After a Prostate Cancer Diagnosis Spurred Me to Go Plant-Based, I Feel Like the Energizer Bunny
For most of my life, I didn’t struggle with any health issues at all. I exercised, drank in moderation, and ate what…
see articleFor most of my life, I didn’t struggle with any health issues at all. I exercised, drank in moderation, and ate what…
see articleI hail from Kansas City, Missouri (a town known for its barbecue), and grew up on the standard American diet, with lots…
see articleIn high school I was an athlete. I was used to consuming lots of calories; I was burning them off just as…
see articleMy father ran a slaughterhouse, so my family ate a lot of meat when I was growing up. I couldn’t wait to…
see articleAs a young man I was very athletic, playing high school and college football as a wide receiver. That position required a…
see articleFor much of my adult life, I carried 50 to 60 pounds excess weight. I’m 5-foot-3, and at my heaviest, I weighed…
see articleAs a child, I had a lot of odd symptoms and ailments—tics, shingles, and intractable migraines. From the time I was 12…
see articleI grew up believing that eating meat was necessary. I was encouraged to follow the family traditions and not question them. Why…
see articleBefore finding the whole-food, plant-based way of eating, I had high cholesterol (280 total), and my husband, Jim, had to have quadruple…
see articleIn 2021, I lost my dad to his third heart attack. He was just 52, but he was diabetic and obese. I…
see articleI stopped eating meat back in 1994, primarily because I thought it might help me lose weight. But I ate a lot…
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