When ‘Healthy Eating’ Becomes Bad for Your Mind

Eating more healthfully is a solution—not a problem, yet some people can turn the desire for optimal wellness into an obsession called orthorexia nervosa.

Global Whole Food, Plant-Based Community Kitchens

Feeding and educating children & families with a WFPB (whole food, plant-based), sustainable, conscious, and life-saving lifestyle. The WFPB Community Kitchen is an initiative of WFPB.ORG with the goal of educating, feeding, and empowering impoverished communities.

Observations From China: What Happened to the Plant-Based Diet?

The typical Chinese lifestyle now includes less exercise and more meat, dairy, sugar, oil, and fast food than during the The China Study era.

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.

Why Stress Can Make You Overeat and How to Stop It

If you respond to stress by eating, you’re not alone. Chronic stress has become an epidemic in the U.S. Learn more about the dangers of stress eating and how to avoid it using these three tips.

Building Plant-Based Community & Support in 4 Easy Steps

Living by example is a great way to plant seeds of change for those curious about going plant-based. Learn how to support others going plant-based in 4 steps.

Behavior Change is Key for a Plant-Based Lifestyle Transformation

These neurologists say that habits and behavior change are necessary for a successful transition to a whole food, plant-based lifestyle.

Restaurant Campaign Will Bring Plant-Based Options to More Menus

Who says you can’t have a plant-based, oil-free meal and eat it too? PlantPure Communities is helping to create more plant-based options in restaurants all over America and you can help!

Nutrition is a Democratic Topic in This Life Changing Writing Class

Comparing the Standard American Diet with a Plant-Based Diet serves as a model resource for learning basic argumentative skills. It also becomes life changing for many students.

PlantPure Communities Announces 5 Pod Leaders as Scholarship Recipients

PlantPure Communities announced the 5 Pod leader recipients of scholarships for the renowned Plant-Based Nutrition Certificate program offered through the T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies and eCornell.

Are Vegetarian Diets Linked to Depression in Men?

Should men eating a plant-based diet be concerned about increasing their risk of depression? A postnatal questionnaire takes a look at men’s diets and draws conclusions.

Are You a Mindless Eater? Change Your Relationship with Food

Mindful Eating Can Lead to Self-Love. Excerpt from The Mindful Vegan by Lani Muelrath.

Healthcare in Crisis: RN Asks What’s Food Got to Do With It?

Medical treatment plans don’t combat today’s chronic illnesses. Adult obesity rates of 36% and obesity rates for nurses at 55% indicate an overall lack of lifestyle education.

The Mindful Vegan: Happy, Healthy, Here and Now

Have you built a wall of deprivation-driven tension around food? If we are constantly on the way to a perfect-health future, are we ever going to enjoy it?

Healthy Food Choices: Average Starter or All-Pro?

Eating one kale salad does not make us healthy nor does one pizza condemn us. Take a look at the big picture when it comes to a winning diet.

How I Kicked Food & Drug Addiction, Diabetes & Depression

A 7th generation Texan lost 140 pounds on a plant-based diet. It didn’t just save his life, but gave him an entirely new one!

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.

The Benefits of Social Support for Your Healthy Lifestyle

Do your friends and family support or sabotage your efforts to make healthy choices?

Emotional Eating Is a Bad Thing, Right?

The term emotional eating, may have a negative ring to it. Don’t try to fight or forget about your pleasurable food memories. Instead make new connections.

Do You Eat Your Emotions? How to Help With Binge Eating

Chef Del shares his personal story to inspire others who know a whole foods, plant-based diet is optimal yet have an unproductive relationship with food.

Diet to Fight Depression?

Whether we are “Eating our feelings,” or “feeling what we eat,” it’s all connected.

More People Want Vegan Food in Restaurants

Food culture is changing and restaurant menus are finally catching up. Most of them, that is…

Mindful Eating for Balance

5 steps to mindful eating that will take us to a deeper level of well being.

Food Lessons from the Dominican Republic

As Rural To Urban Migration Increases And Farmland Goes To Livestock, Global Roots Restores The Land, Builds A Sustainable Community & Reclaims Our Health!