New Dietary Guidelines Require Radical Change
In a recent article, we discussed some of the key features of the newest edition of the dietary guidelines (2025–2030), including its recommendations for protein, full-fat dairy, processed foods, and alcohol. If you haven’t had a chance to read that article yet, now would be a great time to check it out. As we wrote … Continued
Make It Tasty: How Food Descriptions Impact Our Choices
What sounds better—a healthy, low-fat vegan black bean burger or a 10-spice smoky black bean burger? What if I told you they were exactly the same? Research has shown that most people gravitate more toward foods described by flavor, not healthfulness. Buffet-style dining halls located at five different college campuses were assigned to use three … Continued
Addressing Health Inequity through Trauma Informed Lifestyle Medicine
Seeds to Inspire Foundation was founded to transmute privilege into service and bring my healing story—and the knowledge behind it—to communities challenged with health inequity and disparity.
Book Excerpt: I Am Not a Tractor! How Florida Farmworkers Took On the Fast Food Giants and Won
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.
Urban GreenWorks: A True Testament to How Food Can Shape Communities
In response to the many consequences of COVID-19 on the environment and global food system, UGW is promoting regenerative solutions near and far.
Vecino Victory Garden Feeds Those Facing Food Insecurity in California
In a California community affected by the destruction of wildfires since 2018, Vecino Victory Garden is promoting food security and power.
CEEE Fights for Community Access to Fresh Fruits & Vegetables
Our food system is failing both our health and our local economies, but it’s not too late to repair it. First, we have to acknowledge the challenges.
Solar One’s Stuyvesant Cove Park Connects Residents to a Unique Urban Food Source
With the help of a CNS grant, Solar One reconnects people with food, the climate crisis, and a “living laboratory” of regenerative urban permaculture.
Race, Class, Nutrition, and COVID-19
There is a clear nexus between income, nutrition, and the pre-existing conditions such as obesity, diabetes and heart disease which increase probabilities for COVID-19 infection
Seeds: Our Global Crisis Plus 5 Actions We Can All Take
SEED: The Untold Story tells the story of the planet’s most powerful resource: seeds. Learn about five crises our planet is facing and some practical and empowering actions we can all take.
Healthcare vs Disease Response System – Part 1
The health care system today is not equipped to establish health, or even prevent disease. Instead, it responds to disease, and it relies on technology to do so. The widespread, and still spreading, use of drugs illustrates this reliance on technology.
8 Tips to Be Plant-Based When Your Spouse Is Not
Is your spouse not on board with a plant-based diet? Here are some tips for staying plant-based when your family or spouse are not willing to be.
Living in a “Blended” Dietary Household? 4 Solutions to Make it Work
When one (or more) of you is a whole food, plant-based eater and others in your household aren’t, how do you make it work?
Nutrition is a Democratic Topic in This Life Changing Writing Class
Comparing the Standard American Diet with a Plant-Based Diet serves as a model resource for learning basic argumentative skills. It also becomes life changing for many students.
Top 5 Non-Food, Lifestyle Factors That Destroy Quality of Life
The benefits of a plant-based diet are clear. Here are my top 5 non-nutrition factors affecting quality of life, plus practical tips for a more satisfying life.
Is it Actually Possible to Go Vegan Overnight?
Read about how a meat-loving chicken wing king was converted into a tofu-pressing vegan from the "The Skeptical Vegan.”
One Simple Choice Can Change the Whole World, for the Better
If you could help reverse the ecological threats on Earth, while improving your health and preventing the egregious suffering of billions of animals, would you?
Bart Potenza Co-Founder of NYC’s Candle 79: All’s Well That Eats Well
“Bringing home the bacon” was a reward, but losing his family to food related disease was not. Bart became vegan at 55 and is going strong at 80!
Plant-Based Diet Helps Native Americans Overcome Diabetes
Success in the Marshall Islands has inspired educators with hope for the Pima tribes of Arizona. Food, not genetics, will turn the diabetes epidemic around.
Healing & Transformation – Clergywoman Reflects on a Plant-Based Diet Transition
My sense is that the plant-based community is part of a powerful transformative movement for healing a broken and hurting world.
Healthcare in Crisis: RN Asks What’s Food Got to Do With It?
Medical treatment plans don’t combat today’s chronic illnesses. Adult obesity rates of 36% and obesity rates for nurses at 55% indicate an overall lack of lifestyle education.
The Mindful Plant-Based: Happy, Healthy, Here and Now
Have you built a wall of deprivation-driven tension around food? If we are constantly on the way to a perfect-health future, are we ever going to enjoy it?
Vegan Fairy Tale: A Rancher’s Wife & Her Voice for the Voiceless
The journey of a rancher’s wife gone vegan. They almost divorced over her inability to withstand his way of life, now they operate the Rowdy Girl Sanctuary in Texas.
Diabetes: A Clash Between Culture and Modern Diet in Guatemala
A social entrepreneur and Plant-Based Nutrition Certificate holder is tackling the diabetes epidemic with her small business in Guatemala.
