Recovery From Eating Disorders – My Plant-Based Journey

This article contains material regarding eating disorders that may be triggering for some readers. According to the American Psychiatric Association, eating disorders are illnesses in which people experience severe disturbances in their eating behaviors and related thoughts and emotions. People with eating disorders typically become preoccupied with food and with their body weight. An eating … Continued

Could Keeping a Food Journal Be the Missing Link to Finally Losing Weight?

Food journaling is often a dreaded task for those trying to lose weight, but for Sharme it was key to her success.

WFPB Success: Changing My Life in 20 Days

Many people rationalize not switching to a whole food, plant-based lifestyle, even if their heart and their gut tells them to. Beverly, a winner of Chef Del’s Diet Daze 20-Day Challenge, tells us what finally made her prioritize the switch to a healthier way of life.

Chef Del’s Plant-Based Secret Ingredients

Most people are used to throwing away perfectly edible, nutritious, and tasty plant parts. Learn how you can use them to elevate your cooking!

Chef Del’s Essential Plant-Based Kitchen Equipment

Want to start cooking more for yourself but feel stumped by how to outfit your kitchen with all the right tools? Chef Del gives his down-to-earth, practical list of essential kitchen equipment to set you up for success.

Busting Nutrition Myths: How Plant-Based Diets Are Healthy for Children & Families

In the Center for Nutrition Studies’ upcoming Plant Forward Virtual Workshop Series, Dr. Shah will share her insights into how to make a whole food, plant-based diet sustainable for you and your family. Read more about her work and her most recent book, co-authored with Brenda Davis, RD. Nutrition can be a controversial topic. Doctors, … Continued

The Support You Need: Tips to Help Maintain Your Weight Loss Goals

Weight loss goals are easier to achieve and maintain with the proper support. In this article, Del Sroufe gives his advice on types of support and community he finds helpful when it comes to his diet and health.

How Strict Does My Plant-Based Diet Need To Be?

Will a tiny bit of oil really hurt you? Can a whole food, plant-based diet be followed just part time? These questions and others are answered by Dr. Thomas Campbell.

FamilyCook Productions Changes Eating Behavior and Lifestyle

For decades, our award-winning nutrition education curriculum has influenced hundreds of thousands of Americans of all ages and backgrounds.

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.

“Doctors for Nutrition” Webinars Reinforce Benefits of Plant-Based Diets

Doctors For Nutrition provide engaging online and in-person plant-forward nutrition resources and education for healthcare professionals and students.

St. Luke’s University Health Network CSA Feeds Families & Employs Farmers

The community supported agriculture program at St. Luke’s University Health Network shows that improving access to healthy foods improves health.

Farm to Pantry Program Delivers Local Organic Food to Low-Income Communities

This Farm to Food Pantry program brings fresh produce from environmentally-conscious local producers to low-income members of the Illinois community.

5 Greta Thunberg-Inspired Ways To Be an Environmentalist

History was made in 2019 when 17-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts combating climate change. She subsequently won TIME’s 2019 Person of the Year for her environmental activism. Greta is known for being a headstrong environmentalist, but what many people don’t know is that she is … Continued

Cooking Up Health Program Changes Lifestyles for Doctors & Patients

Cooking Up Health, a course at the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at Northwestern University—educates medical students on lifestyle and nutrition.

Diversity and Culture: The Missing Link Between Food and Health

The lack of representation of different cultures within the plant-based movement is glaring and the consequences are real. There is an abundance of research showing that culture and culturally relevant nutrition interventions are important for diet change and weight loss among Black and Asian Americans.

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.

How a Plant-Based Diet Saved Our Lives – Literally!

Bob and Fran are octogenarians who both faced devastating diseases. With the help of a whole food, plant-based lifestyle, they have their health back and they feel better than ever.

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.

Results From 8-Week Whole Food, Plant-Based Study Are a Success

Dr. Thomas Campbell and his team recently published results from their highly successful whole food, plant-based nutrition lifestyle modification program. Read an excerpt from the published paper, “Evaluation of an Eight-Week Whole-Food Plant-Based Lifestyle Modification Program.

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.