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  • In this episode of the PBC Podcast, we talk with Mike Parsram. He’s a Toronto-based vegan, straight-edge vocalist who performs in several hardcore and metalcore bands. He has a bachelor of science in animal biology from York University. When he’s not on stage performing with Street Justice, Rust, Laying Still, Heartless, or Wish You Death, he’s in the gym powerlifting.

    Hardcore punk and punk subcultures have a rich history of supporting animal rights, animal liberation, and veganism. The connection can been traced back to the 1980s and the punk movement’s collective consciousness around issues of discrimination and racism, capitalism and economic disparity, and the commodification of animals as food.

    Mike talks about his love for music, the intersectionality between veganism in hardcore and other socials issues, and how he uses his platform as a frontman to give a voice to the voiceless.

    Resources

    Street Justice
    Laying Still
    Rust
    Heartless
    Wish You Death
    Cold Shoulder

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    Music courtesy of Bensounds.com and Street Justice/Mike Parsram.

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  • Welcome to the Plant-Based Canada Podcast. In this episode we are joined by Laura Wright to chat about scrumptious recipes, seasonal eating, and social media.

    Andrew Knight is a veterinary Professor of Animal Welfare affiliated with the Murdoch University School of Veterinary Medicine and Griffith University, both in Australia, and with the University of Winchester in the UK. An experienced small animal veterinarian, he’s also a UK, European, American and New Zealand Veterinary Specialist in animal welfare. In 2024 he received a PhD focused on vegan food for animal companions (including investigation on aspects health, behavioural and environmental implications). He has around 150 academic and 80 popular publications, and an extensive series of social media videos and several websites on vegan companion animal diets, climate change and the livestock sector, invasive animal research, educational animal use, humane clinical and surgical skills training, and other animal welfare issues. His studies on vegan food for out animal companions are regularly reported in news outlets globally. He often works with animal advocacy charities and is frequently interviewed by the media. To add to this, he has received over 20 awards and research grants for this work.

    Resources:
    Prof. Knight’s recent publication
    Vegan vs Meat-Based veterinary nutrition
    Should dogs and cats be fed vegan diets?
    More of Prof. Knight’s Articles
    Infographic on environmentally sustainable diets for animal companions
    Sustainable foods for animal companions

    Prof. Andrew Knights’ Socials:
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    Facebook
    Website

    Plant-Based Canada’s Socials:
    Instagram
    Facebook
    Website
    X / Twitter @PBC_org

    Bonus Content
    Check out University of Guelph's online Plant-Based Nutrition Certificate. Each 4-week course will guide you through essential plant-based topics including nutritional benefits, disease prevention, and environmental impacts. You can also customize your learning with unique courses such as Plant-Based Diets for Athletes and Implementing a Plant-Based Diet at Home. As the first university-level plant-based certificate in Canada, you’ll explore current research, learn from leading industry experts, and join a community of like-minded people. Use our exclusive discount code PBC2024 to save 10% on all Plant-Based Nutrition Certificate courses. www.uoguel.ph/pbn.

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    This episode was hosted by Stephanie Nishi RD, PhD.

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  • Carolyn Scott-Hamilton is a plant-based chef, cook-book author, and television personality who specializes in how to stay healthy while travelling abroad. Carolyn has travelled the world for her show – the Healthy Voyager -- and offered her services as a health and nutrition expert, recipe developer, writer, speaker, consultant, and media spokesperson.

    The Healthy Voyager show was born with the goal of helping people with dietary restrictions navigate international travel while also having fun and enjoying themselves. As of 2006, Carolyn has travelled and dined healthfully, all while documenting through her Healthy Voyager Web Series. The Healthy Voyager is also a one-stop-shop for all things green living –from travel and recipes, to fashion and relationships.

    Her cookbook, The Healthy Voyager’s Global Kitchen, launched in 2012, with a cooking show of the same name launching in 2014. Her shows have won multiple awards and accolades over the years.

    Carolyn is currently working on a food line, clothing line, travel kit line, and more. In fact, she launched her follow-up cookbook as a 10-year anniversary edition in December 2021, called The Healthy Voyager’s Global Kitchen: 175 Plant-Based Recipes from Across the Globe.

    Meantime, Carolyn expertise has been a “go-to” source across the media landscape. She’s been featured on the Discovery Channel, CNN, USA Today, and Martha Stewart Radio. She is currently the travel correspondent for Hallmark Home & Family, while her shows are syndicated on MSN Travel, The Food Channel, AOL and more.

