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by Karina Inkster
Myth-busting and evidence-based advice to help you kick butt with your health and fitness - on a vegan diet. Join our movement of No-Bullsh!t Vegans who value critical thinking and want to further our cause using scientific truths, not made-up facts. Meet our expert guests who use science to acquire knowledge about the world and how it works. Learn why some of the biggest trends in vegan health and fitness are completely false and based on misinformation.Your host, vegan fitness coach and author Karina Inkster, sifts through the bullsh!t, so you can focus on levelling-up your health and fitness in ways that actually work.
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- 4 days ago45 min
NBSV 234: Hummus in 1,800 schools: getting vegan food onto lunch trays with Amie Hamlin
What does it actually take to get vegan food onto school lunch trays? Way more than a good recipe. My guest Amie Hamlin wrote a 2004 New York State legislative resolution on school food. It used the word "vegan" all over it, and it passed unanimously. She then co-founded the Coalition for Healthy School Food, which now supports more than 19,000 food service directors in 46 states. It's also the nonprofit behind nearly every vegan initiative in New York City public schools. We get into: - Amie's vegan story, from an animal shelter in 1979 to a Victoria Moran article in Vegetarian Times - When to say "vegan" and when to say "plant-based," and how the food industry hijacked the latter - Hummus in all 1,800 NYC schools, processed meat off the menu, and a weekly hot vegan entrée - Teaching kids about food without getting uninvited from the school - Amie's half-acre veganic (stock-free) farm
- Oct 13, 202653 min
NBSV 233: Drawing by hand in an AI world: Vegan cartoonist Julian Lawrence on comics and compassion
"The cartoonist makes people see things." Cartoonist, educator, and comics researcher Julian Lawrence has been proving that for decades. We met during a virtual coffee chat, and I knew right away he had to come on the show. Julian has been vegan since 2000 and is a senior lecturer in comics and graphic novels at Teesside University in the UK. He created the Green Kid educational comic series and Drippy the Newsboy, a teardrop who, in middle age, has swapped reading newspapers for doom-scrolling. We talk about why his students are rejecting AI, and why comics might hold up better than other creative fields. We dig into what to say when a non-vegan asks, "Do you respect my dietary choice?" We also cover his students' graphic-novel reimagining of the Bayeux Tapestry, the French roots of words like "beef" and "mutton," and his Vancouver band July Fourth Toilet, which had more than 50 members and never played the same show twice. And a first in the history of the show: Julian plays ukulele live in our session. Yes, really.
- Sep 29, 202645 min
NBSV 232: Dominick Thompson on 40 nights in solitary, vegan activism, and life beyond the walls
After 230+ episodes, I have a new winner for the most interesting vegan origin story I've heard on this show. Dominick Thompson grew up on the west side of Chicago. He broke up dog fights as a kid, refused chicken wings at age eight because they looked like "little bitty arms," and then spent years dealing drugs to get his family out of poverty. That lifestyle landed him in federal prison, and in his first week there he got down on his knees, remembered that childhood moment, and gave up meat for good. That was about 25 years ago. We talk about how a chess game ended in 40 nights in solitary, how Dom placed in the top ten at prison lift-offs while trading his meat for his cellmates' carbs, and how he went from ex-felon to healthcare executive to one of Instagram's earliest high-profile vegan men. We get into what social media has turned into, why being a real human online matters more than ever, and how his book Eat What Elephants Eat got its name. Plus, Dom's story is now a feature film. Beyond the Walls is slated for release in winter 2027.
- Sep 15, 202647 min
NBSV 231: Vegan Olympian Dotsie Bausch on plant-based fuel, founding Switch4Good, and getting non-dairy milk into school lunches
Dotsie Bausch went from hospitalization due to an eating disorder to standing on the Olympic podium as a fully vegan athlete. She was the oldest in her discipline to ever take the Olympic podium, and she gained ten pounds of muscle for the switch from road to track cycling (all powered by plants, of course). We trace that arc, then get into how an anti-dairy ad that the dairy industry got pulled from NBC sparked her nonprofit Switch4Good, and the fight she's leading now to get plant milk into US school lunches (including the wild stat that nearly a third of school milk cartons get thrown out unopened). Switch4Good ran a successful campaign to get Starbucks to drop its plant milk uncharge, and runs many initiatives for kids, college students, athletes, pediatricians, and more.
