What Are FODMAPs in Foods? If You Suffer From Bloating or IBS You May Be Sensitive to FODMAPs

Eating a whole food, plant-based diet is a healthy choice, but what if it causes pain, bloating, and other unpleasant symptoms? You may have a FODMAP sensitivity. This doesn’t automatically mean you can’t enjoy plant-based foods, though; it may just mean you need to navigate the whole food, plant-based lifestyle a little differently.

Cooking Power-Packed Whole Grains

Whole grains are an important part of a healthy diet. There are easy ways to add whole grains to your plant-based diet, and most are simple to cook. Check out these tips and recipes.

Defining Food Groups in Plant-Based Nutrition

More people are choosing to adopt a plant-based lifestyle. But what are you supposed to eat? To help make things easier, we have defined the three food groups.

Plant-Based Grocery Shopping Guide

Plant-based food shopping made easy. This guide will help you get started.

Plant-Based Food Guide: How to Eat Well on a Budget

Shop for and prepare healthy plant-based foods while saving money. This guide breaks it all down including delicious recipes and helpful hints. Bon appétit!

Love Your Liver: Lessons From Chinese Medicine (TCM)

Ever experience restlessness or an overall feeling of being stuck? Gain insights from Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) on how one can impact imbalances.

Gluten Fears & Facts: Is Wheat Truly Terrible?

What is real and what is overblown in the growing number of gluten intolerance cases? Maybe sugar, fat, dairy and salt have something to do with it...

Whole Grains: Good or Bad?

Whole grain foods support good health. Eating whole grain foods reduces the risk of digestive disorders, heart disease, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, obesity and certain cancers.

The Great Grain Debate

Whether the latest diet debate centers around gluten-free, Atkins or Paleo, carbs are a hot topic these days.

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.

The Paleo Diet: What’s the Story?

The Paleo Diet is championed by Dr. Loren Cordain, professor of health and exercise science at Colorado State University

The Protein Puzzle: Picking up the Pieces

There's a common myth among both scientists and non-scientists that people of underdeveloped countries are small simply because they don't eat enough meat. If they ate more meat, they would be big and strong like us. But this is not what we found from our China Project research.