This easy paleo almond flax keto bread recipe stands on it's own with a wonderfully dynamic flavor and texture. The crunchy crust and soft savory inside pair perfectly with a nice slab of salty butter.
hi I'm Dana with Whole Health Dana calm and today I'm going to teach you how to make super easy raw brownies in less than five minutes so the first thing that you're going to need is one cup of walnuts and you're just going to put them in your food processor try to look for organic and raw walnuts if you have them available to you in them we're just going to put them on our food processor and write them if up into like a flower it's only going to take about 15 or 20 seconds and it'll look something like that when you are finished okay so next we're going to want to add in dates you're going to need eight to ten fairly decent sized medjool dates and if your dates are hard Michael might often get hard because once I open the package I put them in the refrigerator what you're going to do is you're going to heat up some hot water and you're going to put them in the bowl with your dates I've already done that that's why mine are so soft and you're going to let them sit for about five minutes and that'll make your dates moist and soft again and so you're just going to take out the pit and throw them in your food processor and you're going to do that for all eight to ten make sure you get the pits out after you have all of your dates in and I use ten you need half of a cup of cacao powder this is the one that I usually purchase and I prefer to use kakao / coco just force nutritional value it has some good dietary fiber plus iron and magnesium and then you're going to need just a pinch of salt now to me a pinch of salt means about an eighth of a teaspoon so now once we have all of that in our food processor we're just going to pulse it until it is completely combined and makes a sticky brownie like substance okay so I post that for about 20 times and I guess I should be more clear what I mean when I say that it should be a sticky substance it's not going to be sticky right now like you can see it's crumbly and comes apart there but what you are going to be able to see is when you dip your hand in there and you squeeze it together it will pull together you can form it into a ball okay so once you have the proper consistency you have a couple of options first off you can add some stuff to it you could add some almond slivers if you would like almonds in it you can also add some cacao nibs they are the same cacao that you put in there but they are in a little form that's more like a chocolate chip now and so you can add those in stir them in in them what you're going to do is you you can form them into balls if you want like little brownie bites you could press them into like a silicone mold if you wanted something that was perfectly shaped or in our case today what we're going to do is we are going to press them in to a a tray I just say you're going to pour it on to whatever your surface is and then you're just going to press it flat you can use your hands you can use the backside of a spatula okay so once you have it all Preston it looks something like that and now you can just put it in the refrigerator even the freezer if you wanted to speed it up they're great they're easy they're raw they're gluten-free their paleo they're fabulous so I hope you have enjoyed this episode of whole health data and how to make raw brownies if you would like a printable copy of this recipe visit my website at wwlp.com and if you would like to follow me on social media check out the links that are below I thank you for joining me today and we'll see you next time .
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These brownies are a great healthy alternative to an unhealthy dessert. There are raw, vegan, paleo, grain free, gluten free and fabulous!
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mum used to make or still does make the best spaghetti bolognaise you taught me how to cook and and how to appreciate flavors I want to show you what now I make for my kids so let's get started I'm going to do the chopping you can do the stirring and cooking how's it go out the deal mum would make this with you know regular pasta and you don't do it anymore do you know I'd serve all the pasta rip okay so a little bit of garlic some onion yep I grew up and I wasn't one of these kids that spend every day in the kitchen with his mum underneath the a teach me I was out surfing every day so mum did all the hard work it wasn't until I moved out of home that I thought I'm trying to teach the kids now how to cook and you like cooking for the grandkids now my grandkids because I wish I had spent more time in the kitchen with me - yeah I used to hate mushrooms I couldn't think of anything worse I used to fight about it with you didn't my mum yeah now I love mushrooms mommy did a funny happiness change teamwork one big change from your holidays mum is the type of mints that we use now Amy means very high and iron it's native to this country and it's absolutely delicious and the kids love it you could do this with lamb mince or ground lamb you can do it with beef mince or ground beef craft auntie Mames onto the grass-fed now - she actually goes and searches our butchers that have grass-fed meat I've got three so we've got some thyme some rosemary a nice beautiful absolutely beautiful so important potential kids where the food comes from yes herbs in we're need some seasoning some salt and some pepper just enough so it brings out the flavor of the food some red wine I did actually wishful thinking and we're gonna add some tomato paste organic tomato paste yes well why even use hot my tomatoes I might let you do you want to mess them up okay I'll mash it up in with the hand squeeze the whole peeled tomatoes careful not to get it on mom's clothes yes okay in there go I've got some hot chicken stock here to mum I know that you like to put some in your follow those always it helps to make it a little bit more saucy alright that looks marvelous we need Kyle we need some kale them so alright I'm Kyle a couple of sticks of these no no you know what to do with that you go rake the leaves in only you give that a stir so what you're doing that I'm gonna make the noodles now this is what I want to learn okay it's really really simple you need a good sized oooh Keaney yes and you need a mandolin I mean you can do it by hand with a knife or the chopping board couldn't really find one way and then the other way though these mandolins are great cuz they've got the little blade in here but just be careful of your hands and have a look at the thickness of what we're looking for is for it to resemble spaghetti so look at that oh that's beautiful what I like to do is just pop it on the plane or because the heat from the sauce will lightly cook it so we're ready to serve we've got the pastor we've got some salt sequence here so let's plate this up okay Wow Amy Ebola no actually it looks pretty good and for a little trick what we'll do is just macadamia nut let's braid it over the top so it looks like powers it please you're getting great fans out of these should we try them up right that's high right it's better than a hi mom it's bloody good it is .
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Pete Evans is in the kitchen with his mum to cook up his Paleo Bolognese.
you hi Trina for PETA the Navy and recently I was craving a taco so I went to the grocery store in search of a paleo or gluten-free tortilla or something close it didn't happen I picked up two name-brand tortillas the first one I picked up had 29 ingredients it's a brand that we've all had at home at one time or another in our pantry and the second version was an authentic Mexican version that had 22 ingredients which was a little better but it ended with soy and we if you're paleo or gluten-free you know that's a no-no so we decided that we would develop our own version of a figlio or gluten-free tortilla and we have it right here it's a paleo newbie tortilla it's got six ingredients it has eggs coconut milk coconut flour tapioca flour olive oil and salt so once you lift up the ingredients from our recipe you can find it on paleo Nuvi calm take about 1/3 cup of the batter and pour it right in the pan once you pour the batter into the pan you just wait a couple of minutes you want to see it browned on the other side you don't want it too light you just flip it and then you have another minute on the other side and you're good to go so the end result is you've got your paleo Mubi tortilla here your store-bought here you have relatively the same size same thickness and they're both very soft which would you rather feed your family I vote for this one so here's just one example what you can do with our tortillas you can use these for breakfast burritos you can fill them a chicken pork beef whatever you want today we have a little bit of fish we've got some awesome lime slaw and a little Oh avocado sauce we're going to top this puppy up and I'll show you what it looks like so here's our tilapia taco recipe from paleo newbie calm if you've ever had a taco fresh off the grill in Mexico or anywhere where they make great fish try this out you won't be disappointed it's awesome you you .
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okay here's the soup right out of the fridge it's still cold and you'll notice it's kind of jiggly like jello so that means you've gotten a really good stock and consequently a really great soup so that's a very good sign don't be grossed out .
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hey what's up Jason Yun LVN online fitness com lion tamer online com coming to you from the kitchen once again we got a healthy paleo meal for you again today we're making paleo Italian Wedding soup so let's get it going so it's coming from our fast paleo cookbooks top 100 so the ingredients you're going to need I don't I'm all set up here but you're going to need coconut flour a half a cup and you'll need oregano 1 or for the four meatballs you'll need quarter cup teaspoon dried oregano quarter cup teaspoon dried basil 1 egg 1 clove garlic grated you'll need 2 tablespoons of parsley you convince that two tablespoons grated onion you'll need ground turkey so we have trader joe's butcher shop alright and salt and pepper to taste and then for the soup you will need 12 cups of chicken broth ok we have a trader joes organic free-range chicken breath today and you need tbsp olive oil 1 stalk celery one diced carrot 1 diced medium onion and quarter teaspoon dried basil or teaspoon dried oregano 5 ounces of spinach and two eggs beaten and that's salt and pepper to taste so that's all for the ingredients I will get to work on the first step and get to shown it to you alright so the first thing I can do is heal up your oil chop up your vegetables put those the onion carrot and celery into the olive oil and click that till the vegetables are nice and tender and then while that is happening I will show you the next step so once you get that started then you're going to add the ingredients for the meatballs all together so add your meatballs grated onion parsley garlic powder bag coconut flour basil and oregano and salt and pepper to taste and then you form your little meatballs out of here so depends on how big you want to make them so it's up to you how big you want to make them so I'll put those meatballs together and get to the next step okay so that's what we've been talking about seven minutes now so look pretty good I am going to add them into the big pot of chicken broth and cook that up or bring it up to a gentle simmer still working on the meat battles over here and then once I got the big pot up to a general sooner i will add the meatballs and then i'll show you the next step also don't forget to season with your basil and oregano as you're bringing that up to the center all right so while you're a soup is boiling up finished all the meatballs you want to get your spinach ready and also your two eggs so you're going to add that at the very end after you add the meatballs but we'll get to that and make sure you the next step back to that alright so the soup is starting to simmer so I'm going to be adding the meatballs in here so should take about 7 10 minutes for the meatballs to cook and they'll start rising to the top once they are done all right and then I will show you the next step with the eggs and the spinach and that should be the last step for the paleo Italian Wedding soup so all right so the meatballs come into the top looks like they're done pretty much now we're going to add the fish ok so I'll write a speech let it cook and soften for about a minute whoopsie there we go do that a couple handfuls here spinach awesome super food and the greatest foods healthiest foods on the planet all right we'll let that cook a minute and then I'll show you the last step which is the eggs you can also salt and pepper to taste now as well all right last step is you can take the eggs sure they were whisked up Hank and you're going to put it into the soup as the egg yolk hits you want to be stirring in as well so here we go all right that is last step so we will be able to give this a taste test and let you know how much turned out good alright so it is all done as you are doing the taste test let's get to work yummy yummy school down a little bit get some onion some spinach that's it some broth so that's good it's very good it's very good right it's yummy soup goodbye you to request for more so very good recipe very delicious give it a try and let me know what you thought of the recipe remember it's from the best paleo top 100 recipes so I'm going to link down below get that yourself don't forget you can download a free 30-day paleo challenge ebook that I wrote so download that dude paleo challenge by the wise rate comment like this video you know I subscribe got a lot more videos coming for you it's all I stands Jason Young from the kitchen saying stay strong stay positive be the improvement war you today have a great day you .
