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Plant-Based Primer

You're probably thinking that moving to a plant-based diet sounds like a great idea, but you don't know where to start. Don't worry, you're in the right place-we've got the tools, insight, and expertise to make the change easy and enjoyable. We'll answer your questions, provide helpful advice, and share the techniques you need.

How a Plant-Based Diet Can Boost Your Health

One of the most powerful steps you can take to improve your health, boost energy levels, and prevent chronic diseases is to move to a plant-based diet. If you've seen Forks Over Knives, you know that science shows changing your nutrition is a powerful way to live longer, help the environment, and reduce your risk of getting sick.

There's excellent scientific evidence that many chronic diseases can be prevented, controlled, or even reversed with a whole-food, plant-based diet. Scientific research highlighted in the landmark book The China Study shows that a plant-based diet can reduce the risk of type-2 diabetes, heart disease, certain types of cancer, and other major illnesses. Many people also report bigger fitness payoffs, more energy, reduced inflammation, and better health outcomes after making the switch.

What is a Whole-Food, Plant-Based Diet?

A whole-food, plant-based diet lets you meet your nutritional needs by focusing on natural, minimally processed plant foods, and is based on the following principles:

Whole foods describes natural foods that are not heavily processed. That means whole, unrefined, or minimally refined ingredients.

Plant-based means food that comes from plants and doesn't include animal ingredients such as meat, milk, eggs, or honey.

The five food groups

Here's a quick overview of the major food categories you'll enjoy on a plant-based diet, with examples:

Fruits: Any type of fruit including apple, bananas, grapes, strawberries, citrus fruits, etc.

Vegetables: Plenty of veggies including peppers, corn, lettuce, spinach, kale, peas, collards, etc.

Tubers: Root vegetables like potatoes, carrots, parsnips, sweet potatoes, beets. etc.

Whole grains: Grains, cereals, and other starches in their whole form, such as quinoa, brown rice, millet, whole wheat, oats, barley, etc. Even popcorn is a whole grain.

Legumes: Beans of any kind, plus lentils, pulses, etc.

There are plenty of other foods you can also enjoy, including nuts, seeds, avocados, tofu, tempeh, whole-grain flours and breads, and plant-based milks. However, we recommend eating these foods in moderation, because they are more calorie-dense and can contribute to weight gain.

The Benefits of a Whole-Food, Plant-Based Diet

There are several major benefits to moving to plant-based nutrition, all supported by excellent science. These benefits include:

Easy weight management: People who eat a plant-based diet tend to be leaner than those who don't, and the diet makes it easy to lose weight and keep it off-without counting calories.

Disease prevention: Whole-food, plant-based eating can prevent, halt, or even reverse chronic diseases, including heart disease and type 2 diabetes.

A lighter environmental footprint: A plant-based diet places much less stress on the environment.

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Simple plant-based recipes to get you started

We promised this would be easy! First of all, you can check out our entire archive of whole-food, plant-based diet recipes. Below are some of our favorites to get you started. You can easily experiment with giving some of your own favorite recipes a plant-based makeover. Replace the meat in your favorite chili with beans or lentils, cook up some wonderful veggie burgers, or make vegetables the star attraction in that stir fry instead of chicken. For more delicious meal ideas, explore our recipe collection or download our mobile recipe app.

Would You Prefer a Gradual Change to Whole-Food, Plant-Based Eating?

We know that a sudden shift to plant-based eating isn't for everyone. We asked one of our expert contributors, Craig McDougall, MD, for his advice on a more gradual approach: "Add around 1,000 calories of legumes, whole grains, and starchy vegetables to your everyday routine. These starchy foods keep you full and satisfied, so you'll naturally eat less of the animal products and processed foods that are making you sick." Dr. McDougall has plenty of other great advice to share.

Forks Over Knives founder Brian Wendel has some good tips too. He encourages people to "not sweat the small stuff" and to look at the big picture instead: "Focus on the big changes like switching from meat, milk, and eggs to whole plant foods. Such changes dramatically improve the nutritional composition of your diet, so this is where you will find the most noticeable and measurable improvements in your health."

The time to start making the change is now. You'll be glad you did.

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We've worked with leading chefs, nutritionists, and developers to create a variety of tools that make it easy for you to adopt and maintain a healthy plant-based lifestyle.

Useful resources and reading

Forks Over Knives Helpful Articles

For anyone new to the whole-food, plant-based lifestyle, these informative articles-authored by chefs, nutritionists, doctors, and other plant-based experts-are an excellent place to start.

