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Home of the Whole Food Plant Based Diet (WFPBD)!

A whole-food plant-based, low-fat diet could reverse heart disease and diabetes.

Welcome to the Whole-Foods Plant-Based Diet (WFPBD) subreddit!

 

Before making any dietary or exercise changes in your lifestyle, please consult your physician.

 

GETTING STARTED:

These are NOT included in a WFPB diet:

  • meat, poultry, eggs, fish, honey, and gelatin
  • dairy products (e.g. milk, cheese, yogurt)
  • juices with the fiber/pulp removed
  • protein powder
  • coconut milk/cream due to very high saturated fat and total fat. A can of coconut milk can contain more than 1 week's worth of saturated fat. Use almond/cashew milk instead for flavor.
  • added/refined oils

You can eat a wonderful variety of delicious, nutrient-dense foods

  • all vegetables (leafy green vegetables, root vegetables),
  • veggies that are red, green, purple, orange, and yellow etc.)
  • all legumes (beans, peas, and lentils of all varieties)
  • mushrooms
  • all whole grains and wg-products, such as bread and pasta
  • all fruits
  • seeds and nuts

 

Don't be deficient:

Professional triathlete, Rip Esselstyn has adopted a whole food plant-based diet, the Engine 2 Diet, at the advice of his father, Dr. Caldwell B. Esselstyn, chief of surgery at the Cleveland Clinic, who discovered through medical research that a whole-food plant-based, low-fat diet could reverse heart disease and diabetes.

 

Nutrition Info for Clinicians

Physician Comm for Responsible Medicine

Getting started posts:

 

Finding Plant-Based Physicians

Enter US zip code to find plant-based physician

Physician list from Happy Herbivore site

Plant-based Doctors

Cookbook & Website Resource Links:

Heart Attack Proof - Esselstyn video

Engine 2 Cookbook

Plant-Strong

China Study Cookbook

China Study All-Star Collection Cookbook

How Not To Die

Proteinaholic

Forks Over Knives

China Study Community

NutritionFacts.org

 

Movies / Videos

Forks Over Knives - documentary

The Game Changers

What the Health - documentary

PlantPure Nation - documentary

Caldwell Esselstyn, MD

T.Colin Campbell, Ph.D

Neal Barnard, MD

Michael Greger, MD - Google Talk

John McDougall, MD

Robert Ostfeld, MD

 

Civil discussion is welcome, trolls and personal abuse are not.

 

Recipe Blogs

T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies

Fat Free Vegan

Plant Based Katie

Straight Up Food

PlantPlate

Happy Herbivore

The Vegan 8

Plant Powered Kitchen

/r/WFPBD

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Ready to eat wfpb

We get leafside, but didn’t know if there are any other convenient wfpb?

We just recently saw well your world offerings, but it requires throwing in a pressure cooker (we mainly do pressure cooker on the weekend). We want more lazy ideas for during the week like microwave or add hot water to cook.

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2024/11/28
18:28 UTC

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New to this lifestyle.

Hello! Would anyone have any ideas of what to make that are low carb, WFPB, and vegan. I’m new this lifestyle, but I’m a type two diabetic. My drs want me on this diet/lifestyle and I’m willing to take the leap, but I’m struggling to find low carb filling food recipes and not entirely sure where to look either.

12 Comments
2024/11/26
23:33 UTC

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what can I make to pair with a creamy roasted veg soup that will really impress a nonvegan man

he’s a commercial fisherman in alaska works his ass off doing the hardest manual labor and fixing engines…. i wanna give him a really cozy comforting night and meal when he’s back

i’m making this delicious creamy roasted veggie soup. very vibrant, flavorful, delicious. what can I pair with it? I was thinking some like yummy kind of savory breas thing he can dip or eat on the side? maybe some quinoa for protein and broccoli or a veg or something? or a salad?

we are getting serious and he’s excited to eat my food so I want to make a meal that he will think “damn I can eat like this the rest of my life”

also what are some premade snacks I can make and have on hand we can eat when we go hiking?

also worth noting- i live in an off grid huge vintage bus turned into tiny home. my overnight is tiny and i have small burners and also use propane. sometimes i rent a local kitchen to make meals. so i’m thinking i will prepare the food at the kitchen the day before and then heat up the next day. maybe make what I can that day.

what do you got? 🙂

21 Comments
2024/11/24
04:40 UTC

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Coming up on a year

I've been WFPB SOS free for almost a year and while the benefits have been amazing, I still feel alienated. Does that feeling ever go away?

