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WellnessSee articleAmerica’s Largest Municipal Hospital System Now Offers Meatless Mondays
Editor’s Note: Eric Adams, Brooklyn Borough president at the time of this article’s release, was sworn in as mayor of New York City on Jan. 1, 2022. NYC Health + Hospitals has announced that it is participating in Meatless Mondays by expanding plant-based menu options on Mondays at all 11 of its acute care hospitals. […] -
WellnessSee articleLeading Medical Journal Cites Meat as Major Harm to Health and Environment
The Lancet, one of the oldest and most respected medical journals in the world, has gone on record questioning the sustainability and healthfulness of meat in a new op-ed titled “We Need to Talk About Meat.” “What is a healthy amount of red or processed meat?” the editorial board writes. “It’s looking increasingly like the answer, for […] -
WellnessSee articleNew California Law Guarantees Plant-Based Meal Options in Public Hospitals and Prisons
Last week, California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a new law mandating that public hospitals, health care facilities, and prisons offer plant-based options at every meal. Senate Bill 1138, “Ensuring a Plant Based Meal Option,” guarantees that people in these institutions have access to food free of animal products. “Whether to protect animals, our climate or […] -
WellnessSee articleCity of Berkeley Establishes “Green Mondays,” Goes Vegan One Day a Week
The Berkeley City Council has approved a resolution requiring city-owned and -operated institutions to serve vegan-only food one day per week. Berkeley is the first city in the United States to adopt such a program. The “Green Monday Resolution,” passed last Thursday, is the city’s latest initiative aimed at slowing climate change. “Scientific analyses have […] -
WellnessSee articleUniversity of Florida Hospital Launches Plant-Based Patient Menu
You couldn’t always order a tofu vegetable stir-fry or lentil bolognese at the University of Florida Health Shands Hospital in Gainesville, Fla. But thanks to a recently introduced plant-based menu, recovering cardiac and vascular patients now have a variety of meatless options for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. “My mission from the get-go has been to […] -
WellnessSee articleBellevue Hospital Announces Plant-Based Diet Program to Help Treat NYC Patients
In a groundbreaking initiative, NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue will offer New York City residents personalized support in making the potentially life-saving transition to a whole-food plant-based diet. With an initial $400,000 in funding, the Plant-Based Lifestyle Medicine Program will launch this fall at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan, serving patients from all five New York City […] -
WellnessSee articleNew Study: Avoiding Animal Products Is the Best Thing You Can Do for the Planet
Since Forks Over Knives debuted in 2011, there’s been an explosion of nutritional research supporting the idea that a whole-food, plant-based diet can provide optimal health for just about anyone. But the benefits of plant-based eating go far beyond personal health. In recent years, a multitude of studies have shown that the production of animal […] -
WellnessSee articleAntibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Found in Majority of Supermarket Meat
Roughly 75 percent of the meat sold at grocery stores in the United States contains antibiotic-resistant bacteria, aka superbugs, according to a new report by the Environmental Working Group, a consumer advocacy and research nonprofit. Sound familiar? EWG first warned of these superbugs—and the serious public health threat they pose—in 2013. Not only does the […] -
WellnessSee articleDr. John McDougall Announces Retirement from Clinical Practice: What’s Next for the Plant-Based Pioneer?
John McDougall, MD, has worn many hats over the years: best-selling author, plant-based pioneer, board-certified doctor of internal medicine, starch advocate. He also appeared in the Forks Over Knives documentary and founded the Dr. McDougall’s Right Foods grocery product line with his wife, Mary. Last month, after half a century as a physician, McDougall announced […] -
WellnessSee articleHarvard Study: Plant-Based Diet Could Reduce Early Deaths by One-Third
Anybody who’s watched Forks Over Knives knows the powerful effect a plant-based diet can have on their health. Now, research at Harvard suggests that roughly one-third of early deaths—that amounts to almost 200,000 lives a year—could be prevented if everyone moved toward a plant-based diet. That number comes from new, not-yet-published research led by Walter Willett, M.D., […] -
WellnessSee articleHow the Way We Farm Makes Us Sick: 6 Things You Need to Know about the U.S. Farm Bill
It’s no secret that the U.S. healthcare system is in deep trouble. Staggering statistics appear each day. Obesity, heart attacks, diabetes, cancer, dementia—America is awash in chronic disease. Meanwhile, a whopping 86 percent of the more than $3 trillion our nation spent in 2016 on healthcare did not actually go toward making people healthy. This money was spent on […] -
WellnessSee articleMontefiore Health System Now Plays Forks Over Knives and Serves Plant-Based Meals at Patient Beds
We are very pleased to share that in addition to our plant-based outpatient Cardiac Wellness Program, Montefiore now offers plant-based vegan meals for inpatients and that Forks Over Knives plays in patient rooms! Here is our story. As a plant-based cardiologist at Montefiore Health System, I have had the privilege of seeing patients transform before […]