Going Vegan with Dr. Yamileth | Benefits and Misconceptions of Healthy Eating

We have with us pediatrician, coach, author, and speaker, Dr. Yami Cazorla-Lancaster, a passionate promoter of healthy lifestyles and a champion of plant-based nutrition for the prevention of chronic disease. She explains what got her to try being vegan, convert, and then the big changes and benefits she’s experienced as her plant based diet became a part of her life. We also talk about the misconceptions and disadvantages of milk and that it’s not actually as healthy as many people think. Getting kids into eating healthy can be difficult, especially if they haven’t grown up eating very healthy, so Dr. Yami explains her plan of getting healthy foods into what they eat and changing their diet. How she got into the vegan journey 1:11Some benefits of trying vegan 4:22Incorporating the new diet into her life 8:07Why dairy isn’t the best source of nutrition 11:51Milk/formula for people who can’t breastfeed 19:47Veggiefitkids.com and getting children into eating healthy 22:55Intuitive eating 31:51Raising kids on a plant based diet 38:30Go to recipes 48:20“Weight bearing exercise is incredibly important for bones as is other nutrients besides calcium. We need vitamin D, we need to make sure we have other minerals, our vitamin K, those kinds of things, and so I do think that calcium gets overblown as far as its importance in our bones. We do need it, but we don’t probably need as much as we think we do and we need to make sure that we have all these other elements in place.” 13:32https://www.doctoryami.com/@thedoctoryami