At first I was excited to tell people about my lifestyle because I wanted everyone to know there was a way to fix many of their ailments with this lifestyle. I went through a phase of being fearful of my families choices. Now I pretty much keep it to myself.

I was recently excited to meet and share meals with some blue zone kitchen folks but it quickly turned sour as they "well actually'd' me asking what about WFPB SOS free was backed by scientific study. I mentioned the China studies and blue zone studies and was quickly shot down with "Those aren't scientific studies". I took them to nutritionfacts.org and explained that in the videos he mentions studies and links to them but they looked and Dr Greger's photo and said something about doctors claiming to be scientist then lost interest in my opinion.

I went from excitement to finally talk about it with people who would understand, to feeling more alienated than before. Does it ever get better? Do you ever reach a point where you just enjoy the benefits and not care that you have a different lifestyle than everyone around you?

20 Comments
2024/11/01
17:36 UTC

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Have lunch they said. It’s only $3 they said.

The usual suspects: whole wheat bagel, hot sauce, avocado, nutritional yeast, roma tomato and more nutritional yeast.

3 Comments
2024/10/23
00:08 UTC

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Daily Reminder: Be wary of food you haven’t made yourself

Today I was out in a hurry and couldn’t eat breakfast. After a couple of hours I was very hungry and decided to stop in one of the big supermarket chains and get something from the mini bakery. Got 2 sesame pastries with olives.

No tag for allergens, no sign with ingredients, no nutritional value sticker for macros. I tried googling it online but couldn’t find anything about ingredients. Knew it couldn’t be “healthy” since it’s clearly made with white flour and they often put oil in those, but bought them anyways.

Later on when I had more time to kill I decided to try and dig further. It wasn’t obvious but I finally found them online…

Each one of these small, 80g unlabeled breads contained: 380kcal, 20g of fat (9 of which saturated) (sunflower oil and palm oil), sugar and eggs.

It’s always when you let your guard down that this happens.

It’s not the end of the world, but I still feel bad for purchasing something containing an animal product, and letting my guard down.

Imo, AT THE VERY LEAST bakeries/companies/stores should be required to put allergens tag on any baked goods.

16 Comments
2024/10/18
08:12 UTC

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Snacks Between Meals (Alternative title: Salads and Sauces)

I've found that I'm solid on my meals mostly due to a meal service I use in San Diego which is amazing but I get into trouble on snacks. I'd also like to make one of my meals more salad / greens but I'm trying to find or make good dressing or sauces to go with it.

I'm curious what everyone else is doing in between or for sauces and salads?

14 Comments
2024/10/17
14:03 UTC

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best way to gain a 6 pack while getting rid of belly fat?

asking for a friend who is having issues getting rid of his belly fat, what advice would you give to him?

15 Comments
2024/10/09
14:38 UTC

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Annual lipid panel results

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2024/10/04
16:16 UTC

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Help me figure out wraps

I'm hoping to bring chickpea salad to work in a wrap most days. But I haven't found whole grain wraps and I can't figure out how to make them without oil. Please share your favorite store bought wraps or recipes.

8 Comments
2024/09/30
19:52 UTC

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Alternative to plant based butter

I love a treat of toast and plant based butter.

What are some alternatives other than nut butter that are wfpb? I usually have sucker's organic natural peanut butter. I have tried nutzoo varieties as well. I like them all but looking for alternatives.

21 Comments
2024/09/28
17:11 UTC

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Giving it another go

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2024/09/28
16:18 UTC

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Advice on a New Diet

Hi everyone! I recently switched from the SAD (standard American diet) to a plant-based diet for health reasons (i.e. to lower my cholesterol). I’m lucky enough to have access to a dining hall, so I have basically had the same salad for lunch and dinner - arugula or another leafy green as the base with cucumbers, grape tomatoes, shredded carrots, edamame, chickpeas, and black beans, all topped with olive oil and red wine vinegar as the dressing, plus a piece or two of whole wheat toast. I historically don’t eat breakfast, but I’m considering having oatmeal with walnuts and raisins to start the day. In between all this, I typically snack on a couple pieces of fruit (apples, bananas, and pears) throughout the day.

