It’s a sad irony that the one area where African-Americans have, after many decades of inequality, finally achieved parity with whites is in rates of breast cancer among women. According to a recent report by the American Cancer Society, rates of breast cancer in African-American women rose almost half a percent every year from 2008 to 2012….
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That question has become a joke in the plant-based community. Comic YouTube songs, Instagram memes of gorillas and weightlifters, and scathing cartoons showing the question asked by obese people stuffing their faces with McDonalds. When you’re initiated into the plant-based world, part of your catechism is a bunch of snappy replies: “Spinach has more protein…
Read MoreMoney coach Dave Ramsey talks about the importance of “feeling money” as it passes through our hands. It’s easy to spend foolishly when we’re just waving credit cards through machines or authorizing direct withdrawals from digital accounts. It’s much harder to make bad money decisions when we have to remove hard currency from our wallets…
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A friend asks: About 2 years ago, I gave up my heavy diet pepsi habit. I’ve moved off of most processed foods, so nowadays, the majority of my non-fruit sugar intake comes from baked goods, and the sugar I put into my cups ‘o tea. So, I recently read about Stevia, plant-extract based sweetener, that,…
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As if paleo weren’t ridiculous and harmful enough, the latest fad diet book takes the trend to an extreme that includes lacing one’s morning coffee with butter and coconut oil. The Bulletproof Diet recommends 50-60% of calories from fat (or as the author Dave Asprey puts it, “healthy fats”), 20% from protein, and the rest…
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I like to bring whole food, plant-based refreshments when I give local talks. I typically just lay them out and don’t highlight the fact that they don’t have added sugar, or eggs, or dairy, or bacon, or whatever else the young people are putting into their treats these days. At the end of the talk,…
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Welcome to a new Plant Yourself feature: Monstrous Marketing. Marketing is a huge part of the reason most people are overweight and sick. So marketing has to become a huge part of the solution. In Monstrous Marketing, I’ll be sharing examples of misleading and manipulative marketing around diet and lifestyle, and suggest ways to neutralize…
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A new study shows that good heart health is really quite simple. Just five things can make the difference between a long and healthy life and one compromised and cut short by heart disease (our number one killer – sorry, Ebola!) Here they are, in order of importance: Eat a healthy diet (the more whole plants,…
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