Go Whole Food, Plant-Based
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How to Start a Plant-Based Diet: 5 Easy Tips From a Nutritionist
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How to Go Plant-Based, With Expert Tips
Elysabeth Alfano: Obviously, you have so many individual clients but for those who maybe are still considering a plant-based diet and still aren’t sure if it’s for them.
I wonder if you could give us your top five tips for starting a plant-based diet.
Julieanna Hever:
Sure. Well, first of all, I think people have to want to try it. I try to not convince anyone anymore [even though] it is the best way to eat in terms of what I’ve seen and the literature.
But if you are interested, it is a fabulous, fun, and positive journey and that’s my first tip, to keep it really positive and exciting instead of thinking, “Oh, I can’t eat these seven animal product groups.” You can eat thousands of delicious versions and variations of vegetables, fruits, whole grains, legumes, mushrooms, nuts, seeds, herbs, and spices in infinite tasty combinations.”
This Trinidadian Curry Mango is just what the doctor ordered The Takeout © Photo: Michelle K. Min
Unlike certain other cookbook-writing doctors, Dr. Linda Shiue is not trying to sell a fad diet, a miracle cure, or any other sort of pseudoscientific quackery. She’s trying to get people excited about eating healthy foods, and the best way to do that is to feed them utterly irresistible things. After ten years as a respected internist, she realized that though the medical, nutrition, and culinary worlds are inexorably connected, it’s rare that people including doctors consider all three at the same time. So Dr. Shiue enrolled in the San Francisco Cooking School, staged at Michelin-starred restaurant Mourad in San Francisco, and received a certificate in Plant Based Nutrition from Cornell University before founding Thrive Kitchen, a teaching kitchen within Kaiser Permanente’s San Francisco medical network, to teach patients how to embrace the practice of home