Sustainable nutrition
A Plant-Based Diet May Lower Severity of COVID-19 Illness by 73 per Cent
Participants who followed plant-based diets had a 73% lower chance of moderate to severe COVID-19 illness, whereas those who followed low-carbohydrate, high-protein diets were 48% more likely to have moderate to severe COVID-19 illness.
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New Zealand Vegan Milk Factory to Boost Nation’s Economy
In a national first, a New Zealand vegan milk factory will enable the growing, milling, and processing of oats into milk.
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Got Joint Pain? Why Dairy is a Bad Idea
Arthritis, joint pain, muscle aches. They’ve plagued us all at some point or another. But can joint pain be preventable through a mere change in diet?
Read More How to Make a Veganic No-Dig Garden
How to grow using no dig methods veganically, also known as “stock free”, without animal manures or other animal derived inputs.
Read More Hundreds Of ‘Elite Athletes’ Interested In Plant-Based Diet Following ‘The Game Changers’
Producer James Wilks says the documentary has inspired ‘Olympic gold medalists in various sports to UFC fighters to top players in the NBA’.
Read More ‘They’re Trying to Kill Us’: A New Documentary about Racism and Food Justice
A new documentary starring prolific advocate Bad Ass Vegan (aka John Lewis) will focus on racism, disease, and food justice.
Read More Time for Regenesis
Every problem has possibility. I believe we are on the cusp of a regenesis. A change in the way we see the world and a total reordering in how we exist in harmony with it.
Read More Meat Is Not Essential. Why Are We Killing for It?
For years, we have knowingly destroyed our planet for the sake of a protein preference. Now, we are sending humans to their deaths.
Read More Meat/Mental Health Story Latest in Fake Nutritional Science
“Meat Improves Mental Health,” mainstream media blasted out this week, without mentioning the “study” was funded by an “unrestricted research grant through the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association.” Such fake science from the meat industry is becoming more common as people drop meat.
Read More 7 Vegan Nutrition Tips to Help You Fight the Coronavirus
As the novel coronavirus continues to spread around the world, these vegan nutrition tips could help you boost your immune system.
Read More Did Going Vegan Help the Tennessee Titans Win?
Vegan chef Charity Morgan has helped 15 athletes from NFL team the Tennessee Titans to adopt a plant-based meal for the health benefits.
Read More Could Abandoned Agricultural Lands Help Save the Planet?
Agriculture’s global footprint is decreasing — more land globally is now being abandoned by farming than converted to it. This, some researchers contend, presents an opportunity for ecological restoration that could help fight climate change and stem the loss of biodiversity.
Read More The Issues with Eating Dairy, Eggs and Honey [Interview with Daniel Schmachtenberger]
In this interview with researcher and think-tank developer Daniel Schmachtenberger, we discuss some of the fundamental ethical questions and issues surrounding animal rights and veganism.
Read More Arnold Schwarzenegger Commends Joe Rogan for Changing His Mind About the Game Changers
The actor Arnold Schwarzenegger—who is featured in the documentary,The Game Changers—is proud of Joe Rogan for having an open mind about the benefits of a plant-based diet.
Read More Changing How We Eat Is Complicated
A successful transition to a more plant-based diet requires not only motivation but capability and opportunity. This review summarizes existing research on what helps (and hinders) that process.
Read More An Oxford Elementary School Just Banned Meat
The Swan School in Oxford in the UK serves vegetarian lunches to its students. More schools are introducing a meat ban for the sake of the planet.
Read More At 45, I’m Healthier and Happier Than I Was in My 20s
Start by adding a variety of whole grains, vegetables, fruits, and legumes to your diet. Then try ditching meat, dairy, and junk food. You will never know how good it feels until you feel it for yourself. I’m never going back; I’m only moving forward.
Read More America’s First Plant-Based, Solar-Powered, Zero-Waste School Is Opening Its Second Location
America’s first plant-based school is opening a new location! Founded in 2006 by movie-industry legend James Cameron; his wife, actress Suzy Amis Cameron; and her sister, Rebecca Amis, the MUSE School is not only completely vegan but solar powered and zero waste.
Read More The Climate Is Changing And So Must We
The threat of climate change requires us to change. If we can all act together with continuing lifestyle changes, our kids will be grateful.
Read More These 7 Vegan NFL Players Get Their Power From Plants
Vegan NFL players — including Cam Newton and Wesley Woodyard — are proving you don’t need meat to succeed in football. More athletes than ever are going vegan.
Read More Actually, There’s Nothing Fake About Fake Meat
What is “fake meat”? Vegan meat is the healthy, sustainable, and inevitable next step in the evolution of meat — so why are labeling laws calling it fake?
Read More New Review Shows Plant-Based Diet May Reduce Rheumatoid Arthritis Symptoms
A plant-based diet may benefit individuals who experience rheumatoid arthritis (RA), according to a review of clinical trials and observational studies published in Frontiers in Nutrition in September 2019.
