Chinese Medicine and Plant Based Eating

01/07/22 • 31 min

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How does plant based eating fit into the practice of Chinese Medicine? What foods should we be eating in different seasons? In this episode, Ellen Goldsmith, an educator, licensed acupuncturist and Chinese herbalist, and author of Nutritional Healing with Chinese Medicine, discusses the basic principles of Chinese medicine and the interplay with nutrition. She explains how it differs from the Western approach and elucidates the concepts of yin and yang, qi, seasonal eating and the thermal nature and flavour of food.
In this episode you’ll hear:
2:30 – Basic principles of Chinese Medicine
3:10 – Yin and yang explained
4:25 – Role of food therapy in Chinese Medicine
5:05 – Where does plant based eating fit in?
5:50 – Difference between Chinese dietary therapy and the Western approach?
10:20 – Seasonal eating with examples of what to eat in winter
13:10 – Recipe examples from Ellen’s book
18:00 – Seasonal eating for spring, summer and fall
23:00 – Qi explained
26:00 – How long does it take to see results from Chinese dietary therapy?
Credits: Sound Recording and Editing: Will Crann
Guest link: https://pearlnaturalhealth.com/
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What chemicals are lurking in your shampoo and other haircare products? Do you have skin issues? In the third of three episodes on clean beauty, we chat with celebrity hair designer and World founder, Brian Phillips. After ten years being a hairstylist, Brian developed contact dermatitis on his hands. The culprit? Fragrance in haircare products. Brian shines a light on the over-marketing and greenwashing in the haircare industry and discusses how suffering from his skin condition led him to research and create a line of multi-purpose, non-toxic hair and skin products.
In this episode you’ll here:
1:50 - How Brian’s contact dermatitis caused by fragrance in haircare products led him to create his own line of hair and skin products
6:20 - Over-marketing and waste in the haircare industry
10:30 - Haircare ingredients and their link to illness
13:40 - State of regulation of toxic chemicals: Canada v US
16:30 - What is the biggest offender in haircare products? Colour? Hair straighteners?
22:30 - Gluten free and vegan haircare
25:00 - What’s not plant based in haircare products
29:00 - Brian’s top ingredients to avoid in shampoos and conditioners
World Hair & Skin: https://world.ca/?rfsn=6198396.fe3bb7
CREDITS:
Sound Recording and Editing: Will Crann
Guest Co-ordinator: Rivka Keinan
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Heart Health Benefits of a Plant Based Diet

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“Studies show that every step you take in the direction of a plant based diet can improve your health,” according to guest Colleen Montgomery. Colleen is a Clinical Exercise Physiologist and Certified Plant Based Health Coach who chats about lowering blood pressure and cholesterol naturally with a plant based diet to prevent and even reverse heart disease. She offers cooking tips and recipes, including a wonderful “No-Cheese” vegan dip which she prepares live during the episode.
In this episode you’ll hear:
PART 1
In conversation with Colleen Montgomery
2:00 - Colleen’s work with cardiac patients
4:30 - Heart disease: How much is genetic v. lifestyle?
7:00 – Why Colleen is a plant based diet proponent
11:15 - Overcoming the challenges of adopting a plant based diet
PART 2
In the kitchen with Colleen - Colleen's No-Cheese Dip
16:10 – How long should you soak cashews
17:55 - Ingredients for no-cheese vegan dip
18:35 - Vegetable ideas for dipping
19:30 – Making the dip
20:40 – Nutritional yeast as a cheese alternative
Nutritional Yeast mentioned in episode: https://deals.gloriousalternatives.com/noochyliciousdeal?affiliate_id=3731785&aff_sub=&aff_sub2=&nopopup=false&noautoplay=false&cookiepreview=false
CREDITS:
Sound Recording and Editing: Will Crann
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