    Resources

    The Healthy Voyager
    Instagram
    Facebook
    Twitter
    TikTok
    YouTube

    Bonus Promotion

    Check out University of Guelph's online Plant-Based Nutrition Certificate. Each 4-week course will guide you through essential plant-based topics including nutritional benefits, disease prevention, and environmental impacts. You can also customize your learning with unique courses such as Plant-Based Diets for Athletes and Implementing a Plant-Based Diet at Home. As the first university-level plant-based certificate in Canada, you’ll explore current research, learn from leading industry experts, and join a community of like-minded people. Use our exclusive discount code PBC2024 to save 10% on all Plant-Based Nutrition Certificate courses. www.uoguel.ph/pbn.

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  • Welcome to the Plant-Based Canada Podcast. In this episode we are joined by Laura Wright to chat about scrumptious recipes, seasonal eating, and social media.

    Laura Wright is a plant-based chef, gardener, and blogger from the Niagara region of Southern Ontario. Her website, The First Mess, was awarded Best Special Diets Blog by SAVEUR Magazine. She is the author and photographer of "The First Mess Cookbook: Vibrant Plant-Based Recipes for Living Well Through The Seasons," which is available internationally through Penguin and Avery publishers. Laura focuses on seasonal flavour combinations and produce-heavy recipes that appeal to all types of eaters.

    Links:
    Website: https://thefirstmess.com/
    Newsletter signup: https://thefirstmess.com/newsletter/
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thefirstmess/
    Cookbook: https://thefirstmess.com/cookbook/the-first-mess-cookbook/

    Laura Wright’s Socials:
    Instagram: @thefirstmess
    Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.ca/thefirstmess/

    Plant-Based Canada’s Socials:
    Instagram (@plantbasedcanadaorg)
    Facebook (Plant-Based Canada, https://m.facebook.com/plantbasedcanadaorg/)
    Website (https://www.plantbasedcanada.org/)
    X / Twitter @PBC_org


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  • In this episode of the Plant-Based Canada Podcast, we talk to Dr. Neha Pathak. Dr. Pathak is board certified in both internal medicine and lifestyle medicine and works as Chief Physician Editor for Health and Lifestyle Medicine and host of WebMD’s Health Discovered podcast. She reports on topics related to lifestyle, climate change, and environmental impacts on health for WebMD and Medscape, and is a regular contributor to Yale Climate Connections.

    She graduated with a BA in psychology and biology from Harvard University, and received her MD with honours in community service from Cornell University's Weill Medical College. She completed her primary care, internal medicine residency at New York Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical College. She obtained her certificate in climate change and health communication from Yale School of Public Health.

    She is a member of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine board of directors and Chair of the Global Sustainability Committee. Dr. Pathak is also a lecturer at the Yale School of Public Health, where she facilitates coursework on climate change and health.

    Through all of her work, she hopes to educate healthcare professionals and the public about the health impacts of climate change and environmental pollution, and the health benefits of climate action. Her research focuses on the intersection of lifestyle medicine and planetary health.

    Additionally, Dr. Pathak is the Associate Program Director of the Atlanta VA Medical Center's Quality Scholars Program and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine. She is a Primary Care Physician and was a designated women’s health provider at the VA, and continues to see patients at a community health center in Georgia.

    Resources

    Health Discovered Podcast
    Instagram
    Threads
    Linkedin
    Yale Climate Connections
    WebMD Profile
    Lifestyle Medicine Interventions for Personal and Planetary Health: The Urgent Need for Action
    ACLM Commitment Statement to Address Climate Change, Health, and Equity

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    Check out University of Guelph's online Plant-Based Nutrition Certificate. Each 4-week course will guide you through essential plant-based topics including nutritional benefits, disease prevention, and environmental impacts. You can also customize your learning with unique courses such as Plant-Based Diets for Athletes and Implementing a Plant-Based Diet at Home. As the first university-level plant-based certificate in Canada, you’ll explore current research, learn from leading industry experts, and join a community of like-minded people. Use our exclusive discount code PBC2024 to save 10% on all Plant-Based Nutrition Certificate courses. www.uoguel.ph/pbn.

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  • Dr. Matthew Nagra joins the Plant-Based Podcast again to break down a new review he and his colleagues recently published in the Canadian Journal of Cardiology on plant-based meat alternatives (PBMAs) and their impact on heart health.

    This review, which is linked in the show notes, is called “Animal vs. Plant-Based Meat: A Hearty Debate”, and looks at studies spanning from 1970 to 2023. It explores the nutritional profiles of PBMAs compared to their animal-based counterparts and explores their effects on markers of cardiovascular health.

    They found that compared to meat, plant based meat alternatives were: generally lower in saturated fat, higher in polyunsaturated fat, and higher in dietary fibre. They also found improvements in cardiovascular disease risk factors when meat was replaced with plant-based alternatives.

    If you haven’t already, check out our other podcasts with Dr. Nagra on episode two when he debunked common nutrition myths and misinformation, and on episode 47 when he discussed misinformation around the “Food Compass System” designed by Tufts University researchers.

