67: How To Get Excited About Whole Food Plant Based Living

0:00 Episode 67 of smarter, healthy living. When people run into us and ask us, hey, I want to get started in whole food plant based living or at least learn a little more about it. Do you have any suggestions? I turned to them and say, You know what, I do have some suggestions. And what I'm about to share is a good place to start. You're listening to the smarter Healthy Living podcast where we firmly believe that getting healthy should never feel like torture, where your host, Jarrod and Anita Roussel were college sweethearts, and health professionals who help you redefine what getting healthy looks like using a whole food plant based lifestyle. It's time to hear from the experts and learn the best tips and tricks that helped others get beyond the overwhelm, to create a vibrant life they love. If you're sick and tired of being sick, and tired, you're in the right place. So pull up a virtual chair, grab your matcha latte, and let's get started.

0:56 In this episode, we are going to take a slight departure from our typical line of topics, we're going to go into a non food topic of food. Now if you're a little bit confused after bad news, that's okay. I'll explain here. We actually want to share with you some of our favorite movies about whole food plant based living who I need some popcorn though. Danny pop before talking maybe? Well, I do have some organic popcorn in the pantry. Gotta get out the hot air, our 14 year old son loves to make popcorn. Yeah, we're thankful. He just said, Hey, can you make me some popcorn? Sure, and he's right on it. So we have that.

1:37 But it is delicious. But we share this a lot with people whenever we meet them, especially for the first time. And we get into the subject about whole food plant based eating and the way that we eat and live our lives. And we recommend several movies on a pretty consistent basis. So we thought we know what we ought to share with people. When I think too, one of their first questions to us is how do you get started? I mean, said they're a little bit interested. But I think the most important thing in the beginning is to build your interest up so much. Because you realize how great it is for you how it can change things for you hearing people's testimonials. And that's what these movies are great for. No, you're not going to watch one of these and know exactly what to do. That's not the purpose of the movies. It's just to bring awareness to how it can change your life. You might get a few ideas, but really, it's not going to show you step by step by step what to do. And that's one of the reasons we started doing what we're doing. Because I told you we saw such a need in that area.

2:38 There's a huge hole here, because you watch these movies, and you're so excited. And then you think for what do I do now I don't know what to eat for breakfast. I don't know what to eat for lunch. I don't know what to eat for dinner. I don't even know how to put this together, how to get the flavors out of it. I bought these books to try these different recipes. And none of them tastes good. And it takes too much time. How do I save time? How do I save money, right? And you have all these questions. But the main thing is, we've done that, like we've spent years of our lives figuring that stuff out. We don't want you to have to figure out how to piece all that together. But what we do want you to know how to do is get in there and start doing some of the things we've shown you in the podcast. But also the first thing is watch some of these movies, they're going to get you excited. And that's the main thing to catapult you off to a success.

3:27 I think another person that asked us about these things with the movies are people that have tried tons of things, and they're now desperate. And they just think I gotta do something. Everything I've tried is not working everything I have found. But there's got to be something else that's there. And that works. And so what can I do? What can I What can I do not even desperation. Well, not even knowing what we do. We just see people in different walks of life and we'll somehow get on to talking so much no matter where we are. We are passionate we love Well, we can be in the grocery store, we could be out the park, we can be walking around somewhere and it never fails. It always comes back to this. It's not like we have on T shirts that say plant powered or something or smarter.

4:12 Maybe we should I think we just have an invisible tractor beam. It just invites us people over but that's okay. That's okay. We enjoy talking about and we enjoy spreading this information. Absolutely. But you need to know something you can do to get you started and one of those things is what made me stay watch. Well, I would say there have been a few that I think were instrumental for us in the beginning a few years ago. What was your favorite? I think my favorite was what the hell that was the wasn't the very first one we watched we actually and you've may have even heard this one is Forks Over Knives. I think that was the first one. And then shortly thereafter, we found what the hell and it might have even been on Netflix. I think honestly it was a day or two later. We watched that one.

5:01 And I like, well, it just really made a big difference. I know on Netflix, how they'll have the suggestions that are like what you just watched? I'm not sure if it's still on Netflix. I think we've seen it on YouTube. I know it's out there you can find Absolutely, I have to read some foreign language subtitles, but we found it. We found it spoken in English, but it was on YouTube. But yeah, that one was very impactful. And I think for us is that was when we made the final plunge because we had, if you've not heard Anita story, go back and listen to our very first episode. And that'll give you a very good overview, very good background of where all this began for us. But we started trying to find bits and pieces of information here and there. And we're making changes like cutting out meat, I think we're eating meat maybe once a month. And all the meat we were eating we were trying to buy like we were buying the eggs, the organic chicken, organic beef, and grass fed beef that wasn't you know, didn't have added hormones. Of course now we know that a lot of dairy and things just so naturally has all my animal stuff have hormones in them, right. And so it's crazy and things like we were eating, oh, sandwich meat, we were eating sandwich meat that had no nitrates or nitrites, because we knew that they were not good for you. They were preservatives that aren't good for you. So we would buy the meats that weren't that way. Come to find out. No one ever told us that sandwich mate is a known carcinogen. It's classful, the processing that

