Books Plant-Based Articles - Center for Nutrition Studies https://nutritionstudies.org/t/books/ Food. Science. Health. Mon, 02 Mar 2026 15:07:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 From Plant to Planet: Nudge your way towards healthier, more sustainable food habits (Book Excerpt) https://nutritionstudies.org/book-excerpt-from-plant-to-planet-nudge-your-way-towards-healthier-more-sustainable-food-habits/ Tue, 02 Nov 2021 21:13:39 +0000 https://nutritionstudies.org/?p=39845 In this excerpt, authors of From Plant to Planet identify and address the most common barriers that prevent dietary lifestyle change.

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Written by Vivienne Alexa Robinson & Poornima Luthra, PhD.

]]> Busting Nutrition Myths: How Plant-Based Diets Are Healthy for Children & Families https://nutritionstudies.org/busting-nutrition-myths-how-plant-based-diets-are-healthy-for-children-families/ Fri, 13 Aug 2021 18:01:32 +0000 https://nutritionstudies.org/?p=38300 In the Center for Nutrition Studies’ upcoming Plant Forward Virtual Workshop Series, Dr. Shah will share her insights into how to make a whole food, plant-based diet sustainable for you and your family. Read more about her work and her most recent book, co-authored with Brenda Davis, RD. Nutrition can be a controversial topic. Doctors, … Continued

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Written by Isabel Lu.

]]> Book Excerpt: I Am Not a Tractor! How Florida Farmworkers Took On the Fast Food Giants and Won https://nutritionstudies.org/book-excerpt-i-am-not-a-tractor-how-florida-farmworkers-took-on-the-fast-food-giants-and-won/ Fri, 30 Jul 2021 18:04:22 +0000 https://nutritionstudies.org/?p=38032 How did the modest tomato not only help increase farm workers’ wages but also improve their safety and working conditions? This excerpt from the book I Am Not a Tractor! How Florida Farmworkers Took On the Fast Food Giants and Won gives you a teaser into just that.

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Written by Susan L. Marquis, PhD.

]]> Book Review: I Am Not a Tractor! How Florida Farmworkers Took On the Fast Food Giants and Won https://nutritionstudies.org/book-review-i-am-not-a-tractor-how-florida-farmworkers-took-on-the-fast-food-giants-and-won/ Mon, 26 Jul 2021 13:00:01 +0000 http://nutritionstudies.org/?p=37663 Food is something we all need, yet the farmworkers who provide our food have historically been treated less than human. Susan Marquis, author of I Am Not a Tractor!, examines how real change can happen when the voiceless are given a microphone.

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Written by Colleen Alexander, MA.

]]> The Sanity Diet Book Excerpt – Mystery of the Caves Provides a Glimpse Into the Past & Our Place in Nature https://nutritionstudies.org/the-sanity-diet-book-excerpt-mystery-of-the-caves-provides-a-glimpse-into-the-past-our-place-in-nature/ Sat, 03 Oct 2020 15:00:02 +0000 http://nutritionstudies.org/?p=32597 A personal appeal and book recommendation from Dr. T. Colin Campbell: The Sanity Diet – Why you need to go vegan to stop the madness and help save the world, and how to start a global vegan revolution.

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Written by Gordon Mackenzie.

]]> Fiber Fueled – The Key to a Strong Immune System https://nutritionstudies.org/fiber-fueled-the-key-to-a-strong-immune-system/ Fri, 28 Aug 2020 15:54:31 +0000 http://nutritionstudies.org/?p=32384 The power that our gut microbes wield to induce disease or protect us from it can be intimidating, but we are not helpless victims. We have the power of science on our side, which has shown us that we can use diet and lifestyle to rebalance our gut microbes.

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Written by Will Bulsiewicz, MD MSCI.

