GreenSpace Café: My Journey from the Cardiology Lab to the Kitchen
Over 25 years ago, I embarked on a career as an invasive cardiologist skilled in placing first balloons and then stents in…
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Meet Fiona Oakes, Ultrarunner for the Animals
For the Animals, a documentary short by Insightful Films, features the story of vegan runner Fiona Oakes, the fastest woman to run a…
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FOOD NEWS: Restaurant Vegetarian Menus Grow by 66 Percent in Three Years
According to a new report: In the past three years, vegetarian menus saw a “66 percent growth at restaurants while 51 percent…
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How One Piglet Changed My Life
Growing up on a farm in a small Ohio town, I shared my childhood with animals of all kinds. I was enchanted…
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New Study: Typical American Diet and Dairy Products Raise Prostate Cancer Death Risk
A new study found that prostate cancer patients who ate a Western diet were 2.5 times more likely to die from the…
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Forks Over Knives App Now Available for Android
The Forks Over Knives Android app is finally here! Our dedicated team set out to create a first-class mobile experience and to…
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My $1.50 a Day Challenge: Eating a Plant-Based Diet on an Austere Budget
I recently took on a personal challenge to eat on $1.50 a day for five days. I was apprehensive and didn’t think…
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Recently, I was teaching a nutrition class and describing the adequacy of plant-based diets to meet human nutritional needs. A woman raised…
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Freshwater Abuse and Loss: Where Is It All Going?
Along with climate change, perhaps the most pressing concern we have regarding sustaining our lives, and future life on earth, is our…
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Angelina Jolie’s Double Mastectomy—People Are Desperate for Change
I have no intention of criticizing the famous actress, Angelina Jolie, for her decision to have both breasts removed in an effort…
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Q&A with Rip Esselstyn on His New Book, “My Beef with Meat”
Rip Esselstyn, the former firefighter featured in Forks Over Knives and bestselling author of The Engine 2 Diet, has written a new…
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Excerpt from Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition
The Modern Health-Care Myth From Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition “He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he…
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