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Mediterranean diets. Can their protective effects be further enhanced with a Vegan Mediterranean diet?
López-Moreno, M et al. The OMNIVEG STUDY: Health outcomes of shifting from a traditional to a vegan Mediterranean diet in healthy men. A controlled crossover trial. Nutrition,...
Coming Together, Working Together with Education
Never in modern history has there been such an interest in food and at the same time, such a lack of confidence in the basic quality of...
Unravelling The Myth About Fish
We have written about the problems with eating fish in the past and our eBook, Let’s Keep Fish in the Sea, gives lots of details, but it’s...
How Society is Crossing Lines of Climate Crisis
During a speech in London this past April, UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell gave a stark warning. It was his analysis that the world has only two...
Self-Empowerment Is The Road To Health
Much of our thinking about health is about a battle between invisible and mysterious adversaries that surround us and that we need to fight. We are “fighting”...
Our School Projects Are Successful
The laughter in the classroom said it all. Success was apparent by the look on all the pupil’s faces. The biggest compliment one can receive when teaching...
Body Autonomy
Health is an elusive mix of the physical and the emotional, the mental and the spiritual, the individual and the social, the logical and the intuitive. It...
The Birds & The Bees
The first introduction to ecological thinking for many people was The Silent Spring by Rachel Carson. It is one of the many books on our students recommendation reading list....
The Personal is Planetary
As a young boy growing up in Northern California, I was blessed with the opportunity to hike and camp in the woodlands of the Sierra Nevada and...
Super Bugs For Super Health - How The Microbiome Protects The Gut
Did you know we are only 10 percent human? Ninety percent of our cells are nonhuman, microbial cells. Humans and our ancestors have evolved since the most...
Great Success with Our Oxford Presentations
Dear Friends Where does the time go? In the blink of an eye, the first quarter of 2024 seemed to pass very quickly. However,...
Macrobiotics and the Microbiome
Over the past twenty years there has been a consistent growth in the study of the human gut biome. We are fascinated with the idea that there...
How I Saved The World 2050
I have written this short essay for submission reporting my vegan advocacy work. The nature of the competition was what one did to contribute to saving the...
Humans Have NO Need To Eat Animal Products
Plant-based vegan diets are healthy and sustainable. This is now irrefutable since every major health institute around the world endorses this way of living. Remember, knowledge is...
Society
At COP28 the conversation is still about money and not feeding the world. Another year, another COP meeting and the environment is back...
Animals
We need to reassess our relationship to the whole animal kingdom and a good place to start is with those non-humans we claim to love the...