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A recent study found a three-way link between antibiotic use in infants, changes in gut bacteria, and disease later in life.
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- Segment Number 1
- Audio File healthy_talk/1523ht3a.mp3
- Featured Speaker Mike Smith, MD
- Organization Life Extension
- Guest Website Healthy Talk MD
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RadioMD Presents: Healthy Talk | Original Air Date: June 3, 2015
Host: Michael Smith, MD
Anti-aging and disease prevention radio is right here on RadioMD. Here's author, blogger, lecturer and national medical media personality, Dr. Michael Smith, M.D. with Healthy Talk.
DR. MIKE: So, is giving antibiotics to infants safe? Or for that matter, babies and toddlers? Granted there are times when antibiotics are absolutely necessary. Bacterial meningitis, for instance, or pneumonia – bacterial pneumonia. There are times when antibiotics are absolutely necessary, but we also know we are overusing them. And not just in us, by the way, also in livestock where we eventually get our chicken and our beef. We are definitely over using them. So, what about when your child, your infant, baby or toddler, simply just has the sniffles--some sinus stuff going on, or weird stuff draining out of their nose? Does that automatically mean we need to be using antibiotics?
Some new research is showing that infant antibiotic use--and I think we can extrapolate this to babies and toddlers, but this study was focusing on infants, so I'm going to stick with that target population--infant antibiotic use is linked to diseases later in life, adult diseases. I am pulling this report from a publication called Vertical New Science and they are summarizing some research that was published in the Journal of Cell Host and Microbe from the University of Minnesota. What they found was a three-way link among antibiotic use in infants, changes in the gut bacteria and diseases later in life.
The change in gut bacteria, the term for that is called dysbiosis, and I might refer to that throughout this segment. Dysbiosis is simply where you have an imbalance in the gut flora. That is just another way of saying gut bacteria, even some healthy yeast species. That dysbiosis has been linked already, for instance, in adults to diseases, infections and allergies, autoimmune disorders, obesity.
Now, the question becomes, if we start to change the normal gut flora--that balance--really early in life, like in infants, is that dysbiosis we're creating there going to cause some of these same diseases? Or does it increase the risk for some of these adult diseases later in life? The answer to that is "yes". The purpose of this study--the methodology and the execution of the study--was put together by a graduate student. I don't have his or her name here. But again, the University of Minnesota, in the Biomedical Informatics and Computational Biology Program. Wow! So, things are getting really fancy in college.
When I was going through we had biology and microbiology. What this student did, of course, with the help of other researchers, I'm sure, is they developed a predictive model. The reason they have to say it that way is you can't really study infants like this.
So, you have to look at the information that is already out there. You've got to put it together in a mathematical formula that then can predict what would happen if you have dysbiosis in an infant.
So, they developed that model. They developed the math involved which definitely has a lot of clinical application, I think, in the future. They developed a predictive model that could measure how the normal gut flora develops and what antibiotics would do to that and, eventually, does that cause disease later in life. It is a really interesting study that they put together.
If you look at the hypothesis, they start off by reminding us that antibiotics are by far the most commonly prescription drugs given to children. They account for about one-fourth of all medication prescribed to kids with a third of these prescriptions considered unnecessary. That is a common statistic even put out by our own government that about a third of antibiotic prescriptions are not necessary. What
I mean by that is, you have a viral infection that is causing some sniffles and cough and cold, but the doctor wants to do something. Doctors, especially pediatricians, they don't like to tell parents, "Well just go wait it out. Lots of fluids. Rest." That is really hard for parents.
Parents want something to be done. I think we are all kind of responsible here. The parent wants something done, the doctor, knowing that this is probably a viral infection, still writes the prescription for an antibiotic. So, we are overusing these drugs. Studies have shown, over and over again, profound short- and long-term effects of using antibiotics when they are unnecessary and causing dysbiosis.
The question becomes, though, in this study, in this predictive model, that the researchers and this graduate student from the University of Minnesota were looking at was really: can we prove that using the antibiotics, especially when it is unnecessary, truly causes dysbiosis in the infant and that down the line increases the risk for adult disease? That's what they were studying. They developed this framework, this mathematical map of how antibiotics may be acting in the gut to cause disease later in life.
They took current knowledge linking antibiotics, dysbiosis and disease from thousands of research papers and proposed a framework for studying these types of questions. Like, if I give too many antibiotics is that really going to cause dysbiosis?
Is that going to increase the risk of allergies in this infant later in life? They put all of this information together in this new kind of framework – this mathematical framework. They discovered as they were doing this that there are four things or parts to dysbiosis that can happen when an infant is given an antibiotics. If you have one--just one--of these changes, that does increase the risk for disease later in life.
Four changes can happen to the normal gut flora when you have given antibiotic to an infant. Here's what they discovered. Number one, the loss of what is called "keystone taxa". These are really keystone species in your gut that are really, really important. You don't even need a lot of them. They are powerful, healthy bacteria, these species that protect you. When you can lose that in children and infants, you can lose the diversity of the normal gut flora. You can have shifts in metabolic capacity.
The gut flora is important to how we metabolize vitamins and minerals. You can also have blooms of pathogens. Basically, a disease can set in the gut. What they discovered by analyzing this in this mathematical framework is if you can show that at least one of those four things have occurred, you can then predict infant dysbiosis and the increase risk of adult diseases. The two main diseases that stood out – and I found this interesting. If you give antibiotics to an infant and they have one of those four changes, or maybe all four, or three out of four whatever.
So, you see the loss of the keystone species, diversity is down, pathogens – any of those things happen, you can predict adult diseases. Specifically, allergies and obesity. Interesting, huh? Allergies and obesity were the main links to dysbiosis in infants.
It is interesting that we are having an obesity epidemic in this country in adolescents, young adults, and that correlates well with the use of over use of antibiotics in those children. It is an interesting connection.
My take home message to you is if your infant has to have antibiotics, do things like continue to breast feed. Very important. There are infant probiotics you can use. You want to make sure they get the species bifidobacteria and lactobacillus acidophilus.
Those are the two most important species probably to a growing and developing child. You can even do something called kefir, for instance, but you have to make sure – kefir is a milk product that has a lot of natural probiotics that can be used.
