Deirdre Sweeney

For Resolutions: Don’t let the best get in the way of the good

2021 is upon us. We are all so happy to see 2020 in the rearview mirror and likely we have picked up some not so healthy habits after being stuck at home for ten months. I have never been one to support big New Year’s resolutions. I like to think of them more as improvements.ContinueContinue reading “For Resolutions: Don’t let the best get in the way of the good”

The Protein Myth

“Where do you get your protein?” Ask any vegan and this is the number one question they get. As though everyone is suffering from an imminent protein deficiency. Over the years the media and advertising has done an unbelievably good job on convincing your average person that we are in dire need of a largeContinueContinue reading “The Protein Myth”

What is Whole Food Plant-Based?

The food we find nowadays in the grocery store is not really food. It is real food that has been processed, stripped of all the goodness that nature intended and repurposed with fat, sugar and salt into “food-like substances.” It looks like food. It has calories. The packaging may even say it is “full ofContinueContinue reading “What is Whole Food Plant-Based?”