Dr. Michael Greger: Aging
A six-year study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found three behaviors exerted enormous impact on mortality: not currently smoking, consuming a healthier diet, and moderately exercising at … Continue reading
The Vegan Kitchen: Parsnip and Apple Soup
This lovely, creamy soup is very soothing and has a great delicate flavor. It’s texture is enhanced by a sprinkling of deep fried parsnip shreds. YIELD: Makes about 6 cups … Continue reading
Eve Andrews: Climate Strange
The eco-obsessed often get labeled as weirdos — even by their peers. Weird, however, is looking better and better. Alec Mitchell doesn’t like praise for what he’s doing. Not for … Continue reading
Molly Fisk: Wealth Measured in Persimmons
Despite my best efforts, I’m a pioneer-woman-manque: I want to be Laura Ingalls Wilder, but I don’t have the stamina for it. I let kale and beet greens get fuzzy … Continue reading
Richard St. John: Abhorrent Things
You shall not eat any abhorrent thing….of those that chew the cud or have the hoof cleft you shall not eat these: the camel, the hare, and the rock badger, … Continue reading
Raj Patel & Tracy Matsue Loeffelholz: How to Feed Ourselves in a Time of Climate Crisis
Changing the food system is the most important thing humans can do to fix our broken carbon cycles. Meanwhile, food security is all about adaptation when you’re dealing with crazy … Continue reading
Video: What are the best foods to improve sexual function?
. Dr. Michael Greger explains how selecting foods to improve pelvic blood flow and decrease inflammation both long-term and immediately after a meal may improve sexual functioning in men and … Continue reading
Rachel Krantz: An Inconvenient Sequel Doesn’t Talk About Animal Agriculture—and That’s Absurd
When I spotted fellow vegan James Cromwell in line for food at an advance screening of An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, I couldn’t help but try to talk to … Continue reading
Deirdre Fulton: Global Investors to Big Food — Cut Meat to Avoid ‘Protein Bubble’
Citing the environmental and public health risks of factory farming, a $1.25 trillion coalition of multinational investors has called on 16 global food corporations—including Kraft, Heinz, Nestle, Unilever, Tesco, and … Continue reading
Dr. Michael Greger: How much longer do fruit and vegetable eaters live?
Researchers reported in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition that they followed people and their diets over time to create a dose-response curve between fruit and vegetable consumption and mortality. Subjects who … Continue reading
Video: What are the Healthiest Foods?
Based on the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, which foods best supply nutrients while avoiding disease-promoting components?
Video: Food as Medicine — Preventing and Treating the Most Dreaded Diseases with Diet
Dr. Michael Greger has scoured the world’s scholarly literature on clinical nutrition and developed this new presentation based on the latest in cutting-edge research exploring the role diet plays in … Continue reading
Smart Chickens, Playful Pigs, Social Cows, Feeling Fish
Smart Chickens Like all birds, chickens are smart animals with complex and meaningful social relationships. In fact, their intelligence is so advanced that a recent study by the University of … Continue reading
Chris Hedges: A Haven from the Animal Holocaust
WATKINS GLEN, N.Y.—There are mornings when Susie Coston, walking up to the gate of this bucolic farm in her rubber boots, finds crates of pigs, sheep, chickens, goats, geese or … Continue reading