But it's not really infants. That has to be babies at about year one. They have to be drinking milk already – normal, like cow milk for them to do kefir. There are things you can do if they really do need those antibiotics and I strongly suggest you do them.
This is Healthy Talk on RadioMD. I'm Dr. Mike. Stay well. - Length (mins) 10
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- Host Mike Smith, MD
How does manifestation work? Or, more importantly, does it work?
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- Segment Number 5
- Audio File naturally_savvy/1523ns3e.mp3
- Featured Speaker Shaman Isabella Stoloff
- Guest Website Orange County Healing Center
- Guest Twitter Account @isabellastoloff
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Guest Bio
Shaman Isabella Stoloff is a dynamic leader. She founded the Orange County Healing Center in 2009 and since that time has committed herself to leaving the world a better place. Isabella has been called the Golden Condor and World Ambassador. She has traveled to connect people to their inner wisdom and provide ceremonies for the land. She has a full time practice, writes articles, a YouTube channel, and does guest spots to carry the message of enlightenment. Isabella is a mother and grandmother and understands what is needed today to raise a conscious family. Shaman Isabella feels honored to be on the planet during this time of great awakening. She feels once you empower yourself through positive thought and action you will feel connected and centered. Isabella’s message is to awaken to the light that you are, so you can become the Shaman in your own life.
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RadioMD Presents: Naturally Savvy | Original Air Date: June 3, 2015
Hosts: Andrea Donsky, RHN & Lisa Davis, MPH
Guest: Shaman Isabella Stoloff
She’s not here to judge. She’s here to report the honest news on healthy living. She’s Andrea Donsky along with Lisa Davis. It’s time for Naturally Savvy.
ANDREA: What does it mean to manifest something? When you really want something to happen and today we’re going to talk about using clear intentions to manifest and our wonderful guest, Shaaman Isabella Stoloff is going to jump into that. Isabella, welcome back.
ISABELLA: Thank you, guys. Thank you so much for having me again. Here we go, right?
ANDREA: We love having you on.
ISABELLA: I love being on. I love your show. I’m listening to this guy give you kudos. The last guy that was on. Decluttering is really important. Everyone. We’ve all got to “out with the old and in with the new” but, you know, how he was just praising you and I just love being on the show. I love your show. You’ve got to get more listeners. It’s true. There’s a certain vibration that’s happening with your show and, you know, it’s one of a kind. I don’t know any other show out there like it. Please, listeners, please, please Facebook, get people listening because it’s a very beneficial show. I mean it’s just fantastic.
ANDREA: Thanks, Isabella; that is very kind of you to say. We appreciate that. That’s very sweet and we love our show, too. We do love doing it. Let’s move on to manifesting. So, let’s manifest everything that we’re talking about. Give us some tips. So, for people who are listening, I’m a huge believer in manifesting and I love everything about the concept of making things happen for us and, you know, asking our angels, asking the universe. What are some tips people can do in order to manifest things for themselves?
ISABELLA: Well, the first thing I want to say, I always do this, don’t I? Well, the first thing I want to point out is that people, we’re so desperate to manifest and when it doesn’t happen right away we give up. We say, “Oh, you know, I’ve been trying to manifest that forever and it’s never come true,” and then what happens is you give the universe the wrong signal. So, I manifested my house, a darling little Orange County Healing Center that you came down and took a look at.
ANDREA: I saw. I loved it. Yes.
ISABELLA: You love my little place, right? Well, I created that. That was a manifestation from 15 years ago. So, it’s not that it happens right away guys. Just be patient. The universe, you know, there’s a long list of things that we need and want but what I have found is that the clearer you are in what you’re creating, your intention for manifesting, the clearer you are, the quicker it’s going to come to you. So, here’s a great story. As many of you know, I’ve been traveling. I just got back on Monday night so I’m still a little jet-lagged but bear with me. I had no idea. First of all, let’s start there. I had no idea that I was going on this European tour to seek and heal and teach and do ceremony but I had no idea. I was at a wedding in Las Vegas and somebody put something up about Egypt. My father made a film in Egypt in Cairo in the 30’s and I said “Oh! You know, I really want to go to Egypt and you know what? I need to London again. I’ll do the summer solstice London,” and this just sort of started happening. It manifested so quickly. I called my contacts in London and she said, “You know, we’re doing Ibiza? Why don’t you come to Ibiza?” Okay, yes. She needed a driver. I said, “Sure, I’ll be your driver.” The demonic driver. So, I manifested the Ibiza trip. While I was there, one of the gentlemen took my last trip to Peru, my last space. I only had one space for a man left although now I’m thinking about opening it up to five more people just because the universe is asking me to take more but so he took the last space and manifested that. He wanted this hat, he said, “Can you help me out? I really want to get this hat. I want to have an Ibiza hat.” You know Ibiza’s in the sea of Spain, a little island and so he said, “What does it look like Isabella?” I said, “What does it look like?” He said, “Yeah, you know is it white, is it black.” and I started to describe the hat to a T. I said it will be cream, it will be straw. It will have brown band. You know he was asking me the questions. I was very, very clear. We turned the corner; there was a huge hat stand. Now, I kid you not, you guys there was no hats, we’d been looking for days. The minute I got clear for him on the intention and we turned the corner. I walked right up to the hat and said, “There it is. That’s your hat. The hat I just saw.”
ANDREA: That’s awesome.
ISABELLA: You know, this is how clear you need to be and then you let it go. You know, you’re clear. You say your prayers over it but let it go. Just because of when you—
ANDREA: That’s the hard part.
ISABELLA: That’s the hard part, right? You’re like, “But I didn’t get it yet. So, maybe I need to fine tune it a bit and maybe I need to pull it back out the drawer and take a look at that again.” No. Let it go. Get on to the next thing. So, I manifested from there, Italy and Holland. I spoke to a group in Holland and, you know, it was just, it was a manifestation. This month has flown, I mean that month is gone. It’s just flown by.
