Food Heals

Christian Evans is a trained chef and a weight loss blogger who lost 187 lbs in just ten months. For Christian, losing weight starts in the mind. It isn't about diet, going to the gym, or someone else's program. It's about the way you think. His blog christiansweightsuccess.net offers solid and helpful advice to people embarking on their weight loss journey. Being hailed as "Sex and the City for F...

So, how are your New Year's resolutions going? Are you keeping up with them or have you already let them fall by the wayside? We'll let you in on a secret: it's about intentions, not resolutions. And we're here to help you get back on track to manifesting your desires. The common misconception is that manifesting is hard—that in order to make your dreams come true you have to strive and stress. Bu...

When Allison met Heather at Gabrielle Bernstein's Spirit Junkie Masterclass, she knew she had to come on the podcast! Heather Fantin is a transformational coach and intuitive healer, and founder of Soul on Fire retreats, where people can completely transform and heal their mind, body and being. Heather's early life was filled with drama and despair: parents separating, getting into the wrong crowd...

Almost all issues, physical or emotional, can be healed through energy work—even physical pain that's connected with an emotional block. Master Energy Healer Benson Simmonds marries energy work with divine Hebrew symbols to harness the power of the universe and heal his clients. Whether body or mind, what it comes down to is unconditional love. In a way, many of us have lost our sense of power. We...

Glenn Livingston, Ph. D. is a veteran psychologist and was the long time CEO of a multi-million dollar consulting firm which has serviced several Fortune 500 clients in the food industry. You may have seen his (or his company's) previous work, theories, and research in major periodicals like The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Sun Times, The Indiana Star Ledger, The NY Daily New...

Let's be honest, almost all of us have shopped at a fast fashion outlet at one point or other, for that last minute party outfit or a quick shopping fix. But often these clothes last all of a day, disintegrating after one wash. They may be cheap, but they've got a heavy ethical and ecological cost: made in sweatshops, laced with lead, they quickly end up on landfill sites. Is it possible to be fas...

Maura Knowles lay on the operating table, awake. A routine procedure that should have taken a few minutes had turned into a life-threatening operation. She was only 20. Everything that could have gone wrong in hospital, did—pancreatitis, infections, misdiagnoses, you name it. She survived not one near death experience, but two! Her fighting Irish spirit and the support of her family pulled her thr...

Shauna Krikorian, C.Ht. is a clinical hypnotherapist, who believes that every person has a deep desire to understand themselves and live a life with meaning and purpose. She helps her clients to identify and reach their goals and remove blocks and resistance from the subconscious mind guiding them to create new thought patterns and behaviors while letting go of old negative habits and beliefs. Sha...

Thanksgiving is all about being grateful, and at no time is this more important than in the face of the negativity, hate and division that the election result symbolizes. So far, we've kept to health topics, but today, Food Heals Nation, we're going political. It's a frightening time—the new president elect stands for racism, anti-feminism, anti-human-rights, war. Many of us no longer feel safe; w...

Tired of conflicting and confusing health information? In this episode, nutritionist and fellow podcaster Alexa Schirm debunks some common health myths. Discover the truth about artificial sweeteners, and how to restore your metabolic function and balance your hormones without going on a diet! Let's face it, 98% of diets fail. Why? Mindset and misinformation. Diets are short term fixes based on re...

Rich Jacobs is a Health Detective and Functional Medicine Practitioner, certified by Functional Diagnostic Nutrition and the Kalish Institute for Functional Medicine. Rich became passionate about helping others holistically after struggling with his own health issues that doctors couldn't resolve. Rich now works with people all over the country using his health detective skills to find the root ca...

Happy Halloween! Today is a fun episode discussing an interesting theory - The Mandela Effect which is is a theory of parallel universes, based in the idea that because large groups of people have similar alternative memories about past events. Is it Berenstein Bears or Berenstain Bears? Did the evil queen in Snow White say "Mirror, Mirror on the Wall" or "Magic Mirror on the wall?" Was the famous...

