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Episode: Vegan Ayurveda With Talya LutzkerOriginal air date: Wednesday, June 12, 2013Episode Description:The ancient Indian health care system of ayurveda promises long life and health. Vegetarian in its roots, The Ayurvedic Vegan Kitchen
author Talya Lutzker makes it vegan—and it can change your life.
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Original air date: Wednesday, June 05, 2013Episode Description:Spend an enchanted hour with the inimitable Kris Carr, cancer survivor and game-changer for health in America.
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Original air date: Wednesday, May 29, 2013Episode Description:Join Karen Ranzi, author of Creating Healthy Children
and a speech therapist who works with autistic students, as we discuss healthy kids and benefits of a largely raw food diet for people of all ages.
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Original air date: Wednesday, May 22, 2013Episode Description:You think you know what a vegan looks like? We’re as unique as can be, and our guests today, über-tattooed wrestler Big Bald Mike and the ever-elegant Honey LaBronx of YouTube fame, will discuss being vegan and being yourself.
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Original air date: Wednesday, May 15, 2013Episode Description:Feeding the Hungry Ghost: Life, Faith, and What to Eat for Dinner - A Satisfying Diet for Unsatisfying Times
is a spiritual and culinary look at food as celebration and sacrament.
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Episode: The Vegan Vet Armaiti May, DVMOriginal air date: Wednesday, May 08, 2013Episode Description:We’ll discuss companion animal welfare, ethical issues in veterinary medicine, risks and benefits of a vegan diet for dogs and cats, and the spiritual basis of Dr. May’s veganism in her Zoroastrian faith.
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Original air date: Wednesday, May 01, 2013Episode Description:David Benzaquen, CEO of Plant Based Solutions, discusses new vegan foods on the market, Annie Shannon talks about the hot new cookbook Betty Goes Vegan
, and Rory Freedman of Skinny Bitch fame calls in to introduce her new book Beg
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Original air date: Wednesday, April 24, 2013Episode Description:Get fit in the time you've got with Lani Muelrath, author of Fit Quickies: 5-Minute, Targeted Body-Shaping Workouts. Mary Clifton, M.D., joins us too.
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Original air date: Wednesday, April 17, 2013Episode Description:Meet the editors of VegNews, Vegan Health and Fitness, and Laika magazines.
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Original air date: Wednesday, April 10, 2013Episode Description:You saw this raw food expert and mega-weight-loser on The Doctors—the young man who lost 250 pounds on a raw vegan diet and has kept it off for more than six years.
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Original air date: Wednesday, April 03, 2013Episode Description:Dr. Don of radio fame—Don Wagner, D.O., plant-based physician
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Original air date: Wednesday, March 27, 2013Episode Description:I am joined by Julie Simon, MA, author of The Emotional Eater's Repair Manual: A Practical Mind-Body-Spirit Guide for Putting an End to Overeating and Dieting
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Original air date: Wednesday, March 20, 2013Episode Description:Alex Hershaft, founder of the Great American Meatout, and Michelle Simon, J.D., author of Appetite for Profit.
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Original air date: Wednesday, February 27, 2013Episode Description:I am joined by American Vegan Society founder Freya Dinshah, and Linda Long, author of Virgin Vegan
and Great Chefs Cook Vegan.
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Episode: Marty Davey, R.D., La Diva DieticianOriginal air date: Wednesday, February 20, 2013Episode Description:Ask the Dietician: Marty Davey, RD, La Diva Dietician: plant-based dietitian on vegan nutrition for the life cycle.
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Original air date: Wednesday, February 13, 2013Episode Description:Get coached to health with Tambra Riddle, ND, and Dianne Wenz, HHC, AADP, VLC!
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Original air date: Wednesday, February 06, 2013Episode Description: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!)
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Original air date: Wednesday, January 30, 2013Episode Description:Join us today as guest vegan dietician Ginny Messina, M.S., R.D., discusses good-sense/good-health eating for the real-world vegan.
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Original air date: Wednesday, January 23, 2013Episode Description: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
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Original air date: Wednesday, January 16, 2013Episode Description: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
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Original air date: Wednesday, January 09, 2013Episode Description:Dustin Rudolph, longevity guru and Registered Pharmacist, will help us to a 2013 with more health and fewer pharmacies!
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Episode: Rich Roll, Ultra-MarathonerOriginal air date: Wednesday, December 19, 2012Episode Description:Rich Roll, vegan ultramarathoner and author of Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself.
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Original air date: Wednesday, December 12, 2012Episode Description: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.
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Original air date: Wednesday, December 05, 2012Episode Description: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 Ask
and founder of My Better Nursing Home, discusses aging, compassion, and being "struck vegan."
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Original air date: Wednesday, November 28, 2012Episode Description: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.
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Original air date: Wednesday, November 21, 2012Episode Description: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.
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Original air date: Wednesday, November 14, 2012Episode Description:Brian and Anna Maria discuss their books 7 Keys to Lifelong Sexual Vitality
and Killer Fish
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Episode: Marty Davey, M.S., R.D.Original air date: Wednesday, November 07, 2012Episode Description: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.
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Original air date: Wednesday, October 31, 2012Episode Description: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 birds and all the rest. It’s no wonder God looked at what He’d made and pronounced it all good—we’ll learn this Halloween that these creatures are good—and smart and fascinating and valuable in their own right. You’ll love this show.
