Dr. Stephanie Peacock’s Top Foods for Gut Health
Every time we eat, we feed the trillions of bacteria that make up our gut microbiome. Ideally, we should have 300–400 types of these bacteria.[1] But unfortunately, due to processed foods and lack of fiber, many individuals have less than this. This loss of critical microorganisms and the lack of diversity in our microbiome can … Continued
Biggest Secret: Health Is in Your Hands
"Biggest Secret: Health is in your hands" educates local communities and improves food literacy throughout Serbia with public lectures, addressing common misconceptions, myths, and doubts about health and whole food, plant-based (WFPB) nutrition.
Can Agriculture Prevent Earth’s Sixth Mass Extinction?
The effort to combat the ongoing biodiversity crisis, which has led many to conclude we are currently entering and experiencing Earth’s sixth mass extinction event. Unlike the previous five extinction events, the current one is caused by the activity of a single species—humans.
Is Fruit Healthy? Busting Common Fruit Myths
What’s the truth about fruit? How does it affect our health, and what about more specific cases, like if we’re diabetic or trying to lose weight?
A Selection From T. Colin Campbell’s Newest Book: The Future of Nutrition
This excerpt, taken from Dr. Campbell’s newest book, The Future of Nutrition, explores how a reductionist paradigm limits our medical system’s approach to disease and health.
Poorly Regulated Food Additives Increase Chronic Disease and Corporate Profits
US food products contain over 3,000 and possibly as many as 14,000 additives. These facilitate centralized, industrial food production and increase food company profits, for example, by extending shelf life and improving the taste and appearance of food. But they also often degrade human health.
Is a High-Fat Diet Healthy? What the Science Says
Variations of the high-fat diet have been popular for decades. Are they healthy? Here's what the science says.
Weight Loss With Plants Episode 3 – Al Schmidt
Al’s story proves that it’s never too late to make a dietary change. At 80, he overcame his crippling cardiac disease with WFPB nutrition, and he’s still going strong!
A WFPB Diet Helped My Fibroid and Menstrual Pain
Plant-based nutrition can produce profound benefits for those suffering from hormone-related conditions and diseases, including several which affect huge proportions of the American and global population.
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.
Plant-Based Nutrition Student Spotlight: Tig Notaro
Internationally-recognized comedian shares her plant-based journey, and her passion for helping others along the path toward better health.
Mel’s Plant-Based Journey From Heart Disease to Health
Never underestimate the power of planting the seeds of change in others. Let yourself be a good example and a resource for transformation.
Married Couple Find Renewed Health & Lose a Combined 200 lbs With a Whole Food, Plant-Based Diet
There’s no such thing as “too late.” Choosing health can have a profound effect on your life, and enrich the lives of those around you.
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?
Plant-Based Diet for Diabetes: What About Carbs?
Carbohydrates are often criticized in very simplistic terms, especially when it comes to diabetes, but does that tell the whole story?
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.
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?
Cancer, Heart Disease, and Weight Loss: A Plant-Based Diet Rescued My Health
Although modern medicine’s first inclination is to fight disease, Bryan Jackson, cancer and heart attack survivor, suggests a friendlier approach- one that not only helps slow or reverse disease but helps the whole person.
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, 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.
