Impact on Personal Health

Healthy Food for Healthy Bodies

Healthy food choices for the planet have the happy coincidence of being the healthiest food choices for most people as well. Here are a variety of resources on plant-based eating and health:

• “Eat Like a Climatarian for a Healthy Planet and a Healthy You from Real Simple”: “ What we eat not only determines our health and well-being, it also has a profound impact on other species as well, and on the land, air, water, and other resources.” Be sure to take the quiz: How well do you understand the impact that our food system has on climate change? that’s embedded within this article.
• What the Health documentary film by Kip Anderson: An exploration of how to prevent and even reverse disease through dietary choices.
• “The Beginner’s Guide to a Whole-Food, Plant-Based Diet from Forks Over Knives”: Everything you need to understand the impact of your food choices and how to get started toward more of a plant-based diet.
• “What to Eat to Starve Cancer & Heal the Body” from the Ultimate Health Podcast by Dr. William Li: “How to integrate the foods you already love to fight cancer, autoimmune disease, and other debilitating conditions.”
• How Not to Die books by Dr. Michael Greger: How food and lifestyle choices can sometimes prevent or reverse the top 15 causes of premature death in America. His website, NutritionFacts.org, is loaded with information about how food choices affect personal health.
• Whole Foods Plant Based Diet: Chock-full of recipes, articles, videos, and podcasts about how your food choices affect your health.
• “Plant-based Prevention of Disease: A Conversation with Kim A. Williams Sr.”: Article on Harvard Health Policy Review’s website. “Plant-based diets are associated with lower rates of obesity and diabetes, high quality of life and longer life expectancy, as well as less hypertension, dyslipidemia, peripheral artery disease, coronary disease, myocardial infarction, erectile dysfunction, heart failure, stroke, and death.”
• “Kim Williams, MD, on Vegan Diets and Heart Health”: Two-minute video on heart health and diet. Dr. Williams also has relevant plant-based podcasts: #125: “Dr. Kim Williams – Have Heart Disease? Four Questions to Empower Your Reversal” and 197: “Vegans at risk for heart disease? with cardiologist Dr. Kim Williams.”