]]> Diet & Human Ecology – How to Eat Right & Save the Planet https://nutritionstudies.org/diet-human-ecology-how-to-eat-right-save-the-planet/ Fri, 07 Aug 2020 13:59:20 +0000 http://nutritionstudies.org/?p=32151 The wave of the future must lie in a whole food, plant-based diet that takes food preparation out of the factory and into the kitchen. It is the only way to create a healthy planet for both human and non-human life.

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Written by Bill Tara.

]]> Cancer Prevention and Treatment: An Expert Analysis From Dr. Campbell https://nutritionstudies.org/cancer-prevention-and-treatment-an-expert-analysis-from-dr-campbell/ Tue, 28 Jul 2020 16:28:44 +0000 http://nutritionstudies.org/?p=32120 Bruce Mylrea interviews Dr. T. Colin Campbell to get his thoughts on the progress and current state of cancer prevention and treatment. Read this excerpt on “Who Gets Cancer and Why.”

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Written by Bruce Mylrea.

]]> Dr. T. Colin Campbell’s 8th Principle of Food and Health https://nutritionstudies.org/dr-t-colin-campbells-8th-principle-of-food-and-health/ Sat, 30 May 2020 22:53:06 +0000 http://nutritionstudies.org/?p=31654 Good nutrition creates health in all areas of our existence. All parts are interconnected.

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Written by T. Colin Campbell, PhD.

]]> How Does Livestock Farming Cause Groundwater Depletion in the Midwest? https://nutritionstudies.org/how-does-livestock-farming-cause-groundwater-depletion-in-the-midwest/ Wed, 27 May 2020 15:26:49 +0000 http://nutritionstudies.org/?p=31606 It’s crucial that groundwater consumption doesn’t exceed its replenishment by rain. But water-intensive livestock farming is depleting it far faster than it can be refilled.

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Written by T. Colin Campbell, PhD.

]]> Our Food Choices and Global Warming https://nutritionstudies.org/our-food-choices-and-global-warming/ Fri, 22 May 2020 15:52:24 +0000 http://nutritionstudies.org/?p=31583 When you look seriously at the numbers, you find that switching from a meat-based to a plant-based diet would do more to curb and reverse global warming than any other initiative.

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Written by T. Colin Campbell, PhD.

]]> Reductionist Social Policy – What We Do To Ourselves, We Do To the Earth https://nutritionstudies.org/reductionist-social-policy-what-we-do-to-ourselves-we-do-to-the-earth/ Fri, 15 May 2020 15:36:23 +0000 http://nutritionstudies.org/?p=31518 When you connect the dots of some of our biggest social, economic, and environmental problems, you can clearly see nutrition looming large as a causal factor and potential solution.

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Written by T. Colin Campbell, PhD.

]]> Dr. T. Colin Campbell’s 1st Principle of Food and Health https://nutritionstudies.org/dr-t-colin-campbells-1st-principle-of-food-and-health/ Fri, 24 Apr 2020 15:41:39 +0000 http://nutritionstudies.org/?p=31215 T. Colin Campbell, PhD, co-author of the best-selling book “The China Study” has been dedicated to the science of human health for more than 60 years. From this lifetime of work, he has developed eight principles of food and health.

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Written by T. Colin Campbell, PhD.

]]> Urgent Alarms From Our Planet – OUTCRY Foreword by Mother Nature Herself https://nutritionstudies.org/urgent-alarms-from-our-planet-outcry-foreword-by-mother-nature-herself/ Sun, 19 Apr 2020 14:30:27 +0000 http://nutritionstudies.org/?p=31118 This book excerpt from OUTCRY, Urgent Alarms From Our Planet and What We Can Do About Them, is the book’s foreword as written by Mother Nature herself. Her message is addressed to the billions of humans who reside in the developed nations of planet Earth.

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Written by J. Morris Hicks.

]]> Mastering Diabetes – Green, Yellow, Red Light Foods to Reverse Insulin Resistance https://nutritionstudies.org/mastering-diabetes-green-yellow-red-light-foods-to-reverse-insulin-resistance/ Tue, 18 Feb 2020 20:34:59 +0000 http://nutritionstudies.org/?p=30528 To make your transition to a low-fat plant-based whole-food diet as straightforward as possible, we created a three-part system to help you easily identify which foods to eat in abundance, which foods to minimize, and which foods to eliminate altogether.