ANDREA: So, Isabella, I just want to get some clarity on something. So, you said before that, you know, some people will try and manifest things and then we give up on that when it doesn’t happen and then in another conversation, later on in the conversation you were like, “You know, let it go.” So, I just want to be clear what that means. So, when we’re trying to manifest something, we ask for it within a clear intention. We ask for it, could we ask for it many, many times? Can we say prayers every single morning? You know, I talk to God and my angels all the time. Is it something that we should do on a regular basis or is it something, when you say let it go does it mean to detach? Just a little bit of clarity.
ISABELLA: Right. So, when I say, “Let it go,” I mean don’t hold on to it with a desperation grasp.
ANDREA: Ah! Okay.
ISABELLA: I taught this. Years ago, I taught about how do you pray? Do you pray? Well, many of us have forgotten how to pray. Many people don’t even know how to pray. So, I think pray. I just made a little video. Go to my Facebook page and you’ll see this little video about trusting yourself. So, I think pray. Prayers are from your heart, right? So, when you speak from your heart, that’s when you’re praying, to the god of your own understanding, to your higher self or to yourself. Well I…You know, it comes from the heart. So, it’s coming from a place of love. So, you’ve created this beautiful intention, you’ve set this beautiful manifestation in process and you let it go from your heart with light and love knowing that it will come highest and best good no harm to anyone when it needs to come to you. But what we do is, we don’t usually do that. We usually pray from a place of desperation, “Oh, god please. I need this. I’m going to die without it [inaudible 7:02]. Okay, I got to have it. It’s got to be perfect. Oh, shoot. No. I didn’t make that perfect manifestation. I didn’t mean yellow. I meant blue,” like you don’t give the universe any room to give you what you need. So, it’s like a flow. So, if you can pray and you can breathe and you can say, “Yeah, it could be this beautiful cream-colored hat with brown band and kind of brim and I can sort of see it in my mind,” and I let it go into the universe so the universe can make that happen for me.
ANDREA: Right.
ISABELLA: With the house, right? With the house, I had a very clear intention of the house and I had no idea I would be a Shaaman so I was teaching acting to little kids and every Saturday morning, you’d know there’d be a class at my house. So, it didn’t quite turn out that way, I’m teaching Shaamanism at children’s acting but pray from an open heart. Don’t pray from a place of desperation. Pray from a place of confidence, knowing that you are a divine magical being and you deserve the best.
LISA: Oh, I like that. Well, how do you define clear intention is what I’m curious about. How do you know you have…that your intention is clear?
ISABELLA: Okay, so clear intention. Are you coming from a place of beauty? Are you coming from a place of delicious, yummy clear intention from a high vibration? Are you coming from a place of guilt, maybe not in the highest integrity? You know, not really caring if you’re going to step on somebody to get it where you need to go? You know, you’ve got to hold a very high clear vibe or else it backfires. You know? That’s just how I look at it. I always say highest and best good, no harm to anyone. This is what I wish for and you know sometimes it just takes time, you guys. It takes time but start to play with the angels. Start to play with the elements. When you see a feather on the ground look at that feather and say, “Thank you, angels. Thank you for being with me today.”
ANDREA: I love that, Isabella. I mean, this conversation I could have literally all day long so this is right up my alley. I love it, we have to go Isabella but you know what we’re going to have you back on. Yes. I’m just going to tell them right now.
So, you can find Isabella, perfect, OCHealingCenter.com and you can also follow her on Twitter @isabellstoloff. I’m Andrea Donsky along with Lisa Davis. This Naturally Savvy Radio on RadioMD. Stay well. - Length (mins) 10
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- Host Andrea Donsky, RHN and Lisa Davis, MPH
Look around the room that you're in right now, whether it's your kitchen, bedroom or office. Could you pick out five or 10 things you simply don't need?
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- Segment Number 4
- Audio File naturally_savvy/1523ns3d.mp3
- Featured Speaker Cornell Thomas, Author & Motivational Speaker
- Book Title The Power of Me
- Guest Website Power of Positivity
- Guest Twitter Account @cornellthomas
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Guest Bio
Cornell Thomas is a basketball coach, trainer, life coach, motivational speaker, and author. Through his program Crossroads Basketball he has helped hundred of kids in the last nine years reach their goals. For the last four years Cornell has been inspiring and motivating people of all ages through his own motivational quotes and blog site at www.powerofpositivity.net
- Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received Yes
- Host Andrea Donsky, RHN and Lisa Davis, MPH
If you're expecting a baby, you might be excited to decorate the nursery. Unfortunately, if you aren't careful, you can expose your baby to a host of toxic chemicals.
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- Segment Number 2
- Audio File naturally_savvy/1523ns3c.mp3
- Featured Speaker Lisa & Ron Beres, Certified Green Building Professionals
- Book Title Just GREEN It! Simple Swaps to Save the Planet + Your Health
- Guest Website Ron and Lisa: The Healthy Home Dream Team
- Guest Facebook Account https://www.facebook.com/RonandLisaTheHealthyHomeDreamTeam
- Guest Twitter Account @RonandLisa
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Guest Bio
Lisa and Ron Beres are Certified Green Building Professionals, Building Biologists and published authors of several books including Just GREEN It! and the children's book, My Body My House. In addition to testing the health of homes, their consulting business includes celebrities and Fortune 500's. They are award winning television media experts and have appeared on The Rachael Ray Show, The Suzanne Show, The Doctors, Fox & Friends, The Today Show with Matt Lauer, NBC’s Nightly News with Brian Williams, Discovery’s Greenovate and Chelsea Lately on E!
- Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received Yes
- Internal Notes repeat guest
- Host Andrea Donsky, RHN and Lisa Davis, MPH
We all make mistakes; we're human, after all. The key is to learn from them and move on.
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- Segment Number 2
- Audio File naturally_savvy/1523ns3b.mp3
- Featured Speaker Johnny Lops, MD
- Book Title Reinvent Yourself: Essential Tools from a Brooklyn Psychiatrist Who has Seen it All
- Guest Website Dr. Johnny Lops
- Guest Twitter Account @drjohnnylops
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Guest Bio
Dr. Johnny Lops is a practicing psychiatrist in Brooklyn, NY. He is the former team psychiatrist for the Brooklyn Nets. His new book is Reinvent Yourself: Essential Tools from a Brooklyn Psychiatrist Who has Seen it All (Tailwinds Press, May 2015). An accomplished actor and film producer, Lops has starred in numerous stage productions, as well as commercials for Sprite, Budlight, and the NY Knicks. He is the medical advisor for the boxing website, thesweetscience.com and the medical advisor to the new independent film in production, Life Hack.
- Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received Yes
- Internal Notes repeat guest
- Host Andrea Donsky, RHN and Lisa Davis, MPH
Mushrooms been used medicinally for for thousands of years. Which varieties are the most beneficial?
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- Segment Number 1
- Audio File naturally_savvy/1523ns3a.mp3
- Featured Speaker Patrick Fratellone, MD
- Guest Website Fratellone Medical
- Guest Twitter Account @patric1939
- Guest Bio Patrick Fratellone is one of the few intergrative physician with a medical degree (MD) as well as being a Registered Herbalist with the American Herbal Guild. Although his conventional training was in Internal Medicine and Cardiology- the scope of his practices is vast. He trained with both Andrew Weil MD and Tierona LowDog MD RH at the Fellowship of Integrative Medicine at the Uniersity of Arizona. He has written the forward to two recent books: My Journey with Celiac Disease: Jennifer Esposito and the Tracy Piper Protocol by Tracy Piper. He writes a daily blog, and has a weekly internet radio show. www.fratellonemedical.com.
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Transcription
RadioMD Presents: Naturally Savvy | Original Air Date: June 3, 2015
Hosts: Andrea Donsky, RHN & Lisa Davis, MPH
Guest: Patrick Fratellone, MD
Your organic search is over. Here’s Naturally Savvy with health experts Andrea Donsky and Lisa Davis.
LISA: Last night with dinner I took some mushrooms--just regular old button organic mushrooms--and I sautéed them in some avocado garlic oil that I got and it was so good. Now at the time, I wasn’t thinking about the health benefits but now I’m like, “Wait a second. Are these really great for me?” Apparently mushrooms are good for you and I’m so excited. Andrea has something to say. Did you make mushrooms too?
ANDREA: Well, you were like, “I took some mushrooms”. I’m like, “Wait. Is this conversation going somewhere that I wasn’t sure about?”
LISA: Okay. I have a funny story which I’ll tell at some point about that. I didn’t take them but I was working at a camp and this guy sent them to me in my care package and I’m like,
“Why?” As a teenager, I’m like, “Why did you do that? Are you trying to get me fired?” Anyway, we’ve got Dr. Patrick Fratellone with us. He is a fantastic integrative physician. Hi, Dr. Patrick.
DR. PATRICK: Hi, how are you? That was a funny story you started. Mushrooms? Okay. Well, now you cooked real mushrooms last night. So, I put on my blog a recipe for marinating mushrooms which came from a book by John Moore. It’s called 100 Edible Mushrooms. I did that two nights ago combining mushrooms with apple cider vinegar, olive oil, paprika, lemon juice and chili powder and some parsley and keeping them, shaking them up, and then serving them. They were delicious and there are very health conscious benefits because mushrooms could help your immune system. They’re adaptogens. They fight off viruses, fight off bacteria. They have a cancer prevention and they’ve been used for thousands and thousands of years. So, there’s nothing bad about them.
ANDREA: So, my question is and I always wonder, you know, is eating let’s say a white button mushroom just as healthy as eating, let’s say, a Chinese mushroom like a shitake. Do they have different benefits?
DR. PATRICK: They do. I mean a white button mushroom really doesn’t have the medicinal benefits as shitake. I mean shitake’s been known for centuries to be anti-cancer, to be anti-viral. It also reduces blood pressure, reduces lung inflammation. You know, the button mushrooms, they’re some benefit but not as much as the medicinal like shitake, shitake and cordyceps.
ANDREA: Oh, they are delicious. Are we supposed to be eating them as food or do we want to be taking them as supplements? I know I was at a lot of the health food shows and I noticed a lot of the companies are making supplements with mushrooms?
DR. PATRICK: Right. I mean, you could do it either way. I mean some people don’t like the taste of mushrooms so they use it as supplements. For my cancer patients, I do both having them as food and as a supplement and you want to get a good company. There are really, Paul Stamets who’s in Olympia, Washington state, and I did a couple of courses with him. He wrote a book called, The Mycelium Running. You want to go and buy his mushrooms at the, I think it’s called Fungi Imperfecti where you can look up Paul Stamets and he is a great…I mean he is a really phenomenal mushroom. You don’t just want to buy them anywhere because you want them grown organically. You want to make sure their grown in soil that has no metals. So, I mean, his mushrooms are good. There is another company Aloha Medicinals but you want to get them in especially to pick up your immune system to fight off all these diseases we have, especially autoimmune disease.
LISA: You know, it’s funny. I was going to ask about that because you mentioned cancer and I was going to ask why are they’re particularly good for that? It sounds like boosting your immune system obviously is beneficial for all these different diseases we have.
DR. PATRICK: Yeah, I mean, I think there’s numerous studies on mushrooms. I mean, hopefully, conventional medicine is accepting more and more and a lot of these are published in peer review journals. I mean, mushrooms are excellent for cancer-- not only protection but for prevention and treatment and they’ve been used in other countries for thousands of years with great benefits, so I don’t think we should shy away from them. Now what I want to say, a lot of mushrooms this time of the year…There’s a lot of people going to pick mushrooms in the woods-- in the forest--and you have to be careful. If you’re just going to go pick a mushroom in the woods, please do not ingest it. You really should look it up. There are poisonous mushrooms out there. Some of them look similar in look to one that’s edible, so you have to be very careful.
ANDREA: So, now let’s talk a little bit about dosage because for those that are listening they might say, “Oh, I have a little bit of, you know, a couple of mushrooms in my salad every day or maybe sautéing them like you guys recommended.” Is there a certain amount that we should be eating to get that cancer prevention or some type of autoimmune prevention?
DR. PATRICK: Yes. You should be having at least two ounces. I mean, if you’re going to eat mushrooms let’s have like a full side dish, a whole two ounces. You can marinate them in olive oil but you want to have it as a side dish every day.
