Top 5 Pointers for a Healthy Diet

  Dr. Michael Compton, a Columbia University professor triple-board-certified in psychiatry, preventive medicine, and lifestyle medicine joins eHealth Radio and the Health News and Nutrition Channels. He is author of Veggie Smarts: A Doctor and Farmer Grows and Savors Eight Families of Vegetables. Listen to interview with host Eric Michaels & guest Dr. Michael Compton discuss the following:

1. What prompted you to write a book about growing and savoring veggies?
2. What do you mean by the concept of "veggie smarts"?
3. Marion Nestle (not Nestle as in the company), on the back cover, refers to your book as "endearingly quirky."  What makes it endearing, and what makes it quirky?
4. What would you say are the top 5 most underappreciated vegetables?
5. I know that you offer lots of "free health advice" in the book, but for today, what are your top 5 pointers for a healthy diet?

Dr. Michael T. Compton is board-certified in psychiatry, preventive medicine, and lifestyle medicine—a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, a Fellow of the American College of Preventive Medicine, and a Member of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. As a professor of psychiatry at Columbia University, he has a deep understanding of what makes people feel secure, content, and happy; he also happens to have expertise in healthy lifestyle behaviors and nutrition. Having grown up on a dairy-farm-turned-beef-farm in rural southwestern Virginia, embracing a whole-foods, plant-predominant eating pattern might not have been in his genes. But creating a garden with his two green thumbs from Granny definitely was. Attending college at Mary Washington, medical school at the University of Virginia, and specialty training in psychiatry and preventive medicine at Emory University took this proverbial boy off the farm, but as all who know the old saying might suspect, the farm had not been taken out of him. In a mid-life burst of productivity, he built a compact, organic-certified vegetable farm and got smart about growing and savoring vegetables. Website: https://www.drcompton.health People also listened to this: Dr. Carl Rothschild, a pioneering advocate of Red Light Therapy (RLT)