of you may have heard or seen the documentaries, Earthlings and Unity, but you may not know much about the man behind them, Shaun Monson. Shaun is a California native who wanted to be a filmmaker and in 1999 founded the company Nation Earth. (http://www.nationearth.com) The title of the company signifies the intention of his content — projects that bring the world together. He has finished two documentaries of a trilogy. EARTHLINGS is a film for Animals, released in 2005. The definitive animal rights film narrated by three-time Academy Award Nominee Joaquin Phoenix and featuring music by Moby. UNITY, a film for Humankind, released in 2015. The sequel to EARTHLINGS featuring a cast of 100 celebrity narrators. It is a film on the subject of duality, (i.e., why humans can’t get along with each other, the animals, or their environment). Then the final documentary will be BEINGS, a film for Nature, to be released in 2020. This was an incredible conversation that was inspiring, thought provoking and enjoyable! I hope you find it encouraging too, because each of us can make a difference. Thank you for listening and please don't forget to share and rate our podcast where you listen! Want to learn more about a leading a healthy life and a whole food plant based diet? Check out http://healthyhumanrevolution.com