vegan nutrition – Vegan Muscle and Fitness

Plant-Based Longevity: How Eating Green Keeps You Young

Forget expensive creams and risky surgeries – the secret to looking and feeling younger might be hiding in your produce aisle! It's my first post in ages, (but I haven't…

Health Nutrition

Raw ’til 4 Helped My Rheumatoid Arthritis

As someone who's been vegan for thirteen years, and who's eaten a whole foods diet for half of that time, I never expected to deal with a chronic disease at…

Health Nutrition Vegan Children

Vegan Pregnancy and Vegan Kids

My long overdue article on vegan pregnancy and childhood is up! Building Vegan Bodies from Scratch: 3 Myths About Vegan Pregnancy and Raising Vegan Children Dispelled, Part 1 can be viewed…

Bodybuilding Nutrition Workout

The Biggest Vegan Bodybuilding Event Ever!

Marcella and I have been in heads-down training and working mode recently so we haven't been posting as much as we should, but I wanted to update everyone on…

Bodybuilding Nutrition Workout

Getting Back in Shape – From New Mom to Female Bodybuilding Competitor?!?

Workout and excerpt from our meal plan included in this post! I last posted on my progress here. Having just become the mother of this adorable little nugget I really…

Nutrition

Eating for a Healthy, Active Pregnancy

I've had a few questions about what I've been eating during pregnancy, so I'll share! A great pregnancy nutrition resource, by the way, is The Complete Idiot's Guide to Plant-Based…

Nutrition

Plant Based Nutrition – Will I Get Anemic?

As a personal trainer I've talked with many people and even seen clients struggle with iron-deficiency anemia after adopting a plant based diet. I've even had people describe to me how…

Nutrition

The Paleo Diet – The Ultimate Review Released!

Walk into any Crossfit gym these days and the predominant nutritional advice you'll hear is unfortunately that of the Paleo Diet. Now I am by no means knocking Crossfit…

Nutrition

Heart Attack-Proof Diet in the Media! Watch it Tonight!

I'm really excited because plant-based nutrition as a means of improving your health has been in the media a lot the last few days! Former President Bill Clinton was in…

Recipe

Cookbooks You Must Own and Forks Over Knives DVD Release Update!

The Forks Over Knives DVD is now available for pre-order here at a discount; they'll be shipped August 9th! You can even order DVD + companion book packages and 4-packs…

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Meal Planning

This seems like the perfect time to announce: we're adding meal planning to our Fitness & Nutrition Consulting services! Two-week menus, with grocery lists (for locals a grocery delivery service…

Nutrition

The New MyPlate Food Guide

By now you've probably seen that the USDA has come out with it's latest rendition of the food guide pyramid- MyPlate. Its release last week led to some buzz (at…

Breakfast Lunch Main Dish

Outline of a Whole Food Plant-Based Diet Part II

Here's a blueprint of what we eat. You can basically take this list and choose from the different breakfasts, lunches, dinners, snacks, and post-workout drinks according to your tastes and…

Dessert Nutrition Recipe

Planeat @ Crossroads Was a Success!

How awesome: we had a full house at Crossroads Coffee last night for our screening of Planeat, a documentary exploring plant-based nutrition and the environmental impact of our dietary…

Breakfast Lunch Main Dish

Outline of a Whole Food Plant-Based Diet Part I

So what does a plant-based diet look like in practice? I touched on that a bit in this post by reviewing an example grocery list and what I made with…

Bodybuilding Nutrition

Plants Vs. Animals: Bodybuilding Menus Compared

Just wanted to share an article I wrote recently for veganbodybuilding.com that compares standard and vegan bodybuilding diets and includes a sample whole foods bulking menu. Check it out here!

Nutrition

Must See: Forks Over Knives and Planeat!

I'm so excited about this Spring because not one but TWO awesome documentaries about plant-based nutrition are coming out! Planeat is coming out this month and may already be in…

Bodybuilding Nutrition

Grocery Shopping and a Week of Meals for Vegan Bodybuilders and the Dogs That Love Them

**UPDATE: How We Saved $7000 Annually on Our Plant Based Grocery Bill ** This post will either be really boring or really informative...Since two major roadblocks to eating less processed food…

Breakfast Nutrition Recipe

Vegan Breakfasts of Champions

Keeping my body fat % down while building muscle has always been a challenge. So, if I make a diet change that results in my suddenly losing a few percent…

Nutrition

Nutrition Principles Part 3 – Derek

Hello and happy February! To start the month off right I thought I'd finally get Dr. Campbell's last Principles of Nutrition up, so thank you for your patience! To recap…