My story began in 2007, when I visited my doctor because of a number of troubling symptoms, including acid reflux and chronic…

I did not grow up eating meat because my mother was a Seventh Day Adventist and health and vegetarianism are part of…

I was never a fat kid, but I was big, bordering on chubby. I was active. I played sports, I rode my…

Until age 35, my health was very typical for an American. Then in November of 1988, all that changed: my immune system…

PS244Q, a public school in Flushing, Queens (New York), was the first public non-charter school in America to offer students an all-vegetarian…

In 2010, my doctor suggested that I purchase a funeral plot, because I would most likely need one within five years unless…

As a family medicine physician, I treat patients all day long for conditions related to poor nutrition and obesity: diabetes, high blood…

[Editor’s Note: This post was updated January 2016.] My world changed on May 25th, 2013. A quiet Memorial Day weekend and the…

I grew up at the tip of southern Texas with four brothers and three sisters. When I was eight years old, my…

Jim Morris: Lifelong Fitness, a documentary short by director Ryan Vance, features the story of vegan bodybuilder Jim Morris, the former Mr….

Until recently, I thought it was my destiny to live a life of obesity, rushing headlong toward misery and premature death. I…

It was a normal Friday afternoon at work on the 28th day of March, 2014. While walking out of a meeting I…