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.
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.
7 Tips to Get Your Kids to Eat More Veggies
Most children don’t love to eat their veggies. Try these 7 tips to help your child eat more greens and vegetables.
Back to School: Plant-Based Tips & Recipes
Check out Chef Katie’s 3 tips to get back into a healthy school routine. These easy recipes will help you start the school year off right.
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?
8 Tips to Be Plant-Based When Your Spouse Is Not
Is your spouse not on board with a plant-based diet? Here are some tips for staying plant-based when your family or spouse are not willing to be.
Healthy Children Begin With Healthy Parents – Food Choices Matter
Healthy families can produce healthy children. It is important to support our children’s health, one healthy meal at a time.
Living in a “Blended” Dietary Household? 4 Solutions to Make it Work
When one (or more) of you is a whole food, plant-based eater and others in your household aren’t, how do you make it work?
Cooking at Every Age, Why Kids Should Learn To Cook
After my parents got divorced, my dad had to learn how to cook for himself, and he patiently allowed me into the kitchen with him as he figured it out.
Big Bang Theory’s Mayim Bialik Encourages Busy Families to Thrive, Plant-Based
Mayim is a mom with two plant-based sons. At the end of the day she knows what it's like to be a busy (single) parent with little time to spend in the kitchen.
Baltimore Public School Implements Food Literacy For All Students
Food literacy education provides a positive solution to our nation’s health, education and environmental problems.
Millennials and A Plant-Based Diet. Better Food, Better Choices.
They aren’t interested in doing what their parents did just for the sake of tradition but making better choices for themselves, animals & the environment.
Breast-Feeding, What’s a Mom to Do?
Formula feeding one’s baby is an individual’s choice. Before relying on, sugary substitutes, other mammals or powdered milk, consider breast milk.
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