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?

3 Missteps in the 2020-2025 USDA Dietary Guidelines

From added sugar to alcohol and saturated fat, the latest edition of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans fails to provide the best recommendations for human and societal health.

3 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?

Step-By-Step Guide on How to Create a Square Foot Garden

Learn the easiest, most productive method of gardening without the weeds, work, and waste of a traditional row garden! The Square Foot Gardening (SFG) Method is a condensed method of gardening that uses less water, soil, space, and fewer tools.

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.

Game Day Party Foods: 8 Plant-Based Party Ideas for Feeding a Crowd

The big game is coming up and you want to host a plant-based party that all your guests will enjoy. It may sound daunting at first, but with a little prep work and these 8 tips, you can plan the ultimate plant-based party for game day or any occasion!

When ‘Healthy Eating’ Becomes Bad for Your Mind

Eating more healthfully is a solution—not a problem, yet some people can turn the desire for optimal wellness into an obsession called orthorexia nervosa.

How to Eat Plant-Based in the Military

Eating a whole food, plant-based diet while sustaining a healthy lifestyle can be done from boot camp to base to deployment — anywhere in the world.

Can I Still Have Sugar on a Whole Food, Plant-Based Diet?

When it comes to a whole food, plant-based lifestyle, refined sugars, like high fructose corn syrup and white sugar, are off the table but there are other great options.

Fake Meats – How Do Beyond and Impossible Burgers Stack Up From a Health Perspective?

How do Beyond and Impossible burgers stack up from a health perspective? If your goal is to stick to a whole food, plant-based diet, you might want to take a closer look before sinking your teeth into these beefless patties.

Plant-Based Running: How I Train for the NYC Marathon

Think you can’t run a marathon or ultramarathon on a whole food, plant-based diet? Think again. Read on to learn how this plant-based runner goes the EXTRA mile.

Documentary ‘The Game Changers’ Makes Compelling Case for Plant-Based Nutrition for Athletes

Athlete or not, Netflix documentary ‘The Game Changers’ is a film that everyone could benefit from watching.

Global Whole Food, Plant-Based Community Kitchens

Feeding and educating children & families with a WFPB (whole food, plant-based), sustainable, conscious, and life-saving lifestyle. The WFPB Community Kitchen is an initiative of WFPB.ORG with the goal of educating, feeding, and empowering impoverished communities.

Hullabaloo! A State of Confused Noise Surrounding Meat Consumption

There’s a big story making all the lead news outlets today that is the very definition of ‘fake news'. It concerns a new report published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, titled “Unprocessed red meat and processed meat consumption: dietary guideline recommendations” from the NutriRECS consortium.

The Plant-Based Milk Controversy & Why Cow’s Milk Should NOT Be Recommended for Children

There has been an influx of debate through media on plant-based milk and cow’s milk, especially when it comes to children. A whole food, plant-based diet is the best choice for healthy living and disease prevention in both children and adults.

Fitness Over 50: 7 Ways a Plant-Based Diet Can Help Women Stay Active

Women over 50 often experience a decline in physical activity. Here are seven ways a whole food, plant-based diet can help older women overcome obstacles to fitness.

An Introduction to the Whole Food, Plant-Based, SOS-Free Diet

What is the whole-plant-food, SOS-Free Diet, why TrueNorth Health Center promotes it, and the details of how to eat it.

Soy vs Skim: How the Dairy Industry Twists Results To Market Milk

We reviewed two studies which compared the effects of whey protein to soy milk and found that the dairy industry is using short-term conclusions to promote long-term health habits.

Soy Myths vs Facts: Is Soy Healthy or Not?

Is soy dangerous or beneficial? Many people are still uncertain whether this plant-based protein has benefits or is a threat to long-term health. The confusion has given rise to numerous conflicting reports about how soy affects the body.

3-Day Whole Food, Plant-Based Meal Plan

Need some inspiration to jump-start your foray into a plant-based lifestyle? This easy whole food, plant-based meal plan has some tasty recipes to whet your appetite.

Gastroenterologist Busts Link Between Fermented Dairy and Gut Health

Is there any benefit to your microbiome by eating probiotics or fermented foods? Products like yogurt and cheese are pushed by the dairy industry as being helpful, but are they more harmful than good?

Ironman Brendan Brazier Is a Pioneer In Plant-Based Sports Nutrition

Brendan Brazier is way ahead of the game. As a former professional Ironman athlete and two-time Canadian 50km Ultra Marathon runner, he’s had his eyes on the prize since he was a young teen (he’s in his 40s now, though no one would guess by the look of him). Growing up constantly in motion, Brendan … Continued