Principles and Practices of a Whole Food Plant Based Diet

This is an an excellent introductory overview of the principles and practices of a whole food plant based diet. The presenter is Cyrus Khambatta, PhD, co-founder of Mastering Diabetes. Cyrus's speciality, along with his partner at Mastering Diabetes Robby Barbaro, is complete reversal of type 2 diabetes and minimizing the impact of type 1 diabetes in the most effective way possible.

But most of this presentation is general information on the principles and practices of a whole food plant based diet. And Cyrus in particular does what all really good teachers do, in that he has a talent for describing complex topics to a lay audience in ways that are clear and easily understood. And Cyrus is the real deal, as a PhD in nutritional biochemistry from the University of California at Berkeley he has a special focus on an evidence based approach.

It's good to see greater scientific rigor coming to the fore in research on the outsized role nutrition plays in health. Now let's hope the stranglehold begins to loosen that purveyors of horrible nutrition have on our regulating bodies the FDA, USDA, NIH, and HHS, and this sort of information becomes more widely available.

So if you are (or have ever been) confused about nutrition (and who hasn't), this presentation will be of interest.