A common complaint from folks on a vegan diet—especially newcomers—is that they are experiencing more gas and bloating since adopting the new way of eating. As you’ll soon see, this … Read more
Like gas/bloating, constipation and hemorrhoids, diarrhea (or just the occasional loose stool) is another digestive issue folks can face when switching to plant-based diets. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines … Read more
If you’re a vegan with high blood pressure, you’re not alone. It can be frustrating to make the switch to a diet that’s known to be among the healthiest eating … Read more
Inflammation is a necessary part of healing and is used by the body to fight illness and disease. Ironically, the very process designed by evolution to protect the body can … Read more
If you read the article, Does a Vegan Diet Lower Blood Pressure? then you know that plant-based diets are endorsed by the major health organizations for their anti-hypertensive properties. Now, … Read more
It appears that vegetarian and vegan diets lower blood pressure. In the largest meta-analysis on the subject to date, Yokoyama et al. found vegetarian and vegan diets to be associated … Read more
Believe it or not, one of the first articles I wrote was on the subject of the vegan diet and hemorrhoids (check out the article here). This article will be … Read more
One of the most common questions I get is whether or not the vegan diet helps with weight loss. Yes, vegans are characteristically thin, but is that all correlation or … Read more
Does the vegan diet prevent skin cancer? Or is skin cancer prevention simply a matter of wearing sunscreen? That’s the question I’ll be answering in this article. The short answer … Read more
So, what does the literature have to say about the vegan diet and lung cancer? When I first started researching the relationship between plant-based diets and health, I initially thought … Read more