    Resources

    Dr. Nagra’s et al. review: Animal vs Plant-Based Meat: A Hearty Debate
    Dr. Nagra's interview in Men’s Health: New Scientific Review Reveals That Vegan Meat Alternatives Lower Cardiovascular Risks
    Dr. Nagra’s Website
    Instagram
    FaceBook
    YouTube
    Twitter

    Bonus Promotion

    Check out University of Guelph's online Plant-Based Nutrition Certificate. Each 4-week course will guide you through essential plant-based topics including nutritional benefits, disease prevention, and environmental impacts. You can also customize your learning with unique courses such as Plant-Based Diets for Athletes and Implementing a Plant-Based Diet at Home. As the first university-level plant-based certificate in Canada, you’ll explore current research, learn from leading industry experts, and join a community of like-minded people. Use our exclusive discount code PBC2024 to save 10% on all Plant-Based Nutrition Certificate courses. www.uoguel.ph/pbn.

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  • In this episode of the Plant-Based Canada Podcast, we talk to Dr. Thomas Hedley – a certified lifestyle medicine doctor who also practices as a GP oncologist at BC Cancer in Vancouver, Canada. His interest in lifestyle medicine started while working in a research lab that showed eating ground flaxseed, which comes from the flax plant, could lower blood pressure as much as medication. Since then, he shifted toward a plant-based eating pattern and personally experienced increased vitality as a result.

    As a lifestyle medicine doctor, Dr. Hedley has worked with patients wanting to adopt a plant-based diet to improve their health. Through his work, he has witnessed people of all ages experiencing the benefits of adding more plant-based foods into their life.

    Dr. Hedley gives us a crash course in how, what, and when to eat when shifting to a healthier diet. From swapping foods out for healthier ones, to managing cravings, to easing into plant-based diets.

    Resources

    Summary of study on the benefits of ground flaxseed for high blood pressureCalculator that estimates the impact of food choices on life expectancy, and original study used to create the toolStudy on ultra-processed food addictionStudy on GLP-1 levels in response to plant-based vs. beef burgerReferenced study on morning loaded vs. evening loaded caloriesDr. Hedley's Linkedin profile

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    Check out University of Guelph's online Plant-Based Nutrition Certificate. Each 4-week course will guide you through essential plant-based topics including nutritional benefits, disease prevention, and environmental impacts. You can also customize your learning with unique courses such as Plant-Based Diets for Athletes and Implementing a Plant-Based Diet at Home. As the first university-level plant-based certificate in Canada, you’ll explore current research, learn from leading industry experts, and join a community of like-minded people. Use our exclusive discount code PBC2024 to save 10% on all Plant-Based Nutrition Certificate courses. www.uoguel.ph/pbn.

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  • Today’s episode of the Plant-Based Canada Podcast is Dr. Richard Twine. Dr. Twine is a Reader in Sociology and Co-Director of the Centre for Human-Animal Studies (CfHAS) at Edge Hill University, UK. His latest book is The Climate Crisis and Other Animals (Sydney University Press, 2024). He is also co-editor of The Rise of Critical Animal Studies – From the Margins to the Centre (Routledge, 2014), and author of Animals as Biotechnology – Ethics, Sustainability and Critical Animal Studies (Routledge, 2010). He has also published several articles on ecofeminism, vegan transition, the food system, and the animal-industrial complex.

    Resources

    Dr. Twine’s book: The Climate Crisis and Other AnimalsDr. Twine’s websiteDr. Twine's TwitterThe Vegan Society Dr. Twine's Google Scholar page Animal Studies: Key Concepts by Matthew Calarco

    Bonus Promotion

    Check out University of Guelph's online Plant-Based Nutrition Certificate. Each 4-week course will guide you through essential plant-based topics including nutritional benefits, disease prevention, and environmental impacts. You can also customize your learning with unique courses such as Plant-Based Diets for Athletes and Implementing a Plant-Based Diet at Home. As the first university-level plant-based certificate in Canada, you’ll explore current research, learn from leading industry experts, and join a community of like-minded people. Use our exclusive discount code PBC2024 to save 10% on all Plant-Based Nutrition Certificate courses. www.uoguel.ph/pbn.

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  • Welcome to the Plant-Based Canada Podcast. In this episode we are joined by Dr. Prashant Jani to chat about his experiences in surgical pathology to community initiatives, including a food truck.

    Dr. Prashant Jani is a Pathologist and Associate Professor at Northern Ontario School of Medicine in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada.

    He completed his MBBS (1994) and MD (1997) from Pune University, India. He then came to Canada and completed a residency in Anatomic Pathology, and FRCPC, from the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada (2001-2005).

