by Lani Muelrath | Jun 21, 2019 | All Posts, Plant-Based Journey, Plant-Based Nutrition
My New Plant-Based Doctor. Plus A Nice Surprise.Yesterday, I got a new doctor. To my great good fortune, I was able to come on board with a plant-based doctor couple, Dr. Randal Sloop and Dr. Christine Sloop, in Chico, California.And to my great delight, when I walked...
by Lani Muelrath | Nov 17, 2018 | All Posts, Holidays, Mindfulness, Mindset, & Motivation, Plant-Based Journey, Plant-Based Nutrition
This just aired on NPR and now archived for your listening pleasure!NPR Special Program With Dr. Michael Greger and Lani MuelrathThe Back StoryNot long ago the host of a popular local North State Public Radio program, Nancy Weigman, reached out to me and asked if I...
by Lani Muelrath | Sep 26, 2018 | All Posts, Plant-Based Nutrition, Recipes
Have you ever been to Alaska? I’ve always wanted to go and this summer my opportunity came. Don’t worry, we’ll get to the recipe shortly. First, a little bit about Alaska. Alaska Vegfest The organizer of Alaska Vegfest, Delisa Renidio, wrote to me...
by Lani Muelrath | Feb 4, 2018 | All Posts, Mindfulness, Mindset, & Motivation, Move Your Body, Plant-Based Journey, Plant-Based Nutrition, Recipes
The Day The Blue Zones Called Imagine my delight when the managing editor at Blue Zones central reached out to me regarding The Mindful Vegan. They had fallen in love with the book, and were particularly interested in sharing an excerpt from Day Seventeen in The...
by Lani Muelrath | Oct 22, 2017 | All Posts, Mindfulness, Mindset, & Motivation, Plant-Based Nutrition, Weight Loss
In this in-depth video interview with Jeanne Schumacher of starchqueens.net, I describe the mindfulness practices as taught in The Mindful Vegan: A 30-Day Plan for Finding Health, Balance, Peace, and Happiness that have restored a healthy, happy relationship with...
by Lani Muelrath | Feb 16, 2016 | All Posts, Appearances, Media, Plant-Based Journey TV, Plant-Based Nutrition, Recipes, Reviews
This time on Plant-Based Journey TV I brought Dr. Michael Greger in with his new book How Not to Die – now five weeks on the NYT Best Seller list! Click on the video below to watch this four minute segment, in which we feature Greger’s “Daily...
by Lani Muelrath | Jan 20, 2016 | All Posts, Plant-Based Journey, Plant-Based Nutrition, Reviews
Now Dietitian Recommended: The Plant-Based Journey Book The Plant-Based Journey has now been dietitian recommended as the definitive guide to transition to a plant-based diet Timaree Hagenburger, R.D., is another in a growing number of doctors and health...
by Lani Muelrath | Dec 14, 2015 | All Posts, Plant-Based Journey, Plant-Based Nutrition, Reviews
Now Doctor Recommended for Your Health: The Plant-Based Journey Book! We know that a plant-based diet has been increasing extolled by doctors and the medical community as the diet for optimal health: I am excited to announce that The Plant-Based Journey is now...
by Lani Muelrath | Nov 5, 2015 | All Posts, Appearances, Holidays, Media, Plant-Based Journey, Plant-Based Nutrition, Video, Weight Loss
This week I was invited back to CBS TV to share the secrets of replacing processed holiday treats with whole food plant-based foods. Double click on the video to enjoy this five minute presentation including taste tests and recipes from The Plant-Based Journey....
by Lani Muelrath | Nov 1, 2015 | All Posts, Media, Plant-Based Journey, Plant-Based Nutrition, Video
From Junk Food to Whole Food When Charlie Fields, noted veg chef (among his many talents!) told me he was thinking about starting a new video series from his San Francisco location, I said to him to just – well, do it! There will never be a “perfect...
by Lani Muelrath | Oct 5, 2015 | All Posts, Plant-Based Nutrition, Weight Loss
The winner of the random drawing for a copy of Proteinaholic is Cynthia Scott. Thank you to everyone who shared their thoughts and entered the giveaway, and congratulations to Cynthia! Buried in the back of my closet… …is a stack of decades-old food...
