You're very welcome, Jen.
Thanks so much for sharing the wonderful health professionals that you have been fortunate enough to connect with with the rest of the community. I am sure all those who have encountered what you shared appreciate the insight at least as much as I do.
Good luck in your efforts. I think your daughter is very lucky to have such a dedicated family supporting her, and I hope that you all experience and enjoy all the evidence-based positive health outcomes that the optimal diet/lifestyle guidelines that Novick and McDougall recommend are typically associated with.
Jeff Novick and I had been involved in a discussion thread about compliance on an optimally healthy diet here that you may find valuable to review:
viewtopic.php?f=22&t=44133&p=481064#p481064Many individuals following this lifestyle seem to consider compliance to be their biggest challenge, especially concerning long-term compliance.
I have also assembled a primer of Novick's guidelines that I frequently share with loved ones, if you might find it a useful collection, too:
Primer of Jeff Novick, MS, RD's Recommendations for a Healthy Diet/Lifestyle (
viewtopic.php?p=474530#p474530)
In the end, though, it seems a wealth of information can be gained simply by reviewing Novick's multitude of posts (5919 as of this moment) on the boards, as most issues have been thoroughly addressed and, as you have seen, Novick is also extremely responsive to and supportive of questions and inquiries from the community here.
Here are the search page results of a search for all posts that Jeff Novick, "JeffN", has made to date:
search.php?keywords=&terms=all&author=JeffN&sc=1&sf=all&sr=posts&sk=t&sd=d&st=0&ch=300&t=0&submit=SearchAs we can see from the page results page, we can "search these results" for whatever topic we are interested in. (Although, I believe that shorter words and more common phrases may result in difficulties searching, as they are typically omitted in the search protocol, if you ever have issues.)
The free resources assembled throughout Dr. McDougall's website are also incredible, as I believe Novick mentioned in his response to you. [Found here, for anyone having difficulty locating it:
viewtopic.php?p=481061#p481061]
Dr. McDougall has also been kind enough to maintain a very extensive YouTube page, found here:
https://www.youtube.com/user/drmcdougallmd/videosMcDougall has made many of his presentations available for free, although most of the presentations are based heavily on his free newsletters and articles, which often go into a bit more detail on the topics he presents, including in their references and citations to the resources he uses to form his opinions.
I hope you find the information at least as worthwhile as I have.
I wish you all the best in your efforts, and I hope you and anyone else reading this are having a wonderful day