5+ hour, 52+ min ago   (326+ words) Portugal’s Buçaco National Forest has been certified as the world’s fourth “therapeutic forest.” The 400-year-old forest in Luso is the first of its kind in the Iberian Peninsula. It joins the Göttweig Healing Forest in Austria and Lahnstein and Bad…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (1538+ words) Learning how to breathe better may not receive the same attention as eating more plants, exercising regularly or getting enough sleep, but science journalist James Nestor argues that it belongs alongside them as a foundation of good health. Nestor’s central…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (512+ words) Bear Grylls has said that eating organ meats helped his family to “thrive” after they gave up their vegan diets. The British adventurer and TV presenter recently appeared on the Health Optimization Podcast to promote his new brand, Modern Savage,…...

2+ day, 5+ hour ago   (348+ words) A major German dairy company has opened a new production facility for plant-based milk and yogurt. Bauer Group inaugurated the facility in July, and regular production is expected to begin in August. The company first rolled out its plant-based dairy…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (1035+ words) The brothers’ infectious energy runs through their protein bar video, where they make what they call “chocolate fudgy protein bars.” The bars contain seeds, oats, peanut flour, peanut butter, cacao, and maple syrup. “Often protein bars can be chalky, made…...

5+ day, 5+ hour ago   (412+ words) PETA has launched a new silicone fetal pig, the Kind Piglet, to replace real animals in classroom dissections. The majority of classroom dissections are mammals, and, according to PETA, high school teachers have been “clamoring” for a clean, safe, cruelty-free…...

5+ day, 23+ hour ago   (372+ words) A new study has found that nutritionally sound vegan and vegetarian diets are “well-digested” by both dogs and cats. The study also found that meat-free diets are “broadly comparable” to meat-based ones in terms of digestibility, but with a significantly…...

1+ week, 5+ hour ago   (340+ words) Vegan MMA fighter Ahmed Labban appears on a billboard for ZeGeVege Festival, an upcoming vegetarian event in Croatia. The billboard shows Labban in his boxing gloves and bears the message, “veganism is a fight for a more just world.” Labban,…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1477+ words) A large pig gas chamber in the UK has been demolished after decades of operation, becoming a powerful symbol of what animal activists can achieve by exposing practices the meat industry largely keeps out of public view. Pigs in Britain…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (422+ words) A new study has analyzed what the children of centenarians eat. According to the study, the children of people who live to 100 have healthier-than-average diets compared to other older adults, but still fall short in some areas. A team of…...