The Raw Food Health Empowerment Podcast

When you have type 2 diabetes, there are no cheat days, but the good news is that most people are able to reverse their type 2 diabetes with a whole foods vegan diet within 2 weeks. The best accountability buddy you could have is a produce delivery box because once your kitchen is full of produce, you will eat it all to make sure the food does not go bad. Today’s episode I go over a price comparis...

If you want to get off metformin, the answer is nutrition. The Self Care Salon was created for folks looking to reverse type 2 diabetes and prediabetes and prevent type 2 diabetes. You create the environment from within yourself to allow healing to take place. It starts with a decision. Decide you want to eat clean. I’ve always taught that you setup your kitchen for success but folks get really ca...

If you’re ready to learn how to transition to eat more raw food, definitely join the Self Care Salon and gain access to fully raw meal plans every day of the week. We also do weekly wellness check-ins to make sure we are all progressing and staying consistent with this healthy lifestyle. This audio is a sneak peak into one of our recent check-ins where we talk about what the non-gmo verified label...

April Frazier, co-host of The Jealous Vegan Podcast, joins me today to talk about: Why we need more vegan friendly restaurants that create delicious vegan options How being non-judgemental can facilitate progress to create a healthier population and planet If you have a difficult time with your family members who don’t eat clean, this is the episode to listen to. Episode Resources on the blog at h...

Have you seen the series Undercover Billionaire? It is so inspirational with lots of gems that have me eager to start a brick and mortar business again. My latest conversation with special guest Naijha Wright-Brown reminds me so much of that series. She’s been doing all the things. Naijha Wright is co-owner of The Land of Kush, a vegan restaurant in Baltimore, and organizes the annual Baltimore Ve...

We know that with sufficient sleep, we have less stress hormones in the body, reduced health problems and fewer errors at work, but during such a stressful time such as 2020, sleeping through the night can be difficult. If stress is waking you up in the middle of the night, other than doing some Emotional Freedom Technique to calm your body down, a great tool you can use is an essential oil. Brian...

Old patterns and limiting beliefs could be controlling you on a daily basis, leading you to unhealthy foods that sabotage weight loss efforts or working against a healthy lifestyle. We all have some set of limiting beliefs or fears we need to break through to get to our next level of becoming our best and healthiest self. Are you truly living staying in the safe zone? Leaning into these fears and...

Did you know childhood trauma creates inflammation in the body? Research shows that abuse in childhood and even in adulthood can trigger emotional and physical reactions that can make you more prone to a series of health conditions, including heart attack, stroke, obesity, diabetes, and cancer. Inflammation is the root of chronic illness and fat loss prevention. How do we move forward from the hur...

This is a much delayed post because I wanted to spend more time and gather more information and personal experiences of Haiti. Haiti is the most disrespected of all the Caribbean islands and I don’t understand why since they played such a huge role in Black liberation history. Today, on this episode of the Raw Food Health Empowerment Podcast, my friend from high school, Elizabeth, shares some insi...

Our bodies run on a circadian rhythm, which is an internal clock or schedule of which all the important processes that happen in our body run on and it is dictated by our wake, eat and sleep cycles. But we also have an internal clock and rhythm for productivity and energy.  For peak energy and performance, it doesn't serve us or our mission/life’s purpose to work for hours straight throughout...

“Black women are three to four times more likely to die due to pregnancy-related causes than white women and often report experiencing mistreatment during care.” ~ Fast Company We have a broken healthcare system, which I often refer to as a sick care system but it does not have to be this way. There was a time when black women got the care and support they needed from other black women and had hea...

We are hitting up 3 more islands today in celebration of Caribbean American Month. Let’s head to Trinidad, Grenada and Guyana. Episode Resources on the blog at https://rawfoodmealplanner.com/soca-music-feeds-the-soul-and-the-hips // HOST Samantha Salmon Certified Integrative Nutrition Coach and Ambassador of Health and Happiness // CO-HOST Dorrell Hylton Salmon Mom, Wife, Hair Doctor, Beauty Parlo...

At this point, I think most of us have wised up to how sick this country is and we are in a healing phase at the moment, which will be painful for most of us who are conscious beings. Many folks want to know how do we get through this and in my opinion, the answer is to have hard conversations with folks who do not look like you and may not think like you. We are all in our silos and what that wil...

