Some odds and ends:

1. If you haven’t checked out PeaCounter.com in awhile, I have made it a lot more user-friendly over the course of the last few months. The latest improvements are to allow you to choose either US or metric units when calculating BMI, Ideal Body Weight, or Energy Requirements, and to allow for commas in place of decimal points on those pages (as some people requested).

2. Don’t forget that you can support JackNorrisRD.com by using the Amazon and Pangea (the Vegan Store) links in the sidebar of the website.

3. You can click here for a video of my Vegan Nutrition: What Does the Science Say? talk that I gave to the San Francisco Vegetarian Society in March of 2012. I have placed a permanent to link to this talk on the About page of JackNorrisRD.com.

Thank you!

Michele Cehn of VeganBreak.com has followed up her interview with me on vegan nutrition with an 8-minute video of an interview about the history and work of Vegan Outreach:

Why Vegan Outreach with Jack Norris

This coming weekend, March 17-18, Heather Nauta of Healthy Eating Starts Here is putting together an online video event, The Better Health Summit which will include
videos of many well-known vegan cooks and nutritionists.

On Sunday at 3 pm Eastern Daylight Time, The Better Health Summit will feature a short video with me and give away a free copy of Vegan For Life to the winner of an online scavenger hunt.

You will be able to see the video any time after it first appears.

Check it out!

Michelle Cehn of Vegan Break was kind enough to interview me and post a 6-minute video about the basics of vegan nutrition:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c81b74mJ2RQ&list=UUo1uLla-0wximfRNIzJpJRg&index=1&feature=plcp

Dr. Michael Greger, the hardest working man in vegan nutrition, has done it again – releasing another volume of his Latest in Clinical Nutrition series (for pre-order).

Always a promoter of leafy greens, I think he might have outdone himself on Volume 8, which starts with kale, moves on to broccoli, more broccoli, then more broccoli, before ending the DVD talking about kale! But coffee and cigarette addicts need not worry, Volume 8 includes Dr. Greger’s biggest endorsement of coffee yet, and he lets us know that cigarettes are no worse than hot dogs. Which is music to the ears of someone like me who loves to hear good news about my bad habits!

(Note: I do not actually smoke cigarettes as I get enough cyanide from B12 pills without having to add to it with cigarettes.)

As always, Volume 8 is packed with interesting info and helpful nutrition tips. If you have missed out on previous volumes, Dr. Greger is currently posting video clips from Volume 7 on his daily video blog at NutritonFacts.org.

Now off to get me some cocoa powder and beets…

Video has just been posted of a talk I gave last June at the Their Lives, Our Voices conference in Minneapolis.

Link

In case you haven’t seen it, there is a documentary film out called Chow Down that follows two men with heart disease and one woman with diabetes after going on a plant-based diet. I saw it and thought it was very interesting. VegParadise gives a more detailed review.

Dr. Michael Greger’s Latest in Clinical Nutrition Latest in Clinical Nutrition volume 4 for $20.

Or, you can get a free set for a $75 or more donation to Team Vegan!

Click here for details.

Thanks to the Vegetarian Society of Hawaii, you can now watch a video of my talk Vegan Nutrition: What Does the Science Say on-line. Click here.

A special thank you to Dr. William Harris for filming and putting the video together!