Chef Babette Davis, a 73-year-old vegan chef and fitness advocate, shares her inspiring journey from hardship to health. She discusses her philosophy of food as medicine and the transformative power of self-love. Babette highlights the importance of self-care and shares personal anecdotes from her life experiences, showing how humor and mindfulness can foster resilience. She also emphasizes the need for community awareness around nutrition and celebrates the healing potential of plant-based eating, all while impressively doing push-ups!
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Knee Injury
Chef Babette Davis injured her knee on a treadmill two days before her 73rd birthday.
She sprinted at 7mph after a spin class, ignoring her body's signals.
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Self-Care
Focus on good nourishment and positive thoughts for health.
Question the need for medical intervention if you feel amazing.
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Self-Love as Appreciation
Self-love is crucial to showing appreciation for life's gift.
It involves caring for thoughts, relationships, nourishment, and purpose.
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Chef Babette Davis's 'Cash In On Cashews' is a comprehensive dessert cookbook that showcases the versatility of cashews in creating a variety of sweet treats. The book highlights the health benefits and culinary possibilities of using cashews in innovative dessert recipes. It has gained attention for its creative approach to plant-based desserts.
The Mucusless Diet Healing System
A Scientific Method of Eating Your Way to Health
Arnold Ehret
This book, originally published in 1922, outlines Ehret's theory that mucus-forming foods are the root of human disease and advocates for a diet of fruits and vegetables to cleanse the body. Ehret also emphasizes fasting as a method to detoxify and rejuvenate the body. The book provides practical advice on food combining and includes recipes to support a transition to a mucusless diet.
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Vince Houghton is known for his work as the Director of the National Cryptologic Museum and his discussions on cryptography. However, he has not written a book that focuses exclusively on cryptology and cryptography in movies and pop culture. His books include 'Nuking the Moon' and 'The Nuclear Spies', which cover different aspects of intelligence history.
The Plantpower Way
Whole Food Plant-Based Recipes and Guidance for the Whole Family
Julie Piatt
Rich Roll
Created by Rich Roll and Julie Piatt, this book shares their experiences and the health benefits of a plant-based lifestyle. It includes a variety of easy-to-prepare whole food recipes, such as hearty breakfasts, lunches, dinners, smoothies, juices, and desserts. The book is not just a recipe collection but a comprehensive guide to long-term wellness, body, mind, and spirit health, and a celebration of a simple and sustainable lifestyle.
Finding Ultra
Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Top Ultrarunners
Rich Roll
Finding Ultra recounts Rich Roll’s remarkable journey from an out-of-shape, mid-life couch potato to one of the world’s top ultrarunners. The book chronicles his battle with alcoholism, his transformation into an elite endurance athlete, and his adoption of a plant-based lifestyle. It includes his experiences in the elite Ultraman competition and the EPIC5, five Ironman-distance triathlons completed in less than a week on different Hawaiian islands. The revised and updated edition provides practical tools, practices, and strategies for optimal performance, longevity, and wellness, making it a guide for anyone seeking to transform their life through self-discovery and a healthier lifestyle.
Voicing Change
Rich Roll
Voicing Change is a culmination of Rich Roll's eight-year journey of interviewing unique thinkers and visionaries on his acclaimed podcast. The book distills the collective wisdom from these conversations into thoughtful essays and first-person wisdom, focusing on themes of intentional living, life lessons, and enduring inspiration.
Fit for Life
Your Complete Diet and Health Plan for the Millennium
Harvey Diamond
Marilyn Diamond
Fit for Life is an international bestseller that shatters common diet myths by explaining how to change both your figure and your life. Harvey and Marilyn Diamond, nutritional specialists, provide a weight-loss plan that focuses on when and how you eat, rather than what you eat. The book includes vital principles for permanent weight loss and high energy, secrets of timing and food combining, a 4-week meal plan, menus, shopping tips, exercise, and delicious recipes. It emphasizes the importance of optimizing energy and working with the body's natural cycles to shed excess weight and maintain overall health.
Chef Babette Davis is a 73-year-old vegan chef, fitness icon, and star of viral social media videos.
This conversation explores Chef Babette’s journey from childhood hardship to health advocacy, her philosophy on food as medicine, and her mission to heal communities through plant-based eating. We discuss her lessons to vitality at any age, the power of self-love, and her spiritual approach to life.
Before wrapping up the conversation, Chef Babette wows with impromptu push-ups!
Chef Babette is an incredible spirit and a powerful lighthouse. This conversation is inspiring and practical. Enjoy!
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