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Assessing the Top Nutrition Trends of 2023 (Part Two)
By analyzing 2023 nutrition trends, we can gain insights into a population’s collective mindset and preferences. What might they say about the future?
Assessing the Top Nutrition Trends of 2023 (Part Two)
By analyzing 2023 nutrition trends, we can gain insights into a population’s collective mindset and preferences. What might they say about the future?
How to Get All Your Vitamins and Minerals From Plant-based Meals
The human body requires a variety of macronutrients and micronutrients to function properly. A healthy whole food, plant-based diet provides all the vitamins and minerals needed for optimal health.
Overcoming My Junk Food Addiction
Knowing what to eat is only the first step. The psychological barriers of lifestyle change are very real, and often intensely personal.
How To Get Your Vitamin D From Mushrooms
Most people derive their vitamin D from exposure to the sun, but what do you do when you can’t get enough sunshine? Many rely on vitamin D supplements, but can eating mushrooms be an option? There are a few things to know...
Growing Food Helps Children Overcome Trauma in Mexico
We Empower ACEs provides survivors of trauma with community-centered programs, resources, and spaces to improve health and food sovereignty.
On Track Program Brings Plant-Based Nutrition Education to California
America On Track has been successfully creating and implementing a diverse range of programs, with an emphasis on plant-based nutrition, since 1995.
The Power of Support Groups in Lifestyle Change
Research has shown that education, skills development, and social support are critical for long-term lifestyle changes. Community-led plant-based programs can offer much more than traditional diet programs and clinical trials because they engage participants actively to learn how to incorporate healthy habits into established routines.
Farm to Fork Program Creates Lifelong Healthy Eating
Crossroads Community Food Network’s “Healthy Eating” Program encourages participants to see themselves as change agents in their local food system.
What If Doctors Were Paid to Keep People Well?
Promoting and managing disease is big business. What if our healthcare system instead placed people over profits?
4 Reasons Why Superfoods Can Be Dangerous
The concept of “superfoods” is an old one, but it has become even more popular as sections of society have become more health conscious and desperate to combat chronic lifestyle-related diseases. Unfortunately, this focus on individual foods has downsides, even in the case of legitimately healthful foods.
Food for Thought Series: Redefining Science as a Whole
Reductionism is the dominant paradigm of science today. It is time to break the chains of reductionism and free science from its profit-driven prison.
Food for Thought Series: Assessing the Truth Behind Nutrition & Health Claims
The confusion surrounding health claims, and especially claims about the role of nutrition in specific diseases, like type 2 diabetes, can be overwhelming and sometimes discouraging. It often takes great personal responsibility and effort to assess the truth of competing claims. But even then—where do you begin?
Healthcare vs Disease Response System – Part 1
The health care system today is not equipped to establish health, or even prevent disease. Instead, it responds to disease, and it relies on technology to do so. The widespread, and still spreading, use of drugs illustrates this reliance on technology.
Is Saturated Fat Really That Bad?
Dr. Campbell responds to twelve researchers who recently published a major review on the health effects of saturated fat which is mostly found in meat, milk, and eggs.
Reductionist Social Policy – What We Do To Ourselves, We Do To the Earth
When you connect the dots of some of our biggest social, economic, and environmental problems, you can clearly see nutrition looming large as a causal factor and potential solution.
From Junk Food to Plant-Based Eating: How I Made the Switch in 5 Steps
Adopting a whole food, plant-based diet is a lifestyle change and one that you will benefit from for years to come. Making the transition to plant-based eating can be simple with these 5 helpful steps.
Bridging the Gap Between the Wellness Industry & Medical Field Using Plant-Based Nutrition
Lifestyle factors are starting to be incorporated into more treatment plans through lifestyle medicine. A plant-based diet can help bring wellness professionals together with medical professionals to work as a team.
6 Papers Redefining the Sciences of Nutrition, Cancer and Healthcare
Dr. Campbell announces his recently published papers on why the healthcare industry is not advancing like it should and how trillions of dollars and million of lives could be saved.
Scientific Reductionism Detracts from Whole Food, Plant-Based Message
Reductionism is not the way that nutrition works—by definition. It is time to recognize the science that demonstrates the health benefits of whole foods instead of their nutrient parts.
History of the Term ‘Whole Food, Plant-Based’
Dr. Campbell created the term ‘whole food, plant-based’ to distinguish it from vegetarian diets that include processed, high fat foods & often supplements.
Dr. Campbell’s Recommendations for Dietary Guidelines
Submitted to the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee on April 30, 2015. In 1980, the first report by the Dietary Guidelines (DG) Advisory Committee was authored … Continued
The Daniel Fast: Applying Wholistic Nutrition
During the spring semester of 2013, Southern Adventist University’s (SAU) Campus Ministries Student Wellness Director, Katie Schuen, and Health Science major, Caitlin Hobbs, came together and began a project.
A Fallacious, Faulty and Foolish Discussion About Saturated Fat
The New York Times has done it again, reporting on a summary of studies on the associations of various dietary and clinical risk factors with heart disease in a way that creates, in my opinion, more confusion than clarity.
Writing The China Study and Relaxing With the Big Picture
For the past several years, I have been giving more and more thought to the nature of nutrition information and discussion in America.
