Stories by Kathy Freston
Kathy Freston is a health and wellness expert and a New York Times best-selling author. Her latest book is The Quantum Wellness Cleanse: A 21 Day Essential Guide to Healing Your Body, Mind and Spirit. Freston promotes a body/mind/spirit approach to health and happiness that includes a concentration on healthy diet, emotional introspection, spiritual practice, and loving relationships. Kathy’s recent television appearances include The Oprah Winfrey Show, Ellen, The View and Good Morning America. www.kathyfreston.com
"He is the Michael Pollan of a younger generation: grittier and more daring, more insightful and decisive."
Posted on Nov 4, 2009, Source: AlterNet
A plant-based diet is both preventative and healing, whereas a diet high in animal protein is destructive to our health.
Posted on Oct 31, 2009, Source: AlterNet
More Doctors and nutritional scientists are saying that a diet high meat is disastrous to our health, while a plant-based (vegan) diet prevents disease and is restorative to it.
Posted on Oct 8, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Experts are saying a plant-based diet is not only good for our health, but it's also curative of the very serious diseases we face.
Posted on Sep 25, 2009, Source: AlterNet
A new campaign is focused on convincing the world not to eat chickens, pigs, and other animals -- just one day per week.
Posted on Jul 6, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Eating meat is a relatively recent phenomenon in human evolution. And our bodies have never adapted to it.
Posted on Jun 15, 2009, Source: AlterNet
The world will be a much better place in 100 years if we rethink the way we eat.
Posted on Jun 8, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Cutting your meat-eating habits is one of the most impactful ways you can prevent drastic changes to our climate.
Posted on May 16, 2009, Source: AlterNet
A virus like swine flu is a completely predictable outcome of our cruel and appallingly filthy factory farming systems.
Posted on May 5, 2009, Source: AlterNet
The meat industry contributes to land degradation, climate change, air pollution, water shortage and pollution, and loss of biodiversity.
Posted on Apr 22, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Cutting out red meat while still eating chicken doesn't address the fact that the industrial model for raising both is very bad for the environment.
Posted on Apr 16, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Sometimes, solutions to the world's biggest problems are right in front of us. The following statistics are eye-opening, to say the least.
Posted on Apr 2, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Diets that require rigorous participant logs and calorie counting are destined to fail. There is a better way.
Posted on Mar 28, 2009, Source: Huffington Post
The Atkins, eat-lots-of-meat diet is about as unhealthy as they come. But you'd never know it from media coverage.
Posted on Jul 29, 2008, Source: AlterNet
The way Americans obsess about protein, you'd think protein deficiency was the number one health problem in America. Of course it's not.
Posted on Jun 3, 2008, Source: Huffington Post
If you want to decrease you carbon footprint, you can start with your dinner plate.
Posted on Nov 30, 2007, Source: Huffington Post
Eating a plant-based diet is an easy, cheap way to end animal cruelty and clean up the environment. Why, then, are so many progressives still clinging to their chicken nuggets?
Posted on Mar 14, 2007, Source: AlterNet
How to become vegetarian -- and help save the environment -- in six easy steps.
Posted on Mar 2, 2007, Source: Huffington Post
Livestock destroy the environment, so fill your bowl with veggies instead of veal.
Posted on Feb 7, 2007, Source: Huffington Post
