Plant Based

Plant-Based Meals: A Good Place to Start

Meg Wolff | Posted 05.26.2012

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If you're looking to add more plant-based meals into your household, start with something your family will already eat. White beans were the perfect bean to introduce into my family's meals.

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Plant-Based: A Hearty Bean, Grain and Vegetable Soup That's Also Wheat- and Gluten-Free (Video)

Meg Wolff | Posted 03.12.2012

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Because I eat a whole-foods, plant-based diet with a minimal amount of processed foods, it isn't a huge stretch for me to remove wheat- or gluten-containing ingredients. It didn't take a lot to adapt this recipe.

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Antibiotics With Your Thanksgiving Leftovers?

Josh Tetrick | Posted 01.26.2012

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Spit out that Thanksgiving leftover ham and pick up a barf bag. Because even the hardy Pilgrims would take a pass on some of those leftovers if they k...

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Quick Plant-Based Meal: One-Pot Powerhouse Chickpeas! (Wheat- & Gluten-Free)

Meg Wolff | Posted 12.03.2011

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Leafy greens like spinach and kale, and the other ingredients in this dish, including sweet potato, and onion help make Powerhouse Chickpeas a nutrient-dense meal.

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This Is How We Do It: 11 Amazing Vegan Recipes

Nil Zacharias | Posted 10.29.2011

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These recipes taste as delicious as they look.

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Undercover Investigation of a Dog Factory Farm

Josh Tetrick | Posted 09.11.2011

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Last week, the animal protection organization Mercy For Animals released a video taken undercover by an employee wearing a hidden camera at a dog fact...

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Dog: The Other White Meat

Josh Tetrick | Posted 08.26.2011

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Why save dogs, but eat other animals? Pigs are more intelligent. They can dream, recognize their own names, fetch a tennis ball, and lead social lives of a complexity previously observed only in primates. Some even enjoy cuddling.

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Where Are You?

Josh Tetrick | Posted 08.22.2011

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Where are you? Three rows of masks hang on the wall. Barbed-wire encircles the building. Enormous sets of fans bang. Machines power on intermittently...

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Want to Make Eating Better Easier? Follow a Hero's Advice

Meg Wolff | Posted 07.04.2011

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One of the world's leading experts on plant-based eating was in my neck of the woods (Greater Portland, Maine) this week, and it was a great thrill to...

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Meatless Monday: Earth Day Friday Extra -- Keep it Cool

Ellen Kanner | Posted 06.21.2011

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It's Earth Day, how cool is that? Plenty cool, if you do it right. Good thing, too. It's been a year since the Gulf oil spill, a month since the...

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A Great Way to Get Off to a Lucky Start Each Day

Meg Wolff | Posted 05.25.2011

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Some call it the luck of the Irish, but I'm half Irish and I like to believe that what fuels my luck (and health) is eating a healthy breakfast!

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Alicia Silverstone On Living Your Best Life

Huffington Post | Priyanka Boghani | Posted 11.17.2011

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If you really want to make a change on this planet, a plant-based diet is the easiest, fastest way to get there.

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