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.

Never Too Late: Reversing My Heart Disease on a WFPB Diet at 80

Al Schmidt shows you’re never too old to make changes to reverse heart disease. Although it was a bumpy road getting there, Al has found he loves eating plant-based — for the results and the taste of it!

Cancer, Heart Disease, & 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.

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?

Can Doctor Supervised 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.

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.

A Registered Dietitian’s Professional & Personal Journey to WFPB Nutrition

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.

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.

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.

Plant-Based Nutrition Saved His Life. Now, His Support Group Helps Thousands

PBNSG is the largest whole food, plant-based support group in the world. Read about what they do, and their new, exciting education initiatives.

A Modified Whole Food, Plant-Based Diet Was Necessary to Manage My Rheumatoid Arthritis

A whole food, plant-based diet is a wonderful treatment for many diseases, but it’s not always a silver bullet cure-all. Jill Edwards offers her experience with a modified WFPB diet that worked for her, after some help from a rheumatologist and some trial and error.

Culture Change through Accessible WFPB Program

The following is an article from a Community Grant recipient. To hear more from Dr. Ted Barnett, register for the Plant Forward Virtual Workshop Series. During my years as a physician, I have observed a society that has become sicker and sicker despite steady improvements to technology and increased medical expenditures. Fairly early on in … Continued

Fighting My Autoimmune Disease Through Plant-Based Nutrition

Jitka Burger reversed her relapsing polychondritis with a whole food, plant-based diet, and now she is on a mission to help others, using her education and experience.

Transplanting Traditions Supports Refugee Farmers as They Grow Their Food and Their Community

The refugee farmers say that Transplanting Traditions provides meaningful, joyful opportunities to increase income as well as to come together, rebuild, heal from trauma and celebrate culture and community.

How a Plant-Based Diet Saved Our Lives – Literally!

Bob and Fran are octogenarians who both faced devastating diseases. With the help of a whole food, plant-based lifestyle, they have their health back and they feel better than ever.

Aaya’s Table — A CNS Microgrant Recipient Provides Hospitals With Culinary Assistance

Aaya’s Table is a community leads grant recipient. They are on a mission to bring healthy, whole food, plant-based home cooking to diverse American homes and are the culinary arm that physicians embracing lifestyle change can refer their patients to.

CNS Microgrant Recipient Casa Vegana Is Making an Impact in Puerto Rico

Casa Vegana is a community leads grant recipient. This small non-profit led by Anthony Martinez is based in Puerto Rico. They support and educate the public about the plant-based movement through virtual events, meal shares, and more.

DNA or Dinner? Are Certain Health Conditions a Life Sentence or Can Food Help Reset Your Genes?

There are some things you just don’t accept, and bad health is one of them. My family and my doctor believed that sugar was genetic. Was chronic disease and pain encoded into my DNA? Or was there something else going on?

How I Reversed My Diabetes and Became Healthy at Last

The following is an excerpt from Healthy at Last: A Plant-Based Approach to Preventing and Reversing Diabetes and Other Chronic Illnesses by Eric Adams.

The Grass Is Greener Where You Water It – Gardener Helps to Grow Food and a Community

Julialynn Walker is providing the community with resources and tools for starting a garden. Education is a key component in providing her community with healthier nutritional options.

How I Beat GERD, Gastritis, & Constipation With a Whole Food, Plant-Based Diet

Years of “healthy” eating and a variety of medications couldn’t help relieve symptoms of GERD, gastritis, and constipation, but a whole food, plant-based diet could, and did.

105 lbs Down & I Feel the Best in My Entire Life: My Plant-Based Journey to Ultimate Health

ollowing a health scare, one man shares his journey of how he lost more than a 100 pounds on a whole food, plant-based diet. Learn how he plans to keep it up and help others in the process.