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This recipe is from the Top 100 Fast Paleo Recipe Book:
Jason Yun makes the Paleo Italian wedding soup. Very tasty recipe. Let me know what you think of it.
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so the Paleo diet is it's constantly evolving I would say it's I mean everyone has read something about it right so it's it's basically the notion that we have evolved and we have been eating as hunter-gatherers for most of our evolution and we only recently started introducing and industrially produced foods processed foods and things like that and so our bodies are not well adjusted to them that's kind of like the idea that that's behind the framework and whether that's 100% accurate or not doesn't really matter to me personally so the what why I would follow why I would recommend the Paleo diet is very simple you are going to be guaranteed to eat foods that are healthy and it doesn't mean that's when something is not paleo is by definition of healthy but when something is paleo it's probably quite good for you and and the reason is that paleo consists of vegetables nuts fruits healthy meats and wild caught fish now there's nothing wrong with with any of these foods and so if you would focus your or your diet around these then you're going to be in a good shape so I would I would consider it a framework and not more and not a Dogma or anything like that so there there you can obviously deviate it from a little bit so to a certain degree but it's just useful on daily life when you go to a restaurant and you want to know what you should eat in terms of health you can use this idea of like what is available you know like it is vegetables disappered so in that sense I think it's it's a really cool cool idea and that's why I decided to follow it myself as well because it's easy and it's and it works and so what did what I mean by it works is I've tried pretty much every diet Under the Sun when I was overweight so I went for the conventional thing first and I took my milk and I replace it with soy milk I started eating whole grain breads and things in that you know I felt worse I have never felt that bad and vegetarian - vegetarian for a while didn't work either at all like it's it's in fact you have less energy tarek daily migraines things on them and so the reason I got to paly us because my brother was here in Bangkok actually and he first started to pay it off him and he convinced me after also hey try this I said no way man people who don't eat bread bread as hell feeling like everyone eats bread like things like that right and I grew up eating that so there's nothing wrong with it so that you you guys are like an extreme segments in in the terms of diet and I'm not gonna do it but in the end I got a bit desperate so I was like why not I'll give it a shot you know like he's running triathlons and I'm here sitting in front of an office desk so maybe there's some truth to it and I went quite straight and and I lost 45 kilograms and in the first eight months or so without much effort I was like okay and I've never felt better so what I mean it would it works it's like you go back to your natural weight if you if you eat quite well you have more energy you're more focused and you're just a happier person in general and then again the health impacts pretty much everything in your life so it's it's important to be reasonably healthy the Paleo diet works for for people who for pretty much anyone really so if you're a busy in the office and you're you're you're working long hours you already compromised me off a little bit by sitting in front of the computer or anything like that indoors and so you need to focus on your diet and because if you don't you will you will notice like you start slacking off you you'll become less motivated and when you're not in good shape here are your works going to suffer as well I mean it's that's quite obvious so you need to have a reasonable health baseline now say so and I think the Paleo diet is is great for them so it's very compatible two to two to achieve that so I but I would have to stress period is not the only way to do there there are many other ways to to get to reasonable health as well and I mean you can even be a healthy vegetarian I would just say it's gonna be a lot harder if you want to be a healthy vegetarian you need to be really careful about what you eat I need to like plan it very well whereas with the paper that you can and just wing it I mean if you if you eat a bunch of vegetables and meat you're good like there's there's there's not much more to it so and that way is I think for people who are busy I think that's a good way to do .
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Paleo Diet? There are a lot of myths surrounding it: is it eating ONLY meat? Crude fish? Hunting and killing? Not at all. The founder of Paleo Robbie Verspui, shared with us his vision about what the Paleo Diet is.
In this video, I go through the few short steps to making a homemade paleo chicken korma curry. It is a fantastic dish that is packed full of flavor. This recipe is undoubtedly a must-try for any curry lover.
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The standard recipe will feed about 4 people, but if you’re looking to bulk it out a bit, then adding some vegetables is a great way to achieve this. Just keep in mind vegetables like carrots and sweet potatoes will require extra cooking time.
If you want the full list of ingredients for this curry, then you can find it below.
1 Tbsp coconut oil 1 onion, diced 1 Tbsp ginger, crushed 2 tsp garlic, crushed 1 Tbsp tomato paste 500g (1.1 lb) chicken breasts, cubed ½ Tbsp chili ¼ cup ground almonds 400ml (13.5 oz) can coconut cream ½ Cup Chicken Stock
There are many reasons why you should make a curry paste from scratch, but the main reason is so you know what has gone into it. Many supermarket brands have a lot of additives in them to help extend shelf life, improve flavor, and more. The downside is these additives are typically not paleo-friendly and can do you more harm than good.
Cauliflower rice is the perfect side to go with this dish. It is light and well worth putting the extra time in to make. One thing I love about cauliflower rice is that it doesn’t tend to make you bloated like regular white rice.
If you’re looking for a side to go with this dish, then something like the easy cauliflower rice is perfect. It’s very much like rice but instead is incredibly light and won’t leave you feeling bloated.
I hope that his paleo chicken korma curry turns out as awesome as it did for me. If you have any feedback, tips, or anything else that you would like to share, then please don’t hesitate to leave a comment below.
good morning everybody this is damn it I leave em time of your life yeah and we're going to be making a breakfast sandwich this morning so we're going to start off with the one and only Julianne bakeries paleo bread this stuff is tasty and it's gluten-free and sky tree starts free does it have G we three dozen of GMOs yeah no way Jose it's got fiber which keeps you fuller longer it has only one carb low calorie and believe it's dairy-free yes dairy-free as well this is the stuff so we're going to throw two of these in our toaster oven we're going to get some eggs cooking and a nice thick slice of tomato with some sauerkraut for some added probiotics right there and some anti-inflammatories from the garlic okay so let's get this cooking up and we'll be right back ok so our paleo brand is all done nice and crispy turn off my burner eggs are done with likes slivered garlic and let's see how do I want to top this I'm going to put the camera down okay so thank you thanks for the spoon okay we're gonna throw let me do the egg first I'll do this yeah a little bit let's do it tomato second and I already salt and peppered it uh-huh using only the finest sea salt going your sea salt sauerkraut the love my sauerkraut super healthy for you just like the paleo bread just like the tomato and just like the locally raised eggs maybe I'll throw a little one just for a little there we go that's cool then want to over so and we'll get some of these little garlic chunks I'm going to leave it off just for the photo so let me put them down at the camera there we go so we have a paleo bread coconut flavor sandwich with two eggs sauerkraut tomato and one clove of garlic some salt and pepper and that's it we have a super healthy breakfast very easy to make and as we stated before low carb high in fiber now GMOs no dairy no gluten and no soy so this is phenomenal for breakfast and I'm gonna dig in and I'm sure Ali's going to want to bite so we will see you soon make sure you order up your bread from Julian bakery calm / paleo and check out all their other fine products that will keep you full happy and healthy all right folks have a great day this is dan rival for life you .