ANDREA: Now, does cooking them ruin some of their nutrient value like some of the other vegetables that we eat?
DR. PATRICK: You don’t want to cook them. You want to steam them because you don’t want to eat them raw because sometimes raw mushrooms have some alkaloids in it that are not good for your body and make you sick.
ANDREA: Oh. Interesting.
DR. PATRICK: You don’t want to, then, take all the medicinal benefit out of it by cooking them to like soup like. So, you want to have it like an Italian al dente, a little steamed.
LISA: Now, I’m curious you said now people go out and pick mushrooms and I actually had a boyfriend that I went out for a long time in my twenties who actually use to go look for chanterelles. He was obsessed of going and looking for mushrooms.
DR. PATRICK: Oh that’s fine yeah because he knows that, that’s great. Yes. Go ahead.
LISA: I was just going to say but what happens, how do you know because you said you want to be careful, some are poisonous. Once you get them home, is there a way to find out?
DR. PATRICK: Yes. There’s mushroom guides. There’s a book called The Fungal Pharmacy, which is a guide. 100 Edible Mushrooms is a guide. There are many mushroom guides. Paul Stamets on his website lists the ones. There are color-coded books to look for. Also, your local town like in New York City, the Botanical Gardens has a course on mushrooms. So, for that person who wants to go upstate and pick them, you have to be careful but at least you can show them; you can look in a book. The problem I have is that you know the way with plants is some species look like good species but they are they are poisonous. So, some of them are similar to the good species so you have to be careful but you can definitely pick them Right now, everyone’s picking…I’m trying to think of the name. It’s morel. Everyone likes morels. So, morel picking is like June and July. So, there’s people that go find patches of morels which is, you know, they sell for a lot of money. So, if you can find a, really one grown in the wild, that’s great.
ANDREA: Out of curiosity, I don’t know if you know this answer but how many different types of species or different types of mushrooms are there?
DR. PATRICK: Oh, my god, we’re talking 20-30,000.
ANDREA: Wow, not many at all.
DR. PATRICK: Paul Stamets when you read his book Mycelium Running he believes that mushrooms can save this planet because the way they grow, they could eat up the toxic waste that we have in this world.
ANDREA: That’s interesting.
DR PATRICK: You know mushrooms take over. Well, mushrooms are fungi. They take over. You know, they’re scavengers so the thing is they could take over a garbage bin and eat it all up so we can really use it to get rid of toxins in this world. So, when you’re reading Mycelium Running mushrooms are so, I mean it’s ingenious. They’ve been living for thousands of years. They’ve found mushrooms over 5,000 years old. So, mushrooms are really important.
ANDREA: I love mushrooms. I mean, I make soups. I love soups and I always throw at least three different varieties of mushrooms in my soup every single week and I just love them. Now, before, you know, we only have about maybe under two minutes left. We work with a company called North American Urban Spice and they have a chaga mushroom.
DR PATRICK: Oh, chaga.
ANDREA: So, they do teas. Chaga, yes. So tell us a little bit about chaga.
DR. PATRICK: Well chaga’s one of the biggest mushrooms. It has a lot of studies on it for medicinal value. It’s definitely used for cancer, immune system. A woman who’s going into menopause, it’s great for that. It’s great for dizziness. It’s an all-around mushroom. As a tea, you have to get used to it. I like chaga to eat. I don’t like to take as a capsule because for me it regurgitates but it’s an excellent mushroom and everyone should be taking chaga.
ANDREA: You know, its funny people are starting to put it into chocolates.
DR PATRICK: Love it.
ANDREA: You’re starting to see functional foods. Yes. There’s functional foods that are coming out that have chaga in it. So, I find it fascinating.
DR. PATRICK: I think it’s a super food. It’s going to be a new super food.
LISA: Oh, definitely. I read, too, that the button mushrooms if they’re dried that there’s an extract that’s found to help with increasing your vitamin D levels. It is something that—
DR. PATRICK: Yes, that’s true. You know the people who don’t want take vitamin D could take mushrooms and get their vitamin D met, their requirements. So, we don’t always have to take—
ANDREA: Really?
DR. PATRICK: Yes. There’s certain mushrooms that have vitamin D in the dried form so it’s good to take. So, fresh mushrooms can help your vitamin D; dried mushrooms can but this way if you don’t want to take the vitamin D liquid or you don’t want to eat sardines, you can definitely eat mushrooms for vitamin D.
ANDREA: Wow. That is a very good tip, I did not know that. Lisa, I am very impressed. That is great information.
LISA: I did my homework.
ANDREA: That is awesome.
DR. PATRICK: Well, thank you, guys.
ANDREA: Thank you Dr. Frattelone and that’s awesome. So, where can people find you if they want to learn more about you in your practice?
DR. PATRICK: Fratellonemedical.com is our website and we also have a Facebook page, all our information is there and most of my website is educational so I hope people read it.
ANDREA: Perfect and you’re also on Twitter as well?
DR. PATRICK: I’m on Twitter. I’m on Facebook. I’m on Instagram and I even do Pinterest, different posts on mushrooms. I have a mushroom post. I have a post on bees and herbs.
ANDREA: Perfect. Well, thank you so much for being on our show today, very interesting conversation. I’m Andrea Donsky along with Lisa Davis. This is Naturally Savvy Radio on RadioMD. Stay well. - Length (mins) 10
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You may not realize it, but juice has just as much sugar as soda pop.
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- Audio File train_your_body/1523tb2b.mp3
- Featured Speaker Brian Parr, PhD
- Organization ACSM
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Guest Bio
Brian Parr, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Exercise and Sports Science at the University of South Carolina Aiken where he teaches undergraduate courses in exercise physiology, research methods, nutrition, and health behaviors. He also conducts research in physical activity and weight control. Dr. Parr is an ACSM member and an ACSM Certified Clinical Exercise Physiologist. Dr. Parr writes a weekly Health & Fitness column for a local newspaper and is a regular contributor to magazines, websites, and professional publications. You can learn more at http://drbrianparr.wordpress.com/ or on Twitter @drbrianparr.