by Lani Muelrath | Oct 1, 2015 | All Posts, Plant-Based Nutrition, Weight Loss
Azumio, an online and mobile service that publishes daily insights into health and fitness, has asked me to be a contributing author to their nutrition column. This is my article published at Azumio this week: Are Beans The Ultimate Skinny Food? Have you ever noticed...
by Lani Muelrath | Sep 26, 2015 | All Posts, Mindfulness, Mindset, & Motivation, Plant-Based Journey, Plant-Based Nutrition
Information is generally a good thing, especially when it comes to something as important as paying attention to what we eat. Yet sometimes too much information can be paralyzing, getting in the way of simply making better choices. Feature in the T. Colin Campbell...
by Lani Muelrath | Jul 26, 2015 | All Posts, Plant-Based Journey, Plant-Based Nutrition, Transformations
Naomi’s Plant-Based Transformation Naomi Prioleau is a busy, active reporter with the Marshall New Messenger in Marshall, Texas. She is the first to tell you that as a journalist she is on call all the time. And that her work demands lots of available energy....
by Lani Muelrath | Jun 21, 2015 | All Posts, Plant-Based Nutrition, Weight Loss
Which Plant-Based Food Plan is Right For You? Have you noticed that the more popular whole food plant-based eating becomes, the more it can seem that ‘plant-based diet’ can mean one thing to one person, another thing to someone else? It might...
by Lani Muelrath | Jun 13, 2015 | All Posts, Appearances, Plant-Based Nutrition, Video
This video recording of my presentation delivered at the World Vegetarian Festival in San Francisco – How to amp down your fat genes with plant-based nutrition and carve your figure with your fork – recently came across my radar. I...
by Lani Muelrath | Apr 8, 2015 | All Setup, Plant-Based Nutrition, Weight Loss
According to a new meta-analysis – that means a review of mountains of research studies – published in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics on Thursday, Jan. 22, 2015, adopting a vegetarian diet causes weight loss, even in the absence of...
by Lani Muelrath | Apr 7, 2015 | All Posts, All Setup, Plant-Based Nutrition, Recipes
For decades now, my diet has been plant-based. You can tell by taking a peek inside my refrigerator. So when someone complains they can’t think of ways to get more vegetables in their diets, as you can imagine I have plenty to say. For me, I’ve been...
by Lani Muelrath | Feb 22, 2015 | Plant-Based Nutrition
This week the U.S. Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee pulled back the curtain on its official advisory for what Americans ‘should’ be eating. Due out every five years, the last Guidelines were revealed in 2010. That means this is the year for an update....
by Lani Muelrath | Feb 15, 2015 | Plant-Based Nutrition
I have heard Dr. John McDougall emphasize on several occasions that the “numbers” – cholesterol, triglycerides – don’t tell you everything. They don’t necessarily tell you exactly the condition of your arteries or your heart, for...
by Lani Muelrath | Jan 11, 2015 | Plant-Based Nutrition, Weight Loss
If you were to ask me the biggest challenges in writing The Plant-Based Journey, I would have to say one of them is this: Keeping up with the daily flood of information about the benefits of plant-based eating. News about easy weight management, longevity,...
by Lani Muelrath | Nov 30, 2014 | All Setup, Plant-Based Nutrition
This event took place on December 4, 2014. If you missed it LIVE, not to worry – I’ve got the recording of the call available for you! Simply fill out the form lower on this page, click on the link in the confirmation email you will be sent, and the...
by Lani Muelrath | Nov 16, 2014 | Plant-Based Nutrition, Reviews
If you haven’t already tasted or at least heard the wildly enthusiastic buzz about the famous non-dairy cheeses from Miyoko’s Kitchen, then you’ve come to the right place. Not only that, you have a chance to win a free gift collection of one of her...
by Lani Muelrath | Oct 27, 2014 | Plant-Based Nutrition, Recipes, Reviews
Enter the YumUniverse book giveaway at bottom of this post… Guess what just came in the mail? One of the nice things about being in the publishing world is that not only do I get to rub shoulders with some of the best authors in the business, but I also receive...
