I consider myself the Every Woman, the one who spent most of her life either planning to go on a diet, struggling…

I first learned about the whole-food, plant-based way of eating back in 2012. I’d been struggling with pain from arthritis and was…

In the fall of 1992, I started feeling some minor muscular weakness. I didn’t think too much of it, until one day…

Growing up in Southeastern Pennsylvania, I was a pretty active kid. I lived for playing outdoors with my brothers, Bryan and Bobby,…

While growing up on the standard American diet, I considered myself healthy. Although I dealt with acne and painful menstrual cramps, I…

I struggled with being overweight for most of my adult life. At my heaviest, I was 250 pounds. I managed to shed…

I began dabbling in a raw vegan diet for my health in 2005, but I could never fully commit to it and…

For years, I suffered from chronic fatigue. The exhaustion was so severe that it interfered with my life. My physicians ran blood…

Growing up, I never had a problem with excess weight, and in fact, I tended  toward being underweight. I ate meat, but…

I started lifting weights as a freshman in high school in 1974. I was a decent high school and college athlete, and…

When I was just 13 years old, I developed pain in my elbow. The doctor diagnosed me with tennis elbow, though I…