How to encourage children to adopt a whole-food, plant-based lifestyle

Knowing how and what to feed your child can be overwhelming, especially when it comes to raising your child on a plant-based diet.

Try It, You Just Might Like It! Introducing Kids to More Fruits & Veggies

For far too long, children in this community have been establishing lifelong habits and preferences that involve more processed foods and fewer fruits and vegetables; by encouraging them to try a variety of fruits and vegetables, and by increasing nutrition education in their classrooms, we hope to help establish lifelong habits of health instead.

Empowering Plant-Powered Girls in the Dominican Republic

Globalization and factory food production has deeply affected the health and well-being of many marginalized communities: with more foreign influence and commerce comes more processed and packaged foods. We at the Mariposa DR Foundation are committed to developing life-long healthy habits while protecting the environment and respecting the abundant natural resources the Dominican Republic has … Continued

Changing Nutrition Education in Elementary Schools

Amie Hamlin and the Coalition for Healthy School Food are on a mission to increase plant-based foods in Elementary Schools across New York.

Promoting A Plant-Based Diet Through Culturally-Appropriate Foods

The Caribbean diets are typically focused on animal-based foods, with meat and cheap imported junk food. This organization is dedicated to changing that.

Why Should We Focus on Children’s Nutrition?

Too often children’s nutrition doesn’t get the attention it deserves. This is why it’s important that changes.

Our Youngest Certificate Student Shares Her Plant-Based Journey

The youngest graduate of our Plant-Based Nutrition Certificate shares her journey with plant-based living and cooking.

School Psychologist Uses Nutrition to Improve Learning

Learn how Nutrition 4 the Growing Brain is using improved nutrition to address learning and behavioral challenges in kids.

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

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.

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?

FamilyCook Productions Changes Eating Behavior and Lifestyle

For decades, our award-winning nutrition education curriculum has influenced hundreds of thousands of Americans of all ages and backgrounds.

How to Teach Children Plant-Based Cooking Skills

Teaching your children cooking skills requires a little extra effort and patience, but the benefits are manifold and long term: they will be willing to try more foods, they will eat healthier as children and into adulthood, they will feel like they are positively contributing to the household, and you make memories together that will last a lifetime.

Growing Food Helps Children Overcome Trauma in Mexico

We Empower ACEs provides survivors of trauma with community-centered programs, resources, and spaces to improve health and food sovereignty.

Farm to Fork Program Creates Lifelong Healthy Eating

Crossroads Community Food Network’s “Healthy Eating” Program encourages participants to see themselves as change agents in their local food system.

Should Pregnant and Breastfeeding Women Take DHA Supplements?

Does maternal supplementation with the long-chain omega-3 fatty acid DHA improve psychomotor, mental, visual, or physical development of infants?

Raising Dairy-Free Babies: Breastfeeding, Formula, and Solid Food

We turned to experienced moms and experts to answer your questions on breastfeeding, formula, and transition to solid foods for raising a dairy-free infant or toddler.

Scientific Review Finds Strong Link Between Dairy Consumption and Asthma

A recent scientific review asserts the role that a plant-based, dairy-free diet has in reducing one’s risk for asthma development and decreasing asthmatic symptoms.

Can Dogs and Cats Eat a Plant-Based Diet?

We know humans can thrive on a plant-based diet, but what about our furry friends? The research about dogs versus cats and diet may surprise you!

7 Plant-Based New Year’s Food Traditions from Around the World

A coin in the beans, 12 grapes at midnight, a hidden almond? What do they all mean? This helpful guide to foods and symbols from around the globe has you covered with plant-based New Year’s traditions to help bring you prosperity, happiness, and especially health.

The Plant-Based Milk Controversy & Why Cow’s Milk Should NOT Be Recommended for Children

There has been an influx of debate through media on plant-based milk and cow’s milk, especially when it comes to children. A whole food, plant-based diet is the best choice for healthy living and disease prevention in both children and adults.

KING Charter Schools to Become the First Plant-Based Public School

The future is plant-based and KING Charter Schools is working hard to make that a reality. KING aspires to be the first public plant-based school in the world.

Do Hormones in Dairy Negatively Affect Your Fertility?

The topic of hormones in our food is a hot button issue, and for good reason, as these ingested hormones can be deleterious to our health and fertility. However, dairy is often left out of this discussion when it should be the first food we examine.

Plant-Based Parents Transitioning With Teenagers

Is your family plant-based? How do you deal with your family’s diet in a divided household? We have two boys in their teens that made the transition to plant-based eating.