Some experts express the notion that the necessity for meat for protein and dairy for calcium is not only misguided, but has led the country on a health-destroying path.
Dr. Pam Popper explains the facts and fiction to a plant-based diet and helps you decide whether adopting the diet is right for you.
Plant Based Diet: What Can it Do for You?
Can a plant-based diet control and even flip the direction of life-threatening diseases?
Additional Info
- Segment Number: 1
- Audio File: staying_well/1252sw1a.mp3
- Featured Speaker: Dr. Pam Popper
- Organization: Wellness Forum
- Book Title: Fork Over Knives- The Cookbook
- Guest Website: Fork Over Knives
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Guest Bio:
Dr. Pam Popper is a naturopath, an internationally recognized expert on nutrition, medicine and health, and the Executive Director of The Wellness Forum. The company offers educational programs designed to assist individuals in changing their health outcomes through improved diet and lifestyle habits; to assist employers in reducing the costs of health insurance and medical care for employees; and to educate health care professionals about how to use diet and lifestyle for preventing, reversing, and stopping the progression of degenerative disease.
Dr. Popper is part of Dr. T. Colin Campbell's teaching team at eCornell, teaching part of a certification course on plant-based nutrition. She has been featured in many widely distributed documentaries, including Processed People and Making a Killing and appears in a new film, Forks Over Knives, which opened in major theaters in May 2011. She is one of the co-authors of the companion book which is on the New York Times bestseller list.
Dr. Popper is also a lobbyist and public policy expert, and continually works toward changing laws that interfere with patients' right to choose their health provider and method of care. She has testified in front of legislative committees on numerous occasions, and has testified twice in front of the USDA's Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee. - Length (mins): 10
- Waiver Received: Yes
- Host: Melanie Cole, MS
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