PLANT-BASED LIFE-STYLE

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Team Lead:  Mary Mackey, mary@mary-mackey.com

Our Mission: The plant-based lifestyle action team is dedicated to encouraging our community to live a more plant dominant lifestyle.

Objective: To expose the detrimental effects animal agriculture has on our health, the planet and the extinction of so many animals. Education and motivation through guest speakers, plant-based doctors, documentaries, vegan cooking demonstrations, and sharing recipes. To inspire change within ourcommunity by living a more plant-based lifestyle.

What we know: A whole foods, plant-based lifestyle can significantly improve our lives. Research has shown that a plant-based diet helps prevent, treat, and even reverse some of the leading causes of death, including heart disease, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure and many cancers.

VEGANISM IS ‘SINGLE BIGGEST WAY’ TO REDUCE OUR ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT, OXFORD STUDY FINDS
Lead author Joseph Poore said: “A vegan diet is probably the single biggest way to reduce your impact on planet Earth, not just greenhouse gasses, but global acidification, eutrophication, land use and water use.”

  • EVENTS & SPEAKERS
    Plant-based cooking demo with Ann & Jane Esselstyn


    Jane & Ann Esselstyn are New York Times best selling authors of Be A Plant-Based Woman Warrior and the Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease cookbooks. Both have delicious recipes for everyone. View the video of their recent class exploring plant based recipes.

    Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn

“The Arrest and Reversal of Cardiovascular Disease with Nutrition: Fact or Fiction?”
Click here to view youtube recording of his zoom presentation.

“Heart disease remains the leading cause of death in the U.S. for men and women. But, as Dr. Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., a former internationally renowned surgeon, researcher and clinician at the Cleveland Clinic, explains in his lecture that it can be prevented, reversed and even abolished. Dr. Esselstyn argues that conventional cardiology has failed patients by developing treatments that focus only on the symptoms of heart disease, not the cause. Based on the groundbreaking results of his 20-year nutritional study, the longest study of its kind ever conducted, he explains, using irrefutable scientific evidence, how we can end the heart disease epidemic in the country by changing what we eat.” You can visit his website to learn more about his work and find information about his book “Prevent & Reverse Heart Disease Program”.

Cookbooks by the Esselstyn Family:

    1. Be A Plant-Based Woman Warrior. By Jane Esselstyn and Ann Crile Esselstyn
    2. The Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease Cookbook. By Ann Crile Esselstyn and Jane Esselstyn
    3. The Engine 2 Cookbook by Rip Esselstyn & Jane Esselstyn

 

How Not to Die —The Sustainable Villages Club New Plant-based Lifestyle action group hosted a screening of Dr. Michael Greger’s 2016 presentation, “How Not to Die: The Role of Diet in Preventing, Arresting, & Reversing Our Top 15 Killers.”  View Zoom recording here.

“Dr. Michael Greger, a physician, New York Times bestselling author, and internationally recognized speaker, outlines the best evidence-based diet based on the latest in peer-reviewed science that can not only help improve overall health but can also reverse effects of common diseases such as heart disease, a number one killer among North Americans.”


The Earth on Your Plate: Why Diet Change is Essential to Save Our Planet –Featuring Mohan Gurunathan – View Zoom recording – Our collective dietary choices are a leading contributor to not only climate change, but also deforestation, species extinction, water scarcity, air and water pollution, ocean dead zones, world hunger, and many other serious environmental and social problems. We will explore the connections between our daily food choices and all these issures. We will learn how simple dietary changes – taken on a large scale – are a key to solving some of humanity’s greatest challenges.

 

  • DOCUMENTARIES/VIDEOS

Forks Over Knives
Researchers explore the possibility that people changing their diets from animal-based to plant-based can help eliminate or control diseases like cancer and diabetes

 

 

 

 

The Game Changers

Cowspiracy
Seaspiracy

 

  • Plant-based cooking resources:

https://www.youtube.com/c/JaneEsselstyn

https://www.youtube.com/c/CHEFAJ

https://www.youtube.com/c/SweetPotatoSoul

www.thewholesomevegan.com

  • Books:

How Not to Die by Dr. Michael Greger

The China Study by Dr. T. Colin Campbell

Breasts The Owner’s Manual by Dr. Kristi Funk

Reversing Diabetes by Dr. Neal Barnard

Fiber Fueled by Dr. Will Bulsiewicz

Mastering Diabetes by Cyrus Khambatta, PHD

  • Scientific Links:

Higher intakes of dairy milk were associated with greater risk of breast cancer…https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8453418/#:~:text=After%20adjusting%20for%20soy%2C%20dairy,8%20ounce%20cup%2Fday).

Environmental Impacts of Animal Agriculture:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2010/jun/02/un-report-meat-free-diet#:~:text=

A%20global%20shift%20towards%20a,a%20UN%20report%20said%20today.

https://www.ewg.org/sites/default/files/2022-04/EWG_TipSheet_Meat-Climate_C02.pdf