This month we celebrate the 2 year anniversary of the Raw Food Health Empowerment Podcast! And, we are celebrating by taking a trip through the Caribbean islands. Episode Resources on the blog at https://rawfoodmealplanner.com/happy-anniversary // HOST Samantha Salmon Certified Integrative Nutrition Coach and Ambassador of Health and Happiness // CO-HOST Dorrell Hylton Salmon Mom, Wife, Hair Docto...

I had the pleasure of having an awesome sistah in the fight against chronic disease plaguing our community, Dr Ruby Lathon, on the Raw Food Health Empowerment Show. Dr. Lathon is a certified holistic nutritionist, wellness coach and an advocate for the life-saving benefits of plant-based nutrition. She inspires with a powerful story of recovering from thyroid cancer through alternative treatment f...

If you’re using food for comfort, consider these self reflecting questions and journal on them, ponder them.  Relax in a comfy space and mull over them. Think about the thing that is exhausting you, let’s say it’s work for example. Why do you do the work that you do? What are you missing in your work and in life? If we are eating for comfort, there is something we probably feel we are lacking...

Dieters experience strong cravings for the foods they are trying to restrict, which is why diet is not the answer to sustainable weight loss. The moment you are forcing yourself, you have lost the battle. A better and easier way is to focus on crowding out unhealthy foods and eating more healthy foods. Even healthy foods can work against you if they are not prepared in a healthy manner. Take irish...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report that around 700 women die from complications related to pregnancy or childbirth every year. Black mothers are three to four times more likely to die from pregnancy-related complications than White women. Currently, we are seeing similar trends with the effects of COVID-19 on the Black community, with Black counties having infection rates...

Today’s guest, Gwendolyn Juleus is the Host of the Manage Money Build Wealth God’s Way podcast. She is a retired military veteran who used her career in the military to achieve her goal of FIRE by the age of 40! One thing you’ll notice in this interview is her pressing the use of a budget. It’s the swiss army knife of financial success. Episode Resources on the blog at https://rawfoodmealplanner.c...

I had a special guest on the show today, Adrienne Wilson, President and founder of Feed Our Soul, a nonprofit that teaches young people about wellness through workshops, like gardening, environmental learning, nutritional literacy, culinary skills and restorative justice initiatives. She talked about her journey to creating her nonprofit and mentioned that Black women have a history of sharing lov...

As I’ve been working in public health, I find the theory of motivation by Maslow particularly interesting. His pyramid depicting the hierarchy of human needs is the framework that helped him depict what he felt were the motivating factors of human beings. Our special guest today, Amanda Nicole Smith, vegan and raw vegan recipe creator and founder of   Purified Lifestyle , a soulful online jou...

Financial resources beats knowledge sometimes when it comes to healthy eating for some people. The way I manage to eat high raw on a budget is by not depending on expensive foods. I rarely use dates. I fill up on bananas which is pretty affordable. I get produce delivered and I use what I have and get really creative. Over 1 million unemployment insurance claims have been filed in California since...

When it comes to diet, the needs of men are different than women. Women feel better with water rich nutrient dense foods while men love and feel better with calorie rich and nutrient dense foods. Episode Resources on the blog at https://rawfoodmealplanner.com/top-5-ingredients-men-should-not-live-without 🧘🏿‍ Schedule a free consultation // HOST Samantha Salmon Certified Integrative Nutrition Coa...

A 2016 report by ReFed estimated that the U.S. wastes 30% of the food supply representing 126 billion pounds of wasted food annually with a street value of over $161 billion dollars.  In 2017, the EPA determined that more food than any other single material was the largest contribution to landfills in the U.S. While I think it’s better to have more than enough healthy food at home and waste t...

The best thing about eating 100% raw vegan for many folks is eating all day and losing weight. But, when you live in New York or Chicago in the Winter or you’re in the process of overcoming food addictions to processed food and artificial flavors and sugar, it can be difficult. Episode Resources on the blog at https://rawfoodmealplanner.com/what-to-do-if-you-find-it-hard-to-be-raw-vegan-all-day 🧘...