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Plant-Based Canada Podcast
Welcome to the Plant-Based Canada Podcast. Join us as we talk with experts to explore the field of nutritional sciences and how our food choices impact our health and the environment. We sit down with Canadian doctors, dieticians, athletes, climate experts and others/more, to break down the evidence behind a Whole Food Plant-Based diet, and discuss the practical steps you can take in your efforts to shift toward a healthier lifestyle. The Plant-Based Canada Podcast is an initiative of the group Plant-Based Canada, which aims to educate the public and health professionals on the evidence-based benefits of plant-based whole food nutrition for individual and planetary health. To learn more about the show, visit our website www.plantbasedcanada.org and stay up to date by following us on Instagram and Facebook @plantbasedcanadaorg, and our Plant-based Canada YouTube channel. The views expressed by guests are their own and their appearance on the program does not imply an endorsement of them or any entity they represent. PBC is not responsible for any errors, omissions, or opinions related to the content stated by the guests interviewed. All information in this podcast is provided "as is", with no guarantee of completeness, accuracy, timeliness or of the conclusions obtained from the use of this information. The podcast should not be considered professional advice. Listeners should seek their own individual healthcare advice as needed.
Plant-Based Canada Podcast
Episode 21: Dr. Pamela Fergusson on How to Go Vegan for Beginners
In this episode of the Plant-Based Canada Podcast we talk with Dr. Pamela Fergusson -- Registered Dietitian with a PhD in nutrition, and more than 15 years of experience with changing lives through better nutrition. She earned her PhD at the University of Liverpool and her Master’s in International Health at Sweden’s Uppsala University.
Dr. Fergusson currently has a private practice in British Columbia where she works with clients who want to transition to a more plant-based lifestyle. She is the busy mom of four children, and also a marathon and half-marathon runner and speed-walker. She believes in the power of plants to promote mental and physical health.
Recently she published her new book, Going Vegan for Beginners: The Essential Nutrition Guide to Transitioning to a Vegan Diet, which explores what it means to be vegan, the movement's roots in social justice, and what makes the diet a healthy choice for the long-term.
In this episode we discuss:
- Dr. Fergusson's work in Europe, Africa, and Asia for organizations such as UNICEF and the World Food program.
- A day in the life as a Registered Dietitian.
- Dr. Fergusson's new book Going Vegan for Beginners.
- The nuanced conversation around the term 'vegan', and why Dr. Fergusson embraces it.
- The top nutrients of concern for people hoping to shift to a more plant-based diet.
- The nutritional value for meat analogs.
- The history behind unethical nutritional experiments that took place in Residential Schools across Canada and the direct links between those experiments and the Canadian Food Guide.
- Food insecurity and other issues facing marginalized communities in Canada.
- The tips and tricks Dr. Fergusson wish she knew before going vegan.
Socials:
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Facebook
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Studies/Articles:
Going Vegan for Beginners: The Essential Nutrition Guide to Transitioning to a Vegan Diet
Canada's shameful history of nutrition research on residential school children: the need for strong medical ethics in Aboriginal health research
Canada used hungry indigenous children to study malnutrition
Nutrition researchers saw malnourished children at Indian Residential Schools as perfect test subjects
PROOF REPORT: food insecurity policy research
This Podcast was hosted and edited by Clinton Stamatovich.