Plant-Based Eating on a Budget with Renae Thomas, MD – E100

Mastering Diabetes Audio Experience

Mastering Diabetes

Nutrition, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 656 Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Oftentimes, eating nutrient-dense foods is assumed to be expensive and not available to all economic classes. We sat down with Renea Thomas, MD to discuss how eating a low-fat, plant-based, whole-food diet can be affordable and meet all your nutritional requirements.

During the episode, you’ll hear Dr. Thomas discuss a PDF that includes recipes and instructions about how to eat a week of plant-based eating for approximately $4 per day. You can view that PDF by clicking here.

If you are looking for more information on how you can eat well on a tight budget, make sure to reference our article with over 170 affordable, low-fat, plant-based, whole-food options.

Plant-Based On a Budget — The Ultimate Packaged Foods Guide

In today’s episode, you will learn:

7:30 — How Dr. Thomas’ father addressed his cancer diagnosis by switching to a plant-based diet
15:24 —How government-funded programs such as WIC can help facilitate healthy eating
21:29 — The story behind Dr. Thomas’ groundbreaking PDF and how you can benefit from this unique resource
25:01 — What is lifestyle medicine? Why is it so important in our current times?

Connect with Renae Thomas, MD
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drrenaethomas/

Website: https://www.drrenaethomas.com/

We hope you love this show and learn a lot. Give us your feedback on social media.

Enjoy the show!

Transcript

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0:00.0	I think for some people there will be a transition phase and that's when you have to go back to the drawing board of
0:04.2	what is your motivation, what are you trying to get out of this? And is your short-term pleasure of the food you're eating worth everything else in your life?
0:11.1	And if it is, good for you. I'm not here to change your mind or your attitude or your life.
0:14.8	But if you're coming to me saying, how do I get healthier? I really don't have much money. This is what I would recommend to you.
0:39.3	Welcome to the Mastering Diabetes Audio Experience, where we teach you how to sit in the driver's seat of your diabetes health for the rest of your life. We'll teach you how to reverse insulin resistance, achieve your ideal body weight, gain energy, and get your best A1C following more than 85 years of evidence-based research in the mastering diabetes program.
0:52.3	Our program teaches you how to reverse pre-diabetes and type 2 diabetes
0:57.9	and how to simplify your life with type 1 diabetes
1:01.1	by maximizing your insulin sensitivity using food as medicine.
1:06.2	We're on a bold mission to reverse insulin resistance in one million people.
1:11.2	We're glad to have you joining us.
1:17.1	Thank you so much for tuning in.
1:19.0	If this is your first time listening, welcome to our show.
1:22.2	If you're a regular, thank you so much for taking the time to listen to our podcast.
1:27.0	It really means a lot. We know
1:28.8	you have a ton of options out there. So we are doing our best to give you relevant, helpful,
1:35.8	inspiring, interesting information. And I think today's show is going to deliver. So we have
1:42.7	Dr. Renee Thomas joining us today. She brings a lot of energy,
1:46.7	a lot of useful information to the table. And I want you all to know, this interview happened
1:51.9	before COVID-19, but the information is as relevant as ever. So in this episode, you will learn
2:00.3	all about how Dr. Renee's father treated cancer
2:04.4	with a plant-based diet and the long-term outcomes of that choice. You will learn the details about
2:10.1	the government-funded WIC program. You will learn all about this very, very powerful PDF that Dr. Renee created and why it's making ways through
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