Read More How to Shop for Safe Organic Foods
Whether you’re just starting out on your organic journey or you’ve been a long-standing practitioner, getting a refresher on what organic is and how to identify organic ingredients is always a good idea.
Read More How Will We Feed The Ever-Growing Human Population?
We can feed the ever-growing human population through sustainable farming and less food waste, but not without a shift towards a plant-based future.
Read More How to Sprout Your Own Plant-Based Foods at Home!
If you’re following recent health trends, then it’s probable that you’ve come across the idea of sprouted foods. While some health trends should be taken with a grain of salt, others have a bit more backbone to them. Sprouted foods happen to be one trend to take note of!
Read More 2020 Dietary Guidelines: Vegan vs Low Carb Battlefield
A recent US dietary guidelines meeting which consisted of public comment made for some interesting low carb and plant-based drama. This is 4 hours distilled into something interesting.
Read More New Study: Eating More Plants Cuts Cardiovascular Disease Risk by a Third
Diets higher in plant foods are associated with a substantially lower risk of cardiovascular disease and death, according to new research published in the Journal of the American Heart Association.
Read More ‘Super Size Me 2’ Exposes the Truth About Fast Food Chicken
Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock takes on the fast food industry once again in “Super Size Me 2,” a spiritual sequel to 2004’s “Super Size Me.”
Read More Look Inside this Plant-Strong Hospital and Meet the Cardiologist Who’s Leading the Charge (Video)
Robert Ostfeld, MD, is taking giant leaps forward to bring plant-based nutrition into Montefiore hospitals, including screening Forks Over Knives at patients’ bedsides.
Read More Vegan Cyclist Breaks 6,800 Km Record on Hash Brown Diet
Vegan cyclist Abdullah Zeinab set a new record and he did it on a diet of mostly hash browns.
Read More How Your Diet Contributes to Nutrient Pollution and Dead Zones in Lakes and Bay
Every year in early summer, scientists at universities, research institutions and federal agencies release forecasts for the formation of “dead zones” and harmful algal blooms in the Gulf of Mexico, the Chesapeake Bay and Lake Erie. This year the outlook is not good.
Read More 6 Simple Steps for Mindful Eating
If the term “mindful eating” conjures up visions of lithe Los Angelinos in expensive yoga pants meditating over a plate of raw greens, you are not alone. But the truth is, mindful eating is so much more than that; and in fact, I maintain that it is one of the best diets out there.
Read MoreThe Flawed Food Dependency
Julian Cribb’s ‘Food or War’ is an important book: “The world faces the greatest threat to global food supply in all of human history… There has never been a situation faced by the entire human population at one time to compare with today’s.”
Read More ‘Good News’: Austria Poised to Become First EU Nation to Fully Ban Cancer-Linked Weed Killer Glyphosate
Austria is on track to become the first country in the European Union to fully ban the world’s most commonly used herbicide after the nation’s lower house of parliament passed a bill Tuesday that would outlaw all uses of glyphosate, which researchers and global health experts have tied to cancer.
Read More Arnold Schwarzenegger ‘Terminates’ Myths About Protein In Upcoming Vegan Documentary
Austrian-American actor and bodybuilder, Arnold Schwarzenegger, says he ‘terminates outdated myths about protein, strength, and performance’ in the upcoming vegan documentary – Game Changers.
Read More Why These 7 Doctors Are Vegan
A vegan diet is just what the doctor ordered. As the health benefits of a plant-based lifestyle are going mainstream, these doctors are leading the charge on advocating for plant-based nutrition as medicine.
Read More Reducing Meat Consumption For The Environment: A Case Study From Norway
Most consumers don’t like being lectured to, and many see combating climate change as something beyond the capability of individuals. How can animal advocates overcome those obstacles?
Read More What Are Eggs For?
Apart from the fact that many birds are protected by law, why would it never occur to us to help ourselves to the eggs of a blue tit or a crow, a chaffinch or a jay, or any of the birds whose antics give us so much pleasure in our gardens or on our window sills? Well it’s obvious, isn’t it? These birds need their eggs. It would be unforgivable to take their eggs. We all know that and we’d never dream of it. So what’s different about hens?
Read More Carnivore and Vegan Diet Swap: Shocking Blood Results
A carnivore and a vegan dieter switched diets for 30 days. Here are the results from the blood tests tied back into the research.
Read More 10 Powerhouse Vegetables to Start Eating More Of
A study ranked fruits and vegetables for nutrients most strongly associated with reduced chronic disease risk.
Read More Oat Milk Is So Popular, It May Put the Dairy Industry Out of Business
Written by Jemima Webber / LiveKindly Vegan milk is so popular it could be impacting the dairy...