    Dr. Jani is the inaugural Clinical Sciences Division Faculty Wellness Lead at Northern Ontario Cancer Research Centre, in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. He has been practicing as a Pathologist and an Associate Professor of Pathology for the past 15 years and has been dedicated to promoting wellness for over 25 years. More specifically, he is a dedicated yoga instructor who has provided mental, physical and spiritual well-being in Thunder Bay for nearly two decades.

    Dr. Jani is the founder of the Superior Yoga Festival, Festival of India, Festival of Colours and Superior Veg Fest in Thunder Bay. He has launched a volunteer-run, low-cost vegetarian meal delivery service out of the Vedic Cultural Centre, and expanded this to include a food truck. Lastly, Dr. Jani has established NovaCare Health and Wellness Centre in Thunder Bay to rehabilitate patients with chronic diseases.

    In this episode we discuss:

    Dr. Jani’s plant-based journeyTypical day, plus tools and techniques in pathology Advocacy efforts and initiatives through the Vedic Cultural CentreTake home message

    Episode Resources:
    Festival of Colours
    Vedic Cultural Centre
    Nova Care Health and Wellness
    Festival of India

    Dr. Prashant Jani’s Socials:
    Instagram
    YouTube
    Talk With Your Doc Facebook

    Plant-Based Canada’s Socials:
    Instagram
    Facebook
    Website
    X / Twitter: @PBC_org

    Bonus Promotion
    Check out University of Guelph's online Plant-Based Nutrition Certificate. Each 4-week course will guide you through essential plant-based topics including nutritional benefits, disease prevention, and environmental impacts. You can also customize your learning with unique courses such as Plant-Based Diets for Athletes and Implementing a Plant-Based Diet at Home. As the first university-level plant-based certificate in Canada, you’ll explore current research, learn from leading industry experts, and join a community of like-minded people. Use our exclusive discount code PBC2024 to save 10% on all Plant-Based Nutrition Certificate courses. www.uoguel.ph/pbn.

    Thank you for tuning in! Make sure to subscribe to the Plant-Based Canada Podcast so you get notified when new episodes are published.

    This episode was hosted by Stephanie Nishi RD, PhD.

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  • In this episode of the Plant-Based Canada Podcast, we sit down with Eleanor Boyle. She’s a Vancouver-based writer who focuses on food policy and sustainable diets. A long-time journalist and former college instructor, she has written many articles on ways to improve our food systems. She has two book – “High Steaks: Why and How to Eat Less Meat”, and “Mobilize Food: Wartime Inspiration for Environmental Victory Today”.

    In our conversation, Eleanor discusses the recent news that avian flu has been detected in dairy cows in the U.S., and how scientists here in Canada are now sounding the alarm about staying ahead of an outbreak here at home. She delves into the issues around factory farming, and how these kinds of zoonotic diseases can become larger threats with pandemic potential.

    But besides highlighting the concerns, Eleanor also outlines the complicated path to alleviating the massive impacts our food systems have on everything from planetary health
 to our own individual health.


    Resources

    Eleanor’s article in the online National Observer, outlining evidence that poultry farming is a major factor in the rise and spread of bird fluEleanor’s introductory 2024 blog post on avian fluPeer-reviewed scientific article showing that avian-flu viruses mutate into lethal form most often among poultryComprehensive and expert bird-flu report (2023) from Compassion in World Farming, entitled Bird Flu: Only Major Farm Reforms Can End ItDr. Michael Greger’s Bird Flu: A Virus of Our Own HatchingUnited Nation’s Scientific Task Force on Avian Influenza and Wild BirdsEleanor’s book “High Stakes: Why and How to Eat Less Meat”


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    Check out University of Guelph's online Plant-Based Nutrition Certificate. Each 4-week course will guide you through essential plant-based topics including nutritional benefits, disease prevention, and environmental impacts. You can also customize your learning with unique courses such as Plant-Based Diets for Athletes and Implementing a Plant-Based Diet at Home. As the first university-level plant-based certificate in Canada, you’ll explore current research, learn from leading industry experts, and join a community of like-minded people. Use our exclusive discount code PBC2024 to save 10% on all Plant-Based Nutrition Certificate courses. www.uoguel.ph/pbn.

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  • Welcome to the Plant-Based Canada Podcast. In this episode we are joined by Dr. Cass Warbeck to chat about her experiences in the martial arts and medicine.

