Lāʻau Ola

Ka Hoʻāuhuli ʻana no ka Lāʻau Ola - The Lifestyle Medicine Revolution
Ka ʻAoʻao o ka ʻAi Holoʻokoʻa, Kuapapa Lāʻau - Whole Food, Plant-Based Lifestyle

Keokani earned a Bachelor of Science degree in--carnistic and reductionist--Community Nutrition (in 1999) from the University of California at Davis,
and a Master of Science degree in Exercise Science (in 2004) from California University of Pennsylvania.

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Nā Kumu no ka Papaʻai Lāʻau - Rationale for Plant-Based Eating

Health - Reduce lifestyle diseases and foodborne illness.
Environment - Reduce environmental degradation and the carbon footprint of humanity.
Animals - Reduce suffering of sentient beings and expand our compassion footprint.
Hunger - Reduce starvation by breeding less animals for food, so grains can be fed directly to people instead of livestock.
Antibiotics - Reduce emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria developed by factory farming.
Pandemics - Reduce emergence of zoonotic diseases from wet markets, factory farms, and land deforested for livestock.
Economics - Reduce government subsidies to animal agriculture for artificially lower prices of meat, eggs, and dairy.
Cost - Reduce spending on food since produce and other plant-based whole foods are cheaper than animal-based foods.
Taste - Maximize flavor since plant-based food science has caught up to the texture and flavor of animal-based foods.

No nā Kumu Olakino - For Health Reasons

Personal Health - Prevent, treat, and reverse chronic lifestyle diseases and foodborne illness
Public Health - Prevent zoonotic pandemics and antibiotic-resistant bacteria produced by factory farming
Mental Health - Prevent mental health problems caused by lockdowns resulting from zoonotic pandemics
Economic Health - Prevent economic devastation caused by lockdowns resulting from zoonotic pandemics
Population Health - Prevent hunger caused by feeding the majority of agricultural grains to livestock instead of humans
Environmental Health - Prevent environmental damage and climate change driven by human demand for animal protein
Animal Health - Prevent harm to farm animals and wild animals driven by human demand for animal protein

In short: eat well, move more, stress less, love more. That’s it. Boom!

-- Dean Ornish, MD

For a diet to be considered healthful, at least 90 percent of its calories should come from vegetables, fruits, legumes, nuts, seeds, and intact whole grains.

-- Joel Fuhrman, MD

The ideal human diet looks like this: Consume plant-based foods in forms as close to their natural state as possible ("whole" foods). Eat a variety of vegetables, fruits, raw nuts and seeds, beans and legumes, and whole grains. Avoid heavily processed foods and animal products. Stay away from added salt, oil, and sugar. Aim to get 80 percent of your calories from carbohydrates, 10 percent from fat, and 10 percent from protein.

-- T. Colin Campbell, PhD

Any natural diet, as long as it contains a sufficient amount of calories, will always— I repeat, always— fulfill your body’s need for protein.

-- John McDougall, MD

Yes, there is calcium in cheese, protein in pork, and iron in beef, but what about all the baggage that comes along with these nutrients—the dose of dairy hormones, the lard, the saturated fat?