The Food Based Pharmacist

02/20/2025

https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2024/august/legal-loophole-unsafe-ingredients.html I'm curious about how much of our current metabolic health crisis is due to eating chemical additives in nearly every processed food in the grocery store. It makes me think about how difficult realistically it would be to avoid these additives for most people.

01/10/2025

https://www.fullplateliving.org/blog/motivation-workshop These workshops are fun and informative. Come join in!

Long-term health and weight loss don’t come from a carrots-and-sticks approach (although a few carrots never hurt). Come discover a better way in our free workshop.

01/07/2025

Hoppin’ John! Missing in the prep photo is a big pile of chopped kale. The recipe calls for cooking the whole thing in the Instant Pot but I like my kale stirred in after. I will put the recipe in the comments

12/17/2024

Vacationing in Belize. The sheer volume of fresh fruits and veggies is astounding! This is a hearts of palm ceviche and brown rice seasoned with coconut milk powder.

10/28/2024

I’m at the American College of Lifestyle Medicine conference in Orlando Learning more about improved health through lifestyle changes. Knowledge is power

10/15/2024

Free continuing education for providers and allied health professionals.

Learn how food can be the best medicine and earn 5.5 Free CME/CE with the Lifestyle Medicine & Food as Medicine Essentials Course Bundle.

10/10/2024

Eat your fruits 🍎 🍉 and 🥗 veggies!

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0261561424002309

Subbing protein from animal sources with protein from plant sources can decrease risk of type 2 diabetes according to this meta analysis.

10/03/2024

Heart Heathy vegan special at Molly Malone’s on Baxter!

🌱 MUSHROOM SHEPHERD'S PIE Made with a medley of mushrooms, veggies, and topped with fresh herb mashed potatoes 🥔🌿 🍞 Served with: Savory whole wheat zucchini bread + orange marmalade 🍊 🥗 Plus a mixed green salad 🥬🥕 🍫 Dessert: Dark chocolate blueberry brownie 🤤

08/10/2024

Dr Ornish's philosophy is to Eat Well, Love More, Stress Less, Move More. Intensive lifestyle changes have been found to improve health on so many levels. Is it more difficult than popping a pill for an ill? Maybe. Everything is easy once you know how and feeling better is an intense motivator.

Neurologist Kathrin LaFaver interviews Dean Ornish, MD, about his recent study on intensive lifestyle changes to slow early-stage Alzheimer's disease.

03/22/2024

Home cooking, Hawai’ian style. King oyster mushroom scallops, local greens on sale from the market, home made tofu pineapple musubi, a slice of steamed purple sweet potato and pineapple. We also had a cup of miso soup and yes, my eyes were bigger than my tummy- a musubi made the cut for tomorrow’s lunch. Aloha!

03/09/2024

https://walkwithadoc.org/join-a-walk/locations/louisville-kentucky/ we enjoyed a brisk walk with our local Walk with a Doc group this morning. It’s free and open to the public. Come join us!

Louisville, Kentucky According to the American Heart Association, walking has the lowest dropout rate of any physical activity. Think it doesn’t do any good? Think again. Walking is low impact and easier on the joints than running. It is safe – with a doctor’s okay – for people with orthoped...

03/03/2024

https://vimeo.com/806490457 That moment when you are sick and tired of being sick and tired, and you realize YOU can take control!

This is "ACLM Story Project: Remission of Type 2 Diabetes" by Am. College | Lifestyle Medicine on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people…