How a Breast Cancer Diagnosis Led Me to a Plant-Based Diet
After a cancer diagnosis, Kelly got serious about her health for the first time in her life. Here’s her road to adopting a whole food, plant-based diet to save her life.
“Good nutrition creates health in all areas of our existence.”
—T. COLIN CAMPBELL, PHD
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How I Shed A Third of My Body Weight & Regained My Health
After being rushed to the hospital with a life-threatening illness in 2009, Jeanne Schumacher discovered the profound power of whole food, plant-based nutrition. Read her inspirational story of discovery, recovery, and giving back.
School Psychologist Uses Nutrition to Improve Learning
Learn how Nutrition 4 the Growing Brain is using improved nutrition to address learning and behavioral challenges in kids.
How These 9 Professionals Use Their Plant-Based Nutrition Certificate
Learn how these professionals use the T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies to complement their careers with the Plant-Based Nutrition Certificate through eCornell.
Newly Updated Plant-Based Nutrition Certificate
Our updated Plant-Based Nutrition Certificate brings together leading experts on the hottest topics in nutrition today, including the gut microbiome, controlling autoimmune disorders, and how to get the most out of a plant-based diet at every stage of life.
Overcoming My Junk Food Addiction
Knowing what to eat is only the first step. The psychological barriers of lifestyle change are very real, and often intensely personal.
Steps to Go from Meat Eating to Whole Food, Plant-Based
Optimal health isn’t just a switch you can flip. It often takes a long time to achieve our health goals, with many unforeseen stages between here and there.
Now Is the Time for Direct Action
Helping the environment isn’t as tricky as we think. Actions like learning plant-based recipes, reading food labels, and supporting local farmers’ markets can have a long-lasting impact.
Book Excerpt: From Plant to Planet: Nudge your way towards healthier, more sustainable food habits
In this excerpt, authors of From Plant to Planet identify and address the most common barriers that prevent dietary lifestyle change.
Karen Washington: How Food Shapes Our Communities
Colleen Alexander sat down with Karen Washington to hear her perspective on how food shapes neighborhoods and communities, either for the better or worse.
SUNY Downstate Pilots Food As Medicine Initiative For Medical & Public Health Students
New Forward-Thinking Courses for Healthcare Workers at University Hospital of Brooklyn Focus on Plant-Based Nutrition and Medicine.
A Registered Dietitian’s Professional & Personal Journey to WFPB Nutrition
One book changed the entire trajectory of this Registered Dietitian’s career and life. Read about Didem’s journey on a whole food, plant-based diet and the changes it made for her, large and small.
Become an Expert on Plant-Based Nutrition & Earn Your Certificate
The demand for plant-based nutrition experts is only rising. Choosing to pursue that expertise changed my life, and I think it can change yours too.
Samoan Villages Reduce Non-Communicable Disease through WFPB Diet
Learn how WFPB nutrition has achieved remarkable reversal rates of up to 93% for non-communicable diseases like type 2 diabetes in Samoan villages.
Plant-Based Nutrition Saved His Life. Now, His Support Group Helps Thousands
PBNSG is the largest whole food, plant-based support group in the world. Read about what they do, and their new, exciting education initiatives.
Wellness House Nutrition Programs Encourage Plant-Based Eating for Cancer Patients
Wellness House bridges the gap between surviving a cancer diagnosis and thriving, including through their plant-based nutrition programs.
On Track Program Brings Plant-Based Nutrition Education to California
America On Track has been successfully creating and implementing a diverse range of programs, with an emphasis on plant-based nutrition, since 1995.
Culture Change through Accessible WFPB Program
The following is an article from a Community Grant recipient. To hear more from Dr. Ted Barnett, register for the Plant Forward Virtual Workshop Series. During my years as a physician, I have observed a society that has become sicker and sicker despite steady improvements to technology and increased medical expenditures. Fairly early on in … Continued
Plant-Based Utah Program Promotes Access to Healthy Food
Plant Based Utah turned their attention toward food access in 2020 during the pandemic. Now, they’re incorporating sustainable food production.
Plant-Based Eating Program Benefits Nigerians Through Community Outreach
SOBNUTRITION is a Nigerian organization that helps people become more attuned to inner health by changing nutrition and lifestyle habits.
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