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Paleo Tomato Egg Breakfast On Paleo Bread Recipe
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this is just at the point where you can see the it started to brown on the bottom of the pen it's really clear clear liquid that's what you want and then once it gets to that that stage what we do is we just pour it through a strainer and that filters out the rest of the will residue on the top there this is peak moment we are living at a peak of human innovation information wealth and health but we're also at a peak of population and consumption with rising temperatures and declining resources fueled by cheap oil and gas peak moment television bringing you examples of positive responses to energy decline and climate change through local community action Paul you had said that the the Paleo people ate their fat first I mean it's the most treasured part of the animal and I feel like fat has been so maligned in this culture it's like that is bad news so I want you to give us a little introduction to what's good fat and you know show us and talk about all right well I would say I've lined up a lot of the fats that I use every day in my cooking and in dessert making I use coconut oil every day and a lot of times I I mix these fats during the day so I get all of the the really good stuff we have coconut milk that goes into some of the dessert recipes and also some of my Thai soup recipes this is coconut cream I just heard of this it's wonderful and you can just eat it out of the jar if you want really that helps if you're if you're trying to get off the carbs to just a little bit of this it's naturally sweet it's just coconut pulp and so you can include that into some dessert recipes it goes into the the sort of you know netball truffle recipe yeah survival food yes when you get hungry okay yeah definitely here we have sesame oil which is a high heat oil so you can saute in it you cannot saute and butter because it will burn so we're gonna make some ghee while we're here I have it in the pan and that's true oil you shouldn't heat no it'll smoke and burnt so it is recommended you don't actually saute with olive oil so you just use it it's a finishing oil you know on your bowels and on your vegetables and things like that but you really shouldn't heat heat olive oil okay let's see we have wonderful butters here we have pasture butter from grass-fed cows that's gonna have more than mega threes that yes uh-huh yes definitely pasture butter is the key when you're going to this store Straus doesn't say pastured it's from Marin but it is postured butter european-style better and it tastes so much better it tastes like that European kind of good tasting better this is Sierra Nevada butter it's a cultured cultured butter which means it's been fermented a little bit this is G that I've already made and I always tell folks what ski Yi is clarified butter actually and will clarify some on the stove it takes about 15 minutes but it separates out the casein and salts and so it just turns basically into an oil that then you can saute with it won't burn so the French have been doing this forever they call it clarified butter the Indians call it ghee and so what you're saying is by the time you take those other solids out this you really can't saute with yeah and I always keep a jar right by the stove I keep all my oils right by the stove so they're all right there you know ready to go into the pan this is like almost homemade sour cream it's it I made it myself and you put a little culture in there and it sort of sits out overnight and turns into this wonderful thick cream that then you can spoon I want to taste here we go it's just spins are here that you know spreads drop some of that onto your berries oh you know okay it's creme fraiche creme fraiche from the French again yeah Oh now is that heaven oh yeah you put oh I'll give you some to take home you put it in your cream let it sit overnight and the next day you have this I love it okay I will yes creme fraiche is it's like a mild sour cream a mild sour cream but isn't that that is good that's divine I mean you know what if you get a little bit hungry just go in the refrigerator and that's um and of course what that says is we can also have among the fats good dairy cream yeah Danny yeah the grass-fed preferably Roth you can find it your cream yes and cream from grass-fed cows so there you go olives are really high in fat and they're wonderful to put in different foods or just eat as a snack so they're they're very satisfying as as far as fat goes we eat at least in Auto picado a day each avocados are huge good good food for us walnuts any kind of nuts but weed a lot of organic walnuts do you Steve soak them a little young salt water yeah you can soak them and then dry them and then you can use them just you know just as a snacking nut or in baking or whatever cuz my understanding is it that way the some of the fighter toxins yeah get soaked out that's right and I explained how to do that in my book it's real easy thank you now this is the only pork that we buy it is organic grass-fed humanely raised pork from Chico California and it's it's one of the only organic porks that I know of United yeah it really is so it's a little on the expensive side but to be ethical I really try to get pork that's humanely raised you can go on their website though pigs get to run around so they're not the way they're not kept in pins and actually that is an emphasis in your book I wanted it to bring that up about finding foods that are not only sustainable for us but sustainable for the earth yes you really you're really strong on that very strong because since we are still eating animals I feel like we really have to be kind to them kind to the environment it's really important so I really stress that in my book the other thing about the bacon if once you cook the bacon is you can save the fat and cook with the fat you know they've been doing this forever the French are big on pork fat I will make it a confession you can have a little German we eat that with we eat it with the bacon we eat the fat with the bacon it tastes so I mean when after you cooked the bacon oh yeah oh yeah he did all the same it was wonderful i roasted a spaghetti squash the other night I had some leftover bacon fat in the pan right on on the spaghetti squash because fat lissa fat makes it taste wonderful just well as a friend of mine said that is a vehicle of flavor and have so all the additional fats that I'm talking about in my book help help all the recipes taste better and when you're trying to get off grains and sugar what you're looking for is taste yes so the more you can spark up the taste then you're gonna feel really satisfied like you've eaten something special and you're not deprived so that this can you but a lot of things giving you the good taste yeah right so it's also your energy source right and as you say the beginning helping our brain and probably our joints in our heart and all kinds of things yes to work better well we were talking a few minutes ago I'm gonna be 67 I I now have more energy than I did when I was in my 20s I pretty much drag myself through my entire life until I started the Paleo diet and all I said before oh that's what that's feeling alive feels like I feel great now yes it's incredible that's amazing and and a wonderful story that you don't have I mean you'd want this for children you'd want this for infants oh yeah this way yeah it's not too late it's not too late but don't wait I mean if you're watching this done don't wait until you're in your sixties start now start now and because I mean and because it tastes good disinviting you again you just have to get over the brain that says and the programming I should say from our culture that says fats especially saturated fats are bad that's that's a hard one to shake yes well one thing I didn't mention and I started early on in my life I had an eating disorder bulimia and and so at that time I started doing all this low-fat food you know because I was totally afraid of how recent that and all this it made the bulimia worse and yeah I I believe my health really took a dive in my late teens because of this and I started eating less fat so that sort of exacerbated the bulimia so I just wanted to mention that yeah fear of bat get over it get over it yeah yeah and look at the fact that our ancestors we wouldn't be here if our ancestors didn't love the fact it wouldn't be here that's what that's what vegetarians don't get we wouldn't be here if it wasn't successful yes and and and mmm the longest period in evolution or tau million years yes with only this little experiment yeah uh-huh would you show us how to make ghee I will it's very simple what are you starting with Oh a pound of butter a pound of butter yeah and that'll last you a while okay okay so I'm gonna just stick it on simmer on the back of the stove well we do some other recipes here and don't leave the kitchen while you're making it because it can burn if you walk away from it so what temperature you're putting it on well it's sort of media and we'll get it so it's sort of simmering and then it'll take about 15 minutes for it to bubble and then and then we'll see that it clarifies it separates and then we'll strain it with a student yet okay how about making something a recipe from your book okay great well I picked out well since I used to be a caterer and I made a lot of hors d'oeuvres and did a lot of parties I chose my very favorite dip from the book magical muhammara we made magical muhammara okay and the recipe is from Aleppo Syria it's very wonderful and spicy this secret ingredient is pomegranate molasses which we use a little bit of but it really adds the the secret flavor mm-hmm and I call it the thinking man's hummus yes it has it has no garbanzo beans the base of it is walnuts toasted walnuts and then we have roasted red pepper no those those who I use a jar can yeah if you want to roast your own peppers and peel them you can do that but you can use the Mazetti roasted peppers those work great and what else do we have in here we have garlic beaucoup and you know these are all my favorite flavors I love garlic I love cumin I love the women and well I like Mexican food for that reason to whine garrick and then you know so it's cumin this is straight toasted cumin okay tiny bit of salt in there and this has about a teaspoon of crushed red pepper you can add more the nice thing about this recipe is you can tweak it if you want more cumin more garlic or more to lemon you can do that a little bit of a knife here and lemon juice and then three or four tablespoons of the pomegranate molasses so that's a sweetener yeah but this has a particularly the tang to it which you will see and you can get this at Whole Foods or you can order it online what it tastes very it is it feels like I mean totally exotic it is it's very exotic and these are kind of the flavors I like I like ethnic foods well I saw that in looking through your book part of what made it exciting to me was I felt like it was sort of a a taste tour around the world paleo style yes yeah you can this French influence and I see the South American and yeah Mexican and the little bit of Asian song yeah in a sense the traditional foods that arose out of the Paleo yes um that many of them yes as you go around the world each each culture has its special special foods the way they do it but you can still stay paleo where wherever you go we've got here olive oil this was olive oil so I'm just going to turn this on this is how easy it is and about a quarter of a cup of olive oil that's it you see that is believe me folks make this for a party and everybody will rave I bet it goes quick yep and you can get some gluten free green free crackers or you can use it as a vegetable a little vegetable dip and the other nice thing about this you can use it on grilled chicken or fish Omega kind of marinade or sauce or going to thing mm-hmm what's interesting I taste the cumin mm-hmm right and the peppers yeah but everything else sort of just all muscles around it really yeah it does blend well and this this palm read yeah you don't taste it in here no seems it's a little sort of a tangy yeah it ends at there's undercurrent but yo it's a is definitely a special taste that makes that this could make a nice topping on a salad - yeah I mean yeah yeah mm-hmm thank you yeah you can put it on a lot of things well you know it reminds me that when I look through your book I wanted to add that you know thinking about who is this book for right and I thought well it's for people who like what you've done is is that the flavors on each dish the several that I've tried each dish have some of these distinctive flavors not it's really hard to find that's what that's what makes this a notch above ordinary yeah you know the spices are the line where the particular herbs that you've added to things so it feels like that's why this is cuisine this is not a recipe book this is cuisine because you have flavors that are memorable and special yes well that's the thing I looked at a lot of the Paleo books out there and because I have the strong culinary ground I just felt like I wanted to use the word cuisine with paleo because this is a notch up I believe yes it really makes the Paleo diet really special for foodies for families whatever but I guess the other thing that you did is you made it not take forever yeah the recipes I the other night I made your salmon salad nicoise right oh yeah so you know with some nice flavoring on the salmon as well as the dressing salad dressing that goes on there and I made the whole dish all of it in a half an hour that's doable yeah that's not it is you know making it for somebody who's going to spend three hours in the kitchen and that in these days find a difference if I can't make dinner in 20 minutes forget it you