How to Live a Healthy and Happy Vegan Lifestyle

Helen Armstrong says she feels '100% better' after switching to a whole food plant-based diet. When 76-year old Helen Armstrong’s daughter moved in with her during the coronavirus lockdown, neither of them could have known the impact it would have on her life. Armstrong, who lives in Doncaster, has suffered with many long-term chronic conditions – diabetes, arthritis, asthma, high blood pressure, chronic constipation, and bipolar disorder – and was virtually bedbound when the order came for the vulnerable to be shielded. Just before lockdown, her daughter, 49-year-old Belinda White, was called to her mother’s house. Paramedics had already visited, and when White arrived, Armstrong was hanging off her chair, unresponsive. Together with her care givers White got her mother back into bed but by that evening, it was clear she needed more help. White called the paramedics back. They feared Armstrong may have sepsis or coronavirus and wanted to admit her but taking her to hospital wa

    An acclaimed vegan doctor has called for 'more nuance in debating health literature' in his latest YouTube video titled 'Vegan Wars'. “There is a legitimate problem with making it sound like plants are the absolute answer to everything”  Dr. Garth Davis “Those problems are twofold. Number one for the patient. Because, if they think that they can avoid medical therapy just by eating plants, they could be avoiding a potentially very helpful thing to help live longer and alleviate symptoms.” Speaking to Plant Based News about the video, Dr. Greger replied: “I’m a big fan of Garth and his wonderful work. [It’s] nice to see someone try to cut through the grandstanding.”

    What are the effects of plant-based meats on premature puberty, childhood obesity, and hip fracture risk? DOCTOR'S NOTE - Michael Greger, M.D.  This is the fourth in a nine-part video series on plant-based meats. If you missed the first three, see: The Environmental Impacts of Plant-Based Meat Substitutes Are Beyond Meat and the Impossible Burger Healthful? Are Pea and Soy Protein Isolates Harmful? Stay tuned for: The Health Effects of Mycoprotein (Quorn) Products vs BCAAs in Meat What About the Heme in Impossible Burgers? Does Heme Iron Cause Cancer? Heme-Induced N-Nitroso Compounds and Fat Oxidation Is Heme the Reason Meat Is Carcinogenic? If you don’t want to wait for all nine of the videos in this series to roll out on NutritionFacts.org, you can get them right now in a digital download from my webinar a few months ago. If you haven’t yet, you can subscribe to my videos for free by clicking here .

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  The reason egg consumption is associated with elevated cancer risk may be the TMAO, considered the “smoking gun” of microbiome-disease interactions. Michael Greger, M.D. FACLM is a physician, New York Times bestselling author, and internationally recognized professional speaker on a number of important public health issues. Dr. Greger has lectured at the Conference on World Affairs, the National Institutes of Health, and the International Bird Flu Summit, among countless other symposia and institutions; testified before Congress; has appeared on shows such as The Colbert Report and The Dr. Oz Show; and was invited as an expert witness in defense of Oprah Winfrey at the infamous "meat defamation" trial. In 2017, he was honored with the ACLM Lifestyle Medicine Trailblazer Award. DOCTOR'S NOTE What did the egg industry do in response to this information? Distort the scientific record. See Egg Industry Response to Choline and TMAO . This isn’t the first time the egg indust