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.

Got Joint Pain? An Anti-Inflammatory Diet May Be the Key to Your Relief

A lot of people are living with joint pain, and many of them don’t need to be. While physical therapy is the standard of care, some thoughtful changes to your diet can have a notable impact.

Culture Change through Accessible WFPB Program

The following is an article from a Community Grant recipient. During my years as a physician, I have observed a society that has become sicker and sicker despite steady improvements to technology and increased medical expenditures. Fairly early on in my career, I decided that there had to be a better way. In 1991, after … Continued

What If Doctors Were Paid to Keep People Well?

Promoting and managing disease is big business. What if our healthcare system instead placed people over profits?

3 Reasons Why Superfoods Can Be Dangerous

The concept of “superfoods” is an old one, but it has become even more popular as sections of society have become more health conscious and desperate to combat chronic lifestyle-related diseases. Unfortunately, this focus on individual foods has downsides, even in the case of legitimately healthful foods.

Food for Thought Series: Redefining Science as a Whole

Reductionism is the dominant paradigm of science today. It is time to break the chains of reductionism and free science from its profit-driven prison.

Food for Thought Series: Assessing the Truth Behind Nutrition & Health Claims

The confusion surrounding health claims, and especially claims about the role of nutrition in specific diseases, like type 2 diabetes, can be overwhelming and sometimes discouraging. It often takes great personal responsibility and effort to assess the truth of competing claims. But even then—where do you begin?

Fake Meats – How Do Beyond and Impossible Burgers Stack Up From a Health Perspective?

How do Beyond and Impossible burgers stack up from a health perspective? If your goal is to stick to a whole food, plant-based diet, you might want to take a closer look before sinking your teeth into these beefless patties.

An Introduction to the Whole Food, Plant-Based, SOS-Free Diet

What is the whole-plant-food, SOS-Free Diet, why TrueNorth Health Center promotes it, and the details of how to eat it.

3-Day Whole Food, Plant-Based Meal Plan

Need some inspiration to jump-start your foray into a plant-based lifestyle? This easy whole food, plant-based meal plan has some tasty recipes to whet your appetite.

Plant Strong Collegiate Swimming Champion & Her Plant-Based Family Legacy

I was born into an athletic, plant-based family. My grandfather is Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, Jr., and I was raised plant-based. I now swim competitively and have won championships all while powered by plants.

From Junk Food to Plant-Based Eating: How I Made the Switch in 5 Steps

Adopting a whole food, plant-based diet is a lifestyle change and one that you will benefit from for years to come. Making the transition to plant-based eating can be simple with these 5 helpful steps.

8 Steps for a Successful Transition to Plant-Based Eating

If you are a plant-based beginner and transitioning to a plant-centered diet, here are eight steps to make the change less overwhelming and substantially more successful.

A Game-Changing Solution to One of the Most Devastating Diseases of the Brain: Stroke

Every 40 seconds, someone has a stroke in the U.S. Research participants with the highest adherence to a whole food, plant-based pattern were able to reduce their risk of stroke by as much as 30 percent.

What Is Diverticular Disease and How to Treat It

Learn all about diverticulitis and diverticulosis, plus how to treat these conditions, how to prevent them, and the importance of fiber in one’s diet.

Growing Ultra: One Teen’s Path to Plant-Based Ultra Running

Jarod is a vegan teenage ultra trail runner who completed his first race at the Bryce Canyon 100. He fueled his running on a whole food, plant-based diet.

Research Confirms a Plant-Based Diet Can Help You Live Longer

Nutrition is important, but which aspects of nutrition? Why are there blue zones where people live longer? Learn more about just how important food is for your health and life longevity.

What Is a Whole Food, Plant-Based Diet?

What makes up a whole food, plant-based diet (WFPB)? It is not the same as a vegan diet. It is defined by a variety of whole or minimally processed foods.

Defining Food Groups in Plant-Based Nutrition

More people are choosing to adopt a plant-based lifestyle. But what are you supposed to eat? To help make things easier, we have defined the three food groups.

Plant-Based Grocery Shopping Guide

Plant-based food shopping made easy. This guide will help you get started.

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.

Scientific Reductionism Detracts from Whole Food, Plant-Based Message

Reductionism is not the way that nutrition works—by definition. It is time to recognize the science that demonstrates the health benefits of whole foods instead of their nutrient parts.

History of the Term ‘Whole Food, Plant-Based’

Dr. Campbell created the term ‘whole food, plant-based’ to distinguish it from vegetarian diets that include processed, high fat foods & often supplements.

Cancer Nightmare, a Mother’s Tale of Her Son’s Survival

Never in my wildest nightmares could I have imagined that my one and only son would be diagnosed with advanced stage cancer at the age of sixteen.