know I and actually from being a caterer and everything I always chose the recipes that were easiest and the most efficient to make so that's the way I did the cookbook a lot of people say oh I don't cook well I say assemble I said Flambeau this is not the kind of cookbook that says and sit here for 20 minutes stirring the sauce this is not deal Julia Child yeah yeah isn't it wonderful so I don't know whether we can get a little shot of this but it's bubbling like it's bubbling away and making a little bit of noise but that's what we want it to do in a few minutes it'll be it'll be gay and now it do you in but you leave it it's still at that medium temperature um yeah okay okay you can turn it down if you want but it just sort of hurries it along the main thing is that 20 me you don't want to leave the kitchen I've been there and come back and it turns really fast and then you've got burned butter so yeah and what I always do I like to actually save what's at the bottom you know and then I use it on steamed vegetables so it has a little bit of the salty kind of from the butter okay but don't throw that away so what are you looking for well it'll separate seat the milk solids are gonna separate and some of them are gonna sink to the bottom and some of them we're gonna skim off the top it separates itself and then what's left in the middle is the golden oil that we call ghee or clarified butter okay okay thank you yeah and you can see I have my huge super duper sized coconut oil which actually I I used so much coconut oil in my cooking and sometimes I mix them all I'll throw a little bit again a little bit of coconut well don't be afraid of that just yeah do your own thing so mix and match all the oils well they give you all the different flavors all the different flavors and each oil has a different quality that adds a healthy component all oils are not the same so that's why you eat some of them every day each one of them so while we wait while we wait for the ghee I'm gonna have another Lee this is really good it is really good isn't it I just love this stuff I'll definitely send some home so while we're waiting for the key any less things we haven't talked about about the cuisine or its effect or your recipes well I would say the most important thing in in beginning anything like that because it's really scary to kind of change your diet you know stop eating grains all that just try some recipes at least eliminate the the really problem things the gluten if you can do it all processed food clean out your cupboards and just begin eating a more natural foods that actually look like food you know and haven't been changed into something else the more natural your food diet is that you can adhere to the better so if you can't call it paleo if you can't actually go totally paleo yet don't let that stop you from adding some nutritious fats some good grass-fed meat to your diet and see what that feels like I mean your body will be your guide I didn't dive in totally all at once it's been a learning curve but you know what as you go along your body will speak to you like minded it said oh I'm not depressed anymore oh I don't have hypoglycemia anymore oh I have more energy you know what and you're gonna notice these things so yes yes yeah yes I think that too for a person to when I think about French that I've brought this up too and I think the big hurdle that a lot of them have here is is that those carb foods are such an important part of their reward system the personal psychological reward and and I think the research has shown that that they're addictive I mean the grains actually have a addictive structure addictive very similar to what well gluteal morphine that's like a more nice substance in the gluten yes absolutely you know it doesn't wanna let go and I think a lot of friends have a theory that if they let go of the glutens as well as the sugars there's nothing left yeah well that's true you know we say a lot of time in our culture oh you know I'm gonna give myself a treat I'm gonna love myself I'll I'll have that carb I'll have that sugar as a way to love my but you know the craving I believe comes from a nutrient deficient diet and our body is going to continue to crave until we give it what it needs and what it needs our nutrients it needs the right vitamins and minerals in the right combination it needs the nutritious fats when you start giving your body what it really needs which is love I believe then it's going to respond love the love in physical form inyart yeah you're doing and part of the thing too that I really want the book to inspire and I talked about this is take your kids to the farmers market show them how to make the dressings and the special dips because part of all of this is about connection it's about family connection connection with friends our culture has gotten away from cooking and to me isn't the missing thing you know the cooking and the love that goes into the cookie the picking out of the foods and the sharing you know it is the pictures the pictures in your book share that like it's like oh it's beautiful beautiful person I've always loved food i I loved catering I loved the presentation I love the beautiful food going to the farmers market all of it it was all one huge you know thing for me it's been a wonderful wife food so here we go oh yeah yeah yeah I would say it's almost there so yeah so now what we can see yeah it's clearing up and I'm gonna turn it off and it'll sit there for a few minutes and continue to clear and then we'll just strain it into a cup okay how easy is that a lot of people say Oh to make it I show how to make it in my cooking class and that's everybody's favorite class the class on the fats how to make mayonnaise and how to make deep well we'll find out how to do well we've learned one of the two yeah so in about a couple minutes that'll be ready to just drain into the jar and then here's my jar that I've almost gone now yeah you just got it on top yeah this stays there it doesn't have to be refrigerated how long how long that's oh it's stable I mean that's part of a totally stable it won't go rancid I'll make a couple jars I'll keep one in the fridge but that one just sits out until I use it for weeks well knowing you it's yeah well take two hours become a couple of weeks maybe okay all right so this is just at the point where you can see the it started to brown on the bottom of the pen it's really clear clear liquid that's what you want and then once it gets to that that stage what we do is we just pour it through a strainer and that filters out the rest of the little residue on the top there and then I let it sit for a while and some of that stuff sinks to the bottom and then I just pour it into a little mason jar yeah there you go that is easy isn't it I think it is to stuff see it's all clear now it's all clear it's so easy and you know what it's so delicious so thank you yes really the trees the food with Bali instead who is paleo Paulo Paulo primal cuisine what's the rest of it cooking for the Paleo diet good thanks for joining us thank you you .
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You'll wish you could taste this video! Longtime caterer Pauli Halstead makes her famous Magical Muhamara dip from her cookbook Primal Cuisine: Cooking for the Paleo Diet. Using toasted walnuts instead of chickpeas, she credits its authentic Middle Eastern flavor to a touch of pomegranate molasses. Noting that fat is what makes food taste good, she shows a rich array of healthy natural fats and oils like coconut, olive, and avocado. Meanwhile on the stovetop, she makes a batch of ghee (clarified butter) start to finish. According to Pauli, "Cravings come from a nutrient-deficient diet. Our body is going to continue to crave until we give it what it needs... The right vitamins and minerals—and nutritious fats." Episode 237. [theprimalcuisine.com and www.facebook.com/PrimalCuisineCookingForThePaleoDiet]
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In this video, I make an incredible paleo chicken skillet that’s packed with delicious vegetables. It’s a super easy dish, and you only need to use the one skillet pan.
Recipe:
While I use chicken thigh in the video, you can replace this with basically any cut of chicken you want. If you have some leftover chicken, then that will also work great. Just be careful if you’re using leftover chicken, then the seasoning might alter the flavor of this dish for better or worse.
If you need to bulk this recipe out with an extra, then something like cauliflower rice is the perfect match for it.
If you need a list of ingredients for this delicious recipe, then you can find it right below.
4 chicken thighs, chopped 4 rashers bacon, cubed 1 onion, diced 1 tsp garlic, crushed 1 red bell pepper, chopped 250g (9 oz) button mushrooms, sliced 400ml (14.5 fl oz) can coconut cream 2 cups fresh kale, stems removed shredded Salt and pepper, to taste
Even though this dish is called chicken skillet, you can basically use any frying pan and get a similar result.
Despite being a creamy dish, this will reheat quite well. Just make sure you keep the leftovers stored in the fridge in an airtight container until you need them. Reheat over the stove or in a microwave.
There are a ton of variations that you’re able to do on this delicious dish. For example, you can swap the kale for baby spinach or use a different type of mushroom. It’s totally up to you, you can get some pretty cool combinations going.
I really hope that you enjoy this paleo chicken skillet as much as I did! If you have any feedback, tips, variations, or anything else that you would like to share, then please don’t hesitate to leave a comment below.
as a hopeless I know that additional value so we're actually adding in medicine food as medicine Anthea Caloris is a naturopath and herbalist the owner of Ivo organics are the heir champions food as the ultimate medicine and is passionate about educating and inspiring people to take care of their minds and bodies with natural sustainable solutions Thank You jokey nice to have a little herb garden smell oh yeah today after you and I will be making her classic healthy chicken soup - the whole thing I've taken the liberty of actually making a chicken stock and boiling a chicken so we've done a bit of the hard work which it's not really hard to work in oh it's so easy when we make a good chicken stock I usually keep all the kitchen scraps tops of celery on your carrots these are the basic vegetables and remembering our bone stock we put garlic which is good for a cold and flu yeah with lots of girl like in there the other thing to mention when we make a bone stock if we put some apple cider vinegar and salt which I did what you did perfect that extracts all the minerals and nutrients put in bones chicken carcasses or whole chicken and we let that simmer 4 to 6 hours some people use a slow food cooker and then we've basically strained it separated the chicken from the whole shook where you can turn this into any number of meals when it's back into a chicken soup or whether it's a chicken salad or pop it into a curry exactly I think everyone should know how to make a good basic stock a soup okay what's first so we bring this up to the simmer our lovely stock which is full of good nutrition and we will finally dice one carrot nice and small nice and small and we're keeping the skin on for extra nutrition normally you'd be peeling the exterior part which might contain a pesticide fertilizer etc so as long as we're starting off with good organic produce we don't need to really peel so much so we're gonna keep all this goodness and all that goodness continues from the stalks of celery and silverbeet right up into the leaves do you eat soup or broths all the time pretty much I don't take supplements and so I see it as my multivitamin essentially into a soup that's half a zucchini honey does keep the skin on keep the skins on the zucchini keep the skins on the pumpkin do you see a pattern here so we're going to use parsley and I have a feeling you go this stands in all of it oh that nothing goes to waste nothing we've got sage with some time for me thinking chicken soup we're thinking cold flu so sage and thyme are antiseptic I know you're gonna use the stalks and the stems yes I like this type of cooking nothing to waste nothing waste if no so we got over there you're some ginger we've got some ginger which actually encourages circulation to all the extremities it's anti-inflammatory that's going to work so well with our lemon that we'll be using at the very very end I guess we're ready to see them yeah we can put a little bit the salt now perfect and this is great because this gelatin is the gold in bone stock so anti-inflammatory and healing and it's good for musculoskeletal health that's the stuff that we want that's the jelly that's the jelly the gelatin beautiful so put some of that into the falls I'm loving this recipe it's so simple that's so fresh look at the colors in there it's great to cook with a naturopath because it got so much information about every ingredient I know I could keep talking but alright so we'll add some lemon zest lemon zest have lovely antioxidant properties antibacterial and it's the essential oils that yield better the lemon zest so you can smell that to start and then lemon juice because ginger lemon and garlic always go so well together and with the addition of sage and thyme you've got such a good medicinal soup so what else those sales rid of their whole food I love it but it's real food it's not a tablets not a potion it is just a good honest - I assure you you've got the big girl thanks Peter well are you I like eating good food lots of it he loved this everybody would love this .
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Pete Evans is in the kitchen with Anthia Koullouros of Ovvio Organics, making her classic healthy chicken soup.