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RadioMD Presents: Train Your Body | Original Air Date: June 2, 2015
Host: Melanie Cole, MS
Guest: Brian Parr, PhD
Your health, your wellness, your fitness, around the world, around the clock, around the block. This is RadioMD. This is Train Your Body with Melanie Cole and expert guest from the American College of Sports Medicine on RadioMD.
MELANIE: Are you feeding your children candy and soda for breakfast? Of course, the answer is going to be, “No! I would never do that.” But the truth about the popular children's breakfast foods just might kind of blow you away and you might be doing just that. My guest is Dr. Brian Parr. He’s an Associate Professor of Exercise and Sports Science at the University of South Carolina - Aiken. So, Dr. Parr, are we really feeding our children candy and soda for breakfast? What are we feeding our children and how do we know?
DR. PARR: Yes. So, we think we're giving kids healthy breakfasts every day when we give them juice or something like juice to drink. We give them cereal. Maybe we get some of their favorite breakfast snack like pop tarts or even something like yogurt and we think that’s a good healthy breakfast. We see advertisements to suggest that the kids love it but when you look at what’s in those foods, especially the sugar content, what you find is we are really giving kids candy and soda -- what would be typically be thought of as dessert for breakfast. And it’s not just kids, adults do it all the time, too.
MELANIE: Ok. So, you mentioned pop tarts. I don't know if there's anyone on the planet that thinks pop tarts a healthy food but maybe. I think my producer might be one of those people who thinks so but pop tarts are clearly not healthy. Granola bars, people have a lot of confusion. Those kind bars just came out in the media as being not as healthy as you would think. So, you know, in certainly breakfast cereals you’ve got to look at those labels. What else do you want us to do to make sure we're not feeding our kids complete junk that's going to play heck with their insulin levels and their sugar spiking and they're going to fall asleep at their desk at school.
DR. PARR: Yes. I think the key thing to look for is added sugar. I’ll give you an example. Look at a lot of yogurts that kids eat. The yogurt that comes in a tube that my kids love so much, and the yogurts that a lot of adults eat: the fat free-flavored yogurts some of which comes with toppings you can add in. If you look at how much added sugar is in there, it’s essentially like eating frozen yogurt. It’s very different than plain yogurt or plain yogurt that’s flavored with some fruit in it. So, there's nothing wrong in doing that from time to time but would you, realistically, eat frozen yogurt for breakfast every day? The answer is probably no and most people would identify that as inappropriate. The issue comes where it looks like it's something that we should be eating for breakfast and it turns out it really is more like dessert.
MELANIE: Yes. Well, those yogurts with those added colors and sugars in it.
DR. PARR: Sure. Oh, yes.
MELANIE: Some of the yogurts now, Dr. Parr, have like chocolate chips on the top so that you can add them in and M&M's and, of course, kids are always be going to like, "Oh, give me those yogurts," but if we look for an organic. In this case, I feed my kids a full fat yogurt or a low fat. I don't want the fat free. Not yet. But I want organic or no additives, all-natural Greek yogurt, mixing it with fruit and almond milk for a nice smoothie for them to change it up a little. So, it's really that we have to start feeding our children whole foods but what if we don't have time to make eggs and a bowl of nice fruit or a smoothie, what can you grab that isn't that crap?
DR. PARR: Well, I think the first step is to not grab the candy and soda. So, if you're thinking of breakfast and you're thinking of a donut that has frosting on top you should see the frosting and think, “Gosh, that’s not healthy for breakfast.” If it's a breakfast cereal and it has chocolate and marshmallows in it that should be a clue that that isn't a healthy cereal. So, the next step, then, would be to pick something that is different from that. So, you look for cereals that don't have lots of added sugar. They don't have marshmallows in them, right? I think that should be a dead giveaway. When you're getting a muffin or something like that, don't get a muffin that has frosting on top, right? I mean, that should be the giveaway that you're picking something that really isn't an appropriate healthy breakfast food. Pick something different from that. When you're picking juices, pick real 100% juice rather than those flavored juice drinks that are essentially soda without bubble.
MELANIE: Well, the muffin thing, if you're going to do that, rather than get bags of Little Debbie muffins or one of those that has so many preservatives that their shelf life is longer than a Twinkie, you go to a bakery. If you a get a muffin from there -- a blueberry or cranberry orange muffin or something -- you at least know that that was probably baked with real ingredients and they didn't shove a lot of preservatives in it because they throw them out if they don't sell in a day.
DR. PARR: Yes. I would agree with that. I think you do have to be careful about sugar content, though, because a lot of times you can find chocolate chip muffin, right?
MELANIE: Yes.
DR. PARR: And that, I think, is taking a step away from a healthy blueberry muffin. And that’s the problem is we think, "Oh, a blueberry muffin is healthy. Muffins are healthy. Eating chocolate chip muffin with vanilla icing on top, that must be healthy, too." That's not right and I think we've kind of messed up our perception of what a healthy breakfast food should look like.
MELANIE: So, I just said that I feed my kids almost every day. They get some sort of an egg thing. Maybe a piece of whole grain toast with peanut butter or almond butter, a smoothie and a bowl of fruit. What about you? What do you do for your breakfast or your kids’ breakfasts or what do you think is a good healthy breakfast that they can do quickly because oatmeal takes a long time. You know, they won't take a hardboiled egg on the road with them because it makes bad breath. So, what do you do?
DR. PARR: I do a lot of the same things you do. I find that the toast with peanut butter is a really easy thing to make in the morning. I think juice--100% juice-- is good. I think milk is good. I think fruit is an excellent thing to have for breakfast. I mean, my kids, a lot of times on their way to school, will be eating a banana on the way to school, because that’s an easy thing for them to eat along the way. But the trick is a lot of the things that come prepackaged, that are the convenience breakfast foods, are the ones that tend to be highest in sugar. That’s what makes it so difficult. You have to really plan ahead and you have to make some tough choices because you know the kids are going to be saying, “I don't want to banana. I want the pop tart.”
MELANIE: Of course. Whenever pops tarts are involved.
DR. PARR: Yes, that’s exactly right.
