3 Surprising Ways Your Mother Still Controls How You Eat, Part 2: The Traditionalist

Last week, I wrote about how an emotional eater can inadvertently harm three generations of a family, and how to begin to overcome it. This week […]

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3 Surprising Ways Your Mother Still Controls How You Eat, Part 1: The Emotional Eater

With the holidays coming up, I’ve been reflecting on why I have developed healthy eating habits, such as avoiding refined sugar and fried foods, which were a […]

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Lower Your Cholesterol with Plant-Based Foods

In my previous blogs, I have been focusing on wellness and reducing risk factors for lifestyle diseases, because these are preventive and behavioral approaches. This is […]

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World of Love: Book Launch

It’s an honor to be co-authoring a book with my mom, Margaret. When my first recipe book, Food of Love was launched, it was the […]

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Healthcare: It’s Time for Self-Care

Right now, the GOP’s new health care bill is being discussed heatedly in the Senate. It may remove some of the benefits of Obamacare, also […]

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Germany and U.S. Lead Vegan Charge

Excitingly, a recent study indicates that healthier diets could help reduce greenhouse gas emissions through the food production system AND the healthcare system by reducing […]

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How to Be Happy AND Fight Climate Change

I read several articles this weekend and two were about the same solution for two seemingly very different challenges facing society: being happy, and improving climate stability. […]

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Plant-Based Food: A Doctor’s Personal Journey

I have been a meat eater for more than sixty years. Despite my forty-year career in medicine, I was rarely exposed to plant-based medicine as a […]

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Plant-Based Medicine: A New Era

Hippocrates (1867 – 1936) said “Let food be thy medicine, and medicine be thy food.” This quote is more relevant today than ever before and […]

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Meat and Climate Change

I’ve been writing about the harmful effects of animal agriculture on climate change for some time now. Research from 2009 indicates dietary changes can substantially help […]

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