4 Questions With Vegan Volleyball World Champion Dustin Watten

Dustin Watten is not only a plant-based advocate he is also on the USA Men’s Volleyball Team and is a World Cup Champion. Learn more about how his plant-based diet affects his athletic performance.

Dairy Talks Season 1 – Why Olympic Athletes Are Ditching Dairy

Hear from Switch4Good’s core group of elite athletes and doctors about why they made the switch to go dairy free.

NFL & Olympic Nutritionist: How Food Affects Athletic Performance

Dan Benardot, PhD, NFL nutritionist and Olympic team nutritionist talks about how losing weight is the wrong metric. How can we change existing paradigms in sports?

Olympic Team Nutritionist Talks About Energy Balance and Diet

When working with an Olympic team, I saw that athletes didn’t eat or drink anything during their 5-hour practices. But, energy balance is critical to performance.

Drinking Coffee for Energy? Why Not Eat a Snack?

The caffeine in your coffee is a simple nervous system stimulant. It fakes your brain into thinking that it's okay and actually masks low blood sugar.

Top 10 Plant-Based Research and News Stories of 2016

The whole food, plant-based diet continues to gain popularity as public figures and science promote the favorable consequences of this healthful lifestyle.

More Plants on the Plate

Crispy, crunchy, colorful, and curiously delicious — all are words that describe a wide variety of vegetable, fruit, and whole-grain dishes.

Muscling Out the Meat Myth

It's my guess that there's hardly another myth in nutrition so insidious yet so intractable as that which encourages us to believe that consuming lots of high-quality protein - basically the stuff of animal-based foods -

Reversing Heart Disease with Diet

Fue en este preciso momento, extremadamente crítico en la ciencia y la medicina, cuando los Doctores Esselstyn y Ornish, en los extremos opuestos del país, intervinieron y mostraron una valentía considerable. No solo preguntaron si los ataques cardíacos podrían prevenirse con dietas basadas en plantas, bajas en grasa, sino también si esta enfermedad podría, de hecho, ser revertida.