Articles by Kathy Freston

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THERE IS A WAY TO HELP AVOID HEART DISEASE AND DIABETES: YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT!
Kathy Freston - Alternet, 1 Nov 2009

A plant-based diet is both preventative and healing, whereas a diet high in animal protein is destructive to our health. "If the truth be known coronary artery disease is a toothless paper tiger that need never, ever exist and if it does exist it need never, ever progress." So says Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, who was […]

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SHATTERING THE MEAT MYTH: HUMANS ARE NATURAL VEGETARIANS
Kathy Freston, 24 Jul 2009

Going through the comments of some of my recent posts, I noticed the frequently stated notion that eating meat was an essential step in human evolution. While this notion may comfort the meat industry, it’s simply not true, scientifically. Dr. T. Colin Campbell, professor emeritus at Cornell University and author of The China Study, explains […]

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OUR APPETITE FOR ANIMALS IS TAKING US TOWARD APOCALYPSE
Kathy Freston, 19 May 2009

Cutting your meat-eating habits is one of the most impactful ways you can prevent drastic changes to our climate.I’ve been catching up on my magazine reading and I came across a fascinating piece in a recent issue of New Scientist, which is usually a few steps ahead of the non-scientific press. It is a serious […]

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13 BREATHTAKING EFFECTS OF CUTTING BACK ON MEAT
Kathy Freston, 22 Apr 2009

The meat industry contributes to land degradation, climate change, air pollution, water shortage and pollution, and loss of biodiversity. My first post on the effect of eating meat on the environment provoked quite a bit of discussion, so in honor of Earth Day, I thought I should follow up with more information about how our […]

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THE STARTLING EFFECTS OF GOING VEGETARIAN FOR JUST ONE DAY
Kathy Freston, Huffington Post, 3 Apr 2009

I’ve written extensively on the consequences of eating meat — on our health, our sense of "right living", and on the environment. It is one of those daily practices that has such a broad and deep effect that I think it merits looking at over and over again, from all the different perspectives. Sometimes, solutions […]

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