Sweet Vegan Spills The Tea

Jennifer June sits down with Author, Actor, Vegan Activist, Speaker Jasmin Singer to chat about disordered eating, food addiction,  “going” vegan, fat phobia, growing up in a weight watching culture, and more.

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Jasmin Singer is a worldwide leading expert on veganism and a coveted speaker on topics including personal narrative as a means of social justice, identity, and how to change the world for animals. She is the author of The VegNews Guide to Being a Fabulous Vegan (Hachette, 2020) and Always Too Much and Never Enough: A Memoir (Berkley, 2016), and she narrated the audiobook for both.

Along with animal law professor Mariann Sullivan, Jasmin is the co-host of the long-running Our Hen House podcast, an award-winning show (honored several times by the prestigious Webby Awards) that centers around animal rights issues.

As a speaker, Jasmin has toured the US and beyond and presented the TEDx talk “Compassion Unlocks Identity” to a sold-out crowd of two-thousand people at Asbury Park, NJ’s Paramount Theater. She went on a successful 65-city book tour when Always Too Much and Never Enough was published. Jasmin has been featured on NPR and CNN, as well as in publications including The Atlantic, Women’s Health, Yahoo, and New York Daily News. She was named a “40 Under 40” by The Advocate.

Jasmin can be seen in documentaries including The Ghosts In Our Machine and Vegucated; has appeared on The Dr. Oz Show; and has contributed to a number of anthologies, including Running Eating Thinking; Defiant Daughters; Voices for Animal Liberation; Queer & Trans Voices; and Circles of Compassion. 

As an actor, Jasmin starred in the award-winning short film, The Bra Mitzvah, and has appeared in national television commercials. She has been seen in theater in NYC and Los Angeles, where she also performed stand-up comedy and was a regular emcee for charity events. She holds a BFA in Acting from Pace University and is a certified holistic health counselor. 

Jasmin is a long-time activist across many realms, including animal activism, LGBTQ activism, and antiracism. She is the parent of a couple of rescued dogs and one very annoyed cat.

Jasmin’s books - ⁠https://jasminsinger.com/books/⁠

Jasmin’s website ⁠https://jasminsinger.com⁠

Jasmin’s Podcast:  ⁠https://www.ourhenhouse.org⁠

Jasmin on Instagram: ⁠https://jasminsinger.com/books/⁠

Jasmin on facebook:  ⁠https://www.facebook.com/therealjasminsinger/⁠

Mentioned:

What we don’t talk bout when we talk about fat - Aubrey Gordon - https://www.aubreygordon.net

In this episode, we discuss some common sexual health issues, from erectile dysfunction and infertility to perimenopause and PCOS. 

 We talk about some of the challenges they bring up, deeper health issues that might be causing them, and nutrition and lifestyle changes we can make to regulate and even reverse them.  

To book a Holistic Nutrition and Natural Health and Lifestyle consultation

Omega 3 & 6 Fatty Acids

Daily Food group serving guidelines

We’re talking about demystifying some of the ingredients used in foods and food and beverage processing that you might not even realize are derived of animals.

From fish bladders, collagen from animal skin, horns, hoofs, connective tissues, organs and intestines, to shellfish, sea shells, and even insects.

You might be surprised what ingredients are flavouring, colouring, thickening, and clarifying your desserts, your alcoholic beverages and even your margarine!

And you might be entertained by how terribly Jennifer manages to mispronounce so many words on one episode!

Ingredients that contain dairy

http://www.holisticnutritionandnaturalhealth.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Ingredients-that-contain-dairy.pdf

Plant based sources of Omega fatty acids and supplements

https://sweetvegan.net/plant-based-sources-of-omega-3-and-6-essential-fatty-acids/

vegan cream liquors:

Vegan Baileys”

https://www.baileys.com/en-ca/products/baileys-almande

Aléa Végane Crème Brulée

https://www.saq.com/en/14736828

As mentioned on the episode:

Tasty Vegan Feta

Plant Ahead - www.plantaheadvegan.com

Nafskika's Garden - www.nafsikainc.com

Tasty Vegan "goat" style cheese

VEGNATURE NANCY GRENIER - www.vegnature.com

Cheese Recipe Books:

Julie Piatt - This Cheese is Nuts

Miyoko Schinner - Artisan Vegan Cheese

This episode features special guest, Personal & Group Fitness Trainer,  Behaviour Change Specialist, and founder of AGM Fitness and Health, Adelade Genevieve Madeline.

Jennifer June and Adelade chat about the mental blocks and language we use that create obstacles between us and the goals we set. They talk resolutions and intentions, the difference between choices that we want to make and the ones we think we should make,  and setting yourself up for success with sustainable goals.

Adelade Genevieve Madeline is a Personal & Group Fitness Trainer and Behaviour Change Specialist. Adelade started her career as an athlete at the age 7 of playing competitive hockey and softball.

