Lani is back from teaching at the McDougall Advanced Study weekend and shares with us a few thoughts, PLUS a giveaway! See Lani’s post for more details:

(did you tiptoe or jump?)
1) Fire Cadet or Firefighter?
As you know, in the Engine 2 Diet book, two approaches are described.  The ‘Fire cadet’ tiptoes in, working their way

Farm to Table

(Curtis, Healthy Eating Specialist at the Tampa Whole Foods)
Whole Foods Market Tampa, in partnership with Sweetwater Organic Community Farm hosted the first annual Farm to Table Supper Club on Saturday, February 11th.  The dinner, hosted at Sweetwater Farm, was a celebration of the completion of the Engine 2 28 Day Challenge at

Kara before and after.
Plant-Strong for a Reason
Thanksgiving 2001
While sitting completely still listening to my mother talk at the dinner table, my entire body flung itself forward causing me to lose control of my back, hands & arms. I literally threw my knife & fork across the room involuntarily.
My older sister burst into tears & demanded

Two of the the most common questions we get is “I live in a small town, how can I be plant-strong?” and “I can’t afford to be plant-strong!”
We have a few suggestions that we think will help people out looking for answers to both questions. A two-for-one answer!

1. Make a list of the things your

We have a special guest post by Happy Herbivore Intern, Nicole on how to stay plant-strong in college.
Hi there! My name is Nicole Raphael and I’m a senior at Morningside
College in Sioux City, Iowa majoring in Photography. I’ve included a
story that pretty much wraps up my plant-strong decision and how I’ve handled
the label I carry on

Time to get up and get moving! Today E2-er Dawn shares with us all about Zumba!
Zumba: A Workout for everyone.

60 minutes of great music and dancing where the rule is that as long as you are smiling and moving you are doing it right. While it might sound to good to be true, this is exactly what

Tomorrow is Mardi Gras!
Louisiana is known for their Mardi Gras celebrations. Not known for the healthy eating, we thought we’d we’d ask: what does a healthy Mardi Gras look like? Thankfully there are a lot of great recipes out there, and even better? One of our favorite chef/bloggers (Susan from Fat Free Vegan) happens to

My Story:
First, please let me introduce myself. My name is Milton.  I was born in 1938 on a farm/commercial apple orchard in western North Carolina. After completing college and dental school, I served two years in the US Navy Dental Corps before opening a general dentistry practice.  After forty-six wonderful years in that setting, I had

Today is Rip’s birthday!
If you would like to leave Rip a birthday message, please do so in the comments!