Try It, You Just Might Like It! Introducing Kids to More Fruits & Veggies

For far too long, children in this community have been establishing lifelong habits and preferences that involve more processed foods and fewer fruits and vegetables; by encouraging them to try a variety of fruits and vegetables, and by increasing nutrition education in their classrooms, we hope to help establish lifelong habits of health instead.

How a Breast Cancer Diagnosis Led Me to a Plant-Based Diet

After a cancer diagnosis, Kelly got serious about her health for the first time in her life. Here’s her road to adopting a whole food, plant-based diet to save her life.

How I Shed A Third of My Body Weight & Regained My Health

After being rushed to the hospital with a life-threatening illness in 2009, Jeanne Schumacher discovered the profound power of whole food, plant-based nutrition. Read her inspirational story of discovery, recovery, and giving back.

Empowering Plant-Powered Girls in the Dominican Republic

Globalization and factory food production has deeply affected the health and well-being of many marginalized communities: with more foreign influence and commerce comes more processed and packaged foods. We at the Mariposa DR Foundation are committed to developing life-long healthy habits while protecting the environment and respecting the abundant natural resources the Dominican Republic has … Continued

Changing Nutrition Education in Elementary Schools

Amie Hamlin and the Coalition for Healthy School Food are on a mission to increase plant-based foods in Elementary Schools across New York.

Promoting A Plant-Based Diet Through Culturally-Appropriate Foods

The Caribbean diets are typically focused on animal-based foods, with meat and cheap imported junk food. This organization is dedicated to changing that.

Why Should We Focus on Children’s Nutrition?

Too often children’s nutrition doesn’t get the attention it deserves. This is why it’s important that changes.

Weight Loss With Plants Episode 2 – Kelly Houseman

Tune in to see how committing to a WFPB lifestyle change affected Kelly’s weight loss and the management of her metastatic breast cancer.

Weight Loss With Plants Episode 4 – Ben and Esther Loveridge

Not everyone will be ready for change at the same time. Setting a good example and being patient, especially with loved ones, goes a long way toward nourishing healthy behaviors.

School Psychologist Uses Nutrition to Improve Learning

Learn how Nutrition 4 the Growing Brain is using improved nutrition to address learning and behavioral challenges in kids.

How These 9 Graduates Use Their Plant-Based Nutrition Certificates

Learn how T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies graduates complement their careers with the Plant-Based Nutrition Certificate through eCornell.

Weight Loss With Plants Episode 3 – Al Schmidt

Al’s story proves that it’s never too late to make a dietary change. At 80, he overcame his crippling cardiac disease with WFPB nutrition, and he’s still going strong!

A WFPB Diet Helped My Fibroid and Menstrual Pain

Plant-based nutrition can produce profound benefits for those suffering from hormone-related conditions and diseases, including several which affect huge proportions of the American and global population.

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.

Cancer Is Not The End: How a Plant-Based Diet Helped Manage Carlos’ Prostate Cancer

Eleven years ago, Carlos was diagnosed with “untreatable” cancer. He discovered the power of nutrition, as recorded in his book, Testimony of Life.

Steps to Go from Meat Eating to Whole Food, Plant-Based

Optimal health isn’t just a switch you can flip. It often takes a long time to achieve our health goals, with many unforeseen stages between here and there.

Mistakes We Make When Going Plant Based & How to Avoid Them

There are many challenges when switching to a new lifestyle, and your challenges are often going to be unique to your particular situation. Your background, your environment, the support systems that you choose to take advantage of—all of these can have a major impact on your success.

Weight Loss With Plants Episode 1 – Tim & Heather Kaufman

Watch this inspirational video to learn how two members of our WFPB community have not just lost nearly 300 pounds, but also gained a new lease on life.

Mel’s Plant-Based Journey From Heart Disease to Health

Never underestimate the power of planting the seeds of change in others. Let yourself be a good example and a resource for transformation.

Married Couple Find Renewed Health & Lose a Combined 200 lbs With a Whole Food, Plant-Based Diet

There’s no such thing as “too late.” Choosing health can have a profound effect on your life, and enrich the lives of those around you.

What Is a Processed Food vs a Whole Food?

There’s a lot of talk about “processed” foods, but what does the distinction mean, and is it the most helpful way to think about your food choices?

Center for Nutrition Studies Staff Picks for Best Plant-Based Restaurants

Eating out on a WFPB diet might sound hard, but it’s not impossible. Read about some of our staff’s favorite restaurants, both at home and abroad!

Plant-Based Diet for Diabetes: What About Carbs?

Carbohydrates are often criticized in very simplistic terms, especially when it comes to diabetes, but does that tell the whole story?

How a Nurse Practitioner Saved Her Health With a Whole Food, Plant-Based Diet

The health journey isn’t always easy. It requires not just expert information, but also implementing what we learn in a way that sticks.