Dr. McDougall cuts corporate health care expenses in half using starch-based diet (VIDEO)

Dr. McDougall cuts corporate health care expenses in half using starch-based diet (VIDEO)

Health care costs in the US are out of control.  General Motors spends almost $3,000 per car they sell paying employee health expenses.  Employer health care...
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John Davis

Fast Food? - it's just distorted jungle food

John Davis, 05.16.2012

Whether you subscribe to Eve and Adam or Evolution, it is clear that our distant ancestors lived entirely on fast-food. It was growing all around them in the jungle/garden – they just reached out, grabbed some...

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J Morris Hicks

HBO 'Obesity Special' simply adds to the confusion.

J Morris Hicks, 05.15.2012

  Good description of the problem. The solution? Not so much Image from the HBO documentary Did you watch the first few hours of the HBO Obesity special last night? If so, I would like to hear what you thought about it...

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Janice Stanger, PhD

"The Ocean Needs Sharks More Than I Need Soup"

Janice Stanger, PhD, 05.15.2012

Judy Ki Has Retired to a Career of Advocating For Sharks, Chickens, Pigs, and Politically Courageous Candidates The family meals of Judy Ki’s Hong Kong childhood paved the way for her current whole foods, plant-based diet. She grew up in the Chinese...

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Jess Parsons

Vegan Kids, Breastfeeding, and SEX!

Jess Parsons, 05.14.2012

I've posted before about how breastfeeding, and in particular a natural weaning process (years, not months), is a strong building block for a healthy vegan child. Basically, if you continue to breastfeed your child along with the solids they eat, you are...

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Michael Greger MD

Poultry and Penis Cancer

Michael Greger MD, 05.17.2012

One of the reasons it’s so difficult to study the relationship between diet and cancer is because many dietary behaviors are associated with non-dietary behaviors. For example, one of the reasons we used to think coffee-drinking caused cancer was because people who...

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Vegparadise Blog

Starbucks Is Seeing Red

Vegparadise Blog, 05.08.2012

 

Starbucks announced its products would no longer contain cochineal extract, a red coloring made from crushed insects. As we explained ten years ago in our initial story, carmine or cochineal appears in many products marketed to people who are unaware of its...

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Dustin Rudolph PharmD

Oral Health And Plant-Based Diets

Dustin Rudolph PharmD, 04.26.2012

We all know that eating a plant-based diet abundant in fruits and vegetables does wonders for our health. The reduction in the three most talked about diseases in these regards are obesity, heart disease, and diabetes. All of them can be prevented...

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Sarah Taylor

Kale, White Bean & Rosemary Soup!

Sarah Taylor, 04.09.2012

I went to Whole Foods and was blown away by one of their delicious “Health Starts Here” soups, whose main ingredients were kale and white beans.  If you’re not familiar with the “Health Starts Here” program, it marks foods around the store...

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Bryanna Clark Grogan

INTRODUCING HOMEMADE PALM OIL-FREE VEGAN BUTTERY SPREAD--BUTTAH!

Bryanna Clark Grogan, 04.02.2012

Photo by Christina Hoheisel  (PS: Christina not only did a fantastic job photographing the Buttah, but went out and found the ingredients, ordered the molds and tackled the recipe, mastering it on the first try!  Thank you so much, Christina!)   You may...

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Pam Popper PhD

Learn to be a Plant-Based Health Professional!

Pam Popper PhD, 03.16.2012

The Wellness Forum Institute's Diet and Lifestyle Intervention Course Begins June 6! The Diet and Lifestyle Intervention Course is offered by The Wellness Forum Institute for Health Studies.  The course is designed to teach doctors and other health and fitness professionals how...

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Chef AJ

A Fat-Free Dressing that actually tastes good?

Chef AJ, 03.15.2012

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Walter Jacobson, M.D.

It's Not Easy Being A Saint In the City

Walter Jacobson, M.D., 03.14.2012

This world is so disturbed, so confused, so caught up in fear, judgment, aggression, competition. It's all very self destructive. There's only one way out of this mess. We need to change people's minds. We do this by staying true to our...

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Dr. Will Tuttle

What Did American Indians Eat, Actually?

Dr. Will Tuttle, 02.24.2012

A couple of months ago, in early November, 2011, my wife Madeleine and I visited Natural Bridge State Park in the mountains of Virginia, and as part of that, we also visited the Monacan Indian Living History Village that is there. It was a...

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Gail Davis

Book Review: Vegan Holiday Kitchen by Nava Atlas

Gail Davis, 02.05.2012

I have an addiction—an insatiable appetite and one true weakness. I admit it. I am obsessed with vegan recipe books. Maybe it's because when I first became vegan there were so few really great vegan cookbooks available. I was out there...

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