See The Film That Started It All

What if one simple change could save you from chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart disease? Take a deep dive into the plant-based diet documentary that has influenced millions around the world.

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Your Plant-Based Questions, Answered

We're sure you've got questions about the move to a whole-food, plant-based diet, and we're here to help.

How do I know if a whole-food, plant-based diet is for me?

You don't-until you try it! So many people who make the switch report feeling much better, having less fatigue, losing excess pounds, and otherwise enjoying a healthy lifestyle. We make the switch super easy with our extensive tools and resources.

Once you get started, it'll be easier to keep going. As Dr. Craig McDougall says, "Once you have more energy, have lost some weight, or your stomach pain has disappeared, then it's easier to continue eating healthfully. One of the best motivators for people transitioning to plant-based eating comes from how great they feel and how much more they can do in their lives once they're feeling healthier."

Is a whole-food, plant-based diet the same as being vegan?

While there are certainly some similarities between eating a whole-food, plant-based diet and being vegan, there are some differences as well.

Vegans avoid all animal products or exploitation in food, clothing, shoes, or any other aspect of their lives. Vegans do not necessarily focus on whole plant foods; they may eat refined and processed foods, although many choose not to.

By comparison, a whole-food, plant-based diet is defined as one that eliminates or minimizes all animal products and highly refined foods, including oil. That being said, FOK teaches the gold standard plant-based diet, which is completely free of animal products and therefore vegan.

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Relaxation, mindfulness, and meditation have all been used to enhance health and well-being. Research a mindfulness strategy: relaxation, exercise, or a meditation app or program.  Use this for two weeks (12 minutes a day) and then create a 10-15 minute presentation to share the following April 14 & 21.

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2.      The reasons you chose the health challenge.

3.      Your baseline behavior/level before completing the challenge.

4.      How the health challenge is expected to improve your health.

5.      Your prediction of what would be the most challenging component of sticking with the challenge.

6.      The results of your challenge (how many days did you stick with it, what was the outcome, etc.)

7.      What was the most challenging part about sticking with the challenge, and if this matched what you predicted or not.

8.      What factors (perhaps factors we have learned about in class) would have helped you be even more successful in sticking with the challenge.

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Maybe one of the projects can be based on adopting a few simple, easy to practice fundamentals based on Fordyce’s 14 Fundamentals Of Happiness

The effectiveness of positive psychology interventions was also proved by Michael Fordyce (1977, 1983) whose study found that some students in a happiness program derived more happiness because of the fourteen fundamentals of happiness psychology.

Fordyce’s fourteen fundamentals include:

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Sabemos que el buen funcionamiento de los órganos, el crecimiento y el desarrollo dependen en gran medida del consumo en cantidad y calidad de alimentos. El equilibrio entre la ingesta y la quema es el resultado de un buen estado de nutrición.

El plato del bien comer es una guía de alimentación que forma parte de la Norma Oficial Mexicana (NOM), para la promoción y educación para la salud en materia alimentaria, la cual establece criterios para la orientación nutritiva en México; ilustra cada uno de los grupos de alimentos con el fin de mostrar a la población la variedad que existe de cada grupo resaltando que ningún alimento es más importante que otro, sino que debe haber una combinación para que nuestra dieta diaria sea correcta y balanceada.

Divide a los alimentos en tres grupos:

1. Frutas y verduras.

2. Cereales y tubérculos.

3. Leguminosas y alimentos de origen animal.

Disfrutar de los alimentos y comer sanamente es darle calidad a la vida; no existen alimentos buenos ni malos, el secreto está en la combinación y la porción que se consume.

De acuerdo con la NOM, las recomendaciones para seguir adecuadamente El Plato del Bien Comer son: comer en gran medida frutas y verduras preferentemente con cáscara; incluir cereales integrales en cada comida; comer alimentos de origen animal con moderación; evitar lo más posible los azúcares, grasas, aceites, edulcorantes y sal; realizar tres comidas y dos colaciones al día; y hacer ejercicio al menos 30 minutos diarios.

El Servicio de Información Agroalimentaria y Pesquera (SIAP) te invita a seleccionar, consumir y combinar los diferentes grupos del plato del bien comer, proporcionándote una alimentación completa, equilibrada y variada.

Para información estadística te invitamos a que consultes el Anuario Estadístico de la Producción Agrícola, el Avance de Siembras y Cosechas, Avance de la producción pecuaria por producto, Anuario Estadístico de la Producción Ganadera y el Sistema de Información Agroalimentaria de Consulta (SIACON).

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