For most of my life, I didn’t struggle with any health issues at all. I exercised, drank in moderation, and ate what…

I hail from Kansas City, Missouri (a town known for its barbecue), and grew up on the standard American diet, with lots…

In high school I was an athlete. I was used to consuming lots of calories; I was burning them off just as…

My father ran a slaughterhouse, so my family ate a lot of meat when I was growing up. I couldn’t wait to…

As a young man I was very athletic, playing high school and college football as a wide receiver. That position required a…

For much of my adult life, I carried 50 to 60 pounds excess weight. I’m 5-foot-3, and at my heaviest, I weighed…

As a child, I had a lot of odd symptoms and ailments—tics, shingles, and intractable migraines. From the time I was 12…

I grew up believing that eating meat was necessary. I was encouraged to follow the family traditions and not question them. Why…

Before finding the whole-food, plant-based way of eating, I had high cholesterol (280 total), and my husband, Jim, had to have quadruple…

In 2021, I lost my dad to his third heart attack. He was just 52, but he was diabetic and obese. I…

I stopped eating meat back in 1994, primarily because I thought it might help me lose weight. But I ate a lot…