MELANIE: Well, so, what about protein. We’ve talked about keeping the sugar content down. Fruit has a lot of sugar but yet it's a good quality sugar. You know, your body utilizes most of that. So, what about the protein? If we're giving them a yogurt or a smoothie, what else can we give them that’s sort of a protein on-the-go?
DR. PARR: So, I think cheese is good. My kids, like a lot of kids, absolutely love those mozzarella cheese sticks. I think that’s a great way to get some protein and more importantly, not added sugar in a meal. Again, that’s something that they can take with them and eat on the way to school or wherever they are going. They are really versatile, I think, and my kids love them. So, we use those for snacks an awful lot.
MELANIE: Do we need to add protein powder to a smoothie and then that gets the protein?
DR. PARR: I don't think so. I think, especially with kids, getting them to eat food that contains protein is a better way than sneaking protein into other foods. I worry sometimes that we kind of sneak nutrients into kid’s foods in a way that we're not teaching them to be making the healthy choices for the foods that naturally contain those nutrients.
MELANIE: I agree completely.
DR. PARR: I think protein is a good example.
MELANIE: It is. So, 30 seconds, Dr. Parr. Wrap up the candy and soda for breakfast, the real truth about popular children's breakfast foods.
DR. PARR: Well, I'd say the first thing is, it's not just children. Take a good look at what you're eating too, grownups. But the big thing is added sugar and, gosh, I’ll tell you what. If it's got marshmallows in it or frosting on top, that should be a dead giveaway that that's not part of a healthy breakfast.
MELANIE: Love that. Marshmallows in it, chocolate chips in it, frosting on top, sprinkles, M&Ms--any of those kinds of things should really be the giveaway. Thank you so much. It’s really great information.
If you missed any of the good information, you can listen anytime on demand or on the go. Look for the Healthy Radio Show page and this show is Train Your Body with our great friends the American College of Sports Medicine. Motivate and perform. What a great organization they are. This is Melanie Cole.
Thanks so much for listening. Stay well. - Length (mins) 10
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Why is support so important when adapting a healthier lifestyle?
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- Segment Number 1
- Audio File train_your_body/1523tb2a.mp3
- Featured Speaker Brian Parr, PhD
- Organization ACSM
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Guest Bio
Brian Parr, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Exercise and Sports Science at the University of South Carolina Aiken where he teaches undergraduate courses in exercise physiology, research methods, nutrition, and health behaviors. He also conducts research in physical activity and weight control. Dr. Parr is an ACSM member and an ACSM Certified Clinical Exercise Physiologist. Dr. Parr writes a weekly Health & Fitness column for a local newspaper and is a regular contributor to magazines, websites, and professional publications. You can learn more at http://drbrianparr.wordpress.com/ or on Twitter @drbrianparr.
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RadioMD Presents: Train Your Body | Original Air Date: June 2, 2015
Host: Melanie Cole, MS
Guest: Brian Parr, PhD
Train your body with the American College of Sports Medicine on RadioMD. Here's Melanie Cole.
MELANIE: You try to lose weight, and some of the people that you tell--if you tell people that you're trying to lose weight--some people will look at you in the restaurant and say, “Should you be eating that?” Or other people will come to your house for a party or something and bring something really really fattening and now those people contributing are trying to sabotage your weight loss. This is a really common problem and my guest is Dr. Brian Parr. He's Associate Professor of Exercise and Sports Science at the University of South Carolina - Aiken.
Welcome to the show, Dr. Parr.
What a great topic because I have had some weight loss frenemies myself when I was in Weight Watchers like 25 years ago before I had kids. What are weight loss frenemies and what do you do to avoid that? Do you just not tell anybody you're trying to lose weight?
DR. PARR: I don't know that that’s the right answer. I think that telling people that you're trying to lose weight and getting the support of people around you is really important. I think there's lots of research and practical experience that supports that idea. The problem comes in when the people that are around you that you expect support from don't provide that level of support and, in some cases, there are some people that actually interfere or maybe even seem to be sabotaging your weight loss plan. So, obviously, this is a really difficult situation to be in but there are some things people can do to help minimize that affect and make sure that they get the people around them on board with their plan, too.
MELANIE: So, tell us what to do. How do you do that? And, how do you recognize the saboteur when they show up around you?
DR. PARR: I think I’ll start with second part there. I think this comes in two different categories. I think there are people who are too peripherally connected to us--coworkers, colleagues, acquaintances – who maybe we don't need to rely on them for lots of support, logistic support and emotional support--when trying to lose weight but we do rely on them not to get in the way. So, a simple example of this is, would be a coworker who insists on bringing food into the office, knowing that you're trying to lose weight. Once you start to see success, they seem to do this more often, right? Now, this person might not be intentionally trying to sabotage your weight loss but they certainly don't seem to be helping very much. So, I think there is this sort of the unintentional interfering that goes on. Then, there are some people that just absolutely seem to be trying to get in the way of that process and I’ve heard people talk about that, especially women. Men don't seem to do this as much but especially in women making some catty remarks to you making choices and decisions. That makes things difficult for the person trying to lose weight.
MELANIE: Well, let me just stop you a second, Dr. Parr, because I’ll tell you what. Women do tend to do it more and the catty things that happen--I think personally happen because of jealousy. "This person is really dedicating themselves to weight loss or diet," and the other girl or women friend is either jealous or says, "Well, I’m going to sabotage this deliberately because then I can...” You know, “Then, she's no better than me; then she's got no more will power than I do." It's a mean sort of cycle but I do think that it exists. I think it's almost deliberate, maybe a little but unconscious, but not really. And that women do this to other women so that they can feel better about themselves because women are typically insecure, especially when it comes to our weight.
DR. PARR: So, I think you're right about that. I see this in people that I work with in programs and I see this with friends of mine where this happens and I think you're right. I think some of this is pettiness, this intentional, you know, "I’m going to interfere with this so that you are not doing something that I’m struggling with," but we can take that a step further and look at people who are even closer to the person who's losing weight--friends, close friends and family--and there are times where those people, the ones who you would think would be universally supportive, can get in the way. I’ll give an example. A woman who was in a program of mine years ago, she was trying to lose weight. She was the person who did all of the grocery shopping and cooking for her family. She started off cooking healthier meals for everybody because she was trying to lose weight and thought this would be a good time to get her family to eat healthier. Over time, they actively resisted and complained about the healthier food she was cooking. She ended up progressing to making two dinners every night--one for her and one for her family. That didn't last long and so that was an example of people you would expect to be providing support just really not even wanting to play along.