Elana is a true California native who ditched her advertising career to dive into eco-entrepreneurship with her amazing website klean-slate.com. She has a true passion for researching and learning how a body and mind benefit from the right nutrition and enriching experiences. This passion has lead Elana to discover and share tasty, simple and healthy recipes and alternatives to classics like daiya...

Commuting for hours to a job you hate, doing repetitive tasks you are completely bored with, feeling unmotivated, unappreciated, and stuck. Does this sound like you? Sprinting on that hamster wheel, unable to jump off and start living life on your own terms? This is just how Kate Erickson felt. After years working in banking, HR, advertising and marketing, Kate realized she needed to do something...

Being hailed as "Sex and the City for Food," The Food Heals Podcast brings together experts in the field of nutrition, health and healing to teach you the best-kept natural secrets to being a hotter, healthier, happier YOU! The Food Heals Podcast is hosted by Allison Melody and Suzy Hardy – two self-proclaimed natural chicks who will rock your world and change your beliefs about health! This sexy,...

Jasmine Briones, the creator of The Sweet Simple Vegan, has dedicated her life to inspiring others to choose health. A Los Angeles-based nutrition student, Jasmine is a recipe creator and plant-based wellness blogger that works to promote nutrition, fitness, and self-love. Jasmine struggled with an eating disorder in college and used veganism to mask that to her friends and family. After being con...

Today's episode is all about setting and achieving your goals to create your dream life. Whether you want to get fit, build your business, overhaul your diet or create more freedom in your life, get ready for the knowledge bombs! You know that feeling when you've completed your Christmas wrapping? You've lovingly picked the perfect paper, hand drawn the name tag, tied a beautiful bow real tight an...

How many of us keep ourselves in the dark when it comes to where our food comes from? We turn the other way because we don't want to learn about male chicks being tossed into a grinder because they're not "profitable", we don't want to see pigs suffering and immobile in their tiny birthing pens. But thanks to the work of animal activists and organizations like the Humane Society, more and more peo...

Quintessence ("Tess") Challis began her holistic health journey in her late teens. After a lifetime of numerous health ailments (including acne, obesity, strep throat, constant illnesses, anxiety, and depression), she found that a vegan diet along with an "inner wellness regime" of meditation and visualization literally made a world of difference. In 1994, she began sharing this knowledge through...

Megan is a former burger slinger who now is a vegan health coach. She is passionate about health, wellness and healing our bodies naturally. Megan never looked or felt unhealthy. In fact, she looked like the epidome of health even though she lived on burgers and junk food. When she had a chance encounter with vegan activist and NBA star John Salley, he encouraged her to go vegan and change her lif...

Jay and Joy are the dream team behind the Jing Slingers. If you've ever wondered how to use superfoods and tonics to supercharge your health, this is the episode for you! Go from surviving to thriving and discover the Jing Slingers' secrets to being vibrant, juicy, and full of life! Allison and her favorite guest co-host Eco Vegan Gal Whitney Lauritsen interview Joy Coelho and Jay Denman. Together...

Paul Shapiro is the vice president of farm animal protection for the Humane Society of the United States, which is the world's largest animal protection organization. Paul directs an effort to convince retailers, food service providers, and universities to end their use of eggs from battery-caged birds, pork from gestation-stalled pigs, and to expand their plant-based options. Paul has played an i...

There's never been an easier time to be vegan and Tim Paige has lived it. 13 years ago he made the choice to eat plant based and now he can't imagine eating any other way. He's raising his kids to be vegan and with all the great choices available today, he can even get his kid to eat vegan! There are so many reasons that Tim made the choice, and it easily fell in line with his desire to live a lif...

Dr. Katherine Zagone combines the mind of a doctor and the heart of a healer to serve couples and women in their journey to conceive their healthiest baby and build the family of their dreams. After witnessing family members struggle with infertility for years, she felt compelled to find solutions for her patients in similar agonizing situations. She considers each client's individual needs as she...

Kim is a teacher, a certified plant-based cook and the co-founder of brownble.com and the My Brownble online program, where together with her husband Carlos (a medical doctor, allergy and asthma specialist, and filming and tech enthusiast), they teach people how to cook amazing vegan foods and find balance between having glowing health and still eating the delicious foods you've always loved (all...