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Building muscles with plant protein
Plant Protein for Muscle Growth

It’s long been thought that animal protein is superior for building bigger muscles, but new data shows a plant protein works just as well.

Meat in a diet
Meat on the Mind

Though plant-based eating seems to have all the nutrition science momentum, it’s not all doom and gloom when it comes to the health effects of eating meat.

Vegetarian diets
What Motivates People to Go Veg

A survey of 8,000 people in the U.S. and Holland showed that health was the top reason for nonvegetarians to consider adopting a vegetarian diet.

Vegan Protein
You Can Get Ripped on Plants

Yes, it’s possible to bulk up on tofu. A joint research study by Canadian and Brazilian scientists, presented at the 2019 American College of Sports Medicine annual meeting, discovered no difference with respect to lean body mass and muscle strength gains between 19 vegan and 19 omnivorous young men enrolled in a 12-week, twice-weekly program of resistance training. During the intervention, each participant consumed 1.6 grams of protein per kilogram of body weight per day, either solely from plants or from a mix of plants and animals.