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Original air date: Wednesday, October 24, 2012Episode Description: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 ulcerative colitis through fasting, juicing, a simple vegan diet, and an unshakeable belief in the healing power of God.
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Original air date: Wednesday, October 17, 2012Episode Description: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.) These men have a combined 60 years’ experience in helping people heal through lifestyle choices and drawing on the healing life God planted into each and every body. Tune in for information that morphs into the inspiration you need to make the changes you want to make today.
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Episode: Skinny Bitch Coauthor, Rory FreedmanOriginal air date: Wednesday, October 10, 2012Episode Description: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 NYC, to talk about her spiritual path, her dietary path, her ethical convictions, and life after mega-success.
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Episode: Michael Greger, M.D., Nutrition GuruOriginal air date: Wednesday, October 03, 2012Episode Description: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.
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Original air date: Wednesday, September 26, 2012Episode Description: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 swimming champion, Wendy Siskin.
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Episode: Chef Mark ReinfeldOriginal air date: Wednesday, September 19, 2012Episode Description: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.
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Original air date: Wednesday, September 12, 2012Episode Description: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 farmed animals rescued from abuse/neglect and living happy, happy lives.
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Episode: Chef AJ, Author of "Unprocessed"Original air date: Wednesday, September 05, 2012Episode Description: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.
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Original air date: Wednesday, August 29, 2012Episode Description: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 in Portland, Oregon.
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Original air date: Wednesday, August 22, 2012Episode Description:A special full hour show with Frank Sabatino, D.C., Ph.D. Adair will be traveling in Africa, and Victoria will host solo this week, doing an in-depth interview with her own health mentor. Dr. Sabatino has a doctorate in cell biology and neuroimmunology from Emory University Medical School, and yet he’s gifted at talking to regular people about transforming their health in the real world.
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Episode: Ellen Jaffe-Jones and Patti BreitmanOriginal air date: Wednesday, August 15, 2012Episode Description:Two guests who know about good food: Ellen Jaffe-Jones, author of Eat Vegan on $4 a Day, and Patti Breitman, co-author of How to Eat Like a Vegetarian Even If You Never Want to Be One: More Than 250 Shortcuts, Strategies, and Simple Solutions (Patti is also co-founder of Dharma Voices for Animals, a group that honors nonhuman beings based on teachings from the Buddhist tradition).
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Original air date: Wednesday, August 08, 2012Episode Description:Mark Braunstein, author of Radical Vegetarianism, expert on sprouting and micro-greens, also has an inspiring story of defying the odds and learning to walk with crutches after the accident that severed his spinal cord.
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Original air date: Wednesday, August 01, 2012Episode Description:Ruby Roth, author and illustrator of the thought-provoking children’s book, Vegan Is Love: Having Heart and Taking Action, talks about kids, animals, and the response she got to her no-holds-barred book.
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Original air date: Wednesday, July 25, 2012Episode Description:Let's get Vegucated ... with the fun and fabulous film by that name from radiant auteur Marisa Miller-Wolfson, our guest today on Main Street Vegan. Marisa's delightful documentary follows the adventures (and misadventures) of three meat-and-cheese-loving New Yorkers (she found them on Craigslist!) who agree to go vegan—no animal products at all—for 90 days. As warm and funny and accepting as her film, Marisa wants to talk with YOU about all things veg.
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Original air date: Wednesday, July 18, 2012Episode Description:It's the lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer as the song says, and thoughts turn to firing up the grill. Vegans can cook out with the best of them, and our guest today, John Schlimm, author of Grilling Vegan Style: 125 Fired-Up Recipes to Turn Every Bite into a Backyard BBQ
, will help you become a veg-on-the-barbie expert. Call in with your questions for John or to chat about all things vegan-ish.
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Episode: Will Tuttle, The World Peace DietOriginal air date: Wednesday, July 11, 2012Episode Description:You may have heard him speak (and magnificently play piano) at your church, or you've read his groundbreaking book, World Peace Diet: Eating for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony. If his work has touched you at all, you'll need no urging to tune in today to spend time in the healing presence of Will Tuttle, Ph.D., a former Zen monk and a gentle voice of sanity in the world. Dr. Tuttle will share with us how to gain more inner peace—and possibly world peace too—starting at the grocery store. We'll take your calls.
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Original air date: Wednesday, June 27, 2012Episode Description:This week on Main Street Vegan: Victoria is en route to Vegetarian Summerfest and prerecorded a fun and fascinating show with the founders of Our Hen House: Jasmin Singer (fresh from her appearance on Dr. Oz) and Mariann Sullivan, J.D., professor of animal law at Cordozo and Brooklyn Law Schools. Email your questions about animals and animal rights to victoria@mainstreetvegan.net.
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Episode: The Premiere EpisodeOriginal air date: Wednesday, June 20, 2012Episode Description:Welcome to the intro program of Main Street Vegan! Victoria and Adair will lay out the format of this lively and life-giving hour, answer questions that have come in online, and interview two fascinating guests: blogger JL Fields of JLGoesVegan.com (she went veg after 40, became a triathlete, and encourages us to "Stop Chasing Skinny!"); and Gary Gibson, HHC, AADP, CPT, health educator, fitness coach and creator of The Vegan Effect.