by Lani Muelrath | Oct 20, 2014 | All Setup, Mindfulness, Mindset, & Motivation, Move Your Body, Plant-Based Journey, Plant-Based Nutrition, Travel
I don’t care what any one says, when you become a ‘lady or gentleman of a certain age’, something shifts. Muscle maintenance can be harder, weight gain easier, and the inclination to simply not move as much can sneak up on you. When I jumped into my...
by Lani Muelrath | Oct 2, 2014 | Plant-Based Journey, Plant-Based Nutrition, Recipes
It was my lucky day when the proposal for my new book The Plant-Based Journey landed on the editor’s desk at BenBella Publishing. From the very beginning, the team at BenBella has been enthusiastic, gracious, and collaborative in the best of ways. And now,...
by Lani Muelrath | Sep 27, 2014 | Plant-Based Nutrition
Finally – a pharmacist you can trust Like most healthcare professionals, Dustin Rudolph, PharmD, entered the field of medicine with one goal in mind—to help his patients get healthy. And like most pharmacists, Rudolph believed the best way to accomplish this...
by Lani Muelrath | Sep 22, 2014 | All Setup, Plant-Based Nutrition, Reviews
The new Forks Over Knives book is like a visit with the kind plant-based doctor you wish you had. You know, the doctor who is keenly interested in your health and well-being, assumes you actually ARE interested in taking practical steps – instead of pills...
by Lani Muelrath | Aug 16, 2014 | Plant-Based Nutrition, Recipes, Reviews
Holy healthy head of the table. My breakfast companions at the recent McDougall Advanced Nutrition Studies weekend were Ann and Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn. This means I not only found out that Dr. Esselstyn prefers oatmeal and wheat biscuits to potatoes at breakfast (me...
by Lani Muelrath | Aug 11, 2014 | Plant-Based Journey, Plant-Based Nutrition, Recipes
I guess it all started with the book recipe testing project. On schedule for the August first deadline at Ben BellaBooks – my publisher- for the full manuscript of The Plant-Based Journey meant testing the recipes as they are to be published in the book. Once,...
by Lani Muelrath | Jun 12, 2014 | All Posts, All Setup, Move Your Body, Plant-Based Journey, Plant-Based Nutrition
How exactly is it that taking a brisk walk not only improves your mood, it also elevates your ability to make better choices when it comes to what you put on your plate? A little bit of exercise quite literally is the quickest and easiest way to get a jump on the...
by Lani Muelrath | May 14, 2014 | Plant-Based Journey, Plant-Based Nutrition
This JUST came across my radar. And as my book The Plant-Based Journey: a A Step-By-Step Guide for Transitioning to a Healthy Lifestyle and Achieving Your Ideal Weight is still in production with Ben Bella Publishing – meaning I can’t get it into your...
by Lani Muelrath | May 5, 2014 | Plant-Based Nutrition
“Paleo Vegan” may sound like an oxymoron to you. After all,on one hand we have the carnivore camp – in the other, plants rule the plate. Which is exactly what makes my friend Ellen Jaffe Jones’ new book Paleo Vegan so interesting. Join us...
by Lani Muelrath | Apr 16, 2014 | Plant-Based Nutrition
I don’t recall if I ever told you about the first time I met John Robbins. It was at a large event and he was scheduled as one of the headline speakers, along with Dr. Dean Ornish and a list of other plant-based diet dignitaries. But between you and me, everyone...
by Lani Muelrath | Dec 11, 2013 | Plant-Based Nutrition
I’ve just signed the contract for my next book! The Plant-Based Journey from BenBella Books – by yours truly – is now a work in progress for release in 2015. This is the exciting news I’ve been absolutely dying to tell you about. I told you in...
by Lani Muelrath | Oct 28, 2013 | All Posts, All Setup, Plant-Based Nutrition
The mammogram results alert letter arrived in my mail late on a Friday afternoon. I tore into the envelope, looking for the usual ‘normal’ results report to which I had become accustomed. Instead, I found a formally worded letter with references to...
by Lani Muelrath | Oct 4, 2013 | Plant-Based Nutrition, Weight Loss
People look at me today and tell me that they find it hard to believe that I ever had a weight problem. But I did. I’m the one on the left (see above, circa 1998). It doesn’t help that everyone else in the picture is skinny. For decades, over thirty...
