Recovery From Eating Disorders – My Plant-Based Journey
This article contains material regarding eating disorders that may be triggering for some readers. According to the American Psychiatric Association, eating disorders are illnesses in which people experience severe disturbances in their eating behaviors and related thoughts and emotions. People with eating disorders typically become preoccupied with food and with their body weight. An eating … Continued
Could Keeping a Food Journal Be the Missing Link to Finally Losing Weight?
Food journaling is often a dreaded task for those trying to lose weight, but for Sharme it was key to her success.
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.
I Reversed My Type 2 Diabetes With a Plant-Based Diet & Help From My Mom
Which sounds better—a lifetime of prescription drugs, or a fast-acting dietary lifestyle change that only has positive side effects?
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 Del’s Essential Plant-Based Kitchen Equipment
Want to start cooking more for yourself but feel stumped by how to outfit your kitchen with all the right tools? Chef Del gives his down-to-earth, practical list of essential kitchen equipment to set you up for success.
Busting Nutrition Myths: How Plant-Based Diets Are Healthy for Children & Families
In the Center for Nutrition Studies’ upcoming Plant Forward Virtual Workshop Series, Dr. Shah will share her insights into how to make a whole food, plant-based diet sustainable for you and your family. Read more about her work and her most recent book, co-authored with Brenda Davis, RD. Nutrition can be a controversial topic. Doctors, … Continued
Can Water Fasting Regulate Blood Pressure? It Worked for Me!
It can feel like “nothing works” to regular blood pressure, including medication, but there is hope: Sharme Ridley talks about how medically supervised water-only fasting helped her get her blood pressure down and keep it down.
Is Stevia the Safest Sweetener?
Although stevia comes from a plant and is often marketed as healthy and even plant-based, there is more than meets the eye when it comes to this natural sweetener. Make sure you know the pros and cons before you sweeten your next recipe with stevia.
Weight Loss & Cancer Management: How Whole Food, Plant-Based Support Helped Kelly
After years of on-and-off whole food, plant-based eating, Kelly fully committed to the WFPB lifestyle change and found great success in weight loss and managing her metastatic breast cancer.
Book Excerpt: I Am Not a Tractor! How Florida Farmworkers Took On the Fast Food Giants and Won
How did the modest tomato not only help increase farm workers’ wages but also improve their safety and working conditions? This excerpt from the book I Am Not a Tractor! How Florida Farmworkers Took On the Fast Food Giants and Won gives you a teaser into just that.
Core Conditioning — Why We Need It and What Really Works
Eating a whole food, plant-based diet is great, but it’s even better coupled with core conditioning, which can help your posture and relieve joint and low back pain. With a handful of core-strengthening exercises, you can feel great and avoid pain and injury.
Book Review: I Am Not a Tractor! How Florida Farmworkers Took On the Fast Food Giants and Won
Food is something we all need, yet the farmworkers who provide our food have historically been treated less than human. Susan Marquis, author of I Am Not a Tractor!, examines how real change can happen when the voiceless are given a microphone.
The Support You Need: Tips to Help Maintain Your Weight Loss Goals
Weight loss goals are easier to achieve and maintain with the proper support. In this article, Del Sroufe gives his advice on types of support and community he finds helpful when it comes to his diet and health.
How To Get Your Vitamin D From Mushrooms
Most people get their vitamin D from 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...
GRACE Project Improves Individual & Community Health Through Nutrition in Kenya
GRACE Initiative’s Food Literacy Project in Kenya’s Kisii County promotes the importance of traditional plant-based foods and climate-smart farming.
Autoimmunity and Diet: Is There a Connection?
Autoimmune disorders are a fact of life for many, and frustratingly, the causes of autoimmunity are unknown. What research does suggest, though, is that diet can have a negative or a positive effect, and many signs point to the benefits of a whole food diet.
A Registered Dietitican’s Professional & Personal Journey to WFPB Nutrition: A Seed That Blossomed
One book changed the entire trajectory of this Registered Dietitian’s career and life. Read about Didem’s journey on a whole food, plant-based diet and the changes it made for her, large and small.
AmaruArts Preserves Culture & Diversity of Life in the Andes With Agriculture & Nutrition
What can we learn from the ancient agricultural practices of Indigenous peoples, and how might those lessons be used to improve health today?
After Eating Plant-Based Daniel Said Goodbye to 160 lbs, Sleep Apnea, & Type 2 Diabetes
Daniel Caracciolo is a whole food, plant-based (WFPB) advocate who found great success in weight loss following this lifestyle. He is training for his first triathlon and aims to start a plant-based meal prep and catering business.
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.
Become an Expert on Plant-Based Nutrition & Earn Your Certificate
The demand for plant-based nutrition experts is only rising. Choosing to pursue that expertise changed my life, and I think it can change yours too.
How Strict Does My Plant-Based Diet Need To Be?
Will a tiny bit of oil really hurt you? Can a whole food, plant-based diet be followed just part time? These questions and others are answered by Dr. Thomas Campbell.
UGROW Garden Network Puts Permaculture into Practice
Supporting over 60 community gardens and 500 gardeners throughout Worcester, MA, UGROW is bringing communities together for sustainable change.
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