Hey, it's Wendy and it's Jess and you're listening to the Food Heaven Podcast.

Your online resource for delicious and nutritious living.

You're listening to the Food Heaven Podcast with Jess and Jess. Wendy's not on this episode today.

Today we have a special guest, my good friend Maxine Young. Am I saying it right?

Young. And we are going to focus on physical activity. Maxine is a registered

dietitian. She works at a very fancy institution, Stanford. She's a

dietitian there in their virtual primary care clinic and she's also certified

personal trainer and a former pastry chef which makes her very interesting and cool.

And we used to work together in Brooklyn. We both worked at King's County Hospital Center

and we've been in touch ever since and now she moved to the west coast and we live close and

we hang out and it's awesome. And so today I wanted to use her physical activity expertise

and get some information to share with you all about how important exercise is,

what we should be doing and just tips and tricks for adding physical activity into your life.

Welcome, Maxine. Thank you for having me. I'm excited to be here. This is our first guest on the

podcast so bear with us. But all right so let's just jump right in there. So tell me more about your

background in physical activity like your certified personal trainer, your dietitian,

former pastry chefs. Headed it all start and how did you end up here. As you said, a long,

long time ago I was a pastry cook and I don't know if any of you have ever worked in the restaurant

industry but it's a little intense. And so I went from cooking, more to management but as that happened

I was moving away from food and knew that I wanted to connect with it again. And I learned about

being a registered dietitian and something just clicked inside of me where it felt like the

perfect fit where I got to be involved with food but I also got to help people and even get more

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