    Dr. Cass Warbeck is an avid martial arts athlete, having attained a black belt in Goju Ryu karate and black level in Kurama Yama kickboxing. After reading The China Study by T. Colin Campbell in 2013, she went plant-based and never looked back. A plant-based diet fueled her amateur Muay Thai fighting career and in March 2019 won the World Kickboxing Association (WKA) North American Bantamweight Muay Thai Title. Since then, she has also competed in Brazilian jiu jitsu. Cass has always loved inspiring and educating others to achieve better personal health through physical movement and nutrition. She completed a Bachelor of Science in Health and Fitness Physiology at the University of Calgary and worked as a personal trainer before completing medical school at the University of Alberta. She is currently a first year family medicine resident in Edmonton, Alberta with plans to pursue a fellowship in Sports and Exercise Medicine. Cass looks forward to utilizing the power of lifestyle medicine and plant-based nutrition in her future medical practice. Cass has been featured in the book, Legends of Change, and the magazine Canadian Vegan. She is also a long term volunteer for the organization Nutritionfacts.org and is the host of The Plant Fueled Podcast.

    In this episode we discuss:

    Cass’ plant-based journeyQuestions and concerns faced by plant-based athletesDisordered eating and “orthorexia”What an amateur Muay Thai career looks likeIntentional imbalanceInspirations in lifestyle medicine Lifestyle medicine approachTake home message

    Episode Resources
    2019 North American Muay Thai Title fight video
    2019 kickboxing fight video
    The China Study
    Thrive Diet by Brendan Brazier
    NutritionFacts
    SWAP-MEAT Trial
    Microbiota & Interval Training

    Dr. Cass Warbeck’s Socials
    Instagram: @casswarbeck
    Podcast: The Plant Fueled Podcast
    ORCiD

    Plant-Based Canada Conference (May 25th, 2024) link here.

    Bonus
    Check out University of Guelph's online Plant-Based Nutrition Certificate. Each 4-week course will guide you through essential plant-based topics including nutritional benefits, disease prevention, and environmental impacts. You can also customize your learning with unique courses such as Plant-Based Diets for Athletes and Implementing a Plant-Based Diet at Home. As the first university-level plant-based certificate in Canada, you’ll explore current research, learn from leading industry experts, and join a community of like-minded people. Use our exclusive discount code PBC2024 to save 10% on all Plant-Based Nutrition Certificate courses. www.uoguel.ph/pbn.

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  • Welcome to the Plant-Based Canada Podcast. In this episode we are joined by Dr. Michael Klaper to chat about his experiences in plant-based practices and Moving Medicine Forward.

    Dr. Michael Klaper is an internationally-recognized clinician and teacher, and sought-after speaker on diet and health. He graduated from the University of Illinois College of Medicine, United States and served a medical internship at Vancouver General Hospital in British Columbia, Canada. Dr. Klaper received post-graduate training in surgery, anesthesiology and orthopedics at the University of British Columbia Hospitals in Vancouver, and obstetrics at the University of California Hospital, San Francisco.

    After a fifty-year career as a primary care physician, Dr. Klaper’s full-time focus is the non-profit, Moving Medicine Forward, which provides education for medical students and physicians on the use of diet and lifestyle practices to prevent and, often, reverse chronic disease. In powerful, often “career-changing” lectures and discussion groups, Dr. Klaper presents effective, diet-based strategies to help resolve hypertension, obesity, type 2 diabetes and many inflammatory and autoimmune conditions.

    A member of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, Dr. Klaper currently serves on the Advisory Board for the Plantrician Project and for the "International Journal of Disease Reversal and Prevention."

    Dr. Klaper teaches that “health comes from healthy living” and he is dedicated to the healing and flourishing of all living beings on our planet.


    In this episode we discuss:

    Dr. Klaper’s plant-based journeyConcept of plant-based nutritionKey nutrition related considerationsHealth impactsPractical adviceAroga

    Episode Resources
    ACLM
    Nutrition Facts
    Dr. Neal Barnard
    Plantrician Project
    Moving Medicine Forward
    Goodbye Autoimmune Disease by Dr. Goldner
    University of Wisconsin course
    Aroga

    Dr. Klaper’s Socials
    Website


    Plant-Based Canada’s Socials
    Instagram
    Facebook
    X / Twitter @PBC_org
    Conference (May 25th, 2024)


    Bonus
    Check out University of Guelph's online Plant-Based Nutrition Certificate. Each 4-week course will guide you through essential plant-based topics including nutritional benefits, disease prevention, and environmental impacts. You can also customize your learning with unique courses such as Plant-Based Diets for Athletes and Implementing a Plant-Based Diet at Home. As the first university-level plant-based certificate in Canada, you’ll explore current research, learn from leading industry experts, and join a community of like-minded people. Use our exclusive discount code PBC2024 to save 10% on all Plant-Based Nutrition Certificate courses. www.uoguel.ph/pbn.

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  • In this episode of the Plant-Based Canada Podcast, we chat with Dr. Christine Gibson. She is a Family Medicine physician with academic expertise in medical education and holistic care, with twenty years of clinical experience. Through extensive additional specialty training, she has become a local and national leader in education and practice related to health inequity and trauma healing.

