Plant-Based Athlete Fitness and Health

Written by Matt Frazier Cheese. I can finally make cheese! Cheeses (from nuts, not dairy, of course) that the recipes I really want to cook call for. For example, long before I went vegan, my signature (slash, only) dish was gnocchi with gorgonzola sauce. Well, thanks to Julie Piatt’s recipe on page 99 of her brand new cookbook This Cheese is Nuts , now I can make gorgonzola — and the dish again, in full, plant-based glory. Same goes for authentic margherita pizza (mozzarella) and any number of Mario Batali recipes like fava beans with burrata and mint. (Haha, can you guess what my favorite cuisine to cook is?) Wouldn’t you know it though, Julie put recipes for both these cheeses (and about 30 others) in her book. So that’s my somewhat quirky reason for loving This Cheese is Nuts , but much more importantly, the book is an answer to that most tiresome of “why I could never go vegan” excuses… called “I could never give up cheese.” Not the first bo...

Written by Doug Hay You’re an athlete. You’re a vegan. You’re a runner , bodybuilder , yogi . Should you care what other people think of how you take care of your body? In a world where posting each workout to social media is standard, and sharing what you eat, or how many steps you take each day is celebrated, it’s hard not to care what others think. In part, because the approval (or disapproval) is almost instant. That’s the topic of today’s episode with vegan bodybuilder Robert Cheeke , and whether sharing all that information is actually a good thing for your health and goals. Here’s just some of what we talk about in this episode: Perfection and putting yourself out there How Robert’s new book is more honest Does social media help or hurt our goals? Robert’s history with standup comedy The power of being honest with yourself and others Click the button below to listen now: 31 Action-Focused Days to Take Charge of Your Life  

Written by Doug Hay Want to become a runner, but don’t have a clue where to start? Up until today, NMA Radio wouldn’t have been much help. As Matt and I looked back through the archives, I couldn’t believe we hadn’t covered the topic of running for beginners since episode six, and 5K training … never? There was last summer’s Running Camp (check out parts 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , and 5 ), but that was geared more towards people who were already running. So in today’s episode, we go back to the very basics — how to start running if you’ve never run before. And we build up to training for your first 5K race. It’s our version of a couch-to-5K episode, if you will. Here’s just some of what we talk about in this episode: What not to do on your first run Why walking is a good thing Do you need new shoes? Don’t make Matt’s sock mistake Fueling your first runs Click the button below to listen now: 31 Action-Focused Days to Take Charge of Your Life  

Written by Doug Hay As my wife and I and start to feed our seven-month-old real food for the first time, we’re talking a lot about how to approach raising our daughter on a plant-based diet. Are we super strict or lenient? How do we explain why we don’t eat meat? What do we say when a parent questions our decision? In today’s episode, I sit down with Matt and his wife Erin to discuss their experiences raising two vegan kids of their own. Plus we bring on their two kids for a few questions as well. Vegan kids say the darnedest things, don’t they? Click the button below to listen now: 31 Action-Focused Days to Take Charge of Your Life  

Written by Doug Hay Over the past few years, our Netflix feeds have seen several high-profile documentaries designed to push the vegan movement. They promote the health, environmental, and animal rights benefits in a way books and articles simply can’t. But many of these documentaries have also sparked blow-back both online and off. So it begs the question: Are vegan documentaries good for the movement? The answer is a bit more complicated than we thought… Here’s what we talk about in this episode: The What the Health controversy. Is video the most powerful medium? NFL players going vegan. Vegan documentaries made just for vegans. What Forks Over Knives did right. Click the button below to listen now:   31 Action-Focused Days to Take Charge of Your Life  

Written by Matt Frazier   The more I learn about habits , the more I believe that simplicity is the best policy — especially when it comes to food. I’m not a fan of restrictions or numbers when it’s time to eat. People often email me to ask why I don’t include nutrition facts with the recipes on No Meat Athlete, and I always answer that I simply don’t believe they’re good, except perhaps in cases where extreme weight loss is required. Food, and the time we spend eating it, should be enjoyed — it’s one of the great pleasures of life, and to constrain it with complicated rules and numbers is completely unnatural. Simple is good Simplicity is the reason Michael Pollan’s three-sentence manifesto from In Defense of Food resonated so well (“Eat food. Mostly plants. Not too much.”). And the stickiness of that phrase is probably what led Pollan to write Food Rules , another goodie full of short, memorable rules-of-thumb like “Eat only what your great-grandmother would ...

Written by Doug Hay   Between the current advances in plant-based meat alternatives and the innovations taking place in the “clean meat” industry, the food landscape as we know it could change dramatically over the next several years. How will these changes impact our understanding of what meat is, and will that affect the vegan movement? We sit down with Jackson Long and Aaron Stuber of Thought For Food Lifestyle and the TFF podcast to discuss. Here’s what we talk about in this episode: What is “clean meat”? Plant-based food technology and how it’s blowing up. The problem with “fake meat.” Why veganism may one day become irrelevant. Science! It’s important.