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We decided to try the Sirtfood Diet. We lasted exactly one day, almost. Here's what it was like.
When Adele made headlines and practically broke the internet for revealing her new slimmed-down body after losing about 100 pounds on a "Sirtfood Diet" The Beet had to find out more…

Newly vegan or not, sometimes you just need that comfort food you crave from your past: A burger, and fries. This traditional comfort food brings back memories of hitting the reverse happy hour menu at Swingers Diner and slurping a chocolate malt shake and my favorite burger and fries when I wa…

I  had to know: Did I have COVID-19? Way back in February I was sitting on a flight to Vail when an elderly woman directly behind me coughed for hours. She coughed so hard and so loudly and so "wet" sounding that even then, I was sure she had COVID-19 and was spreading her vir…

Anna Rios is a Registered Dietician at Marin Community Clinics in California providing medical nutrition therapy to patients of all ages. 
I met Nancy at the beginning of last year. She came into the clinic after the holidays and was shocked to find out that her cholesterol levels were extremely…

Norwich City soccer player Caleb Richards' interest in veganism was piqued after watching the plant-based documentary The Game Changers. The film chronicles elite athletes who are vegan, and the positive effects that eating a plant-based has on their performance, r…

Do you scroll through Instagram and drool over recipes on the screen? The problem is your engagement usually ends there and you never end up making those beautiful recipes. We decided to bring you the perfect week of healthy plant-based eating from one such recipe developer, so you could not only ma…

When you go plant-based everyone asks, "How do you feel?" The answer is simple: When you do it right you feel amazing. You get clearer skin, watch the extra pounds drop off, you feel lighter, your face looks less bloated. Overall, you generally feel younger, more energeti…

Ever since I watched the documentary Food Inc. in 2012, I gave up poultry and red meat and landed somewhere between vegan and will-eat-sushi-just-this-once. Then, in 2015, I quit my day job as the food editor at Reader’s Digest and enrolled in the chef training program at the Natural…

When my husband and I tossed away the tethers of a conventional home we were in search of something different. We weren’t entirely sure what different would look like, but we wanted our daily lives to feel simpler, greener, and more intentional...

Meat has been a motif in my writing, both fiction and non-fiction: My novels feature roast pork sandwiches, lamb lollipops, Bisteccas, wild boar ragus, mixed roasts, and other carnivorous encounters. I have written features on men with monikers such as “the world’s most famous …