On February 8, 2012, my father passed away. The truth is that was the day his heart stopped beating. For all intents and purposes, my father had died years earlier. It started with memory lapses, and as time went on, his memory failed more and more, and it got to the point where he didn’t know his own kids who came in to see him. His personality changed, and his ability to take care of himself was completely gone. If you could make a list of all the things that could ever happen to you, the very last thing on your list, at the very bottom of the list, the thing you want the least is Alzheimer’s disease, because when you lose your memory, you lose everything. You lose everyone who ever mattered to you. If you could look into the brain of a person who has this disease, what

What if I told you that we can change the world through our food choices? I challenge you in the next 12 minutes to open your minds and your hearts to the power of plant-based eating, and the fact that animal agriculture, the raising of animals for food, has grown to become one of the most damaging industries on our planet. But I want to make clear that my intent is not to be judgmental, but instead, to increase your awareness and give you important information which you may not know. Going greener with your diet could be one of the most powerful and transformative decisions you’ll ever make in your life, for three significant reasons: It has tremendous benefits for your health. It’s critical to the sustainability of our planet. And it will widen your circle of compassion. Health. We’ve all heard the saying: “You are what you eat.”