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Written by Cyrus Khambatta, PhD & Robby Barbaro, MPH.

]]> When ‘Healthy Eating’ Becomes Bad for Your Mind https://nutritionstudies.org/when-healthy-eating-becomes-bad-for-your-mind/ Wed, 27 Nov 2019 14:41:38 +0000 http://nutritionstudies.org/?p=29290 Eating more healthfully is a solution—not a problem, yet some people can turn the desire for optimal wellness into an obsession called orthorexia nervosa.

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Written by Colleen Patrick-Goudreau.

]]> The Scoop on the Habit Loop – How to Create Healthy Habits https://nutritionstudies.org/the-scoop-on-the-habit-loop-how-to-create-healthy-habits/ Tue, 06 Aug 2019 20:27:03 +0000 http://nutritionstudies.org/?p=28293 The Trigger-Behavior-Reward sequence is known as the habit loop. It’s a loop because every time you experience the reward after performing a habit, it strengthens the relationship between the trigger and the behavior. Read on to learn more.

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Written by Oonagh Duncan.

]]> It’s Not Difficult to Be Vegan – Making the Change and Rethinking Protein https://nutritionstudies.org/its-not-difficult-to-be-vegan-making-the-change-and-rethinking-protein/ Fri, 19 Jul 2019 21:04:30 +0000 http://nutritionstudies.org/?p=28157 Go Vegan by Marlene Watson-Tara is vibrant and colorful recipe guide book with key information. This excerpt will inspire people about vegan nutrition.

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Written by Marlene Watson-Tara.

]]> Plants Have All the Power We Need https://nutritionstudies.org/plants-have-all-the-power-we-need/ Wed, 10 Apr 2019 19:57:22 +0000 http://nutritionstudies.org/?p=27133 Marco Borges, author of The Greenprint, works with many athletes, entertainers, and avid exercisers who have switched to a plant-based diet for all the health and athletic performance benefits it provides.

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Written by Marco Borges.

]]> 7 Anti-Aging Hacks for a Longer and Healthier Life https://nutritionstudies.org/7-anti-aging-hacks-for-a-longer-and-healthier-life/ Fri, 25 Jan 2019 19:09:52 +0000 http://nutritionstudies.org/?p=26295 Slow the hands of time and age with more grace, energy and vitality with 248 strategies that encompass diet, fitness, beauty, and lifestyle. In this book excerpt, Asp shares 8 of her favorite lifestyle hacks.

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Written by Karen Asp, MA.

]]> Smart Parent’s Guide to Why Kids Should Not Have Dairy Products https://nutritionstudies.org/smart-parents-guide-to-why-kids-should-not-have-dairy-products/ Wed, 08 Aug 2018 13:45:07 +0000 http://sage.nutritionstudies.org/?p=22769 Why are parents so set on introducing dairy to their infants? Pediatricians have been taught that dairy is essential, but is it actually harmful to children’s health?

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Written by Eric C. Lindstrom.

]]> Eating Right: 8 Principles of Food and Health https://nutritionstudies.org/eating-right-8-principles-food-health/ Thu, 16 Nov 2017 16:18:23 +0000 http://nutritionstudies.org/?p=18324 The 8 principles from this abbreviated chapter of The China Study are important lessons about food, health, and disease.

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Written by T. Colin Campbell, PhD.

]]> Easy Plant-Based Meal Prep for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner https://nutritionstudies.org/easy-plant-based-meal-prep-breakfast-lunch-dinner/ Mon, 06 Nov 2017 21:39:39 +0000 http://nutritionstudies.org/?p=18012 Only after diagnosis did I begin learning how certain foods can help prevent, fight, and even reverse various cancers. Beyond Cancer introduces the reader to the whats, whys, and hows of plant-based eating.