    Dr. Gibson is a Mental Health Influencer on Tiktok as under the name “tiktok trauma doc”, and has published a book with Hachette Go/John Murray called The Modern Trauma Toolkit. It is an accessible, solutions-focused look at the stress of modern times.

    As founder, Executive Director, and consultant through Global Familymed Foundation, she works with Universities in resource-poor environments in strengthening and building capacity for primary care postgraduate training. She also founded The Healing Centred Cooperative in 2020, which successfully ran a music and breath program for immigrants through the City of Calgary’s Change Can’t Wait Mental Health and Addiction grant, as well as Safer Spaces Training, which trains professionals to create psychological safety in professional work settings.

    Dr. Gibson will also be speaking at a TED event in Oshawa soon. You can find tickets here: https://www.tedxoshawa.com/

    Dr. Gibson's Resources

    Website
    YouTube
    Facebook
    Twitter
    TikTok
    Instagram
    Dr. Gibson's book: "The Modern Trauma Toolkit"
    The Modern Trauma Toolkit Resources
    Global FamilyMed
    Safer Spaces Training

    Bonus

    Check out University of Guelph's online Plant-Based Nutrition Certificate. Each 4-week course will guide you through essential plant-based topics including nutritional benefits, disease prevention, and environmental impacts. You can also customize your learning with unique courses such as Plant-Based Diets for Athletes and Implementing a Plant-Based Diet at Home. As the first university-level plant-based certificate in Canada, you’ll explore current research, learn from leading industry experts, and join a community of like-minded people. Use our exclusive discount code PBC2024 to save 10% on all Plant-Based Nutrition Certificate courses. www.uoguel.ph/pbn.

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  • Welcome to the Plant-Based Canada Podcast. In this episode we are joined by Prof Jordi Salas-SalvadĂł to chat about the Mediterranean diet.

    Prof Jordi Salas-Salvadó is a medical doctor and a Distinguished Professor of Nutrition and research at Rovira i Virgili University, in Spain. He is the Director of the Food, Nutrition and Mental Health Research Group recognized by the Government of Catalonia; Principal Investigator of the CIBER Network Physiopathology of Obesity and Nutrition (CIBERobn) of the Carlos III Health Institute; Director of the Catalan Nutrition Centre of the Institute of Catalan Studies; Chairman of the Professorship Tree Nut World Forum for Nutrition Research and Dissemination; member of the Group of Experts of the Public Health Agency of Catalonia. Prof Salas-Salvadó is an expert in clinical trials evaluating the effect of diets and dietary compounds on cardiometabolic health. He was a lead researcher of the PREDIMED study, a landmark trial evaluating the effect of the Mediterranean Diet on the primary prevention of cardiovascular diseases. He is currently the Director and Chair of the Steering Committee of the PREDIMED-Plus trial. He has published >900 scientific articles (h-index 101; >30,000 citations; Clarivate Analytics “Highly Cited Researcher”) and has received multiple awards and recognitions. In addition to all the above, he has been a mentor to many researchers & health professionals, including the host of the podcast episode, and we are grateful to have him join the podcast and share his expertise as an honorary Canadian.

    In this episode:
    -History behind the Mediterranean diet
    -PREDIMED Trial: development, findings, impact
    -PREDIMED-Plus Trial: development, findings, impact
    -The future of PREDIMED-Plus & nutrition research

    Episode Resources:
    PREDIMED-Mediterranean Diet & Heart Disease
    PREDIMED-Plus: Design & methods
    PREDIMED-Plus: 1-Yr results
    11 clinical trials that will shape medicine in 2023

    Prof. Jordi Salas-Salvadó’s Socials:
    Website
    X/ Twitter: @JordiSalasSalva & @nutrihumana_URV
    Web of Science
    ORCID

    Plant-Based Canada’s Socials:
    Instagram @plantbasedcanadaorg
    Facebook
    Website
    X / Twitter @PBC_org
    Conference-May 25, 2024

    Bonus: Check out University of Guelph's online Plant-Based Nutrition Certificate.

    Each 4-week course will guide you through essential plant-based topics including nutritional benefits, disease prevention, and environmental impacts. You can also customize your learning with unique courses such as Plant-Based Diets for Athletes and Implementing a Plant-Based Diet at Home.

    As the first university-level plant-based certificate in Canada, you’ll explore current research, learn from leading industry experts, and join a community of like-minded people.

    Use our exclusive discount code PBC2024 to save 10% on all Plant-Based Nutrition Certificate courses!www.uoguel.ph/pbn.

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  • Dr. Margaret Robinson (she/her) is a Mi’kmaw scholar and a member of Lennox Island First Nation. She works as an Associate Professor at Dalhousie University in Mi’kma’ki, where she holds the Tier II Canada Research Chair in Reconciliation, Gender, and Identity. Dr. Robinson is two-spirit, bisexual, and queer, and her research examines how culture and identity support wellbeing.

