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Health Crisis? It’s Showtime!

Okay, couch potatoes; let’s go to the movies. It may be the first stop toward improving health, because the much-anticipated Forks Over Knives finally opens today. (Well, in Atlanta, May 20, so plan ahead). The movie demonstrates why heart disease, cancer, diabetes and other chronic illnesses can be managed, drug free, just by adopting a plant-based diet. That’s the short version. See my review of the screening here. Or see today’s The Antidote To Our Health... Read More

550,000 Deaths by Diet

In the U.S., conservative estimates indicate that more than 550,000 people will die this year as a result of ignoring nutrition, according to Dr. T. Colin Campbell‘s first lecture in eCornell’s Plant Based Nutrition Certification program. (Which I felt privileged to enjoy after surviving my first hour and a half of “pre-testing” in 20 years.) But, if so many of us are digging our graves with our forks, why do so few of us seem to notice? Dr. Campbell... Read More