Plants Have All the Power We Need

Marco Borges, author of The Greenprint, works with many athletes, entertainers, and avid exercisers who have switched to a plant-based diet for all the health and athletic performance benefits it provides.

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.

Is Raw Milk Better for You? What About Goat Milk?

Is it okay to drink raw milk? Is unpasteurized milk better? Learn the science behind why raw milk and goat milk are not necessarily healthier choices.

Smart Parent’s Guide to Why Kids Should Not Have Dairy Products

Why are parents so set on introducing dairy to their infants? Pediatricians have been taught that dairy is essential, but is it actually harmful to children’s health?

Can Nutrition Help Prevent Common Cold & Flu Viruses?

Most respiratory tract infections (RTIs), including the common cold and flu (influenza) are caused by viruses. There are around 200 or more types and sub-types of virus that contribute. Further, viral DNA changes frequently. This makes preventing and treating RTIs quite difficult and helps explain why we tend to get many RTIs throughout our lives. … Continued

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.

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.

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.

The Art of Aging: Setbacks and Successes

As we age, we all make choices about our future health. Growing old doesn’t mean you have to become frail. You can still thrive & enjoy life.

Autoimmune Disease: Genes, Infection, Environment & Gut

There are dozens of autoimmune diseases including common ones like Psoriasis, Multiple Sclerosis, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Thyroid, Celiac and Graves Disease.

7 Ways to Breeze Through Menopause with Finesse

Nancy shares her 7 tips for making the menopause transition a breeze.

How to Get Calcium Without Dairy

Because of some of the evidence suggesting milk is unhealthy, I suggest you skip the cow’s milk.

The 4 Keys to Strong Bones (Interview)

Why did you write a book on bone health? Osteoporosis is a serious problem. One woman in six will fracture a hip during her lifetime, that’s a really high risk. A fairly large number of men will also suffer a hip fracture and once someone does, it's very common that their overall quality of life will decline. Sometimes it puts them on a much faster path to their eventual demise.

Breathe Easy: Tips to Support Respiratory Health

Everyday, without much notice, each of us breathe in approximately 8,500 liters of outside air into our respiratory tracts.

Shining a Light on Vitamin D

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.

The 10 Most Important Actions to Insure Optimum Health

Optimum health cannot be bought, it must be earned and it comes with a price. The price of health is healthful living.

Dietary Addictions

Why eating healthfully is so difficult. Today, most people acknowledge that drugs, including nicotine, alcohol, caffeine and cocaine, are addictive.

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?