MELANIE: So, give us some workable things that people can take right now, sort of an action plan if you run across those people--resistant family, kids, spouse, girlfriends, partners, in any way--that are stopping you in your tracks in your goal to weight loss. Give us something we can do. What do you say to those people?
DR. PARR: Well, I think the first step is making sure…
MELANIE: You know, what I’d say to those people.
DR. PARR: Yeah, right. And probably not the best place to start. I think the first thing to do is to make sure that the people around you--the people who are important in your life--know what you're trying to do and understand why. I think if you make it clear that you're not doing something to make their life more difficult and you're not doing something to make them feel bad, the people close to you, I would think, would get on board with that. They may not like it but they would get on board with it. I think when you encounter resistance, I think it’s important to you say to the person, "Look, I am really trying to do something here to help myself and I would appreciate your support in doing it. And if you can't give that support please get the heck out of my way,” in some way.
MELANIE: That's a nice way of putting it. Very nice way of putting it. I would appreciate the support but if you can't give it to me, back off.
DR. PARR: Yes and I think another way to do it too is to get the people on board with doing the things you're doing. There’s a good chance that if you're trying to lose weight, your friends or family members may need to as well, and that’s a great time to say, "Hey, why don't you join in with me? Why don't we go for a walk together?" and what you can do is to get them on your team by literally bringing them onto your team.
MELANIE: That’s a great bit of advice because, really, who couldn't use that and, as you say, you're trying to lose weight. Maybe your whole family's got to a few pounds they could lose. So, getting everybody involved. Now what about those girlfriends? Because, you know, they're not going to--they may want to get involved with you and you can say, "Hey, you want to start walking with me?" "Hey, you want to…" but, then, there's that resistance, still, so what do you say to those people that you feel are really sabotaging it? Is there some confrontation? "Hey, what is your problem?" or "I’m doing this for me, it’s nothing about you." What do you recommend to kind of get out of that rut?
DR. PARR: I think it depends on who the person is and how close they are to you. If it's someone who's an acquaintance or maybe a co-worker you might just have to ignore a lot of that. If it's someone who’s closer to you--a friend or someone you've been close to for a while--it definitely is worth having a conversation about why are you doing this and why is this the approach that you're taking? And, again, there are some cases where I think that people might not realize that they are doing it. There are a lot of really simple things. You're going to meet someone for lunch and you're thinking of, “Where can I go and get a healthy lunch?” and they're picking a place that is their favorite restaurant that doesn’t have a lot of healthy options for you. You know, that’s kind of getting in your way a little bit but they might not be thinking of it in terms of "I’m going to pick a restaurant that’s going to make Melanie have a tough time eating healthy." It might just be…
MELANIE: Yes. They are probably not. Now, in my opinion, and we only have less than a minute left, but you can always find something healthy at a restaurant or you choose not to go to that restaurant with them and you say, “I'm sorry. I'm busy.” Best advice--30 seconds--and those weight loss frenemies.
DR. PARR: Yes. I think you need to get them on board from the beginning, letting them know what you need for support and what they can do to help you and if they are not, I think it’s worth a conversation saying, "Look, I’m trying to do something really healthy for myself. I’d love to have you do this with me but at the very least, please don't get in my way."
MELANIE: That’s a great way to put it, Dr. Parr, and we all will run into those people. “Should you be eating that?” or picking those restaurants without a lot of healthy choices. You have two choices. You can either let them affect you or you can be strong and fulfill your dream of weight loss. Really, that’s what it's about.
You're listening to Train Your Body right here on RadioMD with our good friends from the American College of Sports Medicine. Thanks for listening and stay well. - Length (mins) 10
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Each week, Dr. Darria answers health questions submitted by Sharecare users.
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- Featured Speaker Darria Long Gillespie, MD
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Chef Megan McCarthy explains how to make a healthy meal, straight from your garden.
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- Audio File sharecare/1523sc2d.mp3
- Featured Speaker Megan McCarthy, Chef
- Guest Website Healthy Eating 101
- Guest Facebook Account https://www.facebook.com/pages/Healthy-Eating-101/330297016223
- Guest Twitter Account @HealthyEating01
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Guest Bio
Megan McCarthy’s creative culinary experience and enthusiasm brings healthy food to life. She incorporates highly nutritious Superfoods into an everyday healthy eating lifestyle while putting you at ease in the kitchen. As a healthy lifestyle consultant, spokesperson and chef, she is the Atlanta Botanical Garden’s Edible Garden Chef, creating culinary delights freshly harvested right out of the edible garden. She also teaches healthy cooking and lifestyle classes at Whole Foods Markets, The Cook’s Warehouse and Strippaggio in and around Atlanta as well as "Lunch & Learns” for corporate wellness programs for several companies, including fortune 500 companies in Georgia. She has a special love for teaching kids about eating healthier foods and is working with Georgia Public Schools and Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move/Chef’s Move program to raise a healthier generation of kids. Megan is also on the advisory board for the Healthy Kids Across America Foundation, bringing healthy eating, exercise and self-esteem building tools to schools across America.
Megan provides chef services to corporate trade show clients for FMI (Food Marketing Institute), PMA (Produce Marketing Assoc.) and the International Home & Housewares Show (IHA). She has been regularly featured for her healthier style on HLN for Weekend Express, Lifetime’s The Balancing Act, and 11 Alive’s Atlanta and Company sharing her culinary expertise and delicious natural recipes. She develops innovative recipes for national clients such as Disney, Marie’s Dressings and Seeds of Change, as well as creating locally fresh garden recipes for the Atlanta Botanical Garden, the Atlanta Journal Constitution (AJC) and Edible Atlanta magazine. Watch for her up and coming healthy eating and lifestyles recipe book. - Length (mins) 10
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- Host Darria Long Gillespie, MD, MBA
