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WellnessSee articleLoose Skin After Weight Loss: What You Should Know
If you’ve been struggling to lose weight, adopting a whole-food, plant-based diet can be particularly rewarding. You’ll shed excess weight while enjoying a variety of foods without having to count calories. But weight loss can also come with a frustrating side effect: loose skin. “There tends to be damage of collagen and elastin, which are […] -
WellnessSee articleTop Vegan Physicians Launch 7-Day Plant-Based Challenge for Heart Month
Just in time for American Heart Month, vegan cardiologist Danielle Belardo, MD, is kicking off a new Instagram-powered plant-based challenge. The free seven-day Heart Health Challenge begins Feb. 18. Belardo has enlisted the support of five renowned plant-based doctors and Forks Over Knives to promote the challenge and raise awareness about the power of a […] -
WellnessSee articleWhat I Learned During Forks Over Knives’ 21-Day Challenge
When a new hobby or lifestyle shift starts to feel the least bit good, I pick up the pace. The day I managed 15,000 steps, according to my Fitbit, I knew it’d be a cinch to take 15,000 steps every day for the rest of my life. Until a week later when I rocketed to […] -
WellnessSee articleHow a Plant-Based Diet Can Benefit Endurance Athletes’ Heart Health, Performance, and Recovery
From Olympic skater Meagan Duhamel to ultramarathoner Scott Jurek, numerous athletes have demonstrated that you don’t need to eat meat to compete. Now a new review published in the journal Nutrients supports what these athletes already know: A plant-based diet not only meets athletes’ nutritional needs but also gives endurance athletes an edge when it […] -
WellnessSee articleWhole Plant Foods Take Center-Plate in Canada’s New Food Guide
Canada’s new food guide deems whole plant foods the pillar of a healthful diet. The guide, released Jan. 22, recommends eating mostly fruits, vegetables, and whole grains; choosing “protein foods that come from plants more often”; and minimizing or eliminating “highly processed foods,” added sugars, and added sodium. In a statement explaining the development of […] -
WellnessSee articlePlant-Based Diaries Week 3: Stewing, Simmering, Savoring
I’m not much for measuring spoons in savory cooking. When the saucepan is warm to my touch, I upend the bottle of olive oil and count One, two as the green liquid squiggles across the pan’s surface. So many evenings I make the same movement. One, two. I’m not going to increase my dish load […] -
WellnessSee articlePlant-Based Diaries Week 3: Prep Talk
When following a recipe for dinner, it’s one thing to forget an ingredient at the store. Shallots can, up to a point, be replaced by onions, while substituting plain old water is the punishment you deserve for failing to check broth off your grocery list. But it’s quite another offense to overlook the time commitment […] -
WellnessSee articlePlant-Based Diaries Week 2: Put a Lid On It
After letting a few too many cabbage heads die in the crisper, I’m coming around to the beauty of canned goods. Cylindrical, cheap, hefty with promise, ready to go in just a few minutes … I’ve worried in the past that I’m failing some sort of foodie test if my can opener does half the […] -
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 articleHow Carbs Became a Dietary Supervillain
It seems everyone these days is worried about carbs. But is this concern justified? Our culture is certainly not immune from nutritional confusion. For example, it’s a popular (but incorrect) belief that dairy is needed for bone health, despite the fact it’s most certainly not, and hasn’t even been part of our species’ diet for […] -
WellnessSee articlePlant-Based Diaries Week 2: Building a Better Lunch
I tend to behave horribly at lunch. When noon rolls around, I ask my poor, work-ravaged, sedentary body, “Now what do you really want to eat today? What would make you happy?” Fast-forward an hour later, weighed down by fries and the juicy burger I regretted even as I was bolting it down, and it […] -
WellnessSee articlePlant-Based Diaries Week 1: Look, Ma—No Oil!
I’ll eat breakfast foods at any time of day but rarely manage to before 10 a.m. I’m not the type to sleep in—if I leave home with my hair wet, I dry out to look like Mozart’s rumpled sister—but often I use those valuable pre-work hours to soak in the tub, take my time with […]
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