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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Alissa Bilfield and Adam Aronovitz are co-founders of The Cookbook Project, an amazingly inspiring, effective, and elegant not-for-profit dedicated to the fine mostly-lost art of home cooking.
With projects in 35 US states and over 20 countries around the world, Alissa and Adam are empowering communities to reclaim their culinary roots and break free from the industrial food system that creates disease, dependence, and displacement.
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Alan Roettinger packs a ton of wisdom, compassion, and humor into a 102-minute interview – one of the longest and most inspiring I’ve had the privilege to conduct.
Alan shifted his career as private chef to the rich and famous (he doesn’t name names, except for Bill Clinton and Frank Sinatra) to a successful stint as the author of four vegan cookbooks. In this far-ranging conversation.
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OK, so I’ve been procrastinating writing this intro to the Matt Frazier interview for about a week, because I wanted to get the prose just right.
Matt is the founder of No-Meat Athlete, originally a blog, then a book, and now a movement growing on its own steam.
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Elana “Titanium” Priesman is an unlikely subject for a magazine devoted to fitness.
Overweight as a child, obese as a young adult, uninterested in sports, picked last in gym class to the groans of her teammates, Elana achieved a stunning turnaround a couple of years ago.
Culminating in her profile in the October 2014 Vegan Health and Fitness magazine, in an article titled “How I Lost 100 Pounds.”
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Dr Garth Davis is medical director of Surgical Weight Loss at Memorial Harmon Memorial City Hospital in Houston, Texas.
After years of performing weight loss surgery, with himself overweight and faced with a medical recommendation to start taking cholesterol-lowering drugs, Garth woke up one day and asked the question, “Why are Americans so overweight and unhealthy?”
Which led him to a second question: “Where in the world are people slim and healthy?”
Which led him to a comprehensive study of nutrition, a complete overhaul of his personal lifestyle and diet, and a totally new way of working with his obese patients.
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In college, Janice Stanger developed serious eating disorders to hide her binge eating from others. At 5’4″, she ballooned somewhere past 165 pounds (she admits to having stopped weighing herself when the news got too grim).
Even when she licked that disorder, she still tried pretty much every diet under the sun in an attempt to get thin. Nothing worked for long, leaving her with a closet full of “thin clothes,” “fat clothes,” and every size in between.
Furthermore, she was plagued by a slew of health problems, including chronic respiratory infections, severe endometriosis, fatigue, intense headaches, and ongoing bouts of depression.
At no point in her journey up to this point had she even considered that her food intake could be related to this issues.
Then… something happened that slowly, inexorably, changed everything.
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Emily Nolan is one of my heroes. She’s an internationally sought after model, a former Olympic trainee, a serial entrepreneur, and a tireless advocate for kindness, self-acceptance, and positive body image.
As the founder of MyKindofLife.com, Emily writes and creates media that provides “inspiration for kind people.”
And as the founder of the non-profit “Topless,” Emily empowers women and men to accept and love their own bodies in a public way, through yoga classes and other live events.
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