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Written by Sally Lipsky, PhD.

]]> Are You a Mindless Eater? Change Your Relationship with Food https://nutritionstudies.org/are-you-a-mindless-eater-change-your-relationship-with-food/ Fri, 15 Sep 2017 17:26:13 +0000 http://nutritionstudies.org/?p=17082/ Mindful Eating Can Lead to Self-Love. Excerpt from The Mindful Vegan by Lani Muelrath.

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Written by Lani Muelrath, MA.

]]> Cooking at Every Age: Why Kids Should Learn To Cook https://nutritionstudies.org/cooking-at-every-age-why-kids-should-learn-to-cook/ Mon, 24 Jul 2017 16:47:01 +0000 http://nutritionstudies.org/?p=16650/ After my parents got divorced, my dad had to learn how to cook for himself, and he patiently allowed me into the kitchen with him as he figured it out.

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Written by Chef Del Sroufe.

]]> Is it Actually Possible to Go Vegan Overnight? https://nutritionstudies.org/actually-possible-go-vegan-overnight/ Fri, 14 Jul 2017 19:41:48 +0000 http://nutritionstudies.org/?p=16564/ Read about how a meat-loving chicken wing king was converted into a tofu-pressing vegan from the "The Skeptical Vegan.”

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Written by Eric C. Lindstrom.

]]> The Cheese Trap: Fighting Diabetes with a Dairy-Free Diet https://nutritionstudies.org/the-cheese-trap-fighting-diabetes-with-a-dairy-free-diet/ Tue, 02 May 2017 17:39:05 +0000 http://nutritionstudies.org/?p=14107 Have you ever felt pulled to a certain food? Maybe it’s chocolate, potato chips, a hamburger, or a bowl of ice cream. For some people, it’s cheese.

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Written by Neal Barnard, MD, FACC.

]]> Big Bang Theory’s Mayim Bialik Encourages Busy Families to Thrive, Plant-Based https://nutritionstudies.org/big-bang-theorys-mayim-bialik-encourages-busy-families-to-thrive-plant-based/ Wed, 29 Mar 2017 18:51:38 +0000 http://nutritionstudies.org/?p=13954 Mayim is a mom with two plant-based sons. At the end of the day she knows what it's like to be a busy (single) parent with little time to spend in the kitchen.

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Written by Mayim Bialik, PhD.

]]> How to Set SMARTer Goals https://nutritionstudies.org/smart-goals-and-accountability/ Thu, 28 Jul 2016 14:20:19 +0000 http://nutritionstudies.org/?p=12955 Smart goals and accountability are relevant for anyone embarking on a dietary change.

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Written by Micaela Karlsen, PhD, MSPH.

]]> How Fake Food Flavorings are Literally Killing Us: Excerpt from The Dorito Effect https://nutritionstudies.org/what-do-chips-mangos-smoking-have-in-common/ Fri, 10 Jun 2016 18:22:23 +0000 http://nutritionstudies.org/?p=12826 Americans collectively consume about 600 million lbs of fake flavorings every year. We have made whole foods bland and processed junk food more delicious.

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Written by Mark Schatzker.

]]> Gluten Fears & Facts: Is Wheat Truly Terrible? https://nutritionstudies.org/gluten-fears-facts-is-wheat-truly-terrible/ Fri, 16 Oct 2015 15:18:35 +0000 http://nutritionstudies.org/?p=11931 What is real and what is overblown in the growing number of gluten intolerance cases? Maybe sugar, fat, dairy and salt have something to do with it...

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Written by Thomas Campbell, MD.

]]> Getting a jump on the plant-based journey: Two ways exercise speeds successful transition https://nutritionstudies.org/getting-jump-plant-based-journey-two-ways-exercise-speeds-successful-transition/ Wed, 11 Jun 2014 14:59:31 +0000 http://nutritionstudies.org/?p=9238 Our collective consciousness understands that exercise is an important part of a healthy lifestyle.

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Written by Lani Muelrath, MA.

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