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Seth today we are directing our rational brains toward the subject of health claims out there about health and nutrition and food and diets and how to navigate through the noise get a science-based understanding of genuine health and wellness my guest Leah McGrath has been on this show before she was on our Wu trician episode a few years ago she's been a registered dietitian since 1996 she was the chief of clinical Dietetics for the military in South Carolina before she joined the South Carolina Department of Public Health she's now a corporate dietitian she writes and speaks frequently for lifestyle publications and health publications and universities like Clemson and Georgia State and others she's a scientific adviser for the American Council on science and health and she's a refreshing voice of good scientific sense in a world loaded with anti science whoo she joins us for a conversation today Leah McGrath great to have you thanks for coming yeah thanks thanks for inviting me nice talk to you again give me the definition of a registered dietitian nutritionist versus hi I'm a health expert right it's because there's a lot of health quote unquote experts out there can you tell me what you do sure so a registered dietitian nutritionist is actually a protected title in the United States so it means when you see Rd or Rd and it means that this person has gone through a course of study which includes at the very minimum an undergraduate degree and most likely a master's degree they have to have been accepted to an internship program which is a very competitive process only about 50% of people who apply get accepted it's a twelve hundred hour internship it goes through different kind of competency areas like clinical Dietetics and Food Service administrative public health entrepreneurship different things depending on the internship program then they have to pass a nationally administered Board Exam which is about a four hour exam and then we have to keep up continuing education credit every year is five year intervals to maintain our credentials Jesus liked a bar yeah I am I mean yeah it is a little it's probably more than most people realize and you know as you mentioned some people who call themselves a health coach or a wellness coach or just a nutritionist they could have none of that experience or education or some of it but they can't call themselves the registered dietician and unless in fact they are registered with the Commission on Dietetic registration I want to start with keto because Natalie and I sort of looked in the mirror back in the fall of last year and realized we'd gotten a bit fluffy okay and so we saw a friend of ours who'd gone through a program that was amazing like they lost a ton of weight it's kind of a modified keto thing where you limit your carbs extremely limit your carbs and then we didn't do like the keto where you eat all the fat and you know all the cheese and the casseroles with bacon grease and stuff like that you can just eat essentially all the time and just limit your carbs it was really like lean proteins and whatnot so I'm looking at the diet now we're both about thirty five pounds down and I'm like was it the keto was it ketosis that caused us to lose or was it the fact that we were on a limited calorie intake eating lean proteins and you know fewer sugars and I look at keto and I'm like is this who was it just calories in calories out so tell me about keto is it real well you know yeah it's definitely a real diet one of the things you learn about when you're a dietitian is was called the ketosis diet which was actually a diet that was designed for children with epilepsy seizure disorders and they found that a diet that was high in fat very low in carbohydrates and moderate amount of protein was successful in combination with medications in reducing seizures for these children so that's been around for a long time then I guess probably a year or two ago we saw this sort of resurgence of what is called the keto diet and you know no offense to use that but having been a dietitian for 25 years I see a lot of what I think of as versions of the Atkins diet which is some version of the diet that's cutting carbohydrates and oftentimes those are very successful at least with immediate results because when you cut carbohydrates you lose fluid and you tend to lose weight fairly quickly at least initially so a lot of people tell me that they're doing the keto diet when you kind of talk to people a little bit more they're actually probably more in your what the camp that you're describing that's like people who have cut down on their carbohydrates maybe really cut out a lot of sugar sweetened beverages candy cookies cake sweetie wrestler sodas snacking kind of snack food and kind of turning more towards lean proteins more non starchy vegetables and hopefully they're exercising along with that but I don't know were you exercising that a little bit but you know at my age no it's a little harder to get up out of the chair but yeah we were doing a little bit but I was amazed at how much diet made the difference for us you know it used to because I have a sweet tooth I love sweet things and so when I cut out sugar and started doing like Splenda or whatever instead and and cut down on carbs in general I wasn't going out for ice cream at night you know I changed my habits a little bit I noticed that I began first of all to crave most of those foods less I mean I can still throw down on some sugar if it's offered to me but it I don't know it changed how I view food it changed even how food tasted is that common no and that's a great thing I think what we're talking about is situation a situation that many people encounter where you know you are adopting maybe some better habits you know focusing more on lean sources of protein and vegetables instead of grabbing those high caloric high sugar items that are immediately very satisfying but in the long run don't really do your health at you guys so changing those habits is a really good thing you start to find that you don't need the same level of sweet to be satisfied or maybe you need little or no sweeten things to be satisfied is it healthy to stay in ketosis first of all can you explain ketosis for the uninitiated yeah is it healthy to remain in that state for a length of time no it's really not too healthy to remain in that state for a long extended period of time what you're doing is you're trying to push your body to a point where there it's burning off the fat stores that's really like in a very basic way of explaining it a lot of people would say oh you know I did I tested for ketones in my urine and I there were ketones so I must be in ketosis well those urine tests on the little strips that people are using are not especially accurate and the only really legitimate way to test for ketosis is with blood tests and most people aren't doing that type of testing and you're gonna move in and out of ketosis throughout the day so but long stretches of time when you're pushing your body to that point there can be negative effects like you can see hydration they talked about the keto flu where you have like sort of like almost like a brain fog you feel like you have a clue you're a key you're irritable your body loves carbohydrates it doesn't I'm not saying that it loves sugar necessarily but it loves carbohydrates that can be broken down into sugars that's what your brain loves what that's what your muscles love so a long term diet that would be classified the true keto diet could potentially be harmful for people the problem is we don't have a lot of long-term studies because most the time people can't stick with it for long periods of time and that's the issue with any kind of diet you talked about you know was it just that you were cutting calories yes it probably was so any kind of diet what studies thing to show is that there are a lot of different diets out there there's you know moderate amounts of carbohydrates and moderate protein moderate fat there's high carbohydrate low fat there's low protein high fat the common denominator with the success of any of those diets is can the person stick with it for the long haul beyond just an immediate weight loss and if they go back to eating normal quote-unquote foods or their normal diet will the weight return so that is really the big question how long can you maintain this I'll get off the keto diet in just a second but I did it's just everybody talking about it it's like you meet somebody and they're like oh I'm doing keto tell me about the side effects of eating this sort of high fat high cholesterol keto those who are doing just that version of it right you may be burning fat because you're not eating carbs but aren't you causing other problems I mean - can't be good to eat all that junk right well you know what we're hearing a lot about anecdotally and honestly I haven't seen a lot of studies because again the problem is getting people to the point where they're following this for a long period of time it's always difficult to do those kinds of nutritional studies but what we're kind of hearing anecdotally is issues with things like kidney stones its dehydration it's that keto flu it's elevated cholesterol in some individuals the problem is everybody reacts differently the things and you would have to really take a population and have them be a very similar population and feed them the same things for a certain amount of time and really control a lot of variables to see what is really happening and in the problem with those type of studies they're hard to do it's hard to do for the people it's hard to it's expensive to do and there are so many variables and a free-range population of humans that have to be accounted for so you'd have to kind of keep them in prison somewhere and watch them for months with a controlled by it and that has not been done as far as I know I wish to remain a free-range human I just like this is great how about paleo that's another big one right lean meats and fish and fruits and veggies I mean can describe paleo and is there any real science to it yeah you know that whole diet trend I I feel like keto kind of usurped paleo and a lot of people criticize paleo because they said well you know the Paleolithic humans weren't eating this way you know they weren't they weren't putting you know coconut oil in their coffee and things like that that just that's ridiculous they weren't doing that they weren't eating that much meat because meat wasn't really available to the extent that we have sources of meat available so you know the thing I I think is important that that something that you said earlier I think that any diet like that has its pros and it's cons and if you can pull things out of that and kind of make your way to better eating habits in the long run then that's not a bad thing if I was a person and my diet was stopping by fast food every day for breakfast and ordering pizza for lunch and drinking sodas and I said yeah I'm gonna do the Paleo diet and I'm just going to eat lean meats and I'm gonna have just vegetables I'm going to really reduce I'm going to cut out a lot of those fast foods and quote unquote junk foods and maybe I didn't maintain that a hundred percent but I maintained it 75 or 80 percent I'm still at a better place than I was back in those old days and and hopefully you and your wife will be to like you you may be adopted some different habits some different food have and preferences that even if you kind of throw out like the whole say you don't stop saying you're doing Aikido Gaea diet or modified keto diet you found some things that you really enjoy eating that are new to you and that's okay so I think every diet like that has maybe something that can be good that comes out of it talking here with Leah McGrath who is a registered dietician nutritionist should I be concerned about the sugar substitute I want sweet things in my life Leah I want sweet things I want to sweeten my coffee and I sprinkle like there's a brown sugar substitute for my oatmeal those types of things and there are some who are like it's all chemicals and of course my first thought is well isn't everything chemical but what's your take on the sugar substitute I think your you've actually hit the nail right on the head they they do serve a purpose for a lot of people that you know they're trying to cut down on added sugars and these sugar substitutes and there's so many of them out there now there's something literally for everybody if you want something that's from a plant you can get stevia if you don't really you know you can get a paint pack at a blue packet a yellow packet you can get a wrist for call so there's something for everybody and you're right everything is a chemical anyway so let's not get so wrapped up in you know it's a chemical it's not a chemical you know what I hear from people is oh my gosh you know I've heard that you know maybe it can cause cancer or tumors it can in rats if you if that's all they're consuming and it's being consumed in such extraordinary amounts that humans would never be able to consume those so we're not rats we're not lab animals we have a diverse diet we are for your range population so I think in moderation and if it's substituting if it's getting to you to the point where oh I'm gonna have oatmeal which is a great source of soluble fiber if I can put a little bit of the sugar substitute on it good for you I think the big picture is more important than kind of fixating on the small little details so I shouldn't panic over xylitol and Splenda I mean these aren't sir causing agents that I'm replacing one evil with another that's not the way to approach it no and I've seen your pictures so you don't look like a lab rat I'm a free-range human that's what I am I've got some more questions for you I want to talk about intermittent fasting