My two questions are:

  1. Would you recommend having the oatmeal for breakfast or just fasting and starting the day with the salad for lunch?
  2. Based on the meals listed here, do you think I need to take any vitamins or supplements to get the nutrients that I wouldn’t get through the salads alone?

I’m pretty new to the community, but I love how supportive it seems like you all are. Thanks for your help and advice with this!

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2024/09/21
11:02 UTC

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Absolutely love this Japanese ‘Shio Koji Tempeh & Fukujinzuke Wraps with Shoyu Koji Dressing’. Yes, the title is a little daunting & looks complex but it’s actually simple, once you’ve got a few core ingredients, which I bought from ‘Club Cultured’.

3 Comments
2024/09/07
07:36 UTC

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Which foods do you refuse to keep in the house?

Well, it happened again today...I mega-raided the big bag of walnuts that I had judiciously been extracting 15g from every day. The thought "this stuff is like crack" drifted through my head as the third or fourth handful began its descent to my stomach.

So nuts are on my list again, obviously, along with all dried fruit and bananas (I freeze them and eat them like candy).

With some foods, I must admit that I simply do not have the requisite self control to permanently prevent a binge. I may get away with it for a day, or a month, but eventually the hunger goblin will awaken and devour the horde.

Anyone else have anything that they need to keep far away, or else risk eating the entire stash?

18 Comments
2024/08/28
00:23 UTC

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Today I ate 100% wfpb

I'm also currently bulking for gym so I'm in a caloric surplus. I ate 91 grams of fibre 😭

Feeling good 👍 never felt so full in my life lmao

17 Comments
2024/08/26
19:36 UTC

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Every recipe online uses oil 😭

My mom even bought a forks over knives recipe book, i was so excited. Guess what? Oil.

Like breakfast and lunch is easy because i just make whatever but for dinner i like to make propper recipe type meals and eeeevrything uses oil.

And starting next month my mom and i want to be really strict and cut out oil completely. Do you guys have any recommendations for online recipes and/or recipe books that are strict WF?

Edit: Okay so the FOK book I have is fake lmao. Thank you for the help guys

42 Comments
2024/08/22
14:01 UTC

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Plain greek yogurt replacement?

I’ve been WFPB for 2 months. I’m only missing Greek yogurt. I can’t find plain soy yogurt. I’ve tried plain cashew. It’s terrible.

8 Comments
2024/08/18
14:56 UTC

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Low purine protein suggestions, please

Gout attacked when I switched to whole food plant based. The beans and some of the greens and vegetables just really made my system go crazy. Right now I am limited to low purine foods that don't exceed fifty milligrams per hundred grams of product - which leaves out all legumes, asparagus, oatmeal, brown rice, etc.). I am going nuts trying to figure out what I can eat that is low fat (because of liver problems) and plant based, but let's me get about 45 grams of protein in. Right now I'm getting around 20g. Doctors are promoting use of eggs and cheese for the protein and I won't do that.

I'd love any suggestions that you can give!

16 Comments
2024/08/16
02:18 UTC

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My favorite WFPB salad dressing! Cashew based and packed with fresh herbs. (Recipe in comments)

5 Comments
2024/08/15
22:40 UTC

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Why are you WFPB? How long have you been WFPB? How did you start your journey?

27 Comments
2024/08/13
23:02 UTC

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What’s your favorite way to prepare tofu?

7 Comments
2024/08/13
23:01 UTC

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Super quick lunch: Baked beans, quinoa, spinach, sun-dried tom’s, chili; kimchi

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2024/08/13
18:30 UTC

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Bowl of the day 🌱✨

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2024/08/13
18:29 UTC

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Summer Produce is at it’s peak!!! Hit me with your best recipes 😁

3 Comments
2024/08/13
18:28 UTC

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Hello and Welcome!

Hello and welcome to r/WFPBD! This subreddit is a sister sub to r/PlantBasedDiet, which shares our look and feel! Unlike r/PlantBasedDiet, this subreddit will be strictly moderated so as to be a specifically **Whole-Foods**, Plant-Based subreddit. Please see our sidebar or wiki for an overview of what a WFPBD entails, and be respectful of our members and their preferences.

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2024/08/13
17:24 UTC

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