The Plant-Based Pharmacist's Favorite Recipe Sites

For approximately three years I've been writing on the science and health benefits of plant-based diets. This kind of information is very important for understanding why you should follow a plant-based diet. However, many people (especially newcomers to the plant-based world) are left wondering how to "do" a plant-based diet. They need ideas for meals and recipes to make it happen. To help with this, I've compiled my list (in no particular order) of favorite whole foods, plant-based recipe sites for you to check out. I hope you find them useful. Go ahead, indulge a little!

Whole Food, Plant-Based Recipe Sites

1) Straight Up Food - Cathy Fisher is a certified nutritionist who works closely with Dr. John McDougall providing cooking classes at the McDougall Program. She also currently teaches cooking classes at the True North Health clinic in Santa Rosa, CA. Her recipes avoid all animal products as well as oil, salt, and refined flours and sugars.

2) Happy Herbivore - Lindsay Nixon is the author of 3 books including The Happy Herbivore Cookbook. Her site includes fabulous whole food recipes with no added fats (including oil), refined flours, or sugars. She has a number of easy to make plant-based recipes to choose from.

Forks Over Knives - Movie Review

There are several documentaries produced that will capture your curiosity and attention for an hour or two on a lazy, summer day but their message is usually long forgotten by the time you hit your pillow that night.  Forks Over Knives defies this status quo as it leaves you thinking twice about everything you've ever grown up on and makes you question your future choices regarding the foods that you eat as it brings to light the outspoken lessons of how nutritional excellence is the key to a healthier nation and a better quality of life for all.

Forks Over Knives is the brilliant work of two legendary pioneers in our modern day healthcare system.  One American biochemist, Dr. T. Colin Campbell, has over 50 years of distinguished work in the field of nutrition and health and one American surgeon, Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, has worked tirelessly for decades at the world famous Cleveland Clinic to rid his patients of heart disease.  These two men have teamed up to share their life long experiences in the fields of health and nutrition to educate the world on how to prevent and reverse chronic diseases with a plant-based diet.

Forks Over Knives

On May 6th, 2011 your life will be opened up to a whole new world of possibilities when Forks Over Knives hits theaters.  Our current state of health in America and in many other affluent countries around the world is becoming a very dismal scene as the rates of obesity, heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and many other degenerative diseases take hold of us.  Many of us have become accustomed to hearing that it's just because we're getting old.  Those things just happen when we age right?  Wrong!


Dr. T. Colin Campell and Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn have teamed up and created a fascinating eye-opening journey into the daily battles that many of us face with our chronic diseases.  They explain how much of the suffering that takes place can be completely prevented and even reversed in many cases by simply changing what we put on our plate three times a day.


Dr. Campbell has spent his entire career as a nutritional scientist doing research on how different types of food either promotes or diminishes our overall health.  He has been involved in some of the largest epidemiological studies ever done on nutrition and health.  Dr. Esselstyn has spent many years of his career at the renowned Cleveland Clinic as one of the top surgeons and head of the Breast Cancer Task Force there.  He currently directs the cardiovascular prevention and reversal program at The Cleveland Clinic Wellness Institute.  What both of these pioneers have discovered is that our skyrocketing rates of chronic, degenerative diseases are a product of our consumption of animal-based and processed foods.  The financial burden that this puts on us individually and on our nation as a whole is devastating and can be felt all around us.  Our healthcare system has become crippled & overwhelmed and is unable to truly heal people and bring them back to the vibrant life that they once led.


But the great news is that you can be a part of turning this scenario around!  All you have to do is take the time to learn about what Dr. Campbell and Dr. Esselstyn have uncovered and then start applying it to your life.  You can do this by checking out my website and also their websites below:


www.PursueAHealthyYou.com


Dr. T. Colin Campbell's site


Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn's site

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by Dustin Rudolph, PharmD
Clinical Pharmacist

Check out Dustin Rudolph's book The Empty Medicine Cabinet to start your journey towards better health. This step-by-step guide leads you through many of today's common chronic diseases (heart disease, obesity, diabetes, cancer, and more), giving you the facts on foods versus medications in treating these medical conditions. The book also contains an easy-to-follow guide on how to adopt a whole foods, plant-based diet as a part of an overall lifestyle change, producing the best possible health outcomes for you and your family. Hurry and get your copy today!

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