Earth Day 2026 lands on April 22, and this year’s theme – “Our Power, Our Planet” – is a reminder that individual choices, multiplied across billions of people, have the power to reshape systems. One of the most powerful choices any individual can make? What they eat. The research is unambiguous: a whole-food plant-based (WFPB) […]
What if heart disease, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and certain cancers aren’t really separate problems at all? That’s the revolutionary insight that Dean Ornish, MD—clinical professor of medicine at UCSF and founder of the Preventive Medicine Research Institute—has spent four decades proving through rigorous clinical research. His work suggests that most chronic diseases share the […]


