It’s All About Food

It’s All About Food – Deborah Vidal and Timaree Hagenburger – 04.26.16

Part I: Deborah Vidal, VIDALSPEAKS
As a child Deborah loved animals so much she could not eat them and by her young teens she was a vegetarian. At the age of 11 she had a terrible accident where she died and was resuscitated back to life. That left her with many years of horrible headaches and back problems. At the age of 23 after only 3 years of learning golf she qualified for the LPGA golf tour and ranked 43rd in the world after 2 years. She played on the LPGA tour for 11 years but under the name Deborah McHaffie since she was married at the time. She believes she was the only vegan/vegetarian on the tour the years that she played. Although she was a professional athlete first, she always considered health & food her passion in life. Her back finally could not take anymore after 11 years on tour, along with many chronic infections from all the pesticides on the courses she left to find her health and pursue another career. She did TV for the Golf Channel and CBS for 4 years and finally left to fulfill her life work of helping people & healing. That is when she found homeopathy! She began my classical homeopathic practice in LA in 1999 & have been helping patients regain their health until just recently when she decided to take a break to start her podcast, which is called VIDALSPEAKS. After years of practicing & being concerned how sick & suppressed people were she felt compelled to speak out about the dangers of suppressing symptoms with pharmaceutical drugs & not understanding nature’s law. She speaks about healing through a plant-based diet, using homeopathy & detoxing to regain health. She is loving podcasting & feels she has found her life work since her desire has been to reach the huge mass!
Deborah is certified by The Council For Homeopathic Certification and a member of NASH (North American Registered Society of Homeopaths), where she served as Vice President for 2 years. She has lectured at the National Homeopathic conference and she currently teaches at homeopathic schools in Southern California. She did a post-graduate study in Italy for 7 years and has studied with one of the best homeopaths in the world, Dr. Farokh Master. Her homeopathic practice, named LA Homeopathy, has served patients in Hollywood, California for 17 years.
Deborah is a graduate of Cornell University’s Plant-Based Nutritional Program and has a diploma from Westbrook University in Nutritional Balancing Science, which is a study to learn how to detox via hair analysis. Ever since her teenage years she has been a lifelong student of the idea of “Food as Medicine” for acute problems and to sustain health.
Part II: Timaree Hagenburger, The Foodie bar Way
Timaree Hagenburger is a Registered Dietitian with a Master’s Degree in Public Health. She is a nutrition professor at Cosumnes River College and a professional speaker working in her community and with corporate wellness clients, including her role on the Worldwide Wellness Team for Apple. Timaree is a monthly columnist for the Lodi News Sentinel and guest contributor for the Stockton Record. Her innovative and engaging cookbook, The Foodie Bar Way: One meal. Lots of options. Everyone’s happy. is available as an Ebook and a full-color, 303 page, printed book at www.FoodieBars.com Timaree is a certified Exercise Physiologist through the American College of Sports Medicine and marathon runner. She has a regular segment on California Bountiful TV, which airs on 31 stations throughout California and nationwide on satellite stations. She has also created a chartered student club called Thrive On Plants (TOP) at her college. TOP’s mission: To support greater wellness through whole food plant-based choices, joyful movement, lifelong learning and mindful practices, and to fulfill our potential while celebrating life.

It’s All About Food – Caryn Hartglass And Gary De Mattei – 04.19.16

Gary De Mattei is back again this week with Caryn to continue their
conversation. In this show they cover many topics including dealing
with confrontational people while being vegan and the upcoming Passover
Holiday.
Gary De Mattei is the co-founder and Creative Director of Responsible
Eating and Living. Gary is an actor, director, producer, filmmaker,
writer, teacher and trained chef. He is the founder and Artistic
Director of the nonprofit theatre company, The Artist’s Theatre
Repertory Ensemble (TheATRE). Gary was last seen on the New York stage
in the award-winning new play, No One Asked Me by Kate Ballen.
Before moving to New York in 2008 Gary worked extensively in Bay Area
theatre as an actor, director, writer, producer, teacher, and arts
administrator. He was the co-founder and producing artistic director of
Theatre On San Pedro Square (TOSPS) in San Jose from January of 2000 to
April of 2008. During that time Gary produced plays and musicals that
showcased local, national and international theatre artists. Gary was
the Theatre Department Chair at Presentation High School in San Jose.
During his tenure at Presentation Gary directed plays and musicals and
taught acting. His theatre department was awarded the prestigious Best
High School Musical Award from the American Musical Theatre. Gary is a
Bay Area Theatre Critics Award nominee for his portrayal of Fiorello H.
LaGuardia in Foothill Music Theatre’s production of Fiorello. A proud
member of Actor’s Equity Association, Gary trains at HB Studios in New
York under the guidance of his acting teacher Austin Pendleton. For more
about Gary go to his website, GaryDeMattei.com.

