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?
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...
Vaping a Sacred Nutrient? How Vitamin E Became ‘Dangerous’
In recent decades, vitamin E has been one of the trendiest of all nutrients. Long considered a miracle nutrient by many, it is now linked to illness and death thanks to certain vaping products.
When ‘Healthy Eating’ Becomes Bad for Your Mind
Eating more healthfully is a solution—not a problem, yet some people can turn the desire for optimal wellness into an obsession called orthorexia nervosa.
Can You Have a Healthy Plant-Based Pregnancy?
There is a common misconception out there that in order to meet your nutrition requirements for pregnancy, animal products must be included in the diet. Read on to earn more about plant-based pregnancy.
Iron Deficiency Anemia – Causes, Diets, & Treatments
What is iron deficiency and what causes anemia? Learn about treatment options and potential side effects of iron replacement therapy.
How Important is Vitamin D? Facts You Need to Know
Vitamin D is important for bone health and various body functions as well as for treatments of certain diseases. Regardless of plant-based diets, deficiencies are an issue for anyone lacking sun exposure.
6 Facts about Vitamin K and the Plant-Based Diet
Does a plant-based diet provide enough vitamin k? What are plant-based sources of vitamin k, k1, and k2? How much do you need?
Eating Right: 8 Principles of Food and Health
The 8 principles from this abbreviated chapter of The China Study are important lessons about food, health, and disease.
12 Questions Answered Regarding Vitamin B12
Vitamin B12 is one of the most common topics I get asked about for those interested in a plant-based diet.
How to Get Calcium Without Dairy
Because of some of the evidence suggesting milk is unhealthy, I suggest you skip the cow’s milk.
Most of you have heard about raspberry ketones right? Or you’ve been told that vitamins are necessary supplements for health that can make up for questionable food choices? What about taking oils to get Omega-3s or following a Paleo, South Beach, Weight Watchers, etc. diet plan? There is an abundance of information broadcast every day by various media outlets and not only is it confusing and contradictory, but it’s probably depleting your health and making you heavier in the long run.
It’s that time of year again. Many of us wake up and go to work in the dark. We work all day and return home in the dark.
Most importantly, it is often stated, perhaps almost as a main theme, that the use of vitamin and mineral supplements is an important strategy for promoting and re-gaining health.
Evaluating the Need for Supplementation
It is important not to be too certain, not to the point of nihilism but at least to an awareness, that today's 'truths' are often tomorrow's shortcomings.
The Alkaline Advantage How pH Promotes Optimal Health and Performance
It amazes me how little attention the value of balanced pH has garnered from the mainstream medical world. Positive acid/alkaline balance is one of the most important factors in athletic performance.
Tracking Anti-Oxidants in Rural China
In the China Study, total vegetable consumption was 315 grams/day (11.1 oz) compared to 181 grams/day (6.3 oz) in the US. We were able to get a pretty good idea of antioxidant vitamin status by comparing the relative percentages …
To Take Or Not To Take Fish Oil
Question: I have been troubled recently by a number of articles claiming that DHA is nutritionally essential.
Whole Food Supplements: Is Juice Plus Good For You?
You need to know the science on how Juice Plus is a supplement that is misleading consumers in their search for healthy, whole food nutrition.
Maybe a second pill might be found to "correct" the problems created by the first. Did you ever see the pillboxes of our elderly?
RDA’s: Time to Peel Back the Labels
Every once in a while, when strolling through the grocery store with my wife, Karen, I get up the nerve to look at those nutrient profiles on the side of the package.
Do You Need Vitamin Supplements?
Why are these nutrients so established in our minds, so impervious to change? What are these things? Are they, more or less, mostly the same?
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