For many decades, people seeking to lose weight have used calorie restricted diets that require tedious calorie counting and/or incessant portion control. This approach is successful close to 100% ... READ MORE...
Another Study Damning Vegetarian Diets
A recent Study entitled “Nutrition and Health – The Association Between Eating Behavior and Various Health Parameters: A Matched Sample Study” is the latest evidence that shows that mainstream media ... READ MORE...
Phytate in Whole Grains and Legumes
Promoters of “Paleo” diets and other “low carb” diets, often use small slivers of truth from reductionist research to make global claims against the consumption of whole grains and legumes (beans, ... READ MORE...
The Primary Goal of Medical Research Must Change
The Accelerating Medicines Partnership (AMP) is a bold new venture between the NIH, ten biopharmaceutical companies and several non-profit organizations to transform the current model for developing ... READ MORE...
Reductionist Nutrition Research That Will Break Hearts
The study published in The Annals of Internal Medicine entitled: Association of Dietary, Circulating and Supplement Fatty Acids With Coronary Risk: A Systematic Review and Meta Analysis’ suggests that ... READ MORE...
Do Some WFPB Athletes Need To Supplement With Protein?
When National Football League (NFL) future Hall of Fame tight end Tony Gonzalez first went plant based after reading T. Colin Campbell’s “The China Study”, he began eating lots of fruits, veggies and ... READ MORE...
What About Supplements?
Eating a sensible, balanced Whole Food Plant Based diet (WFPB) allows you to eat until you’re full and provides comfort in knowing that you’re consuming large amounts of health promoting nutrients. ... READ MORE...
The Real Heart Healthy Diet
Dr. Dean Ornish and Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn Jr. have clearly demonstrated that low-fat Whole Food Plant Based (WFPB) diets can prevent and treat coronary artery disease (CAD). Their diets are truly low ... READ MORE...
Low HDL (“Good” Cholesterol) Levels Can Be Perfectly Fine.
I’ve had my blood lipid levels tested twice in the last two years – in June 2012 and June 2013. My total serum cholesterol levels were 99 mg/dl in 2012 and 119 mg/dl in 2013. My HDL (“good ... READ MORE...
The WFPB Revolution!
WellPoint, Inc., one of the nation’s largest health benefits companies, and global well-being improvement leader Healthways, Inc. have entered into a definitive agreement whereby WellPoint’s ... READ MORE...