100: Simon Hill On Why We Should Consider Eating More Plants For Body And Planetary Health

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Light Watkins

Self-improvement, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Education

4.9 • 960 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2022

⏱️ 98 minutes

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The never-ending dietary debates can make getting the right information about what you should be eating seem like an insurmountable challenge. But while nutrition is a complex and evolving field of study, choosing a healthy and ethical diet does not have to be impossible. This is the message that our guest today, Simon Hill, wants to bring to the world. Simon is the author of The Proof is in the Plants, and the host of The Proof podcast, through which he aims to educate people on the sci...

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0:00.0	My dad, he experienced a severe heart attack and that was in front of me. I was the only one with him.
0:12.0	And this was the first time that I really saw what loss of health looks like in an acute manner and I think up until that time for my first 15 years of life I kind of just thought that our health was
0:25.3	guaranteed. I know that sounds very naive but I just hadn't seen anyone close to me
0:31.1	go through any sort of ill health. That period for me, although I didn't realize it at the time, it did plant that seed, which would then later fuel me to progress my studies and write the book.
0:44.4	But one thing at that time that really did stick in my mind
0:48.4	was we had a kind of family consultation with the cardiologist, a bit of a debrief. You know, this is what's gone down.
0:55.8	You know, here's your dad's prognosis. Here's what his health could look like from here.
1:01.8	And all of that, you you know we were very relieved as I say you
1:06.0	know we were just happy that he was alive but the cardiologist did say to my brother and I that
1:11.4	your dad's had a heart attack at 41, which is very young.
1:15.1	Your grandfather had a heart attack in his early 60s.
1:19.0	So you and your brother, my brother's three years older than I, you're pretty much much young men you need to keep an eye on this because
1:25.6	cardiovascular disease runs in families.
1:38.0	Hey there it's Light Watkins. Welcome back to my podcast, The Light Watkins Show. This is actually our 100th podcast episode.
1:42.0	Woehoo! I can't tell you how thrilled and how honored I am to be a part of
1:47.5	this mission and to be presenting you with 100 incredibly inspiring conversations and stories about people just like you and I
1:56.3	who have gone above and beyond to follow their passion and purpose.
2:00.3	And I have to say I often get high on my own supply over here. I'll regularly go back and
2:05.1	re-listen to many of the past episodes to re-inspire myself because, let's be honest, we all have
2:11.4	days where we're just not as motivated or inspired as we
2:14.8	may normally be to stay on mission and as Ralph Waldo Emerson said so eloquently
2:20.3	our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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