It’s All About Food – Gary De Mattei, Ask A Vegan Returns – 04.12.16

Gary De Mattei is the co-founder and Creative Director of Responsible
Eating and Living. Gary is an actor, director, producer, filmmaker,
writer, teacher and trained chef. He is the founder and Artistic
Director of the nonprofit theatre company, The Artist’s Theatre
Repertory Ensemble (TheATRE). Gary was last seen on the New York stage
in the award-winning new play, No One Asked Me by Kate Ballen.
Before moving to New York in 2008 Gary worked extensively in Bay Area
theatre as an actor, director, writer, producer, teacher, and arts
administrator. He was the co-founder and producing artistic director of
Theatre On San Pedro Square (TOSPS) in San Jose from January of 2000 to
April of 2008. During that time Gary produced plays and musicals that
showcased local, national and international theatre artists. Gary was
the Theatre Department Chair at Presentation High School in San Jose.
During his tenure at Presentation Gary directed plays and musicals and
taught acting. His theatre department was awarded the prestigious Best
High School Musical Award from the American Musical Theatre. Gary is a
Bay Area Theatre Critics Award nominee for his portrayal of Fiorello H.
LaGuardia in Foothill Music Theatre’s production of Fiorello. A proud
member of Actor’s Equity Association, Gary trains at HB Studios in New
York under the guidance of his acting teacher Austin Pendleton. For more
about Gary go to his website, GaryDeMattei.com.

It’s All About Food – Joel Fuhrman, MD and Gary De Mattei – 04.05.16

Part I: Joel Fuhrman, MD, The End of Heart Disease
Joel Fuhrman, M.D. is a board-certified family physician, New York Times
best-selling author and nutritional researcher who specializes in
preventing and reversing disease through nutritional and natural
methods. Dr. Fuhrman is an internationally recognized expert on
nutrition and natural healing, and has appeared on hundreds of radio and
television shows including The Dr. Oz Show, The Today Show, Good Morning America, and Live with Kelly and Michael. Dr. Fuhrman’s own hugely successful PBS television shows, 3 Steps to Incredible Health and Dr. Fuhrman’s Immunity Solution, and his latest show, End Dieting Forever, bring nutritional science to homes all across America.
Dr. Fuhrman’s #1 New York Times best-selling book, Eat to Live,
originally published in 2003 (Little Brown) has sold over 1,000,000
copies and has been published in multiple foreign language editions. In
October 2012, Super Immunity (HarperOne) reached the New York Times best seller’s list and in January 2013, The End of Diabetes (HarperOne) became his third New York Times best seller. Dr. Fuhrman’s most recent books, The Eat to Live Cookbook (Harper One) reached #1 on the New York Times best sellers list during its debut week in October 2013 and The End of Dieting
(HarperOne), released in March 2014, was #2 on the list for its debut.
In addition, Dr. Fuhrman has written several other popular books on
nutritional science which include: Eat for Health (Gift of Health Press), Disease Proof Your Child (St. Martin’s Griffin), Fasting and Eating for Health (St. Martin’s Griffin) and the Dr. Fuhrman’s Nutritarian Handbook and ANDI Food Scoring Guide (Gift of Health Press).
Part II: Gary De Mattei, REAL Wrap
Gary
De Mattei is the co-founder and Creative Director of Responsible Eating
and Living. Gary is an actor, director, producer, filmmaker, writer,
teacher and trained chef. He is the founder and Artistic Director of the
nonprofit theatre company, The Artist’s Theatre Repertory Ensemble
(TheATRE). Gary was last seen on the New York stage in the award-winning
new play, No One Asked Me by Kate Ballen. Before moving to New
York in 2008 Gary worked extensively in Bay Area theatre as an actor,
director, writer, producer, teacher, and arts administrator. He was the
co-founder and producing artistic director of Theatre On San Pedro
Square (TOSPS) in San Jose from January of 2000 to April of 2008. During
that time Gary produced plays and musicals that showcased local,
national and international theatre artists. Gary was the Theatre
Department Chair at Presentation High School in San Jose. During his
tenure at Presentation Gary directed plays and musicals and taught
acting. His theatre department was awarded the prestigious Best High
School Musical Award from the American Musical Theatre. Gary is a Bay
Area Theatre Critics Award nominee for his portrayal of Fiorello H.
LaGuardia in Foothill Music Theatre’s production of Fiorello. A proud
member of Actor’s Equity Association, Gary trains at HB Studios in New
York under the guidance of his acting teacher Austin Pendleton. For more
about Gary go to his website, GaryDeMattei.com.