I get a few more diets I want to talk about sort of this vegan based thing I know anytime you mentioned vegan people immediately divided now on everybody just to relax all right go take a chill pill because we're gonna talk from a nutritional point of view but first let's go and see what our callers have for the conversation as we get 8 to 8 on the switchboard you're on the thinking atheist podcast with my guest Leah McGrath who's this my wife we started walking because driving a truck it's really easy to fall into the fast food so we started meal prepping but now I'm finding like this is not enough food for me like yesterday I felt like really exhausted and like I was going to pass out things maybe since the calorie is not enough calories well that's not a good position for you to be in as a truck driver obviously so important to keep in mind that if you and your wife are meal prepping and equal quantity of food chances are she needs a lot fewer calories than you need so your serving size should automatically be bigger and so whatever you're having as a meal prep you might need some additional sources of calories beyond that so maybe there are things that are easy to keep in the cab of your truck whether it's pieces of fruit or peanut butter crackers or a bag of carrots or milk something like that that you're gonna have some additional sources of calories so if you feel like wow that really wasn't enough to eat then you have someplace to go first now the other thing that's real helpful in terms of making you feel fuller is to make sure those meals are high in fiber and the fiber is gonna come from things like whole grains and your vegetables so really loading that up is going to make you feel full but what you're describing as kind of feeling a little like you know maybe dizzy or lightheaded that sounds to me like we're we have situation where you're just not getting enough calorie so planning on a bigger portion size and maybe some additional snacks to have on hands would be the way to go Paul you're not swerving on the road right now are you I mean just a public-safety cabbie sounds like you need to bring on the calories man yep safe travels thanks for calling thank about listening appreciate your Paul yeah all right take it easy have we evolved past the idea of you need three major meals a day breakfast lunch and dinner are we supposed to eat smaller portions more often what know that I think that if anything we have become more attuned many of us attuned to what we as individuals need what makes us feel better you know like Paul that you just spoke to you know some people just feel better when they're eating for six small meals a day rather than three meals a day some people feel like they don't need to eat three meals a day they feel comfortable they feel satisfied just eating two meals a day so I think if anything maybe we're moving away from that idea that you have to have three meals a day or you have to have three meals a day and snack so it's more of an individual approach and that's how as dietitians we're supposed to be talking to our clients and customers like are you a truck driver who gets up at 3 o'clock in the morning like what's your schedule like how much activity do you get what makes you feel the best what kind of eating pattern makes you feel the best so does it matter what time I eat this food I mean I've heard that if you have a big meal right before you go to bed it automatically will it automatically stick to your ass if you eat at 10:30 and go right to bed is there something to that no there's not you know your body distinguished necessarily when you're eating the calories or where it's going to put those calories so that's not really the issue with eating before you go to bed but what the issues are are things like your body still digesting if you're going to eat right before you go to bed and then go right to sleep you may have difficulty sleeping you may have more issues with indigestion you may have crazy wild dreams because your body's processing all that food and digesting all that food it's not the usually the best for you to eat and then go straight to bed so a lot of times they'll recommend eating your last meal waiting at least three or four hours before you go to bed because you're going to have better sleep you're not going to have issues with indigestion heartburn reflux if you go to bed on the full stomach I did a google search of like healthy living healthy diets I just did some variations and at the top of the list I saw some good stuff you know there's some reports from Harvard and the CDC had some data but if you scroll down long enough it's just wove ill right I mean I was just surrounded by all kinds of alternatives and stuff that is they're pretty websites but you know I and I over whelmed the zone died at the South Beach died at the Mediterranean diet the raw food diet I you know and I wonder how much of this just people selling books and supplements can we say I know it's a broad question but can we dive into those waters what's your take on all that well you know it just seems like you know we've already mentioned three well even before we got into that list but you know having been a dietitian for 25 years you just kind of kind of hold your breath and wait to see what kind of fad diet or trending diet is going to be this year's favorite and you know like I said earlier the bottom line the consistent thing is if you can maintain that you can maintain if you're doing it for weight loss and you can maintain that diet chances are you will stick with the weight loss but the problem is so many of these diets are very restrictive there they inhibit you socially maybe they're not enough calories and you don't feel good so people gradually resume former eating habits so and many of these are really just a different name for the same exact thing where you're calling it you know the Atkins diet or the keto diet or the Paleo diet or there's own diets they all have some very similar attributes to them and they just kind of remake them every year or so to something to sell a new book or to sell a new supplement a lot of money in the industry for sure yeah there's a saying about the foods we eat I've heard it said eat the rainbow is that just a span on eat your fruits and veggies and is there anything to it Wow you know I think that that was so I'm not sure where that was born I think we you see that a lot of time taught to kids as a way to really encourage them visually to kind of branch out into different foods and different color foods and that's not a bad thing you know that when you work with little kids sometimes their palate is so limited that encouraging them to eat different colors is a great way to get them to try new foods the problem is is sometimes them the foods that are perfectly healthy and good for you that are maybe not those rainbow colors like the whites and the Browns which are still great foods to eat whether you're talking about you know a banana or jicama or a sweet potato or white potato kind of get shoved to the curb kick to the curb so I think it's a good message and I think it works great for kids obviously but not a bad message I see on the switchboard eight one zero you're on the air with my guest Leah McGrath who's this hi my name is Rachel seaman I have been overweight my entire life I have tried every fad every diet you can think of it wasn't until last year that I went to my doctor appointment and I did not like my results from my fasting blood tests that I asked my doctor I said okay I really want to lose this weight how do you recommend that I do it and he recommended the book called balanced revolution by dr. gerard Mullen and this is the only thing I had ever found where I lost the weight I didn't do the yo-yoing I stuck to it and I was just wondering I lost 70 pounds and 16 and half inches off my waist and like nine months what do you mean gut balance can you frame that for me and the listeners sure talks about how your gut is actually talks to your brain and tells you when to eat and when not to eat the doctor has found that when you put the you need to think of your gut as like a garden so whatever you're into it you're okay if you put bad things into your body and into your gut you're gonna get bad out no you don't work for you no work for the company right is I do want to make sure that it is you're not just shilling for the or okay all right cool I I'm sorry I got to be devil's advocate because I know the skeptics and the audience are like she's selling his book Leah McGrath you have any comments on this well I think you know what you're talking about your colors talking about is really what's called intuitive eating or mindful eating where you are getting more in touch with there is definitely a connection between our gut and our brain we know that if we're anxious and we're upset sometimes for some of us that causes that anxiety that being upset causes our stomach to be upset that's definitely a gut brain interaction but adopting more mindful eating habits more intuitive eating habits so you're getting more in touch with what am i eating why am i eating this am I really hungry am i eating because it's in front of me and it's there am i eating just because that first taste tasted great and so I feel like I have to finish the whole plate am i eating because I grew up being told that you can't leave the table and let you clean your plate people are starving in China so getting more in touch with that is never a bad idea and if it's something if you've adopted eating habits that have gotten you to the point where you're happy with what you're eating and you can as I said earlier and you can maintain that for a long term and you're healthy and you can have enjoy your social life and your family life that's a good thing thank you for the call thanks for being a part of the show congratulations on your success thank you see you later so you mentioned the child parent says there are children starving all over the world finish your plate yeah how much of the obesity problem starts when you're a kid I mean I guess it's a loaded Bastion right I already know the answer but can we speak to that the habits start early right yeah you know I think there are some really good habits and some really not so great habits that can started a very young age you know using food as a punishment or reward is really sets a lot of us up for problems later in life you know if you're good you can have some ice cream if you finish your vegetables you can have some candy you know that kind of rewards this phone for children this often becomes very problematic as they get older or putting kids on a very restrictive diet for no reason when they're young you know because a lot of times we see that from people who have their own issues and their own concerns around food and they're so worried about their children being overweight or having to deal with issues around obesity that they put their children on highly restrictive diets unnecessarily restrictive diets and then that becomes problematic a lot of those behaviors around food start at a very very young age but I mean if you're running through the fast-food drive-in because you live a busy life you have a responsibilities you you know it's hard to sit down cook a meal for a lot of people are you front-loading the rest of the child's life for bad health choices for things like you know heart disease and those types of deal I mean what do you think well you know I would like to I guess I I'd like to think that hopefully people aren't doing that on a regular couple things hopefully people aren't doing that on a regular basis and if our lives are so busy that that is something on a regular basis maybe we really need to evaluate power spending our time or how we're scheduling our time in our kids time the next thing is I think a lot of the fast food or Quick Serve restaurants have tried to do some things because they know that they've gotten a lot of heat in this category whether it's cutting down on portion sizes or offering salad or wraps or apple slices instead of cookie so there have been some efforts in those areas for in the fast food and quick serve but I also think it's really important to not get into that whole blame game that parents shouldn't be blamed for like you know going out fad for fast food once a week is that going to make make it certain that your child's gonna have end up with diabetes or heart disease no that's not going to be the situation but if that becomes a regular part of your life in your schedule then that's certainly going to make it more difficult for that child to understand what better choices are and healthier choices are as they move into their adolescence the Meredith hood this is a broadcast which is about science-based reason based evidence-based living so on today's broadcast we're not talking about religion per se I mean we may get into veganism which for many people they approach with a religious fervor may if you're vegan great fantastic I'm I'm not dissing you but I'm saying that there is an intensity to those who are many of them who are vegan activists and those who are anti vegan there's a religious sort of vibe you know to both sides of that if you experience this when people say the word vegan it's like an explosion it's almost worse than talking politics right yeah I think that you know I have friends that have followed a vegan diet for years to remember of different reasons you know for religious reasons health reasons ethical reasons and they're wonderful people and I care for them and then we have people as you mentioned us who it's it it's at a level of intensity that is really activism and that is problematic for a lot of our farmers a lot of different food companies food brands where you have that level of activism and what's really stunning is it's a very small percentage of people in the United States actually identify