by Lani Muelrath | Sep 18, 2013 | Plant-Based Nutrition
The Healthy Taste of Sacramento extravaganza has come and gone yet the effects are still lingering days afterword. The best analogy that comes to mind for this sold out celebration – with over 250 in attendance – is ‘tidal wave event’ –...
by Lani Muelrath | Aug 29, 2013 | Fasting, Plant-Based Nutrition, Recipes, Travel
If the names Lisle and Goldhamer sound almost as familiar to you as Rogers and Hammerstein, it may be because they are co-authors of the brilliant and popular The Pleasure Trap. This visionary book could be considered the foundation of the practices and principles...
by Lani Muelrath | Aug 23, 2013 | Plant-Based Nutrition
This Teleclass/webcast has already taken place. Not to worry! You can still download the recording of the call; simply fill in the sign-up form further down the page, click the confirmation link, and the link to download the mp3 will be sent to you. ...
by Lani Muelrath | Aug 21, 2013 | Plant-Based Nutrition
I had the great good fortune of meeting up with Sharon and her family earlier this summer at Vegetarian Summerfest in Pennsylvania where she first told me her story. I’m honored to share it with you today. Prevent Breast Cancer: Shifting the Focus from Treatment...
by Lani Muelrath | Aug 14, 2013 | Plant-Based Nutrition, Recipes
Potato Palooza Salad is inspired by my new Instant Pot that has me cooking an entire 5 pound bag of organic potatoes at a time on a regular basis. This means I’m a fast 15 minutes away from a bucket of taters good for steaming hot spuds for dinner, leftovers...
by Lani Muelrath | Jul 31, 2013 | Plant-Based Nutrition
What a delightful surprise to discover, in my mailbox, a package addressed to “The Plant-Based Fitness Expert” from Ben Bella books, containing their most recent release Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition by one of the most respected science and...
by Lani Muelrath | Jul 16, 2013 | Plant-Based Nutrition, Travel, Video
I’ve just returned from Vegetarian Summerfest – and there is SO much to tell you! For starters, I was thrilled and honored to be invited to present at this by-invitation-only annual event in Johnstown, PA. I’ve heard about Veg Summerfest for years...
by Lani Muelrath | May 31, 2013 | Plant-Based Nutrition
NOTE: This event took place on July 31, 2013. To access the recording, fill in the form and it will be sent to you when ready. ‘Power Foods for the Brain’ An Effective 3-Step Plan to Protect Your Mind and Strengthen Your Memory Teleclass/Webcast &...
by Lani Muelrath | May 16, 2013 | Plant-Based Nutrition
When I first read the news about Angelina Jolie’s double mastectomy – volunteer surgery she underwent as a breast cancer preventative – my first response may have been just like yours. Along with the immediate realization that this must have been an...
by Lani Muelrath | May 3, 2013 | Move Your Body, Plant-Based Nutrition
What should you eat before and after your workout? Trendy marketing materials and the supplement industry push shakes, powders, and special supplements. But what if you are more interested in the real food, plant-based diet solution? Does meal timing making a...
by Lani Muelrath | Jan 27, 2013 | Plant-Based Nutrition, Travel
I am so excited for my friend and fellow plant-based passionista Julieanna Hever for the premiere of her brand new TV show, “What Would Julieanna Do?” on Veria network. The first of 39 shows airs Monday, January 28, 2013. Actually, I’m excited for...
by Lani Muelrath | Jan 14, 2013 | Mindfulness, Mindset, & Motivation, Plant-Based Nutrition
There are those of us who sometimes complain when we can’t find the exact blend of brown rice. Or a papaya that is just the right degree of ripe. Guilty – that was me today. We forget – too easily – that there are people with far greater...
by Lani Muelrath | Jan 1, 2013 | Mindfulness, Mindset, & Motivation, Move Your Body, Plant-Based Nutrition, Video
For everyone who wrote asking if I could please provide a transcript of the “3 Things” video that plays in the welcome banner at the top of the page, your wish is my command. The 3 things you must have for health, weight loss, and fitness success Hi,...
