Stories by Kathy Freston
Kathy Freston is a health and wellness expert and a New York Times bestselling author. Her latest book is "The Quantum Wellness Cleanse: The 21-Day Essential Guide to Healing Your Body, Mind, and Spirit." She has been featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Ellen, The View and Good Morning America. For more information visit www.kathyfreston.com.
Posted on Mar 13, 2012, Source: AlterNet
The West's three biggest killers -- heart disease, cancer, and stroke -- are linked to excessive animal product consumption.
Posted on May 3, 2011, Source: Huffington Post
People are eating less meat and dairy and they want more vegetarian and vegan options when they're eating out.
Posted on Mar 28, 2011, Source: Huffington Post
Eating vegan, or veganish, is about choosing to disengage from an industry that makes us sick, abuses animals, pollutes the planet, and squanders precious resources.
Posted on Mar 18, 2010, Source: AlterNet
Health expert Dean Ornish says high-protein dieters 'may lose more weight because they are losing water weight. But by the end of the year, the weight usually returns.'
Posted on Jan 13, 2010, Source: AlterNet
We're getting sicker and sicker, thanks to gruesome conditions in animal agriculture nationwide.
Posted on Jan 9, 2010, Source: AlterNet
The chicken and pork industries have wrought unprecedented changes in bird and swine flu. Billions could die in a deadly flu pandemic, the likes of which we have never seen.
Posted on Jan 6, 2010, Source: AlterNet
The chicken and pork industries have wrought unprecedented changes in bird and swine flu. Billions could die in a new pandemic.
Posted on Nov 30, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Martha Stewart promotes a vegetarian Thanksgiving? Recently, much attention has been lavished on the horrors of factory farming and the advantages of a meatless diet.
Posted on Nov 4, 2009, Source: AlterNet
"He is the Michael Pollan of a younger generation: grittier and more daring, more insightful and decisive."
Posted on Oct 31, 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 8, 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 Sep 25, 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 Jul 6, 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 Jun 15, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Eating meat is a relatively recent phenomenon in human evolution. And our bodies have never adapted to it.
Posted on Jun 8, 2009, Source: AlterNet
The world will be a much better place in 100 years if we rethink the way we eat.
Posted on May 16, 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 5, 2009, Source: AlterNet
A virus like swine flu is a completely predictable outcome of our cruel and appallingly filthy factory farming systems.
Posted on Apr 22, 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 16, 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 2, 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 Mar 28, 2009, Source: Huffington Post
Diets that require rigorous participant logs and calorie counting are destined to fail. There is a better way.
Posted on Jul 29, 2008, Source: AlterNet
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 Jun 3, 2008, Source: Huffington Post
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 Nov 30, 2007, Source: Huffington Post
If you want to decrease you carbon footprint, you can start with your dinner plate.
Posted on Mar 14, 2007, Source: AlterNet
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 2, 2007, Source: Huffington Post
How to become vegetarian -- and help save the environment -- in six easy steps.
Posted on Feb 7, 2007, Source: Huffington Post
Livestock destroy the environment, so fill your bowl with veggies instead of veal.
