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Success StoriesSee articleAt 28 Years Old, I Was on Nearly 10 Medications. Then I Changed My Diet
My relationship with food was established long before I understood health. I grew up eating fried foods, refined carbohydrates, dairy, sugary treats, and frequent takeout and fast food. In my early 20s, that pattern only deepened: Eating out was normal, convenience came first, and vegetables were more of an afterthought than a meaningful part of […] -
Success StoriesSee articleHow I Reached a Healthy A1c Without Counting Calories
I grew up in a family that ate unhealthy vegetarian diets—lots of fried foods and ultraprocessed snacks, even though meat wasn’t part of the picture. When I was 11 years old, both of my parents were diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. Over time, their health continued to decline, and later in life they each suffered […] -
Success StoriesSee articleI Was Overweight and Exhausted. A Whole-Food, Plant-Based Diet Changed Everything
Before discovering the power of plant-based eating, Weston was 60 pounds overweight, on the verge of needing statins, and struggling with brain fog and fatigue. I was 27 years old when my mother passed away from breast cancer at 59, after a long and difficult fight with the illness. I had been married for only […] -
Success StoriesSee articleAfter Breast Cancer Returned, I Took Control of My Health with a Whole-Food, Plant-Based Diet
Before Arlene adopted a plant-based lifestyle, she felt trapped in a cycle of exhaustion and weight gain, convinced that growing older meant feeling worse. I gradually put on excess pounds over the course of my adult life. During the last couple years of my marriage, I was working long hours, and my weight ballooned up […] -
Success StoriesSee articleAfter Cutting Out Ultraprocessed Vegan Foods, I’m Pain-Free and 80 Pounds Lighter
Jolie Blanche Levene-Pryor thought that following a vegan diet would help her reach a healthy weight. But it wasn’t until she committed to a whole-food, plant-based diet—cutting out highly processed foods and added oils—that she shed more than 80 pounds and eliminated chronic pain. My journey away from a standard American diet began in 2009, […] -
Success StoriesSee articleOn a Keto Diet, My Heart Disease Got Worse. Going Plant-Based Helped Me Heal
I grew up in Manila, Philippines, and moved with my family to Boulder, Colorado, in 2006. While I missed the sea and beaches, I quickly fell in love with hiking the Colorado mountains. My diet, however, took a turn for the worse. I transitioned from a pork-centric Filipino diet of lumpia, sisig, and lechon to […] -
Success StoriesSee articleI Struggled With Obesity My Whole Life—Until I Went Plant-Based
I began struggling with obesity before the age of 10. Even though I ate moderate amounts of food, I couldn’t seem to stop putting on weight. I spent decades stuck in a cycle of yo-yo dieting, losing and regaining hundreds of pounds. At my heaviest, I weighed 420 pounds. I had hypertension, acid reflux, liver […] -
Success StoriesSee article1 Year into a Plant-Based Diet, I’ve Ditched 70 Pounds and 8 Medications
Just two years ago, I could barely walk up one flight of stairs to my office, and once I made it upstairs, I would have to stop and lean against the wall to catch my breath and relieve my back pain. Keep in mind, this was just one flight of stairs. I suffered from high […] -
Success StoriesSee article‘I Fully Expected to Die from This’: How a Whole-Food, Plant-Based Diet Helped Me Heal from a Debilitating Condition
In April 1999, during a trip to France, I woke up with my bottom lip swollen to twice its normal size. I assumed I’d eaten something I was allergic to. But when I got home to Canada, the swelling kept happening—on my arms, my feet, my face. I was eventually diagnosed with idiopathic angioedema, a […] -
Success StoriesSee articleWhere Are They Now? Updates from Some of Our All-Time Favorite Success Stories
There’s nothing more inspiring and energizing for us than hearing how a whole-food, plant-based lifestyle has improved readers’ health and well-being. Over the years, we’ve been deeply moved by stories of people reversing debilitating and sometimes life-threatening diseases. We’ve witnessed many do a U-turn on multiple generations’ worth of poor eating habits, establishing a healthier […] -
Success StoriesSee articleFrom Bacon-Lover to Vegan: My Unlikely Journey to Better Health
For much of my life, I was the stereotypical “never going vegan” guy: double cheeseburgers, meat-lovers pizzas, Mmmm…bacon jokes. My parents are retired dairy and cattle farmers, and I farmed pigs and chickens myself. I was also an avid fisherman. Veganism was not remotely appealing to me. In fact, I ridiculed it. In 2019, my […] -
Success StoriesSee articleI Had Gout, High Blood Pressure, and Prediabetes—Now I’m Thriving on Plants
Before transitioning to a whole-food, plant-based (WFPB) lifestyle, my health was heading in a dangerous direction. I was diagnosed with gout, had high blood pressure, and was prediabetic. I carried significant extra weight and often felt tired, sluggish, and generally unwell. My diet was typical of the Western lifestyle: full of processed foods, animal products, […]
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