Elevate Your Well-Being with 14 Immune-Boosting Plant-Based Recipes
Adding phytonutrient- and antioxidant-rich foods to our diet is a natural and healthy way to strengthen our immune system. Here, we share a collection of quick and convenient dishes packed with them.
How to Shift Your Body Composition With a Whole Food, Plant-Based Lifestyle?
I initially struggled with this question when I went vegan over eight years ago. Coming from the bodybuilding world, where there is a significant focus on cutting carbs to lose fat and build muscle, it took me years of tweaking my approach and exploring the research to figure out how to do it. Through several … Continued
5 Ways to Cook and Prepare Ripe Plantains
Plantains can be consumed green, yellow or black; ripe or unripe; cooked or uncooked; baked, fried, steamed, boiled or grilled. But how do you prepare them? Here are five of my favorite dishes using ripe plantains.
Overeating Causes and Solutions
Food addiction and compulsive overeating are primary causes of obesity—a major problem in the US and many other countries. This article summarizes the causes and solutions to overeating and obesity.
5 Essential Tips for Mindful Eating
Today's society moves so fast that most of us have forgotten what it looks like to be intentional and mindful with our food. In turn, there is a disconnect between the foods we eat and how they make us feel.
Is a High-Fat Diet Healthy? What the Science Says
Variations of the high-fat diet have been popular for decades. Are they healthy? Here's what the science says.
How to Optimize Your Omega-3 to Omega-6 Ratio on a Plant-Based Diet
Getting your daily dose of omega-3s while decreasing your omega-6 intake will go a long way in reducing inflammation, preventing disease, and improving your overall health.
How to get more greens into your child’s diet
We all know eating vegetables is a key factor in a healthy diet, but when it comes to kids this is easier said than done. Here are our top tips to help your kids eat more veggies.
At the age of 55 Karla Freeze changed her life with a plant-based diet
After realizing Alzheimer's was affecting her loved ones, Karla was determined to find a healthier way forward. In doing so she regained her health and lost 236 pounds.
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.
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.
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?
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.
From Plant to Planet: Nudge your way towards healthier, more sustainable food habits (Book Excerpt)
In this excerpt, authors of From Plant to Planet identify and address the most common barriers that prevent dietary lifestyle change.
Protein Isolates: Do They Have a Place in a Whole Food, Plant-Based Diet?
Science has found a way to turn plants into something impressively meat-like; do these mock meats have a time and place in a whole food, plant-based diet?
Mycotoxins in Food: Should Plant-Based Eaters Worry?
What if the foods we’re eating to keep us healthy are actually harming us? We explain what mycotoxins are, how they can affect us, and outline ways to avoid them.
Could Journaling be the Missing Link in Your Wellness Journey?
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.
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 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...
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.