For the majority of her life, she struggled with mental health issues including anxiety and depression. Before diagnosis she was able to keep symptoms at bay with some sort of physical activity. She attributes her well-being and ability to manage her mental health to exercise and wants to share its benefits with the world.

Adelade’s approach to behaviour change is to break bigger objectives down into the smallest manageable steps necessary in order to make change possible. She encourages process oriented goals over end result.

She works with her clients as a teammate to come up with a plan that works best for them and their current situation rather than simply giving advice or prescribing a program. Her clients are the experts in their own lives and her job is to help them see that.

For info on Adelade's services, classes and programs, and to subscribe to her newsletter, visit: agmhealthfitness.com

AGM on Instagram: @agmhealthfitness

AGM  on Facebook: www.facebook.com/agmhealthfitness

How to switch to a Vegan or Plant-Based diet

In this episode of Sweet Vegan Spills the tea, Jennifer talks about how to switch to a vegan and/or plant-based diet, addresses some of the most common nutritional concerns that people interested in making that switch often have, and some of the challenges that people attempting to switch might be faced with. She shares some tips tricks and resources for cooking, travelling and inspiration.

Documentaries

Forks over Knives, The Game Changers, Earthlings, Dominion, Seaspiracy, or What the Health

Websites –

Sweetvegan.net

nutritionfacts.org

forksoverknives.com

Vegan Restaurant App

happycow.net

Athens Greece - https://www.avocadoathens.com

Elephant Bean Recipe - https://sweetvegan.net/greek-style-elephant-giant-beans/

Resources for Plant Based Sources of:

Protein

Calcium

Iron

B12

Vitamin D

Selenium

Iodine

Omega Fatty Acids

Zinc

Sweet Vegan’s Survival and Recovery guide to the holidays

Jennifer June shares some of her top tips for navigating non-vegan gatherings and conversations with non-vegan friends and family over the holidays, as well as advice for non-vegans gift shopping for their favourite vegans, and shares a holistic nutritionist’s advice for doing damage control after overeating or indulging in high-fat, high-sodium, high-sugar foods that disrupt the gut microbiome.

online directory of vegan and vegetarian beer, wine, and liquor.

www.barnivore.com

Herbs for gut health

https://sweetvegan.net/herbs-for-gut-heal/

Fermented foods

https://sweetvegan.net/fermented-foods/

Sweet Vegan Spills the Tea Magazine

https://sweetvegan.net/sweet-vegan-spills-the-tea-magazine/

Documentaries to share with people who genuinely want information about plant-based diets and their impact on our health, on animals, and the environment

Forks Over Knives - https://www.forksoverknives.com

The Gamechangers - https://gamechangersmovie.com

Food Inc - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1286537/

Kiss the Ground - Kiss the Ground

Cowspiracy - https://www.cowspiracy.com

Earthlings - http://www.nationearth.com

This is an impromptu pop-up witchy episode, inspired by Halloween, where Jennifer June chats a bit about the relationship between witchcraft and Midwives, Healers, Herbalists, and Wise Women. 

 She talks about two natural remedies that have been used for centuries, and are still being used today, and shares a witchy ritual for making sacred space. 

 FYI in the episode, Willow bark is mentioned as a long-time herbal remedy – it was actually the original ingredient used for Aspirin!  

“In this episode, I accidentally say that I created the ritual, but I meant to say chose! This ritual is from one of my favourite books, The House Witch by Arin Murphy-Hiscock.” - Jennifer

Gostanza da Libbiano

Did digitalis affect the way Van Gogh saw the world?

Van Gogh Foxglove painting

Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in the United States and around the world. Eating habits and other lifestyle factors play a key role in determining the risk of heart disease.

In this episode of Sweet Vegan Spills the Tea, we talk about what heart diseases are, break down the anatomy of a heart attack and a stroke, go over the difference between bad cholesterol and good cholesterol, and Jennifer dishes out some simple changes you can make to reduce your risk of heart disease, and shares a few of her favourite food swaps to replace a few heart hazards with tasty heart healthy foods.

Sweet Vegan is a Nutrition and Holistic Health podcast, hosted by Holistic Nutritionist / Nutritherapy Practitioner, vegan nutritionist, and studying Nutratherapy Practioner and Naturopath, Jennifer Chapman. Jennifer, after surviving a near-fatal autoimmune disease, adopted dramatic nutrition and lifestyle changes during recovery and has been researching nutrition and its effect on every aspect of our health, from our gut to our mental health, hormones, neurological system, and immune system, and beyond. We're talking about food, remedies, lifestyle hacks and so much more! 

For your free 15-minute holistic health and wellness consultation, or f you would like more information about my nutrition coaching services or have any plant-based nutrition questions, you can reach us at [email protected] Audio version wherever podcasts are available For detailed show notes, visit http://sweetvegan.net