Plant-Based Diet Success Stories

I struggled with being overweight my entire adult life. It took chest pains in my mid-40s, spending time in cardiac rehab, being…

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I always struggled with my weight growing up. I was never the heaviest in my class, but I was always heavy enough…

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I have been a physical therapist for the past 15 years. Over that time I have worked with thousands of patients and…

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For many years of my life I was “Mr. BBQ”: I never missed an opportunity to get the grill fired up. For…

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I used to constantly obsess over losing weight: what to eat, what not to eat, how I looked in the mirror each…

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I can barely remember a time when I didn’t hate the word “migraine” and its little sister, “headache.” I had my first…

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As a young schoolteacher in the 1980s and early 1990s, I completed several Olympic-distance triathlons. I stopped competing in these events when…

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I started struggling with obesity during childhood. Despite many attempts to manage my weight, it continually crept up. I was eventually diagnosed…

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I’m from Kansas City and grew up on barbecue. I ate a lot of ribs, chicken, brisket, and pulled pork. I began…

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Growing up, asthma made me self-conscious, and I limited my physical activity because of it. I didn’t want to be the girl…

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February 12, 2013, will live in infamy as my “death day,” but perhaps it would be more accurate to call it my…

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My family was self-sufficient on our small Iowa farm in the 1960s and ’70s. We raised, butchered, and packaged cattle, pigs, and…

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