If you are overweight or obese and are discouraged at your rate of weight loss after transitioning to a WFPB diet, you may be sabotaging your efforts by consuming too many liquid calories. Although ... READ MORE...

What is a whole food plant-based (WFPB) diet? A WFPB diet is based on whole or minimally processed plants, primarily fruits, vegetables, whole grains, tubers, and legumes. It excludes or minimizes ... READ MORE...

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease) strikes healthy, middle-aged people seemingly at random. It is a brutal neurodegenerative disease. ALS paralyzes people while leaving their ... READ MORE...

On March 15, 2009, I began eating a WFPB diet. My transition went pretty smoothly as the only animal foods that were part of my diet at that time included non-fat yogurt, chicken, turkey and the ... READ MORE...

For years, chronic kidney disease or kidney insufficiency has been treated with low protein and low phosphorous diets with the goal of delaying onset of dialysis. In 2007, a Thai study compared ... READ MORE...

A few evenings ago I learned that I like pig food. You see, I happened to stumble upon John Maggio’s wonderful documentary called “Italian Americans” which aired on our local PBS station. One of the ... READ MORE...

One of the biggest challenges you may encounter when transitioning to a whole food plant based diet (WFPB) is figuring out how to respond to reactions from friends and family after you share your ... READ MORE...

I was having a perfectly pleasant day until a colleague sent me this article entitled “The Edible RX: Don’t Demonize Processed Food” by Keith Ayoob, EdD, RD. I’ve gotten better over the past few ... READ MORE...