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Popp Talk, September 19, 2026

Popp Talk, September 19, 2026

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Popp Talk with Mary Jane Popp Dr. Neal Barnard and Catherine Lanigan, The Power Foods Diet and a Lifetime of Angel Encounters Mary Jane Popp spends the hour on two very different searches for a better life: weight-loss science with Dr. Neal Barnard, author of The Power Foods Diet, and a lifelong string of angelic encounters recounted by author Catherine Lanigan. Setting Up The Hour An announcer opens the broadcast with Popp Talk's usual promise of new dimensions and possibilities before handing things to host Mary Jane Popp. Popp welcomes listeners back and asks how many of them have ever been on a diet, joking that anyone who says never is telling a fib. She frames the segment around what she calls an obese society and promises a solution from one of the most renowned doctors in nutrition and health. She also teases the back half of the show, telling listeners a guest who has experienced angels throughout her life will explain whether angels were once human or are an entirely different kind of being. After a music break featuring The Hues Corporation's Rock the Boat, Popp introduces Dr. Neal Barnard, calling him a leader in evidence-based nutrition science whose team studies which foods are both healthy and good tasting. Rethinking Diets With Power Foods Barnard tells Popp that most diets fail because they rely on deprivation, cutting calories or banning entire food groups until people give up and lose confidence. He credits Harvard researchers who followed more than 100,000 people and found, in a report published in 2015, that certain foods actually cause weight loss the more a person eats them, because they curb appetite, block calorie absorption, or speed metabolism back toward youthful levels. His first example is berries: blueberries, strawberries, raspberries, and blackberries contain anthocyanins, the pigment that colors them, which appears to boost metabolism. He cites a British study of nearly three thousand identical twins scanned for body fat, in which the twin who ate more anthocyanins consistently carried less abdominal and total fat than her genetically identical sister. Barnard also praises cinnamon, ginger, and hot peppers for their metabolic effects, describing a cinnamon-blueberry syrup he pours over French toast as an example of turning an ordinary breakfast into what he calls a power food. Fast Food, Fiber, And Metabolism The conversation turns to real-world eating: Barnard says a fast-food meal can still be a good choice if a customer picks a bean burrito over a cheese-topped beef taco, since beans supply fiber that naturally triggers the appetite-suppressing hormone GLP-1, the same hormone mimicked by drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy. He singles out cheese, at roughly seventy percent fat with no fiber, as a bigger culprit than carbohydrate, and calls foods like chicken among the most heavily processed of all once factory farming is considered. Citing a Tufts University study, he explains that fiber in whole-grain bread acts like tiny sponges that carry unabsorbed calories out of the body. Barnard says his research studies hold exercise constant so results reflect diet alone, meaning even people who cannot exercise can lose weight through food choices. He shares recipes from The Power Foods Diet, including a triple-berry sorbet and fruit popsicles, and explains that aging slows metabolism mainly because dietary fat impairs mitochondria, a process his approach can reverse, before directing listeners to pcrm.org. Catherine Lanigan And The Vanishing Stranger After a music break featuring Bill Withers' Lean on Me, Popp introduces author Catherine Lanigan, who says she saw her first angel at age three and has since written forty-five books, including Angel Talks, Angel Timelines, and Angel Watch. Lanigan tells the story of a blizzard in La Porte, Indiana, when she was three years old and her pregnant mother, injured after a fall down the stairs, sent her out alone through a whiteout to reach a grocery store nearly a mile away. A man in an old car stopped, gently persuaded the frightened toddler to let him drive her the rest of the way, delivered her safely, and then vanished; the grocer and his staff said they had never seen him before and never saw him again. Lanigan says her mother always insisted the driver was an angel. Soon after, in the family's new house, young Catherine says a winged, glowing figure began visiting her bedroom regularly to keep her company. Guardian Angels, Good And Bad Lanigan explains that everyone is born with at least two guardian angels, and that more can arrive in times of need, describing angels she calls her own medical team who help friends facing illness. She says angels are a distinct species with different ranks, citing her father's twenty-two-minute near-death experience and biblical references to legions of battle-ready angels, and notes that seraphim and cherubim are said to have six wings. Some angels take human form temporarily, she says, often to ...
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