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?

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

Chef Del’s Diet Daze Episode 1 — Interview With Dr. Thomas Campbell

Whether the whole food, plant-based diet is new to you or you follow the diet but could use some reinforcement, especially with regard to weight loss, Del Sroufe’s interview with Dr. Campbell is sure to be an enlightening one.

5 Reasons to Forage for Plant-Based Food

In an effort to get to know the environment around him, one man finds a way to not only learn about his surroundings but feed himself and find community.

8 Easy Plant-Based Soup Recipes With Immune-Boosting Power

Adding immunity-boosting foods to our diet is a natural and healthy way to strengthen our immune system. Soup is a quick and convenient dish that can be packed with phytonutrients and antioxidants.

Plant-Based Cooking: How to Make 2 Immune Boosting Recipes

Evelisse Capó, PharmD, along with her daughter Sheriza, demonstrates how to make immune boosting, nutrient-dense recipes to share with your family and friends. Throughout this video you will also learn about foods and tips on how to boost your immune system. In light of the current coronavirus we are thinking about your families and your … Continued

12 Plant-Based and Oil-Free Hanukkah Recipe Ideas

Food plays an important part in Jewish traditions, and Hanukkah is no exception. Hanukkah, the eight-day Jewish commemoration also known as the Festival of Lights, typically involves feasting on fried foods and dishes loaded with sugar, fat, and oil. We’ve put together a list of some of our favorite whole food, plant-based and oil-free dishes … Continued

Can I Still Have Sugar on a Whole Food, Plant-Based Diet?

When it comes to a whole food, plant-based lifestyle, refined sugars, like high fructose corn syrup and white sugar, are off the table but there are other great options.

The Plant-Based Milk Controversy & Why Cow’s Milk Should NOT Be Recommended for Children

There has been an influx of debate through media on plant-based milk and cow’s milk, especially when it comes to children. A whole food, plant-based diet is the best choice for healthy living and disease prevention in both children and adults.