Punk Rocker’s Mission to Show There’s Nothing Tough About Eating Meat
John Joseph, the lead singer and cofounder of the legendary punk rock group Cro-Mags, grew up on the tough streets of New…
My Patient Didn’t Just Control His Diabetes, He Cured It!
Some of you may have read my story about how I came to embrace a whole-food, plant-based diet and the effects it…
Sharing a Message of Hope and Health in the Latin-American Community
As medical doctors with a passion for human and planetary health, we are always looking for ways to make the greatest difference…
Fed Up: Let’s Really Move Big Food Out of School Lunches
Sugar isn’t the only villain in our surging obesity epidemic. Katie Couric’s new documentary Fed Up is an eye-opening experience for most…
TMAO: A Toxic Substance Formed When You Eat Meat Can Make You … Dead Meat
We can add another reason to the list of why we should not eat meat. If the saturated fat and cholesterol in…
Why Everyone Should Eat More Plants
There is a misconception that eating a plant-based diet is unnatural, the purview of activist radicals and the socially marginalized. Instead, I…
The Smoke and Mirrors Behind Wheat Belly and Grain Brain
The Atkins Diet lives on in the current bestselling books Wheat Belly by William Davis, MD and Grain Brain by David Perlmutter,…
Careers in Plant-Based Nutrition: Options for Action in an Emerging Field
We need you. We have never before been faced with so much overweight, chronic disease, and associated emotional and financial ill effects…
1907 New York Times Article Shows that Meat Causes Cancer.
A Century Later, Many People Still Haven’t Heard the News
In a recent NPR debate about the risks of meat-eating, I put forward the proposition that meat causes cancer. Judging by faces…
The Plant-Based Lifestyle Is the Best Medicine I’ve Ever Prescribed
As a cardiologist, I am delighted to share the many ways Forks Over Knives has been an incredible resource for my patients,…
How Not to Need Viagra
Erectile dysfunction has been getting a lot of publicity in recent years, and when a brand-new drug, Viagra, hit the market in…
Incorporating Compassion for Farmed Animals
The following piece is the acceptance speech given by Dr. Melanie Joy on October 9, 2013 at the House of Commons in…