I had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Travis Stork, Co-Host of Emmy Award-winning syndicated daytime series “The Doctors”, about tips for improving your health with simple diet tweeks.  He has partnered with General Mills on a “whole grain initiative” to educate people about how easy fixes, like adding more whole grains to your diet, will lead to an overall healthier self.

On CBS’s award-winning syndicated show, “The Doctors,” Dr. Travis Stork is used to educating individuals on how to achieve and maintain good overall health and fitness – and he will be the first to say it starts with what you eat.  Whole grains are essential in helping with weight management, maintaining heart health and the prevention of certain cancers.  With less than 5% of Americans getting the recommended amount of whole grains each day, Dr. Stork has many easy fixes to not only get your eating on the track, but to help you feel healthier, too!

“I’ve always said I think that switching to whole grains is probably the easiest way to eat healthier without necessarily giving up the foods you love” explains Dr. Travis Stork at the beginning of our discussion.  He continues by explaining many easy ways to include whole grains into your diet, how to identify if whole grains is the first ingredient in the foods you purchase, and the differences between whole grains vs processed grains.  Dr. Stork also talks about why he became a doctor and why he shares his extensive healthy living knowledge with others.

Play this video to hear my phone interview with Dr. Travis Stork.

Here is a quick video in which Dr. Travis Stork expains how to find whole grain as the first ingredient.

More About Travis Stork

Dr Travis Stork *Image courtesy of CBS Television Distribution/Studio 29 Productions LLC

When he isn’t in front of the cameras working with “The Doctors”, Dr. Travis Stork is a faculty physician in the Emergency Department at Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville, TN.  His credentials include graduating Magna Cum Laude from Duke University and earning his M.D. with Honors from the University of Virginia.  He completed his residency as an emergency room doctor at Vanderbilt University.  An avid outdoorsman, Dr. Stork is a devotee of mountain and road biking, kayaking and hiking with his dog, Nala.  He has participated in numerous fundraisers for organizations such as the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and, in 1998, he bicycled solo cross-country for the Multiple Sclerosis Society.

Visit www.wholegrainnation.com and www.thedoctorstv.com for more information about living a whole grain lifestyle.

I like to eat whole grain cereal or a whole grain granola bar for breakfast. What are some easy ways that you add whole grains to your diet?  Please let me know by commenting below.

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Brad