Main Street Vegan

I am joined by American Vegan Society founder Freya Dinshah, and Linda Long, author of Virgin Veganand Great Chefs Cook Vegan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ask the Dietician: Marty Davey, RD, La Diva Dietician: plant-based dietitian on vegan nutrition for the life cycle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Get coached to health with Tambra Riddle, ND, and Dianne Wenz, HHC, AADP, VLC!Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ryan Andrews, MS/MA, RD, nutrition coach, and author of Drop the Fat Act and Live Lean (Fascinating fact: Ryan won a brand-new car from Oprah and gave it away!)Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join us today as guest vegan dietician Ginny Messina, M.S., R.D., discusses good-sense/good-health eating for the real-world vegan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

James McWilliams, associate professor of history at Texas State University, environmentalist, vegan, and author of Just Food: Where Locavores Get It Wrong and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Glamour and Allure beauty expert Tashina Combs, who writes the popular vegan beauty and lifestyle blog, Logical Harmony; and chef and recipe creator Christy Morgan, author of Blissful Bites: Vegan Meals That Nourish Mind, Body, and Planet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dustin Rudolph, longevity guru and Registered Pharmacist, will help us to a 2013 with more health and fewer pharmacies! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rich Roll, vegan ultramarathoner and author of Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Annette Larkins is the amazing "ageless woman" of YouTube fame. Annette is a 70-something Floridian who largely attributes her youthfulness and beauty to her raw vegan diet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jill Pyle, co-owner of VeganCuts.com (discount shopping for plant-based people); and Eleanor Feldman-Barbera, Ph. D., author of The Savvy Resident's Guide: Everything You Wanted to Know About Your Nursing Home Stay But Were Afraid to Askand founder of My Better Nursing Home, discusses aging, compassion, and being "struck vegan." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/a...

Ayurvedic expert Brian Leaf, author of Misadventures of a Garden State Yogi; and Lauren Ornelas, founder and director of the vegan food justice organization, the Food Empowerment Project. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Anne Dinshah, co-author of kids' cookbook Apples, Bean Dip, & Carrot Cake: Kids! Teach Yourself to Cook and author of Dating Vegans; and Jenny Brown, co-director of the Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary and author of The Lucky Ones.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brian and Anna Maria discuss their books 7 Keys to Lifelong Sexual Vitality and Killer Fish. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guest co-host Erin Red Grayson of Erin Red Radio joins Main Street Vegan for a discussion with Marty Davey, MS, RD, "La Diva Dietician," on the basics of plant-based eating. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Happy Halloween! But we won’t be scaring anybody with today’s program: Instead, we’ll be inviting “Ooohs” and “Ahhhs” with our delightful guest, animal behaviorist Jonathan Balcombe, Ph. D., author of Second Nature: The Inner Lives of Animals (Macsci). Dr. Balcombe will regale us with incredible stories of the self-awareness, the personalities and the altruism of creatures from fish to rats to bir...

A pair of incredible women will join us today: from Minnesota, Robin Asbell, author of cookbooks including Big Vegan: More than 350 Recipes, No Meat/No Dairy All Delicious and the new Sweet and Easy Vegan: Treats Made With Whole Grains and Natural Sweeteners (c’mon, who doesn’t love dessert?); and from North Carolina, Rachel Weaver, the young mother of three who was healed of debilitating ulcerati...

Get ready to get healthy for keeps with today’s wise and wonderful guests, Michael Klaper, M.D., and Alan Goldhamer, D.C., both of the True North Health Center in Santa Rosa, California. (Dr. Goldhamer is also co-author of The Pleasure Trap: Mastering the Hidden Force That Undermines Health and Happiness, one of the best books out there on why we eat the way we do and how to make positive changes....

A few years back, Victoria Beckham was photographed with a copy of a book called Skinny Bitch, and it went on to achieve phenomenon-status success around the world. And, well, it ought to: This is the book that showed the world that looking fabulous is about living fabulously—with caring for others as well as ourselves. We’re honored to have Skinny Bitch co-author, Rory Freedman, live with us in N...

Michael Greger, M.D., may just know more about human nutrition than anyone alive on the planet. He scours every nutrition journal published in the English language and reports his findings on his remarkable site, www.nutritionfacts.org. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Diet and exercise work hand in hand, along with a positive attitude, to create good health. Helping us all to eat better (and quicker) is “the veggie queen,” Jill Nussinow, R.D., whose latest book is The New Fast Food: The Veggie Queen Pressure Cooks Whole Food Meals in Less Than 30 Minutes(this is not your mother’s pressure cooker); and vegan personal trainer and erstwhile nationally ranked swimm...

This is the show that scones built: We tasted the incredible, totally vegan scones of Chef Mark Reinfeld, and knew that we wanted to introduce the author of The 30-Minute Vegan: Over 175 Quick, Delicious, and Healthy Recipes for Everyday Cooking and the upcoming The 30-Minute Vegan’s Taste of Europe: 150 Plant-Based Makeovers of Classics From France, Italy, Spain ... and Beyond to our listeners. L...

Veering from our focus on chefs this month, our show features two amazing guests who care for rescued animals. Katie Vandergrift of Colorado’s Wild Animal Sanctuary is “den mother” to large cats and other wild creatures rescued from abuse situations. We’ll also have Ron Allison, M.D., board president of PIGS, a Sanctuary, in West Virginia, providing homes for potbellied pigs, farmed pigs and other...

We’re focusing on food this month, and our first September guest is the gifted Chef AJ, author of Unprocessed: How to Achieve Vibrant Health and Your Ideal Weight. She’ll talk about her own health and weight loss transformation and how she makes dishes that are animal-free, oil-free, salt-free, and refined-sugar-free, and still super-yummy every time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaph...

Today we’ll go fashion forward with two style-savvy vegan women, Leann Mai-ly Hilgart, founder and designer of Vaute Couture (www.vautecouture.com), exquisite, eco-friendly, animal-product-free, made-in-America coats and jackets for women and men; and Michelle Schwegmann of the Herbivore Clothing Company (www.herbivoreclothing.com), an online vegan department store with a brick and mortar location...