Health is My Top 2023 Value
“The greatest wealth is health.” – Virgil The year 2023 will be the year that I dedicate myself to living my values. At the top of my values list is health because it is nearly impossible to live any other value fully without it. Focusing on my health first and foremost will allow me to…
Heart Surgery, Now What?
I was at Aldi, struggling to get the coin out of the key chain I bought to keep a quarter for their shopping carts, when I saw a woman I know from the small town where I lived just a few months earlier. I said, “Hello!” calling her name, but she didn’t seem to realize…
Addressing a Health Crisis with Plants
This afternoon, I stopped by a local grocery store, a chain that originates from my home state of North Carolina, and while it is not my favorite, I have often been impressed by the offering of fresh fruits and vegetables, and many organic options as well. Today was a different experience. I just moved to…
Forks Over Knives Turns 10!
The documentary Forks Over Knives is having a birthday. Ten years ago the film was released, and it caused a ripple effect of change in many people’s lives. A Whole Food Plant-Based (WFPB) diet was known to only a few, but the power of story that the film delivered touched many, and today we celebrate…
Get Fiber Fueled and Gut Healthy
When I received the notice in my email that a book I had pre-ordered, Dr. Will Bulsiewicz’s Fiber Fueled, had been downloaded to my Kindle, I started reading it before I even got out of bed. It took me a day or two to find enough time to finish it because I had to fit…
Simplifying the Whole Food Plant-Based Menu
Just yesterday I was talking to a friend about the need to clean up our diets in light of the current Coronavirus pandemic, and she was honest with me, “There is just so much! I get overwhelmed by it all!” As I thought back to my first encounters with the WFPB way of eating, I…
When the COVID-19 Crisis is Over What Will Have Changed?
I’ve been thinking about what “The Great Pause” from the COVID-19 Pandemic is going to teach us in the end. What will be different when we re-open the country, the world? Will we just go back to our old ways, or will we restructure our lives from the lessons we have learned? I, for…
WFPB Video of the Week
If you or someone you know is suffering from heart disease, this is a good video to get you started on your path to healing with a Whole Food Plant-Based (WFPB) Lifestyle. Ann Crile Esselstyn and Jane Esselstyn, wife and daughter of esteemed Cleveland Clinic physician Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, Jr., take a humorous approach to…
This Post Could Save Your Life
”Let food be thy medicine, and medicine be thy food.” ― Hippocrates Too dramatic? I don’t think so. In fact, what stands between many people and their next heart attack or chronic disease is information. The problem is that we think we know everything we need to know, or we just don’t want to know…