- Sep 1, 202639 min
NBSV 230: Michelin stars with zero animal products: Zizi Hattab's vegan revolution in Zürich
Zineb "Zizi" Hattab set out to open a restaurant, not make history. A month before signing the lease, the trained chef had a change of heart and decided her new venture, KLE, would be fully plant-based. Today KLE holds both a green and a red Michelin star, making it the first vegan restaurant in Switzerland to do so. Zizi has since opened two more concepts on the same Zurich street: DAR, inspired by her Moroccan and Spanish roots, and COR, a wine and pinchos bar. In this episode, I speak with Zizi about the engineering background that led her to veganism, how her team builds trust with skeptical guests, and why she refuses to let go of dishes like traditional harira soup just because they're now plant-based. We dig into food and identity, the industry-driven stereotypes around vegan food, and the many traditional cuisines around the world that are plant-based by default. Zizi also shares a preview of her new cookbook, Vegan Vegan!, out in September.
- Aug 18, 202641 min
NBSV 229: Coaches' Corner with Kaylin Foisy: Chronic illness, coaching, and cupcakes
Kaylin Foisy has been part of the K.I. team for five years — podcast production, social media, and now stepping into a bigger coaching role. In this Coaches' Corner chat, we get into Coach Kaylin's 20-year vegan journey (which started with ethics at age twelve, long before she'd heard the word "vegan"), what it's actually like coaching clients online versus in person, and how a chronic illness diagnosis three years ago forced her to rethink training entirely, including why she'd rather "level out" than "level up." We also cover raising vegan kids, the senior fitness class she teaches, and the vegan bakery she founded that's fooled more than a few farmers market skeptics.
- Aug 4, 202639 min
NBSV 228: Nabaasa Innocent on building the first vegan society in Uganda
Growing up in a farming community in Southwestern Uganda eventually led Nabaasa Innocent to animal welfare work, and to organizing the country's first vegan festival. Founder of Uganda Vegan Society (now transitioning into Humane Shift Alliance Africa) and senior co-manager of Thrive Africa at Thrive Philanthropy, Nabaasa joins me to talk about why veganism gets dismissed as "a Western concept" in Uganda even though plant-based eating has always been the norm there. We also discuss how her organization is shifting its language from "vegan" to "plant-based" to reach more people, getting kids excited about tofu and beans in school lunch programs, and why she's rebranding to build a pan-African alliance. Plus: her favourite vegan meal, beans and matoke (starchy East African cooking bananas), and how you can support her work.
- Jul 21, 202647 min
NBSV 227: Rare steak to whole-food plant-based: Skepticism, longevity, and running a vegan cafe, with Dr. Phil Narini
Dr. Phil Narini spent decades hunting, fishing, and eating meat-centric Italian home cooking before a single lecture on fish and mercury changed his and his wife's eating habits overnight — no cravings, no willpower. Fifteen years later, he's a reconstructive plastic surgeon who insists he's not a nutrition expert (and thinks you should be suspicious of anyone who claims to be), co-founder of a whole-food plant-based café built on the idea that healthy food has to taste good first, and an outspoken advocate for scientific skepticism over Instagram influencers. We get into the "trifecta" most doctors won't connect to diet, why medical school teaches close to zero nutrition, what a trip to Sardinia's Blue Zone actually taught him about longevity, and why he'd rather trust someone with fifty years of grey hair than a six-pack and a supplement code.
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Myth-busting and evidence-based advice to help you kick butt with your health and fitness - on a vegan diet. Join our movement of No-Bullsh!t Vegans who value critical thinking and want to further our cause using scientific truths, not made-up facts. Meet our expert guests who use science to acquire knowledge about the world and how it works. Learn why some of the biggest trends in vegan health and fitness are completely false and based on misinformation.Your host, vegan fitness coach and author Karina Inkster, sifts through the bullsh!t, so you can focus on levelling-up your health and fitness in ways that actually work.
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