Nancy Condon’s New Lease on Life: How She Found Support and Success with CNS Kitchen

My whole food, plant-based (WFPB) journey started when I joined the CNS Kitchen community, led by Sharme Ridley and Del Sroufe, and participated in a WFPB Wellness Challenge. At first, the transition was difficult for me, but thanks to the kindness and support of my newly discovered community, I turned that rocky beginning into a … Continued

Kathy Plaza Avoided High Blood Pressure Medication by Adopting a WFPB Lifestyle

Kathy Plaza gained 50 unwanted pounds and developed high blood pressure after menopause. At the age of 68, hoping to avoid HBP medication, she decided to do something about it. She’s 75 now and still going strong with her WFPB, SOS-free diet.

Wellness With Plants Episode 5 – Richard Hubbard

Rich was obese, hitting over 350 pounds, but lost more than 150 pounds on a healthy plant-based lifestyle. Here's how he changed his life.

At the age of 55 Karla Freeze changed her life with a plant-based diet

After realizing Alzheimer's was affecting her loved ones, Karla was determined to find a healthier way forward. In doing so she regained her health and lost 236 pounds.

How a Breast Cancer Diagnosis Led Me to a Plant-Based Diet

After a cancer diagnosis, Kelly got serious about her health for the first time in her life. Here’s her road to adopting a whole food, plant-based diet to save her life.

How I Shed A Third of My Body Weight & Regained My Health

After being rushed to the hospital with a life-threatening illness in 2009, Jeanne Schumacher discovered the profound power of whole food, plant-based nutrition. Read her inspirational story of discovery, recovery, and giving back.

Weight Loss With Plants Episode 2 – Kelly Houseman

Tune in to see how committing to a WFPB lifestyle change affected Kelly’s weight loss and the management of her metastatic breast cancer.

Weight Loss With Plants Episode 4 – Ben and Esther Loveridge

Not everyone will be ready for change at the same time. Setting a good example and being patient, especially with loved ones, goes a long way toward nourishing healthy behaviors.

How These 9 Professionals Use Their Plant-Based Nutrition Certificate

Learn how these professionals use the T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies to complement their careers with the Plant-Based Nutrition Certificate through eCornell.

Weight Loss With Plants Episode 3 – Al Schmidt

Al’s story proves that it’s never too late to make a dietary change. At 80, he overcame his crippling cardiac disease with WFPB nutrition, and he’s still going strong!

A WFPB Diet Helped My Fibroid and Menstrual Pain

Plant-based nutrition can produce profound benefits for those suffering from hormone-related conditions and diseases, including several which affect huge proportions of the American and global population.

Overcoming My Junk Food Addiction

Knowing what to eat is only the first step. The psychological barriers of lifestyle change are very real, and often intensely personal.

Cancer Is Not The End: How a Plant-Based Diet Helped Manage Carlos’ Prostate Cancer

Eleven years ago, Carlos was diagnosed with “untreatable” cancer. He discovered the power of nutrition, as recorded in his book, Testimony of Life.

Steps to Go from Meat Eating to Whole Food, Plant-Based

Optimal health isn’t just a switch you can flip. It often takes a long time to achieve our health goals, with many unforeseen stages between here and there.

Weight Loss With Plants Episode 1 – Tim & Heather Kaufman

Watch this inspirational video to learn how two members of our WFPB community have not just lost nearly 300 pounds, but also gained a new lease on life.

Plant-Based Nutrition Student Spotlight: Tig Notaro

Internationally-recognized comedian shares her plant-based journey, and her passion for helping others along the path toward better health.

Mel’s Plant-Based Journey From Heart Disease to Health

Never underestimate the power of planting the seeds of change in others. Let yourself be a good example and a resource for transformation.

Married Couple Find Renewed Health & Lose a Combined 200 lbs With a Whole Food, Plant-Based Diet

There’s no such thing as “too late.” Choosing health can have a profound effect on your life, and enrich the lives of those around you.

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 Journaling be the Missing Link in Your Wellness Journey?

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?