Plant-Based Nutrition Graduate Spotlight: Tig Notaro

Internationally-recognized comedian shares her plant-based journey, and her passion for helping others along the path toward better health.

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!

Book Excerpt: From Plant to Planet: Nudge your way towards healthier, more sustainable food habits

In this excerpt, authors of From Plant to Planet identify and address the most common barriers that prevent dietary lifestyle change.

Never Too Late: Reversing My Heart Disease on a WFPB Diet at 80

Al Schmidt shows you’re never too old to make changes to reverse heart disease. Although it was a bumpy road getting there, Al has found he loves eating plant-based — for the results and the taste of it!

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.

I Reversed My Type 2 Diabetes With a Plant-Based Diet & Help From My Mom

Which sounds better—a lifetime of prescription drugs, or a fast-acting dietary lifestyle change that only has positive side effects?

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!

Weight Loss & Cancer Management: How Whole Food, Plant-Based Support Helped Kelly

After years of on-and-off whole food, plant-based eating, Kelly fully committed to the WFPB lifestyle change and found great success in weight loss and managing her metastatic breast cancer.

How To Get Your Vitamin D From Mushrooms

Most people derive their vitamin D from exposure to the sun, but what do you do when you can’t get enough sunshine? Many rely on vitamin D supplements, but can eating mushrooms be an option? There are a few things to know...

A Registered Dietitian’s Professional & Personal Journey to WFPB Nutrition

One book changed the entire trajectory of this Registered Dietitian’s career and life. Read about Didem’s journey on a whole food, plant-based diet and the changes it made for her, large and small.

After Eating Plant-Based Daniel Said Goodbye to 160 lbs, Sleep Apnea, & Type 2 Diabetes

Daniel Caracciolo is a whole food, plant-based (WFPB) advocate who found great success in weight loss following this lifestyle. He is training for his first triathlon and aims to start a plant-based meal prep and catering business.

Chef, I’m Going Plant-Based. What Can I Eat?

Many people considering a plant-based diet initially focus on what they can’t eat. Here we explore the huge range of what you can eat, including several substitutes to use to make your old favorites.

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.

Culture Change through Accessible WFPB Program

The following is an article from a Community Grant recipient. To hear more from Dr. Ted Barnett, register for the Plant Forward Virtual Workshop Series. During my years as a physician, I have observed a society that has become sicker and sicker despite steady improvements to technology and increased medical expenditures. Fairly early on in … Continued

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.

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.

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.

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.

From Junk Food to Plant-Based Eating: How I Made the Switch in 5 Steps

Adopting a whole food, plant-based diet is a lifestyle change and one that you will benefit from for years to come. Making the transition to plant-based eating can be simple with these 5 helpful steps.