    In our conversation, we discuss on Dr. Robinson’s research into feminism and bisexuality, the work she did in developing a measure for microaggresions and microaffirmations experienced by bisexual women, racism experienced by Indigenous communities in the Canadian Health-Care system, navigating veganism as an Indigenous person, and ways to decolonize our food systems.

    Resources

    Cultural Continuity as a Protective Factor Against Suicide in First Nations Youth, Michael J. Chandler and Christopher LalondeBi+ Women of Toronto“Mental health and substance use among bisexual youth and non-youth in Ontario, Canada”, Co-authored by Margaret Robinson “Prevalence and Mental Health Correlates of Illegal Cannabis Use Among Bisexual Women”, Co-Authored by Margaret Robinson “Bisexual Women's Experience of Microaggressions and Microaffirmations: A Community-Based, Mixed-Methods Scale Development Project”, Co-authored by Margaret Robinson “The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory”, Carol J. Adams Victory Garden of TomorrowMargaret Robinson Google Scholar


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  • Dr. Amardeep Singh Mangat was born in Tanzania and moved to California when he was 2-years-old. His parents are originally from Punjab India, but he grew up in San Francisco. He completed his Internal Medicine Residency with honours of ‘Resident of the Year’ and was selected Chief Resident at the UCSF-affiliated Alameda County Medical Center.

    He moved to Toronto in 2012 and has been working in the division of General Internal Medicine at North York General Hospital, which is the leading community academic hospital in all of Canada. Dr. Mangat serves as the GIM lead for the rapid referral Internal Medicine clinic and is also a lecturer at University of Toronto.

    In addition to all of that, Dr. Mangat is now the medical director of the Aroga Lifestyle medicine clinic in the GTA. Aroga is a trail-blazing clinic with an multi-disciplinary team that believes that most, if not all, cardiac and metabolic illnesses can be prevented and treated with intensive lifestyle modifications. Their team uses evidenced-based therapies to empower patients to experience true healing and wellness.

    Resources

    Aroga.com

    Aroga's Instagram

    Dr. Mangat's Instagram

    Perspective: Plant-Based Eating Pattern for Type 2 Diabetes Prevention and Treatment: Efficacy, Mechanisms, and Practical Considerations

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  • Welcome to the Plant-Based Canada Podcast. In this episode we are joined by a Toronto-based hospitalist and emergency physician, Dr. Teela Johnson.

    Dr. Teela Johnson MSc, MD, CCFP-EM is a hospitalist and emergency room physician with a keen interest in the intersection of health, nutrition, and the climate-- and how they relate to equity issues. Through her work as a member of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment Agri-Food Working Group and as a Board Director of the climate policy think tank Canadians for Responsible Food Policy, she brings to bear the extensive scientific evidence on how a transition to a plant-based food system can prevent and treat chronic disease, and simultaneously curtail the most detrimental greenhouse gas emissions that are propelling the climate crisis, while also giving voice and restoration to groups systematically oppressed across these intersecting realms.

    In this episode we discuss:

    Dr. Johnson’s medical practiceCanadian Association of Physicians for the Environment Agri-Food Working GroupClimate change impacts, targets, and recommendationsParis Agreement on Climate ChangeCanadians for Responsible Food PolicyImpact of transitioning to a plant-based food systemFuture research and actionsAdvice to health professionals / the public

    Episode Resources:

    Canadians for Responsible Food Policy: https://responsiblefoodpolicy.ca/

    Lancet Countdown: https://cape.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Lancet-Countdown-Policy-Brief-Canada_ENG.pdf

    Consultation on the future of competition policy in Canada: https://cape.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/CompetitionActConsultation_CQDE_CAPE_EQT_ISED.pdf

    Recommendations from the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment for Amendments to Bill C-12, the Net-Zero Emissions Accountability Act: https://cape.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/CAPE-C-12-briefing-note-EN-final.pdf

    Paris Agreement on Climate Change: https://unfccc.int/process-and-meetings/the-paris-agreement


    Plant-Based Canada’s Socials:
    Instagram: @plantbasedcanadaorg
    Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/plantbasedcanadaorg/
    Website: https://www.plantbasedcanada.org/
    X/Twitter: @PBC_org

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    This episode was hosted by Stephanie Nishi RD, PhD.



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  • Welcome to the Plant-Based Canada Podcast. In this episode we are joined by Dr. Kate Hanneman to chat about climate change and environmental sustainability in health care practices, particularly medical imaging/radiology, as well as improving health outcomes for patients using cardiac imaging.

