Success Stories
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Success StoriesSee articleI Use Less Insulin, Got off Statins, and Lost 50 Pounds on a Plant-Based Diet
Yvonne McGill had type 1 diabetes and a host of other health issues, including hypertension, hypothyroidism, and rheumatoid arthritis. Going plant-based enabled her to use less insulin to manage her diabetes and get off blood pressure pills and statins completely. Plant-based eating was not a part of my family’s traditional culture. Growing up Dominican, all […] -
Success StoriesSee articleHow Going Plant-Based Helped Me Overcome Depression
I have seen and heard of a whole-food, plant-based diet saving lives in many ways: reversing heart disease, diabetes, and obesity, and causing other dramatic health transformations. The way it saved my life was more discreet. Eating this way was the kickstart I needed to face the depression I have experienced since childhood. Unhealthy Coping […] -
Success StoriesSee articlePost–Double Bypass Surgery, I’m Soaring on a Plant-Based Diet
Dawn was a smoker who loved rich Southern foods. Then chest pains landed her in the ER. After double bypass surgery for heart disease, she decided to try a plant-based diet. My life has drastically changed since June 1, 2015, the day I finally broke down and went to the ER after months of chest […] -
Success StoriesSee articleMy Wife and I Shed a Combined 100 Pounds After Going Plant-Based
Together since high school, Siddharth and Nidhi grew up eating rich foods. But by the time Siddharth was 25, he weighed 375 pounds and had dangerously high cholesterol. Together, they decided to try a plant-based diet for weight loss. My wife, Nidhi, and I met in high school, dated through college, and got married in […] -
Success StoriesSee articleCooking My Way to Better Health with a Plant-Based Meal Planner
Chris Noel wanted to go vegan for his health, but he struggled to know what to cook. He had returned to eating animal products and gaining weight—then he discovered the time-saving power of a plant-based meal planner. I was always a big meat eater: I loved bacon, sausage, and chicken. I never believed it was […] -
Success StoriesSee articleI Conquered My Diabetes and Lost Over 150 Pounds by Going Plant-Based
James William Booth had given up on dieting and given in to sugar and cheese addiction. But when weight gain and diabetes threatened his life, he decided to again try changing his lifestyle. I never had problems with my weight or health in general as a young adult in my 20s, even though I smoked, […] -
Success StoriesSee articlePost Heart Attack, Living It Up at 84 on a Plant-Based Diet
At 75, Jerry Hunter Nissen didn’t realize he had heart disease—until he suffered a heart attack. Wanting to avoid surgery and prolonged medication use, he looked into improving his cardiac health through diet. In May 2010, as a 75-year-old American living in Chiang Mai, Thailand, every day I swam more than 2 kilometers and ate […] -
Success StoriesSee articleFrom Bedridden to Running Marathons: Healing Rheumatoid Arthritis with a Plant-Based Diet
In October 2017 I started experiencing excruciating pain in all of my joints. By February 2018 I could barely wash my own hair or even get out of bed, and my knuckles were so inflamed that none of my rings fit over my fingers. I finally went to a doctor and was diagnosed with rheumatoid […] -
Success StoriesSee articleHow I Went From an Obese Couch Potato to Healthy and Fit at Age 57
Lorraine Zenge shares her plant-based success story of how she lost 80 pounds, lowered her cholesterol, and ditched prediabetes by “crowding out the bad food with the good.” A bit over two years ago, I was a 57-year-old morbidly obese couch potato. I was unhappy, unhealthy and I hurt all the time. I decided one […] -
Success StoriesSee articleI Went Plant-Based and Conquered Heart Disease in a Year
I grew up as an athlete, which was awesome. Hockey was my main sport, and I played every day as a kid. I loved volleyball, too, and I could play with the big boys no matter what court or field I walked onto. As an adult, athletics continued to play a big role in my […] -
Success StoriesSee articleHow a Plant-Based Diet Helped Me Restore Kidney Functioning
For more than 20 years, I have been a kidney patient with little to no hope. For many years, my nephrology team tried to persuade me to begin dialysis. I refused. Something in my gut told me it just wasn’t time and to hold off. I knew, deep down, that there had to be a […] -
Success StoriesSee articleEczema, Arthritis, Asthma, Migraines—All Gone After Going Plant-Based
Jennifer Sinyerd suffered from a host of chronic health issues, including eczema and asthma, but she thought that she was fairly healthy—until she went plant-based and saw what real health was. In November 2014, my boyfriend and I had an amazing Maui vacation, which included a day spent at a goat farm gorging ourselves on […]
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