The Ellen Fisher Podcast | Child Nourishment: raise healthy kids with plants | Dr. Gemma Newman @theellenfisherpodcast | Uploaded April 2022 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
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As parents, we are all striving to raise and nourish our children with love and intention, and to set them up with a healthy foundation of emotional and physical wellbeing for the rest of their lives. Dr. Gemma Newman, a general practitioner who’s been practicing for over 18 years, shares her wealth of knowledge and experience on optimizing your family’s health and wellbeing. She is a senior partner at a family medical practice in the UK, has OBGYN, family planning, and pediatric credentials, as well as her own experience transitioning her family to a plant-based dietary pattern many years ago. Her approach is very inclusive towards all types of lifestyles in how to adapt a healthy plant-based diet and she provides a compassionate and understanding lens through her years of experiencing all different types of patients and circumstances.
Her incredible book “The Plant Power Doctor: A Simple Prescription for a Healthier You” is a complete how-to go-to that has the necessary science for people to feel confident and empowered to thrive on their plant-baed diet. It’s the perfect combination of recipe book and information to help you as you navigate your journey towards optimal health and preventing disease.
I absolutely loved this conversation and we got to cover so many topics together in this packed two hour episode. I hope you feel empowered with the information Dr. Gemma shares as well as enjoy hearing our own different & personal experiences from two plant-based mothers raising healthy families.
In this episode we cover:
- Dr. Gemma’s experience and expertise in pregnancy and child nourishment
- What the science says on the benefits of raising children plant-based and how it stacks up against dietary patterns rich in animal foods
- How to best adopt a diet rich in whole plant foods
- How to best set up our children for a healthy pattern as they get older, reducing risk of heart disease and obesity and cancer
- Nutrients of focus & supplementation
- Different options to meet your family’s nutritional needs, depending on your life situation and preference
- Child teeth health and using both natural and western practices
- Picky eater tips & party gatherings
- Transitioning your family to plant-based
- What really are “ancestral diets”
- Breastfeeding, donated breastmilk, and formula
- Starting baby on solid foods
- Allergies and eczema
- Should parents get their child’s blood levels checked?
- Being the example & how to help children incorporate new foods in a healthy environment
WHERE TO FIND DR. GEMMA NEWMAN
Website: gemmanewman.com
Instagram: instagram.com/plantpowerdoctor
Her book “The Plant Power Doctor: a simple prescription for a healthier you”amazon.com/Plant-Power-Doctor-prescription-healthier-ebook/dp/B086W1JCBP/ref=sr_1_1?crid=16RSIDBJVIPLY&keywords=the+plant+powered+doctor&qid=1649460134&sprefix=the+plant+powered+docto%2Caps%2C186&sr=8-1
WHERE TO FIND ME:
Get my ebooks: ellenfisher.com/ebooks
My instagram: instagram.com/ellenfisher
LISTEN to these episodes on Apple Podcast or Spotify: link.chtbl.com/ellenfisherpod
Family YouTube channel: youtube.com/c/ellenfisher
Sources:
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30585248
firststepsnutrition.org/eating-well-early-years
static1.squarespace.com/static/59f75004f09ca48694070f3b/t/5a5a4935ec212dd5067a0622/1515866446317/Eating_well_Vegans_Oct_2017_final.pdf
plantbasedhealthprofessionals.com/kids
nidcr.nih.gov/research/data-statistics/dental-caries/children
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24507712
thank you to our partner's for sponsoring today's episode:
Bite: Go to trybite.com/ELLEN or use the code ELLEN at checkout to get 20% off your first order
Buffy: Use my code ELLEN for $20 off orders over $80. buffy.co
As parents, we are all striving to raise and nourish our children with love and intention, and to set them up with a healthy foundation of emotional and physical wellbeing for the rest of their lives. Dr. Gemma Newman, a general practitioner who’s been practicing for over 18 years, shares her wealth of knowledge and experience on optimizing your family’s health and wellbeing. She is a senior partner at a family medical practice in the UK, has OBGYN, family planning, and pediatric credentials, as well as her own experience transitioning her family to a plant-based dietary pattern many years ago. Her approach is very inclusive towards all types of lifestyles in how to adapt a healthy plant-based diet and she provides a compassionate and understanding lens through her years of experiencing all different types of patients and circumstances.
Her incredible book “The Plant Power Doctor: A Simple Prescription for a Healthier You” is a complete how-to go-to that has the necessary science for people to feel confident and empowered to thrive on their plant-baed diet. It’s the perfect combination of recipe book and information to help you as you navigate your journey towards optimal health and preventing disease.
I absolutely loved this conversation and we got to cover so many topics together in this packed two hour episode. I hope you feel empowered with the information Dr. Gemma shares as well as enjoy hearing our own different & personal experiences from two plant-based mothers raising healthy families.
In this episode we cover:
- Dr. Gemma’s experience and expertise in pregnancy and child nourishment
- What the science says on the benefits of raising children plant-based and how it stacks up against dietary patterns rich in animal foods
- How to best adopt a diet rich in whole plant foods
- How to best set up our children for a healthy pattern as they get older, reducing risk of heart disease and obesity and cancer
- Nutrients of focus & supplementation
- Different options to meet your family’s nutritional needs, depending on your life situation and preference
- Child teeth health and using both natural and western practices
- Picky eater tips & party gatherings
- Transitioning your family to plant-based
- What really are “ancestral diets”
- Breastfeeding, donated breastmilk, and formula
- Starting baby on solid foods
- Allergies and eczema
- Should parents get their child’s blood levels checked?
- Being the example & how to help children incorporate new foods in a healthy environment
WHERE TO FIND DR. GEMMA NEWMAN
Website: gemmanewman.com
Instagram: instagram.com/plantpowerdoctor
Her book “The Plant Power Doctor: a simple prescription for a healthier you”amazon.com/Plant-Power-Doctor-prescription-healthier-ebook/dp/B086W1JCBP/ref=sr_1_1?crid=16RSIDBJVIPLY&keywords=the+plant+powered+doctor&qid=1649460134&sprefix=the+plant+powered+docto%2Caps%2C186&sr=8-1
WHERE TO FIND ME:
Get my ebooks: ellenfisher.com/ebooks
My instagram: instagram.com/ellenfisher
LISTEN to these episodes on Apple Podcast or Spotify: link.chtbl.com/ellenfisherpod
Family YouTube channel: youtube.com/c/ellenfisher
Sources:
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30585248
firststepsnutrition.org/eating-well-early-years
static1.squarespace.com/static/59f75004f09ca48694070f3b/t/5a5a4935ec212dd5067a0622/1515866446317/Eating_well_Vegans_Oct_2017_final.pdf
plantbasedhealthprofessionals.com/kids
nidcr.nih.gov/research/data-statistics/dental-caries/children
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24507712
