Resources

Recipes

Many of these recipes are provided by our own providers, as well as professional chefs and cooks who know how to create healthy meals with whole foods that taste great, have variety, and meet a budget.

Check out our recipes & recommended cookbooks

Oil-free cooking tips

Cooking with oil is a fairly common technique. Unfortunately, oil-based cooking packs in a lot of calories instead of a lot of nutrients.

There are a variety of ways to cook foods that achieve great taste while also removing the added calories that come from cooking with oils.

Oil-free Cooking: A Resource Guide

Oil-free Cooking Tips

Plant-based Resources

Lifestyle & Culinary Medicine is practiced widely and can work in partnership with other medical specialties to achieve better health. A variety of documentaries, books, websites, and podcasts are available to educate and empower anyone looking to learn more about whole food, plant-based living.

Books:

Books to help you transition

• 4Leaf Guide to Vibrant Health; Kerry Graff, MD and J. Morris Hicks
  Note: Dr. Graff donates all proceeds from this book to further lifestyle medicine initiatives.
• The China Study Solution: The Simple Way to Lose Weight and Reverse Illness, Using a Whole-Food, Plant-Based Diet; Thomas Campbell, MD forwarded by T. Colin Campbell, MD
• Forks Over Knives Plan; Alona Pulde, MD and Matthew Lederman, MD
• Unprocessed; Chef AJ

Books to further your knowledge

• The Alzheimer’s Solution; Ayesha Sherzai, MD and Dean Sherzai, MD
• Breaking the Food Seduction; Neal Barnard, MD
• The Cheese Trap; Neal Barnard, MD
• The China Study; T. Colin Campbell, PhD and Thomas Campbell, MD
• Dr. Neal Barnard’s Program for Reversing Diabetes; Neal Barnard, MD**
• Eating Plan Based: Scientific Answers to Your Nutrition Questions; Shireen Kassam, PhD and Zahra, Kassam, MD
• Fiber Fueled; Will Bulsiewicz, MD
• Finding Ultra; Rich Roll
• Goodbye Lupus; Brooke Goldner M.D.
• How Not To Die; Michael Greger, MD
• How Not To Diet; Michael Greger, MD
• The Low Carb Fraud; T. Colun Campbell, PhD
• The Plant-Based Cyclist; Nigel Mitchell
• Power Foods for the Brain; Neal Barnard, MD
• Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease; Caldwell Essylstyn, MD**
• Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It; Garth David, MC and Howard Jacobson
• The Starch Solution; John McDougall, MD
• Undo it; Dean Ornish, MD and Anne Ornish
• Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition; T. Colin Campbell, PhD

Please note that some of these books contain recipes that may include oil or high fat plant foods that are not recommended if you are trying to reverse heart disease or diabetes. Resources marked with ** contain only low fat recipes. 

Stress Management Resources

Books:

• To Bless the Space Between Us; John O’Donohue
• Full Catastrophe Living; Jon Kabat-Zinn
• Man’s Search for Meaning; Viktor Frankl
• Welcoming the Unwelcome; Pema Chödrön
• When Things Fall Apart; Pema Chödrön
• Wherever You Go, There You Are; Jon Kabat-Zinn
• You Are Here; Thich Nhat Hanh

Staff favorite poets and poems for reflection:

• Wendell Berry, “The Peace of Wild Things”
• Barbara Crocker, “In the Middle”
• John O’Donohue, “A Morning Offering”
• Mary Oliver, “The Summer Day”, “The Journey”, and “Wild Geese”
• David Whyte, “Everything is Waiting for You”, “Sweet Darkness”
  (audio versions available)