HEALTH TIPS
12 Must-Have Kitchen Tools for Plant-Based Cooking
You may have discovered that eating a whole food plant-based diet can involve quite a bit of cooking at home. But that doesn’t mean you have to be a slave to your kitchen! What I’ve learned is that it’s all about good design, about making your kitchen work for you! If you set up your workspace ...
7 Tips and Timesavers for Plant-Based Cooking in a Flash
Most of us are strapped for time, but getting a healthy and delicious plant-based meal on the table is essential. Check out these seven tips for getting in and out of the kitchen in a flash without sacrificing nutrition or flavor.1. Cleanliness is Next to ….I once took a flower-arranging ...
How to Make Delicious Homemade Nut, Seed and Grain-Based Milk
Are you ready for some DIY plant-based kitchen fun? This article will show you how easy it is to make fresh, wholesome and healthy plant-based milk from nuts, seeds or grains right in your own kitchen with a blender. One sip and you’ll be hooked – homemade plant-based milk is fresh, rich, ...
Three Great Reasons to Make Your Own Almond and Other Plant-Based Milk
Perhaps you’ve noticed the milk aisle is looking a little more plant-based lately?Plant-based milk is big business these days – it seems like every week a new brand, flavor or type of plant-based milk appears on the shelf. Once considered exotic fringe foods, almond, soy, and rice milk now seem ...
Olympic Skater Meagan Duhamel: Living the Plant-Based Dream
by Carah WertheimerTo most of us, Canadian pair skater Meagan Duhamel is living the dream. An Olympic gold, silver and bronze medalist, two-time World Champion Figure Skater, and seven-time Canadian National Skating Champion, Duhamel and partner Eric Radford are currently skating their way ...
Plant-Based Heart Health for Endurance Athletes and Everyone Else
There’s a common perception out there about fitness —the longer and harder you exercise, the better your health – right?Not so fast.Read on to learn about the little-known risks of high-intensity endurance athletics and how a vegan plant-based diet can help protect your health – and everyone ...
The Science of Plant-Based Athletic Advantage
Have you noticed? Plant-based eating is a red-hot trend these days for elite professional athletes. From tennis pro Venus Williams to Olympic skating medalist Meaghan Duhamel, ultramarathoner Scot Jurek and numerous NFL players, the list of plant-based athletes grows longer by the day.Is this ...
5 Tips for Happy, Healthy Plant-Based Kids (and Parents!)
If you’re loving your plant-based diet, you’re probably wanting to share it with your kids - of course, you want to have them be as enthusiastic about this healthy lifestyle as you are!When we see the benefits of eating this way, we naturally want to set our plant-based kids up for success. ...
Can You Raise Healthy Kids on a Plant-Based Diet?
Whether you’re new to a whole food plant-based diet or have been whole food plant-based for a long time, you may have some questions and concerns when it comes to raising plant-based kids.After all, the dietary wisdom we’ve inherited as a culture – which is advanced by numerous nutrition policy ...