It’s All About Food – Miyoko Schinner – 03.29.16

Miyoko Schinner, Cheese, Cookbooks, Travel, New Sanctuary!
Miyoko
has been delivering up her style of gourmet vegan cuisine to the public
for decades through her many enterprises, including a restaurant,
natural food company, cooking classes, lectures, and books. Her titles
include the groundbreaking book, Artisan Vegan Cheese, and the
most recent, The Homemade Vegan Pantry. Miyoko is the founder of
Miyoko’s Kitchen, makers of artisanal vegan cheese available at key
retailers and online at http://miyokoskitchen.com/. She is co-host of
Vegan Mashup, a cooking show on the Create Channel and seen on PBS.

It’s All About Food – Robbyne Kaamil and Joe Cross – 03.22.16

Part I: Robbyne Kaamil, Vegan Sexy Song
Activist,
author, actress, comedian, vocalist, radio personality and relationship
expert are all hats worn by Robbyne Kaamil. Robbyne’s sassy style has
landed her appearances on numerous radio & television shows
including The Howard Stern Show and Bravo’s, “Queer Eye for the Straight
Guy”. As an actress Ms. Kaamil has graced the silver screen in several
independent films including: Bear City: The Movie and Violet Tendencies
starring Mindy Cohn of “Facts of Life”. Last summer her monthly advice
column, “Dear Diva” was launched in Australia’s top gay publication DNA
Magazine. She is also the Official Relationship Expert for Playgirl.
She was inspired to become an animal rights activist after seeing the
PSA “Saving Lolita” which focused on the life of the orca Lolita who has
been held at the Miami Seaquarium for over 45 years. She saw the
parallels between Lolita’s story and her own family’s history in the
Atlantic Slave Trade. She wrote the song “Let the Girl Go: Free
Lolita” to help raise awareness about the orca. The music video was
recently selected to be screened at the 2015 Wildlife Film Festival. Her
latest music video, “Free the Monkeys”, exposes the mistreatment of
monkeys being used in lab experiments in Hendry County, Florida. The
video was produced & directed by NY Times bestselling author and
former HLN television host – Jane Velez Mitchell. PETA co-founder,
Ingrid Newkirk, recently enlisted Robbyne to write & narrate several
public service announcements to protest animal captivity in marine
parks, zoos & circuses. The PSA’s are currently running nationwide
on ABC, FOX and Bounce TV affiliates.
Part II: Joe Cross, The Kids Menu
Joe
Cross is a filmmaker, entrepreneur, author and wellness advocate. He
directed, produced and was the subject of the award-winning documentary Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead, seen by more than 21 million people around the world, and the popular sequel Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead 2; authored the New York Times bestseller The Reboot with Joe Juice Diet book,
which has been released globally in multiple languages; and is credited
with having accelerated the plant-based eating movement by media
outlets including the Wall Street Journal, The Times of London and The Dr. Oz Show. His website, www.rebootwithjoe.com, has become an integral meeting place for a community of more than one and a half million Rebooters worldwide.
Joe began his business career as a trader on the Sydney Futures
Exchange where he worked from the early 1980s until 1998. He
subsequently managed a diverse portfolio of assets in
telecommunications, media, technology and financial services for
Queensland Press Ltd., and in 2003 began investing his own capital
through his investment vehicle Jaymsea Investments Pty Ltd. Despite his
commercial success, Joe found himself at age 40 overweight and in ill
health, and elected to take matters into his own hands. After
consultation with noted US doctor Joel Fuhrman, Joe embarked on a 60 day
journey of transformation across the US, consuming nothing but the
juice of fresh vegetables and fruits. That journey – filled with
personal milestones for Joe, and eye-opening experiences with average
Americans– was captured on film, and has become the award-winning
documentary Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead. Seen by more than 20 million
people around the world, Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead has inspired
millions of people to follow Joe’s example and reclaim their own health
and vitality by adopting plant-based eating habits. The response to the
film was so overwhelming Joe founded Reboot with Joe,
a health and wellness company that offers support, encouragement,
community, media and tools to everyday people. Joe lives in New York and
Sydney.