Read More James Cameron and Peter Jackson to Build Vegan Meat Factories in New Zealand
James Cameron and Peter Jackson are bringing vegan protein to New Zealand in an effort to reduce the country’s greenhouse gases generated by its livestock production.
Read MoreWhat Increasing or Decreasing Meat Does to You Over Time
An analysis of more than 80,000 people over 8 years suggests what happens to one’s risk of premature death when changing meat consumption.
Read MoreHow I Maintain a Very Humble (Low) Budget Eating Vegan, Without Any Sacrifice
Every time I hear someone claim that eating vegan is just too expensive, it really makes me wonder where he or she is shopping. Because I have shopped as a meat-eater, vegetarian and vegan, and without a doubt, the cheapest choice for my budget came when choosing vegan.
Read More Where Are We Heading?
Someone intelligent once said – “we move towards what we focus on”. Every now and then it’s important we question as a society what are we focusing on, and therefore moving towards?
Read MorePlease Eat the Dandelions: 9 Edible Garden Weeds
Instead of trying to get rid of those lawn and garden weeds, harvest them for free homegrown meals.
Read MoreComing Soon To A Plate Near You: The Future 50 Foods
To improve human health, plant biodiversity, and food security, the “Future 50 Foods” report offers a list of 50 foods the world should be growing and eating more of.
Read More Former President of American College of Cardiology Condemns Animal-based Keto Diets
American cardiologist Kim Allan Williams Sr. (born 1955), former president of the American College of Cardiology discusses the research on ketogenic diets. In a nutshell, he concludes that animal-based ketogenic diets are bad for your heart and cardiovascular system. But he also discusses plant-based keto diets, and he says that the research so far suggests that a keto diet may not be so bad as long as animal products are avoided.
Read MoreNew York City to Cut Meat Consumption by 50%
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced today a plan to slash greenhouse gases by phasing out the purchase of processed meat and reducing beef purchases by 50 percent. The actions are part of the city’s own “Green New Deal” to attack the issue of global warming from all fronts in order to reduce emissions. The plan, laid out in “OneNYC 2050,” will ensure that NYC adheres to the Paris Agreement.
Read More Have Hope, Humanity is Finding Ways to Defeat Climate Change
The restoration of these iconic areas in Ethiopia, while still ongoing, has been an astonishing achievement, and an enduring inspiration for the rest of the world to follow: an area associated with human tragedy a few decades ago is now home to viable rural communities drawing a sustainable living from the land, and seeking to remain there for the future.
Read More Grass-fed Beef Debunked
Grass-fed beef is still touted as the gold standard for the environment, health, and viewed as an ethical practice. This video looks at the research to examine labels, environmental impact, and the nutrient profile of grass-fed cows.
Read MorePeace Of Mind: Mindfulness And Pro-Animal Behavior
Empirical evidence has shown correlations between mindfulness and ecological behavior, pointing out the potential of mindfulness to support changes in behavior toward greater sustainability as well as building intrinsic values and empathy towards other living creatures. Mindfulness practice is a powerful tool for veg*n education.
Read MoreWomen in the Global Food Movement
This Friday, for the first time, Germany’s capital joins many countries around the world in celebrating Women’s Day with a public holiday. To mark the occasion, ProVeg highlights some of the women working in various sectors of the global food movement.
Read MoreRunning on a Vegan Diet – Should You Embrace Plant Power?
Many high-performance athletes are realising that eschewing meat products and opting for a plant-based diet is not only good for the environment (and the animals), it can benefit your athletic performance to boot. A new study in nutrition journal Nutrients reveals a plant-based
Read MoreThe Fountain of Youth is Made of Fruits and Veggies, Not $100 Moisturizers
Choices made about nutrition are the most powerful environmental factors that influence gene activity, followed by fitness, quality of sleep, toxins including smoking, and stress. Our genes may load the “longevity and health” gun, but lifestyle pulls the trigger, or not. A brief description of some of the ground-breaking experiments that can impact your chances of a long and healthy life, called your healthspan, follows.
Read More Plant-based Health: The Doctors Tell All
Heard The Word On The Street That Plant-Based Lifestyles Are Good For You? Well these five Kiwi Doctors certainly think so! From preventing long term diseases to helping treat them, they explain how eating plants is “actually the best thing you can do for your health!”
Read More The Last Heart Attack – A Groundbreaking CNN Report by Dr. Sanjay Gupta
Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN’s Chief medical correspondent, has been investigating the No. 1 killer in America for over a year. Now, he has life-saving lessons to share, things your doctor may not tell you.
Read More Interview with Dr. Ellsworth Wareham, 100 years old Vegan Heart Doctor
CNN’s chief medicine reporter, Sanjay Gupta, interviews Loma Linda’s most famous centenarian, Dr. Ellswort Wareham, vegan for almost 50 years.
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