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Desiree Nielsen is a registered dietician based in Vancouver, British Columbia.

She runs a nutrition consulting practice with a focus on inflammation, digestion, and plant-centered diets.

She's also the host of TV's Urban Vegetarian and the

best-selling author of the new plant-based cookbook Eat More Plants. You've got to

love a title like that. Deseret, welcome. Thank you so much. It's so great to have you here all the way from Vancouver.

All the way in the big city. Vancouver to Brooklyn, I love it. So how would you describe your food philosophy?

My food philosophy is actually really simple and it is about simplicity.

It's eat as many single ingredient whole plant foods as humanly possible and don't sweat the rest unless you have some sort of

therapeutic need to do so.

Just like Michael Pollen said, eat food, not too much, mostly plants.

Yeah, and he was never a huge fan of dieticians and I think it was because people can often see us as being that nutritionism, right? Like it's all about the calories, the sodium, the fat grams, but really whole food is where it's at and you know we are spending you know decades

researching you know what's still in a blueberry we still don't get it you know it's like

this universe within and so if we stick to whole foods we're always going to be

better.

Well I love it. I feel like our D's are making a big comeback.

Well, and it's the idea that I think, you know, we, in our history, we came from the hospital

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