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.

8 Tips to Be Plant-Based When Your Spouse Is Not

Is your spouse not on board with a plant-based diet? Here are some tips for staying plant-based when your family or spouse are not willing to be.

Living in a “Blended” Dietary Household? 4 Solutions to Make it Work

When one (or more) of you is a whole food, plant-based eater and others in your household aren’t, how do you make it work?

Nutrition is a Democratic Topic in This Life Changing Writing Class

Comparing the Standard American Diet with a Plant-Based Diet serves as a model resource for learning basic argumentative skills. It also becomes life changing for many students.

Top 5 Non-Food, Lifestyle Factors That Destroy Quality of Life

The benefits of a plant-based diet are clear.  Here are my top 5 non-nutrition factors affecting quality of life, plus practical tips for a more satisfying life.

Wish Me Luck, I’m Going Home to Ireland, Plant-Based!

I was encouraged to eat the ‘best part of the meal,’ the meat. It took time, a move to the US, and The China Study to clarify there is no place on my plate for meat.

Is it Actually Possible to Go Vegan Overnight?

Read about how a meat-loving chicken wing king was converted into a tofu-pressing vegan from the "The Skeptical Vegan.”

One Simple Choice Can Change the Whole World, for the Better

If you could help reverse the ecological threats on Earth, while improving your health and preventing the egregious suffering of billions of animals, would you?

Bart Potenza Co-Founder of NYC’s Candle 79: All’s Well That Eats Well

“Bringing home the bacon” was a reward, but losing his family to food related disease was not. Bart became vegan at 55 and is going strong at 80!

Plant-Based Diet Helps Native Americans Overcome Diabetes

Success in the Marshall Islands has inspired educators with hope for the Pima tribes of Arizona. Food, not genetics, will turn the diabetes epidemic around.

Healing & Transformation – Clergywoman Reflects on a Plant-Based Diet Transition

My sense is that the plant-based community is part of a powerful transformative movement for healing a broken and hurting world.

Healthcare in Crisis: RN Asks What’s Food Got to Do With It?

Medical treatment plans don’t combat today’s chronic illnesses. Adult obesity rates of 36% and obesity rates for nurses at 55% indicate an overall lack of lifestyle education.

The Mindful Vegan: Happy, Healthy, Here and Now

Have you built a wall of deprivation-driven tension around food? If we are constantly on the way to a perfect-health future, are we ever going to enjoy it?

Vegan Fairy Tale: A Rancher’s Wife & Her Voice for the Voiceless

The journey of a rancher’s wife gone vegan. They almost divorced over her inability to withstand his way of life, now they operate the Rowdy Girl Sanctuary in Texas.

Diabetes: A Clash Between Culture and Modern Diet in Guatemala

A social entrepreneur and Plant-Based Nutrition Certificate graduate is tackling the diabetes epidemic with her small business in Guatemala.

Millennials and A Plant-Based Diet. Better Food, Better Choices.

They aren’t interested in doing what their parents did just for the sake of tradition but making better choices for themselves, animals & the environment.

The Benefits of Social Support for Your Healthy Lifestyle

Do your friends and family support or sabotage your efforts to make healthy choices?

Finally Freedom From My Bondage to Junk Food

What did you learn from your family about food? Sonia Holycross responds to this question after growing up on food stamps and in generations of poverty.

Do You Eat Your Emotions? How to Help With Binge Eating

Chef Del shares his personal story to inspire others who know a whole foods, plant-based diet is optimal yet have an unproductive relationship with food.

Vegan, Plant-Based, or… What Label Works?

Whole Food, Plant-Based diet, now that’s a Mouthful! Thought leaders weigh in on how labels can be difficult for plant-eaters in a growing movement.

More People Want Vegan Food in Restaurants

Food culture is changing and restaurant menus are finally catching up. Most of them, that is…

Nature Does Not Negotiate

I'm known as the Mad Cowboy. For the last 25 years I have spoken out about animal abuse, health and the human diet. It is now time to focus on the problem that has the potential to end human existence on planet Earth.

America the Beautiful: Swimming in the Slurry

In the United States, we recently had one of the worst droughts in history.

Impact of Food Choices on the Environment

Renowned Cornell Biological Oceanography and CNS lecturer explains why we need to take "ownership" of our oceans.