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Food Is Medicine

Deb Kennedy, PhD & Dan Marek - Food Is Medicine

This event was on Tuesday, August 15, 2023 at 11:00 am Pacific, 2:00 pm Eastern

Nourish your mind at our sizzling live event, “Food is Medicine,” starring the one and only, culinary medicine expert Deb Kennedy, PhD! Prepare to have your preconceptions flipped up… Read More.

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Question:

Are there social aspects that you've seen that have influenced your practice that even aren't plant-based to be like, oh, this is a great technique, or we should do more of this in our lives?

Answer:

Oh, there's, there's definitely been leaders that have changed the way, um, yeah, Christopher Gardner at Stanford would he, when he told me that he had been teaching his, uh, students, um, he teaches at Stanford University, California, whatever, whatever that one's called. And he was trying to get them to change their diet for years and he couldn't do it. He just, no matter how much he taught them or whatever, but when he did what he calls the stealth approach, which is teach them behind the scenes, so we have them watch like Food Inc. Or what, what do, if you're buying cow meat, what, how are they being treated and watching those videos and watching how are, how many chickens are in one of those coops and all of that that got them to change their diet. So it really is again, a central part, this nourishing part and this belief of what you, the individual believes in. Whether that's, I wanna follow an organic diet or sustainable diet. There's so many terms out there, but that really changed me. I, it changed the trajectory of my practice where in the beginning yes, that's how we were all trained. You need to do A, B, C, D, E, F, G, right? And then report back to me in two weeks. However, you were doing, oh, you did good on this. Mm, you could do that. And uh, so that was one, one major thing. Uh, the plant forward protein flip concept is a game changer. So nope, there's not a lot of meat in the course. It's under protein. One of the 13 is about meat, uh, animal sources of meat. And you're gonna learn how to cook with animal sources of meat. Um, and how, how, what are healthy ways to do it. But it's gonna be a condiment on your plate. It's not gonna be a six ounce steak, right? It might be one or two ounces. And so that's how I eat and that's how I train individuals to eat. So you can still have what you want, but have the focus be on plant-based again, plant forward. Uh, does that answer your question? That does, that's great. And I know that there's also an emphasis on, uh, plant-based proteins as well, which is great. Oh, for sure. Plant-based proteins. 'cause I think there was a question about, you know, me teaching kids and on the Build Healthy kids site, you know, talking about meat, uh mm-hmm. When you're, when you're working with kids, and I have done that. That was my, I've written several books on that, on picky eating and, and how to, you know, how to get kids off of sugar and all that kind of stuff. Uh, you can absolutely bring up a child to be a vegetarian or a vegan and they can be completely healthy. Uh, I have met many parents that a wanted to do that. Usually the kid went to school, found out something and how they're treating the animal and said, I'm not eating that ever again. It's usually the opposite. The parent says to me, oh my goodness, junior won't eat this anymore. Uh, but when you can add plant-based proteins into the mix, that is great. And I always tell the kids, right? So protein can come with good friends or bullies, right? And so with the good friends, it's the phytonutrients and the vitamins and the minerals that come with the plant-based protein, whereas with the animal base, you got the saturated fat behind there and sometimes, you know, salt if they're processed as well and those aren't good for us. So protein's not the bad thing. It's what's comes along with it. Right.
Deb Kennedy, PhD & Dan Marek

Deb Kennedy, PhD & Dan Marek

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