Montel Williams to Appear on the 101 Foods Radio Show!!

That's right! Montel Williams, talk show host and author of the new book Living Well, Emotionally will be a special guest on the January 3rd, 2009 edition of the 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life radio show! The radio show airs each Saturday at 8:30am central time on AM 1160, WYLL. The show also streams live at www.WYLL.com.

Montel will share his courageous battle with MS and depression with listeners and also offer what he has found helpful in combating his health challanges, naturally.

Have a question for Montel? Want to know what you can do to fight depression? Curious to know what diet Montel follows to help him control MS and depression? Submit your question in the comments section of this blog post and if your question is read on air, you could win a copy of Living Well, Emotionally and a copy of 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life!

101 Foods Radio Show Begins December 20th!!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

101 FOODS THAT COULD SAVE YOUR LIFE
AM 1160 WYLL Radio Show with host Dave Grotto, RD, LDN
First the book, then the video website, now the radio show!

(December, 2008) WYLL, AM 1160, Chicagoland’s most powerful radio station for holistic health programming and advice, and host Dave Grotto, RD, LDN are pleased to announce the launch of 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life, the radio program and companion to Dave’s innovative encyclopedia of powerhouse foods 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life (Bantam; 2008), and 101FoodsThatCouldSaveYourLife.com the video-centric website.

Launching on Saturday, December 20, 2008, from 8:30am – 9:00am Central, Dave and his guests can be heard each and every Saturday morning in the Chicago area at WYLL, AM 1160 and streaming worldwide at www.WYLL.com. Podcasts of the shows will be available any time at 101FoodsThat Could SaveYourLife.com.

Dave Grotto, RD, a nationally known and respected registered dietitian, hosted his own successful radio show, Let’s Talk Health, CHICAGO! on WYLL for over 10 years. Dave knows radio and he certainly knows his audience. And what he’s heard from his audience is exactly what he’s heard from his patients – stop telling me what NOT to eat and start telling me what TO eat!

Now more than ever, people are looking for positive health benefits for their food dollar and delicious and practical ways to add in what Dave calls his powerhouse foods. The 101 Foods That Could Your Life radio program is the perfect venue to provide people with what they crave – compelling food and nutrition solutions in Dave’s famous edu-taining format.

Each show will focus on one or more of the 101 foods featured in Dave’s book. Celebrity and expert guests will join Dave to clearly and simply explain the truth about good nutrition, finding a balanced and healthy diet, special diets, tips and tricks, recipes and the latest nutrition research available. A sampling of Dave’s upcoming guests includes:

Mollie Katzen – cookbook author and illustrator of the legendary Moosewood Cookbook
Michael Roizen, MD – author of YOU: The Owner’s Manual and YOU: on a Diet
John Lapuma, MD – author of ChefMD’s Big Book of Culinary Medicine
Cynthia Sass, MPH, RD – co-author of Flat Belly Diet!
Lisa Hark, PhD, RD – former host of Discovery TLC’s Honey We’re Killing the Kids and co-author of Nutrition for Life
Steve Petusevsky, chef and cookbook author of The Whole Foods Market Cookbook
Montel Williams - television host and author of Living Well

101 Foods in Turkish!!

Check it out!! Here is the third langauge version to hit the book stores! I'm waiting for my copy to be sent to me but I found it interesting that the Turkish version is 380 pages versus 436. They also have it categorized under "fitness" instead of "Health" in the web link above.

It is wonderful to see that the 101 Foods can be enjoyed in so many languages!

FDA Nears Bittersweet Approval for Use of Stevia

I was in a quandry when I wrote the 101 Foods book of whether to include the natural sweetener Stevia or not. Based on the scientific literature, I was convinced that it was safe for human consumption but I, admittedly, was not one of those humans who was willing to consume it. Quite frankly, I HATED the taste of Stevia.

That's right, I used the past tense of "HATE". Today's Stevia is much improved in taste. So much so that major soda manufactures are lined up to use the sweetener once the FDA gives their 'thumbs-up'.

I came across two products that are pretty good tasting and thankfully, taste NOTHING like stevia. The first one is PureVia, my personal favorite.It's put out by PepsiCo and Whole Earth Sweetener Company. It had no aftertaste that I could detect. Believe me, I can taste that funny 'artificial-type' sweetener taste a mile away and when I added this to my coffee, I could swear there was 'real' sugar in it.



The second one is called TruVia which is put out by CocaCola and Cargill. It's very good, too.



TruVia is available at many grocery stores now and PureVia should be arriving sometime soon. So, to all my fellow stevia-haters, rejoice! They finally figured out how to make the stuff taste great!!