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Success StoriesSee articleMysterious Health Problems, Chronic Headaches, and 65 Pounds Gone in Six Months on a WFPB Diet
Like most Midwestern Americans, I grew up on meat, comfort foods, and sugar-laden desserts. Later while serving in the Marines, my food trays in the chow hall weren’t any better. After leaving military service in 1992, I became a deputy sheriff, and my food choices while on duty weren’t the best. I tended to go […] -
Success StoriesSee articleMeet Fiona Oakes, Ultrarunner for the Animals
For the Animals, a documentary short by Insightful Films, features the story of vegan runner Fiona Oakes, the fastest woman to run a marathon on every continent plus the North Pole. Fiona runs to prove that a plant-based diet is not prohibitive to performance. She also started and runs Tower Hill Stables Animal Sanctuary, home to […] -
Success StoriesSee articleIn Eight Months, I Lost 80 Pounds, Got Off Meds, and Took Back My Life
My life has changed! Just last year, I weighed 282 pounds at 57 years old. I’ve been sober for 22 years and have always been an athlete. I’m a 5th degree master in a Korean martial art called Tang Soo Do. But I have struggled with my weight for a long time. I have been […] -
Success StoriesSee articleWorld Champion Freerunner Tim Shieff Leaps Buildings, Dangles from Bridges, and Is Powered By Plants
(Editor’s Note: Tim Shieff is a two-time world champion freerunner who goes by the name Livewire in competition. He has appeared on American and UK Ninja Warrior and MTV’s Ultimate Parkour Challenge, and is known for his animal rights and environmental activism.) I first went plant-based in October of 2012. I was in Bucharest [Romania] […] -
Success StoriesSee articleHow I Lost 220 Pounds, Became an Ultra-Runner, and Transformed My Life
As you may be able to tell by my very French-sounding last name, I am proudly from South Louisiana, where we “live to eat” (it’s even on billboards … really!). I grew up hunting, fishing, drinking, playing football, and eating a lot of deep fried and rich Cajun foods. Until a few years ago, I […] -
Success StoriesSee articleWhy I Abandoned Traditional Cardiology to Become the “Healthy Heart Doc”
Spider-Man and Me: Parallel Tragedies Spider-Man was my favorite superhero growing up. I’m not sure if I wanted to be Spider-Man because of the catchy theme song, his cool “spidey-sense,” his ability to climb walls, or his ability to web sling throughout the city. Whatever the reason, I identified with him. Spider-Man is still my […] -
Success StoriesSee articleType 2 Diabetes, Addiction, Depression, 130 Pounds—Gone in Three Years on a Plant-Based Diet!
My weight didn’t become a problem until I was about 24 years old, but I have always had an unhealthy relationship with food and a poor self-image. Unfortunately, those weren’t the only things I struggled with. I was also a drug addict and suffered from severe depression, and by the time I was 30 I […] -
Success StoriesSee articleWhen the Love of My Life Was Given One Month to Live, a WFPB Diet Gave Us More Time
In 2011, the course of my life changed forever. My boyfriend Tom and I were creating music for films, had a band, and had a new record coming out. We were living in Los Angeles, working hard, in love, and doing what we liked. One day, he woke up with a light headache that wouldn’t […] -
Success StoriesSee articleAfter a Heart Attack, I Changed My Diet, Shocked My Cardiologist, and Avoided Bypass Surgery
On June 14, 2014, while on a fishing and camping trip with my son, I had a heart attack. I was 53 years old. We drove to a small-town hospital and were immediately flown by helicopter to a hospital in Kyle, Texas. The cardiologist there placed three stents in my arteries and got the blood […] -
Success StoriesSee articleHow I Got Rid of Extra Weight, Prediabetes, and Depression … and Inspired My Patients to Do the Same
The Day I Started Questioning My Medical Training I must confess that when I watched the Forks Over Knives (FOK) documentary a few years ago, I desperately wanted the doctors in the movie to be complete veggie-loving quacks. Why? Because if what they said was true, then the entire way I (and just about every doctor I […] -
Success StoriesSee articleIn One Year, I Dropped 103 Lbs, Lost 12 Inches off My Waist, and Transformed My Life
I struggled with my weight my entire life, trying every diet you could imagine from the age of 13. In the last few years, I started developing health issues and had to go to the hospital several times for various weight-related issues. I had high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, high cholesterol, and fatty liver/high liver enzymes, […] -
Success StoriesSee articleMeet LA Galaxy’s Baggio Hušidić, a High-Performance Plant-Powered Athlete
Twenty-eight-year-old Adis “Baggio” Hušidić is a starting midfielder for major-league soccer team the LA Galaxy. He’s also a passionate whole-food, plant-based (WFPB) eater. He was born in Bosnia and experienced great strife as a young child, witnessing great violence during the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s. When he was seven years old, Baggio escaped […]
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