You may have noticed that doctors sometimes don’t seem to know much nutrition and how food choices can prevent disease and support healing. This ‘doctor disconnect’ may be because for many years, if not decades, medical schools have not provided much or any instruction about nutrition to their medical students. … [continued]
We learned a lot in 2025 about how the way we eat affects our climate and environment. Many of us started to rethink our food choices in relation to a warming climate. A number of 2025 studies were released that chronicled the intersection of food and climate emissions, and, over … [continued]
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Was the plant-based meat substitute industry wrong to recommend its products as a climate solution? That’s what Impossible Foods CEO Peter McGuinness insists, saying that the approach severely restricted the company’s potential customer base early on. The approach may have contributed to an inevitable pattern of steadily falling US faux … [continued]
At a grocery store I frequent there is a particular kind of protein bar that has 15 grams of protein and it costs $2.80 with tax. At the same store, a one-pound bag of roasted, salted sunflower seeds is $3.00 with tax. According to the Food Data Central website, one … [continued]
Fully Raw Kristina’s YouTube Channel has about 1.45 million subscribers, and her videos have over 154,000,000 views. She has been a raw vegan for over 20 years. Her Instagram account has about one million followers, so she clearly has a large reach online. One of the main questions she receives … [continued]
Derek Sarno has one of the more popular food YouTube channels. He often shares various plant-based recipes. His content is noteworthy because he is a chef and understands how to make food taste good. For plant foods, this is really helpful to chip away at the myth that plant foods … [continued]
Air-frying a 3D-printed plant-based calamari ring resulted in a quick, tasty snack. Image credit: Poornima Vijayan
There are many plant foods containing all nine essential amino acids: histidine, lysine, leucine, iso-leucine, methionine, phenylalanine, threonine, tryptophan and valine. So, it’s actually not necessary to eat meat, because a person can get protein from other sources. To make sure a person is getting enough of a balance of … [continued]
“I like black-eyed peas,” said the lady behind me at the grocery store checkout counter. There was a sale on them at a discount grocery store: 5 cans for $4. That was about a month ago, but recently at a different store there was a one-pound bag of black-eyed peas … [continued]
The other day at a discount grocery store there was a sale on Royal Split Pigeon Peas, which some people say is a type of lentil if you have never eaten them. Each bag was marked down from $4 for two pounds to $3 so I got 2 bags for … [continued]
After writing about how almonds have more protein than some kinds of steak and lentils have more protein than hamburger, I noticed another plant food and animal food pairing: sunflower seeds and hotdogs. I think most people may expect it would be the beef frankfurter that has more protein — … [continued]