It’s All About Food – Jeff & Joan Stanford and Elina Fuhrman – 03.15.16

Part I: Jeff & Joan Stanford, Dining At The Ravens
Jeff
and Joan Stanford came west to Carmel, California to find careers in
education, agreeing to help manage a small inn while looking for work.
Jobs were scarce, the United States was in recession, and they found
themselves enjoying their guests and rehabilitating the property they
managed. The Inn allowed both of them to return to their former
interests. Passionate about early education, Joan trained as a
Montessori teacher and received her MA in psychology, specializing in
Art Therapy, at Sonoma State University. Today she is a registered art
therapist, collagist, and educator. Jeff became vegetarian as a first
step to honor all life, not only the lives of his family, friends, and
pets. He and Joan sought to create an inn that sat softly upon the
earth. They created one of the first “green” bed and breakfast inns
without realizing they were doing so. Understanding that their Inn was a
destination, Jeff and Joan wanted to provide the highest quality food
to their guests, which Jeff began cooking in the early 1990s. The
restaurant followed their philosophy serving a whole food, plant based
dishes designed to rival the cuisine found at the highest rated
restaurants in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Part II: Elina Fuhrman, Soupelina
Elina Fuhrman is the founder and chef of Soupelina. She has written for the New York Times, In Style, and many other publications. She lives in Southern California with her family. Her new book is Soupelina’s Soup Cleanse: Plant-Based Soups and Broths to Heal Your Body, Calm Your Mind, and Transform Your Life.

It’s All About Food – Manuel Gonzalez and Stephanie Bogdanich – 03.08.16

Part I: Manuel Gonzalez, FoodBytes!
Manuel Gonzalez was born in Mexico, is Managing Director, Head of the Western Region Corporate Clients for Rabobank and founder of FoodBytes! Formerly he was Country head of Rabobank Mexico and holds an MBA from Georgetown University.
Part II: Stephanie Bogdanich, The Taco Cleanse
Wes Allison, Stephanie Bogdanich, Molly R. Frisinger, and Jessica Morris live in Tacotopia (Austin, TX). They introduced the Taco Cleanse at the 2013 Vegan Month of Food by eating tacos for breakfast, lunch, and dinner for 30 days. Veganmofo.com said, “It should come as no surprise that the newsworthy, tortilla-stockpiling Taco Cleanse . . . not only tops my own list of memories, but everyone else’s.”

It’s All About Food – Garth Davis and D. Anthony Evans – 03.01.16

Part I: D. Anthony Evans, Train 2 Live
D.
Anthony Evans knows what it takes to face down life’s biggest
challenges and beat them. A child of a single mom, he was born with
Neurofibromatosis (NF) a rare genetic condition where dangerous tumors
grow on nerve tissue. Often benign, they can become malignant, resulting
in Malignant Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumors (MPNST), an aggressive form
of cancer. In 2012, D. was diagnosed with MPNST. Nine life-or-death
surgeries risking paralysis within eleven months followed as doctors
removed 325 tumors, one of them over two pounds. D. was given six months
to live. Survival rates are low, but there are those who survive. It
has been over four years.
Part II: Garth Davis, Proteinaholic
Garth
Davis, M.D., is the medical director of the Davis Clinic at the
Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas, and starred on the hit TLC show
Big Medicine. He is certified by the American Board of Surgery and is a
Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and a Fellow of the American
Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery. Recently named a “Super
Doc” by Texas Monthly, he has been featured in The Houston Chronicle and
other outlets. Garth lives in Houston with his family. He is the author
of Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession With Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It (HarperOne).