as vegan its figures are they estimate that less than one percent of people in the United States are actually vegan I think the number is actually probably more like 0.5% of people in the United States are truly vegans with the ethical vegan eye they make some compelling arguments you know for when they're in a world where we're reducing suffering and those types of things but beyond very ethical issue how about the practical issue can you eat no meat and be healthy well and and a true bigness goes beyond not eating meat I mean there it's not having any type of its having animal free products in your home it's not having honey so it's it's a very comprehensive lifestyle it's more than just going up to a menu and saying I don't want me it's much more than that and I think that that it is very challenging for people who adopt that and that's why there's so much of a return to eating meat like the percentage of people who identify as being in or vegetarian and itíd states that resume eating meat is something like 84 percent that will go back to eating let me go back to the switchboard quickly on skype I've got four four hi you're on the thinking atheist podcast with registered dietitian nutritionist Leah McGrath who's this - Suzie pokin thanks for coming Suzie what do you have for us comment or question question really I've I've recently been diagnosed with fibromyalgia they tablets our mom just banged on the weight and and obviously I'm limited in how much exercise I can do as well so I'm just wondering if if only I have any recommendations for the kind of food that I should be eating well you you know are you I'm guessing you're on some sort of steroid gabapentin that some like completely epileptic anti-inflammatory right so it so as a dietitian and in this kind of situation I can't give you nutritional advice because you know you're not my patient and I can no you know there are there are there certainly are medications that can exacerbate or cause weight gain or make it more difficult for you to lose weight especially if you're dealing with something like fibromyalgia and that may also have an effect on your ability to be active and exercise I think in that situation there's really only a few things that you can do you could certainly talk to your physician about you know are there and is there anything else that I could take because this really seems to be making me gain weight and that just makes everything worse for you and it makes it more difficult to exercise and be active so it's going to be very challenging if that's the situation if that medication is making you feel like you you need to constantly hungry or you have an appetite so my first recommendation would be to go back to your physician and say is there anything else that I might be able to take that wouldn't have this make me feel like I have I'm having this side effect yeah I could have I think II thanks for calling the Sheila all my best thank you very much psyche bye - the vegan even the fast food will combine the two have you tried the impossible burger or any of these plant-based burgers you know I have tried a lot of them but I have not tried the impossible as yet it's so interesting - that's because you know these you know they're calling themselves plant-based which is a marketing strategy to sort of kind of skirt the idea of them being for the vegan or vegetarian shopper but many of these like you know you you probably remember when tofurkey and Boca burger and Morningstar farms first at the market right that's been over 20 years so these are types of meat replacement or meat substitutes or meat alternatives are really nothing new what's kind of new is how they look some of them they have beet juice to kind of make them look like they're bleeding a little bit how they are being marketed some of them are being marketed right next to a hundred percent ground beef which is a big departure from the frozen food taste and sometimes in some cases just through the taste profile is a little bit better different than maybe the older generation meat alternatives were is there a health benefit to you know getting off the meat burger and trying a plant-based burger there is a health benefit to eating a diet that includes more plants so fruits vegetables grains beans nuts seeds which is really the recommendation of the dietary guideline it that is very different than saying I want to eat more plant-based diet so I'm going to go out and buy a burger that is made of soy protein or pea protein and I'm going to have that you know three or four times a week I think the agreement on that is pretty universal but those are not something that are going to necessarily be healthier quote-unquote in terms of sodium and saturated fat many times they're identical to the animal products well they're higher they're the same amount of saturated fat they might be higher in sodium than 100 percent ground B so as a dietician I don't see a huge health benefit to those particular products especially if there's something that people are consuming on a regular basis now that being said they are certainly providing people with more options and people like options Americans like options we like choices we don't want people to tell us what we should eat or not eat we want to have chicken one day and we want to have fish the next day or we want to have a veggie Bowl on Wednesday so we like to have different options if you were to make the ethical decision right I don't want an animal to be killed so I'm going to go to that's one thing but to say it's healthier I mean just to make that statement ignores the reality that a lot of the plant-based burgers are still loaded with stuff that you probably don't want to eat consistently exactly you know I don't want to agitate to get into this long list of ingredients or ingredients you can't pronounce because that sounds very keema phobic and like food babe like these are essentially a recipe that these manufacturers have created to get as close as they can to tasting like beef in this case situation beep so you know they might have to put different flavoring agents and coloring agents in to get you to the point where you're like oh I don't miss beef because this tastes enough like B to make me happy and not miss B's so if that's what you're looking for those products are there now but if you are wanting to include more plant-based products I would say eat fruits vegetables grains beans nuts and seeds that's where you should go when we come back we're gonna talk about processed foods wait how its processed what's not processed is it really on that bad for you I want to talk about these trips to these healthier grocery stores as well when you walk in everything is whole-grain and no additives and whatever how much of this is just marketing how much of this is the advertising department and how much of it is genuinely 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instructions now we look at them and we're like hey wait a minute you take the supplements in the morning you take these three or four pills and then you drink a gallon of water all day and you eat a reasonable and healthy diet and exercise at least 30 minutes three times a week of course you don't know I'm like wait a minute wait a minute so take the magic pills and then live a healthy lifestyle and you will be healthier and just it's embarrassing it's embarrassing but you know this kind of health and wellness stuff the health and wellness industry a just man it's massive and it continues today all kinds of stuff being sold out there that's the subject we're talking here with registered dietician nutritionist Leah McGrath about health and wellness claims and we're getting input comments and questions from the audience someone in the chat made a claim just now that processed food equals cancer and it reminded me of a documentary that I'd seen that I've sort of taken with a grain of salt called Forks Over knives that continues to rest on the quote China Study I don't even know where to start here because it's such a broad thing but this host of the documentary switched to plant-based food and blended it into smoothies and lost a ton of weight and his health problems disappeared and he made this documentary but it's rests on the science quote/unquote science of a China dottie are you familiar with this and can you address it yeah that's um what's his last name is it he Coleman Carroll I'm blanking on his name but it up yeah dad essentially vegan and they're part of that big proponents of a vegan diet you know a vegan diet a true being a diet words you know primarily whole plant foods there's nothing wrong with that now they are many times missing some nutrients that are in animal products that they have to either really be very intentional about trying to get or get through supplement things like certain B vitamins b12 would be one thing iron calcium vitamin C so you have to have if you're going to have to follow a vegan diet needs to be a well-planned we think that's really important I'm looking at the credits here the lot of PhDs and MDS T Colin Campbell yeah T Colin Campbell thank you he's the based on another vegan vegan diet but coming back to the whole idea of process um that's like one of my little pet peeves when people rail against processed foods because everything we eat is processed I mean you know your Greek yogurt didn't come up out of the ground this rejiggered it came from a cow and that was processed from milk and that's made into Greek yogurt and that's a process and when you cook food at home you're processing raw ingredients to make a meal so everything we eat is essentially processed in some way there are certainly levels of processing from like minimally processed to ultra or highly processed but just using that word is sort of a shorthand for you know processed as bad okay I think that's kind of a lazy lazy thank you people like simple solutions don't I mean I'm guilty of this so if we want it to fit on a bumper sticker right natural get processed bad but not all natural foods are things we want to put in our bodies sure exactly or we don't want to put them in our body how they exist in nature I mean you're not going to walk into a field of wheat and put a bunch of wheat kernels into your mouth and end up you know you can't make bread in your mouth it's not about work you know you can't just pick mushrooms up out of the ground and eat them some could be poisonous so we live in just this amazing time of so many different food opportunities and food choices and which kind of ironic is that the more we have the more suspicious and critical we are of those food choices and food opportunity let's see if I've got a call on the switchboard with no number and let me just try to pull it up here hi who's this rosemary thanks for calling you got a comment a question a comment I'm all these funny diets in the stars use this is the dangers aren't they I mean like when Beyonce was in a film and the dream girl she went on this k9 pepper and lemon juice diet and that was so bad and it was like putting the papers and magazines that you know this is what how she lost it in some fantastic I think that's just very dangerous wait it was Cayenne right not k9 she was gonna say well you're just eating canine that's a whole other kind of diet so this actually rosemary brings me to another point so I'll combine my question with yours I've heard that cayenne pepper is supposed to boost metabolism there's a claim that ginger can reduce body fat ginseng is supposed to change your guts microbiota or whatever that is microbiota out of whatever that is what about these herbs and spices that we put on our foods do they have a weight reduction component to them short answers no you know you might have a very slight thermic effect very very slight but in the long run it's not going to be like sprinkling cayenne pepper on your food or black pepper isn't I'm going to make you burn an additional 500 calories a day that's that's just not how it works the way your body uses calories and burns calories is really do two things like exercise and activity and movement and just your body's all the processes that go on your your body the problem with a lot of these things that you mentioned like whether we're talking about cayenne pepper we're talking about ginseng or ginger or anything is you know these products there's nothing bad about any of these products the problem is is that many times people start to just say you know oh it's too much of a hassle to get fresh ginger and put it in a stir-fry with lovely vegetables and some some lean meat you know I'm just going to get it ginger capsules or I'm gonna get cayenne pepper capsules or I'm gonna get whatever kind of capsule and I'll just swallow those because we love to take pills and supplements the problem of supplements aren't regulated like prescription medication so what is in your supplement may not be what you really think is in your supplement so that's one thing and then the the claims that are made usually has little or no basis and science or medicine and coming back to your caller talking about somebody like Beyonce you're absolutely right I mean you pick up People magazine or whatever the popular magazine and you see this is how you know Beyonce lost weight looks amazing for the Super Bowl or whatever but they don't talk about the fact that Beyonce has probably a team of people who are helping her to get to that point you know from trainers and the suits and the you know somebody who comes in and cooks all her food for her her chef our nutritionist or dietitian whoever she has she she's wealthy enough that she this is all she has to think about how she looks she doesn't have 40 hour a week job she can afford to have all those people measuring everything she eats cooking everything for her watching what she wears grooming her so she looks amazing all the time so it's an unrealistic expectation that