6:34 it goes through, even though those weren't added some of the nitrites. And nitrates can be naturally just found in those products. So sandwich pieces are classified as a carcinogen, right? Yes. Which is by the World Health Organization. She mean, no, it's known to cause cancer. Yeah, people might not know what carcinogens are. That's why I wanted to make sure we made that clear. So a carcinogen is something that's known to cause cancer. And sandwich meat is a known carcinogen. You can look that up it's fact. So it's just it makes me sick. Because we aren't told these things. When we wonder why we're sick and why we're overweight and why we don't feel good. It's not just because you're getting old that you're hurting, okay? It's just not.

7:16 And it's not just your genetics that decides these things? Well, what I find not humorous and as in Haha, but really, I should say more odd and sad is that when people say I'm getting old, those are people usually in their 40s. I were 49 Help me, we're not old. No, and you're never gonna get old. If you're that age. You're not all the time, we have also noticed that as we have gotten more years behind us that it redefines what quote unquote old is. Today, we're going yeah, 100 just doesn't seem that we're never gonna be old. We're just getting older. But seriously, though, people that say that are in their 40s.

7:57 And I have Yeah, my knees are aching and My neck hurts. And I'm just getting old. I'm just getting old. No, you're not you're not old. Your body was never designed to wear out in your 40s. So no, actually, it's designed to heal. And it heals beautifully when it's given the right tools to heal. But it just doesn't have the nutrients it needs. And it has a lot of other stuff it doesn't need, right. So I could go on and on. We're about to get off onto a tangent here, that's going to be way too long. And way too drawn out. You've got to go back and listen to some of the other episodes for this for this trail that we're gonna go on. But we're not going to do that we're gonna stay on movies. Yeah. So movies, what the hell. What I was saying before, though, is we had cut out the meat and cut out the dairy. And we were making some of those changes, and slowly making the transition. But when we saw specifically Forks Over Knives, and then a couple days later, what the hell, it was just like scales had been lifted off from our eyes. And we saw the truth of this and the evidence that they that they showed in the videos and the movies was so compelling. It was just really for us. It was a no brainer. We just said, Alright, we're done.

9:07 Yeah, I still see a lot of testimonials. But not only that, you see a lot of the science that's behind this step. And a lot of the people in certain industries that don't want to talk about it, too. And that just it's really a game changer and great segue. Yes, that was another movie on purpose. There was another movie called the game changers and it actually, it follows the lives of several elite athletes and talks and talks about them becoming vegan or whole food plant based. And the difference that it made, how its improved their performance have drastically improved their performance, their healing time improve their after they worked out the recovery. Yes, the recovery time became much faster.

9:51 We even have people that have been in our membership that have said you know, my times are getting faster and faster when I'm running several train for marathons and things like that and Just shaving time off, shaving time off, the more I eat this way. And that's just that's common. And there's science behind it. And they do present that in the movies. And what I thought was also very compelling is that they had a lot of doctors on there. And these were doctors that were educated in the areas of cardiology, and some, I believe, were weight loss, and they had exercise physiology, I mean, people that were experts in their field. So these weren't people that weren't experts in these areas. Again, it was just very compelling information. And it was like the truth was just staring us at us right there in our faces. And really, I just sat there and why has somebody not told us this sets the stuff? Why does nobody talk about these things? And they've been known for years and years and years? And yet nobody's talking about them?

10:50 Nobody shared this with me We didn't learn it in PA school in nursing school. No, no, I'm telling you it's amazing the way that your life can change when you start this lifestyle and you know, go ahead I do want to say about game changers that the being that it was more men oriented. There were a few explicative use so you might not want young kids just to listen to it but if you're an older adult and then you could watch it Yeah, that's the thing that one's not as family friendly. Not as family friendly it wasn't bad just just for FYI. Yes. If you're watching this younger kids you may not want them to see it but the con but otherwise the content the scientific information was very good.

11:35 Absolutely. Now when we went to your lifestyle medicine conference there was a maybe and I don't Is it our code blue I don't think so. I don't wait till that comes out watch for that one to come out Code Blue. It was fantastic. We highly recommend by Dr. Sarah Stan sick It was really really good. So along the same lines definitely watch these three that we've recommended. They can be game changers not to use the title but that would be Forks Over Knives, what the help and game changers those are our top three picks. There are tons of other ones out there if you want to know those. We'd be happy to share those with you as well just drop us an email at podcast at the crunchy couple COMM And we'd be glad to get that information to you as well.

12:21 Also, if there's anything else you want to know, send that in an email to because we're happy to answer your questions in the podcast as well. And there you have it our top three picks for movie night. Grab your popcorn, your air popper and get in there and get something tasty going gather together as a family and enjoy some of these movies learning together growing together. You'll get excited and this is a great way to jumpstart your health. Have a great week and we'll look forward to seeing you next time on smarter healthy living.