    Kate Hanneman MD MPH, is an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto and a Clinician Scientist at the Toronto General Hospital Research Institute. She is the author of over 100 peer-reviewed papers and leads an active research program focused on sustainability and improving health outcomes for patients using cardiac imaging. She is Co-Chair of the Canadian Association of Radiologists Sustainability Working Group and Deputy Lead for Sustainability and University Medical Imaging Toronto at the University of Toronto. She has followed a plant-based diet for over a decade.

    In this episode we discuss:

    Climate change and environmental sustainability in medical imaging/radiologyCurrent and future research Tips for sustainable medical and personal practicesTake home message

    Episode Resources:
    Environmental Sustainability and MRI: Challenges, Opportunities, and a Call for Action
    Letter to the Editor: Radiology Action for Climate Change
    Climate Change and Sustainability. Radiology
    Climate Change and Radiology: Impetus for Change and a Toolkit for Action
    University of Toronto, Medical Imaging
    Canadian Association of Radiologists Sustainability Working Group

    Dr. Kate Hanneman's Socials:
    Instagram: @katehanneman
    X/ Twitter: @katehanneman, @imagingtoronto & @UofTMedIm

    Plant-Based Canada’s Socials:
    Instagram (@plantbasedcanadaorg)
    Facebook (Plant-Based Canada, https://m.facebook.com/plantbasedcanadaorg/)
    Website (https://www.plantbasedcanada.org/)
    X / Twitter @PBC_org

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    This episode was hosted by Stephanie Nishi RD, PhD.

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  • Dr. Simran Malhotra is a triple board-certified physician in internal medicine, hospice and palliative care, and lifestyle medicine. She practices part time as an inpatient palliative care physician at Medstar Health. She completed her internal medicine residency at Medstar Franklin Square Medical Center where she also served as chief resident in 2015. She completed her fellowship in Hospice and Palliative Medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital in 2016.

    Dr. Malhotra is a mother of two and a BRCA 1 previvor with a strong family history of breast and female reproductive cancers. She underwent a risk reducing bilateral mastectomy and total hysterectomy in 2020.

    After her own experience as a patient and her professional experiences in palliative care, she founded Wellness By LifestyleMD, a platform where she works with and educates women on the powerful impact that positive lifestyle changes can have on their quality of life and longevity.

    Resources

    Dr. Malhotra’s Website
    Facebook
    Instagram
    Dr. Malhotra’s book: “How Healers Heal: Lifestyle Medicine Physicians Transforming Healthcare and Their Own Health”

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  • Welcome to the Plant-Based Canada Podcast. In this episode we are joined by Natalie Pelto to chat about parenting kids with autism and ADHD.

    Natalie has many years of experience in the healthcare field, with lifestyle-based practices being a more recent endeavour. She was previously a Medical Radiation Technologist in diagnostic imaging specialising in CT, Trauma and bone mineral density for over 20 years, but following a personnel experience, which she shares with us later in the episode, has changed her career perspective and purpose. As part of this transition, she has become a self-declared life-long learner, completing multiple certifications in lifestyle medicine and nutrition including advanced child brain development with nutrition, and more. NatalieÂŽs main area of interest focuses on working with children with severe autism and Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and their families. From her personal experiences and learnings, she works to support all members of families with children with autism and ADHD. Her mission and vision are to see our future generations change and shape the world from a space of health and well-being.

    In this episode we discuss:

    What are autism and ADHD?Diet/nutrition in autism and ADHDPlant-Based diet and autism and ADHD related concerns, myths, and misconceptions.Strategies to support children with autism or ADHD in achieving independenceSupports for parents with children with autism or ADHD

    Episode Resources:
    Autism Canada
    Autism Statistics Canada
    ADHD Statistics Canada

    Scientific Articles:
    Truths, Myths and Needs of Special Diets: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27356007/
    Clinician guidelines for the treatment of psychiatric disorders with nutraceuticals and phytoceuticals: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35311615/
    Micronutrients in ADHD: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35311615/

    App:
    ThinkDirty app (has a cost): https://www.thinkdirtyapp.com/
    Free alternative -> Environmental Working Group (EWG): https://www.ewg.org/

    Books:
    “Fiber Fueled” By: W. Bulsiewicz
    “Power of Habits” By: C. Duhigg

    Natalie PeltoÂŽs Socials
    Website: www.blueliferx.com
    Webinar: www.blueliferx.com/autismwebinar
    Instagram: @rebellespectrum (for free resources)

    Plant-Based Canada’s Socials:
    Instagram: @plantbasedcanadaorg
    Facebook: Plant-Based Canada, https://m.facebook.com/plantbasedcanadaorg/
    Website: https://www.plantbasedcanada.org/
    X (formerly Twitter): @PBC_org

    Thank you for tuning in! Make sure to subscribe to the Plant-Based Canada Podcast so you get notified when new episodes are published.

    This episode was hosted by Stephanie Nishi RD, PhD.

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