At 56, I’m Fitter, Healthier, and Happier Than Ever, Thanks to a Plant-Based Diet
I struggled with being overweight my entire adult life. It took chest pains in my mid-40s, spending time in cardiac rehab, being…


I struggled with being overweight my entire adult life. It took chest pains in my mid-40s, spending time in cardiac rehab, being…
I always struggled with my weight growing up. I was never the heaviest in my class, but I was always heavy enough…
I have been a physical therapist for the past 15 years. Over that time I have worked with thousands of patients and…
For many years of my life I was “Mr. BBQ”: I never missed an opportunity to get the grill fired up. For…
I used to constantly obsess over losing weight: what to eat, what not to eat, how I looked in the mirror each…
I can barely remember a time when I didn’t hate the word “migraine” and its little sister, “headache.” I had my first…
As a young schoolteacher in the 1980s and early 1990s, I completed several Olympic-distance triathlons. I stopped competing in these events when…
I started struggling with obesity during childhood. Despite many attempts to manage my weight, it continually crept up. I was eventually diagnosed…
I’m from Kansas City and grew up on barbecue. I ate a lot of ribs, chicken, brisket, and pulled pork. I began…
Growing up, asthma made me self-conscious, and I limited my physical activity because of it. I didn’t want to be the girl…
February 12, 2013, will live in infamy as my “death day,” but perhaps it would be more accurate to call it my…
My family was self-sufficient on our small Iowa farm in the 1960s and ’70s. We raised, butchered, and packaged cattle, pigs, and…