we have these images of stars and people and chances are they're really not eating the way that the magazine says they're eating anyway now they're just selling magazines anyway right get thin quick get sexy fast and you know I've accepted the reality in my life that there is no food that I can eat that will make me look like Hugh Jackman as much as I would like that to happen it's just not a reality I will always look like Ferris Bueller for the rest of my accepted rosemary thanks for calling you take care of yourself okay thank you see you later bye talking here with Lea McGrath she is a registered dietician nutritionist so I go we shop it like a healthier supermarket that's just down the road it's convenient and they've got good stuff good produce but I've noticed that every box every package every can everything has these sort of catch words whole-grain unprocessed this is marketing is that what's happening here is this just they understand there's a market for people who if they see the word natural on the box they're tempted to lean that direction yeah I think you know again it's just it's kind of like the fad diet thing every every couple of years we see a new label it's almost like the brand's leave a little bit of real estate on the front of their package because they know that this is the next term out there that's going to attract attention you know you remember when it was all about gluten-free right everything it was all about that kind of wording on a package if it was gluten-free that was good somehow for some reason and then it was non-gmo and then it was like no sugar added so yeah those are marketing terms but the front of the package is sort of like the Wild West for marketing you know they can put all kinds of different things on there to attract your attention they can use really incredible images to attract your attention the boring stuff is the black and white and the nutrition facts panel and the ingredients and that's what tells the real story of what you're actually eating right there's panels on the back are they I mean are they pretty close to reality or do they get some there there's some wiggle room in those nutritional facts charts well there there's I don't know if you want to cope with room there's like rounding things that they can do but they very are supposed to be based on actual data like when you are if you have a success if you made a product that you wanted to sell you would have to send it into a lab and have it analyzed so that you knew the nutrition facts what's going to be going on the panel and then that information is all part becomes all part of that product so you pay to have that analyzed you just don't make up information for for zero you're on the thinking atheist podcast Leah McGrath who's this this is Malachi and from Ohio that was in the chance is commenting about plant-based and I think it's interesting a lot of these uh well for one thing doctors are not educated in nutrition so you can't really rely on doctors to give you the effective you know we're they're gonna give prescribed medication and then dietitian seems I was kind of take this middle of the road this moderation kind of plan work but moderation is so subjective and and the reality is that plant-based diet or lifestyle is the only diet that don't actually remove anything that you need to sustain yourself where every other diet you know like maketo diet you know you're removing complex carbs and you're only eating meat and fat you're pumping your veins full of fat and in creating basically clogging up your arteries and creating ketosis and so anyway so plant base is really you're eating things that are growing out of the ground you're not eating processed foods you know you're creating your own beavers by taking black beans you're boiling them or you know and you're putting them in the in the Vitamix blender and then you're adding some oats to it you're making you put in the oven you're making your own bean burgers that are healthy they're not packed full of these chemicals that are going through this processing plant or all these other additives and then chemical these things that are that are killing us and creating all the essential in our body and I'm not an expert I'm not a doctor not a dietician I'm just I just on I've listened to so much information that fact base based on and these studies and a lot of stuff we've known for decades it's just been suppressed or haven't been part of the mainstream and I just think people just get the information they can make there if they have the truth they can make their own decision it's pretty obvious well I appreciate your comment let me let me let Leah jump in here because she is an expert in the failures your take on what you just heard well you know I'm always like to ask people when they define a diet as plant-based are you talking about a vegan diet or vegetarian diet or how do you define clad space well I'm I follow I don't personally with dr. Michael Greger that he runs on health facts that were again his whole he wrote a book how not to die and his second book is how not to diet and he has a really great guideline as far as a traffic light of yellow green and red food and so the green foods are things like around the ground begin your you're not some eating McDonald's fries you're taking a potato that you bought at the grocery store you're slicing it up and you know your whether or not you're choosing to eat oil or not there's another thing but you know you're slicing up yourself and you're not eating the process like frozen foods and things like that and so we kind of a look at traffic we're yellow foods are or maybe slow moderately or slightly processed foods and red foods are like meat dairy and highly processed foods beacon the reason and he comes he's develop this system based on this evidence-based you know research and medical research and journals that can esteem go through and really what what led me down this path personally is just the fact of history of cancer in my family and I was challenging whether or not I was genetically predisposed and had no other option or if I had a choice and so to me based on all the research that I've done that I have a choice if I change my diet and I avoid things in our food that are promoting cancers and I can increase my chances of not getting this and I don't know if you you guys have talked about this yet but I'm very and and neat you know if they ruin our body you can see most animal product the animal protein that it promotes igf-1 which is human growth hormone and it's a huge cancer promoter and hang on there's none to unpack here alright so I'm trying to string you because there a lot I don't want to think over right you can't eat your way out of a genetic predisposition to cancer can you know you know and you know you can lessen your risks if you have those genes for cancer it doesn't mean if you have the genes for the certain type of cancer doesn't mean you're going to actually end up having the cancer and you can certainly maybe reduce your risk or have that awareness there are certain environmental things but you're not going to be able to eat your way out of environmental exposures you're not to be able to eat your way out of you know I think I think what's important I mean I think it's great to embrace eating more fruits vegetables grains beans nuts seeds I you know I've said that repeatedly I also think we need to acknowledge that many people around the world live long lives and live very healthy lives having a very diverse diet which includes dairy and whether that's milk or that whether it's a fermented dairy like a yogurt cheese product and that people all around the world eat meat products so I think you have to find a diet that makes you feel good and that you can sustain for the long haul and that you you can maintain your health unfortunately true vegan diet does need some sort of supplementation because and the one of the biggest one is vitamin b12 I mean we we see some really serious health consequences when people are on a vegan diet for a long term and are not there are these kind of minor low levels I efficiency may go unrecognized for long periods of time and then they become serious problems so whenever somebody was subscribing to a very strict vegan diet which is kind of what I believe you're describing because I know dr. Greger is a vegan and he advocates for that diet which I would strongly recommend that you make sure you're you're having your blood test every year to check for things like your iron levels your calcium vitamin D b12 to make sure that you aren't going from a situation of having a slight deficiency to a full-blown deficiency appreciate your call my friend thanks for being a part of the show good weight loss thank you come on Lea I mean do you ever just sneak out and get a piece of cheesecake I'm saying did you just go out and you know what give me the extra hot fudge on the sundae do you ever have pizza come on you know me you're human this time of year is that it's the Cadbury egg oh my gosh it's like the one time of year when I see them in the store I'm like oh my gosh it's the Cadbury egg I have a sweet tooth like you said so I have to make sure that I have strategies that I have things like turn around and that every once in a while if I want something sweet I don't beat myself up over having something sweet and you know you balance your life out with exercise and activity as much as you can does it derail your train I've heard people say well you know once you step off the wagon right because I had a piece of peanut butter pie last night it had chocolate on the top of it and a graham cracker crust and I'm like well this I just hose myself like if I kicked in my sugar cravings again you know again I think it really depends on you some people you know over the course of my life I have know people who are that all-or-nothing it's like sugar is too much of a temptation so therefore I have to give up all sugar I can't ever each other and then there's the people who are like you know I can control my sweet tooth I allow myself piece of chocolate a day or I allow myself when I go out to eat I have you know that peanut butter pie with a graham cracker fresh from the chocolate syrup or whatever so I think you can't view those times as I've fallen off the wagon I feel guilty I feel terrible all is lost I might as well resume my own old eating habits and that's really not how you should look at it you should really look at it as you know what I'm gonna really enjoy this and it sounds like you did and you didn't eat the whole pie so there's that I think I think you just I you know I know that your caller Malik I was sort of like I you know dieticians and mod everything in moderation yeah well I think that's probably the more realistic way to look at things anyway how do we protect ourselves from somebody who's maybe throwing some credentials at us but maybe selling whoa is there like a filter that we could use that you would recommend you know I think it kind of comes back to something you said earlier in the show when you ask the caller you know why are you talking about this specific diet what's your interest in it are you selling it so I think that that's always a big red flag for me if somebody is trying to sell their their philosophy their diet as better than anything anybody else is doing that's a big red flag for me look at somebody's credentials what is their training what is their experience are they in it for themselves are they really in it to provide science-based information you know or are they in it to make a quick buck and get more advertisers are they really in it to help people and I know a lot of people these days seem to have some distrust of the government but you know you pay for four entities like the FDA USDA CDC so these are people that don't have a vested interest in selling you a book or selling you a diet plan that's where I would start to try and get some science-based information is your name Gwyneth Paltrow or Vani Hari that's probably a good place to start follow the GUP website and you mentioned food babe do you does this go into a closet and just bang your head against the sheetrock over that stuff or what well you know I think it makes me it makes me sad when I hear people who you know they spend a lot of money on something because you know some sort of quick fix or you know some sort of magical T or you know they said oh you know dr. oz this I think that you know a lot of us are looking for the quick fix and the cure and you know like you're one caller we're frustrated because we've tried different things and they haven't worked and we're we're looking for that magic bullet we're looking for that solution and so you can't really blame people for kind of grasping at those types of advertisements and those types of individuals but I think in the long run it just leads you down the path of frustration and an expensive waste of money Leah McGrath you are amazing thanks for educating us Forbes helping to route us in some evidence-based information and good lifestyle type stuff and I wish you all the best in your endeavors I will include the link to your Twitter in the description box so that anybody who wants to go and follow you and your work can certainly do so it's been an honor and a pleasure thanks again thank follow the thinking atheist on Facebook and Twitter for a complete archive of podcasts and video products like mugs and t-shirts featuring the thinking atheist logo links to atheist pages and resources and details on upcoming free thought events and conventions log on to our website the thinking atheist com .
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We're directing our rational brains toward the subject of health and nutrition...with special guest and Licensed Dietitian Nutritionist Leah McGrath. (@InglesDietitian)
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