It’s All About Food – Leigh-Chantelle, Del Sroufe, T. Colin Campbell – 02.16.16

Part I: Leigh-Chantelle Leigh-Chantelle
is a published author, international speaker & consultant,
singer/songwriter and blogger who lives mostly in Brisbane, Australia.
She has run the online vegan community Viva la Vegan! since 2005,
bringing positive education, information and vegan outreach to a
worldwide audience. Leigh-Chantelle gives lectures, workshops,
consultations, and coaching for Understanding Social Media, Staging
Effective Events, and Vegan Health & Lifestyle.Part II: Del SroufeDel’s
cooking career began when he was just eight years old; creating dishes
from whatever he could find in his father’s kitchen. By age of thirteen
he was flaunting his culinary talents by preparing family dinners, much
to his mother’s delight. After high school Del shelved his love for the
kitchen and sold men’s clothing while he attended The Ohio State
University School of Business. Selling suits and ties did not polish
Del’s wing tipped shoes so he set out to pursue his passion, cooking. He
landed a position at one of Columbus, Ohio’s premier vegetarian
restaurants, The King Avenue Coffeehouse, and began to establish himself
as a leader in the industry. In 1997 Del opened his own bakery, Del’s
Bread, where he created, prepared and served delicious vegan pastries,
breads, potpies, calzones, smoothies and other sorted delicacies to the
palate of his Columbus based clientele. In 2001, Del transitioned from
his bakery business to start a vegan Personal Chef Service, preparing
eclectic plant-based cuisine to his already captivated audience. During
this time, he developed what became a very popular cooking class series,
sharing many of the delicious recipes he had created over the years
with his students. In 2006, Del joined Wellness Forum Foods as Executive
Chef, where today he continues the tradition of delivering great
tasting plant-based meals to clients locally and throughout the
continental United States. Del continues to teach cooking and health
classes and is a keynote speaker at local venues and events around the
country. Del is the author of Forks over Knives: the Cookbook, on the
New York Bestseller list for more than 30 weeks; Better than Vegan, the
story of his struggle with weight loss and gain, and how he managed to
lose over 200 pounds on a low fat, plant based diet and; The China Study
Quick and Easy Cookbook due to be published.TOTAL HEALTH CONFERENCEPart III: T. Colin CampbellFor
more than forty years, Dr. T. Colin Campbell has been at the forefront
of nutrition research. His legacy, the China Project, is the most
comprehensive study of health and nutrition ever conducted. Dr. Campbell
is a professor Emeritus at Cornell University and is most well-known
for co-authoring the bestselling book The China Study with his
son, Thomas Campbell, MD. In addition to his long and outstanding career
as an author, scientific researcher, and Cornell professor, Dr.
Campbell has been featured in several documentary films. He is the
founder of the T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies and the
online internationally-recognized Plant-Based Nutrition Certificate
offered by the T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies in
partnership with eCornell. He currently serves as the Chairman of the
Board.Dr. Campbell’s expertise and scientific interests encompass
relationships between diet and diseases, particularly the causation of
cancer. He has focused on nutritional status and long term health.
Surprisingly, Campbell started his life on a dairy farm, but is now
widely-known for researching links between animal-based protein diets
and disease.Campbell has conducted original research both in
laboratory experiments and in large-scale human studies; received over
70 grant-years of peer-reviewed research funding (mostly with NIH), has
served on several grant review panels of multiple funding agencies, and
has authored over 300 research papers. Campbell has served on many
national and international expert committees with mandates to develop
food and health policy positions and is the recipient of several awards,
both in research and in citizenship.He was trained at Cornell
University (M.S., Ph.D.) and MIT (Research Associate) in nutrition,
biochemistry and toxicology. T. Colin Campbell spent 10 years on the
faculty of Virginia Tech’s Department of Biochemistry and Nutrition
before returning to Cornell in 1975 where he presently holds his Endowed
Chair as the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus of Nutritional
Biochemistry in the Division of Nutritional Sciences.Since the publication of The China Study in 2005, Dr. Campbell has given more than 600 lectures in the U.S. and abroad. More recently, Campbell published Whole (May 2013), as well as The Low-Carb Fraud (Feb 2014), and the 2nd Edition of The China Study
is scheduled to be released in 2015. He was featured in the very
successful 2011 documentary, “Forks Over Knives” and 2015 documentary
“PlantPure Nation”. Through his ground-breaking scientific research and
his on-going efforts to educate the public concerning the benefits of
the whole food plant-based lifestyle, Dr. Campbell has positively
impacted the lives of thousands of people including health professionals
(doctors, nurses, pharmacists, dietitians, etc.), community advocates,
caregivers, parents, health coaches, lifestyle counselors, massage
therapists, policy makers, athletes, coaches, chefs, vegetarians,
vegans, and others who value long-term health.