Linda Carver

Linda is a vegan writer passionate about plant-based nutrition, healthy living, and simple, delicious recipes. She enjoys making vegan lifestyle advice practical and accessible for everyone. When she's not writing, she's often testing new recipes or spending time in her garden.

New York City Just Pulled Processed Meat From 219 Million Public Meals. Here Is What Replaced It.

The largest municipal food system in America just quietly walked away from processed meat. From July 1, hot dogs, bacon, and deli meat vanished from public schools, hospitals, jails, and shelters across the five boroughs. Here is what the tray looks like now.

A Half Cup of Soybeans a Day Cut Hot Flashes by 84 Percent in 12 Weeks. No Hormones Involved.

For roughly 80 percent of postmenopausal women, hot flashes are a fact of daily life. A randomised trial from the Physicians Committee found a specific dietary combination that cut them dramatically. It is the third element that makes it work.

Eight Months After Giving Birth, This Vegan Powerlifter Beat 182 Women to Take Best Lifter in Moscow

Katya Gorbacheva walked into a Moscow meet against 600 competitors, lifted a personal-record 476 kg total, and was named the strongest female lifter in the room. She has been eating plants the whole time.

Danone Just Closed Its £864 Million Deal for Huel. The Biggest Vegan Brand of the Decade Is Now Owned by a Dairy Giant.

The UK regulator cleared the deal on 20 August. The math behind the price tag says more about the plant-based category’s next five years than any press release will.

At 44, He Had a Heart Attack. Two and a Half Years Later His Arteries Were Clean. The Only Thing He Changed Was His Plate.

Dr. Joe Crowe was 44, fit, and had a cholesterol reading his cardiologist called reassuring. Then, on a Friday afternoon in Cleveland, his heart nearly killed him. Here is what he did next.

A Cambridge Scientist Ranked 20 Protein Sources. Tofu Beat Chicken, Beef, and Every Cheese on the List.

Dr. Chris Macdonald’s Better Protein Institute Score judged 20 foods on nutrition, environment, and cost at the same time.

At Under 61 kg, She Deadlifted 215 kg to Win English Powerlifting. She Has Been Vegan Since 17.

Amelia Fox pulled roughly 3.5x her bodyweight, took the senior title in her first year out of the junior division, and answered the "where do you get your protein" question with a scorecard.

A 20-Year Study of 65,000 Women Just Found a 28 Percent Drop in Heart Disease. The Diet Is Almost Entirely Plants.

What is new is the two-decade data behind it, presented this July at the American Society for Nutrition’s annual meeting.

A Growing Number of Elite Female Athletes Are Going Plant-Based. Sports Scientists Are Starting to Notice What They Have in Common

The men on plant-based diets have been in the headlines for a decade. It is the women whose bloodwork is starting to make the sports science community pay closer attention.