Revisiting Jacobson’s Squid

I began following a Whole Food Plant Based (WFPB) diet on March 15, 2009 - the day after I finished reading “The China Study” by T. Colin Campbell, PhD and Dr. Tom Campbell. In October of 2013, I ... READ MORE...

It’s Time For Nutrition To Get The Respect It Deserves When It Comes To Cancer Research

T Colin Campbell has been trying to convince the cancer research community to design and conduct randomized controlled human intervention trials on the effect of whole food plant based diets in the ... READ MORE...

Making Healthy Changes At Work

Kelly Boyle is a registered dietitian who transitioned to a whole food plant based diet (WFPB) a few years back. Her transition did not occur without a few bumps in the road. One of her biggest ... READ MORE...

Breast Cancer Can Strike a WFPB Diet Follower

Susan Voisin , in addition to being dismayed, was also shocked to hear her physician tell her that she had breast cancer. You see, Susan is the creator and administrator of the “Fat Free Vegan” web ... READ MORE...

Phytate in Whole Grains and Legumes

Promoters of  “Paleo” diets and other “low carb” diets, often use small  slivers of truth from reductionist research to make global claims against the consumption of whole grains and legumes (beans, ... READ MORE...

Fighting Breast Cancer with Whole Food Plant Based Weapons

Evidence of the positive impact WFPB diets have on the prevention and treatment of Breast Cancer continues to pile up. Click here for a study that showed that vegan women had 34 percent lower rates ... READ MORE...

Genes Load the Gun, but Lifestyle Pulls the Trigger

Everyone has genetic predispositions for chronic diseases.  However, as the title of this blog suggests, a genetic predisposition for a disease does not condemn a person to that disease.  Nature ... READ MORE...

You must read the China Study!

I assume that most people visiting this site have either read The China Study by T.Colin Campbell PhD and Dr. Tom Campbell or they’ve heard of the book, but haven’t gotten around to reading it yet.  ... READ MORE...

October Should Be Breast Cancer Risk Awareness month.

Focus should be on making people aware of what lifestyle behaviors increase and decrease breast cancer risk.  The lifestyle behavior on the top of the list would be eating. Women would learn which ... READ MORE...

Prostate Cancer Screening. Who Needs It?

The American Urology Association (AUA) no longer recommends routine screening for Prostate Cancer in men  40-54 years old.  Routine screening has resulted in much unnecessary suffering for far too ... READ MORE...