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

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

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

Every time you put something in your mouth, it’s a lost opportunity to put something even healthier in there.

-- Michael Greger, MD, FACLM

nutritionfacts.org may be the best nutrition science website on the planet.

-- Terry Shintani, MD, JD, MPH

Keokani earned a Bachelor of Science degree in carnistic Community Nutrition from the University of California at Davis,
and a Master of Science degree in Exercise Science from California University of Pennsylvania.

Papa Kuhikuhi Olakino

My Lifestyle Regimen

Kumu Waiwai Kūloko

Local Resources: Las Vegas

Plant-Based Revolution: Be a Plant-Based Ally and Try to Eat as Plant-Based as Possible
Eat as Low on the Food Chain as Possible. Eat Whole Food as Much as Possible.

Plant-Based Eating Styles - Which term best describes your way of eating, or which would be the best fit for you?

Starchitarian (Starchivore)
Vegan (Herbivore)
- Fruitarian (Frugivore)
- Raw Vegan
Vegetarian
- Flexitarian (Semi-Vegetarian)

In my whole food, plant-based life, I am a starchitarian, nutritarian, and effective reducetarian striving to become fully vegan.

One way carnism remains invisible is by remaining unnamed.

--Melanie Joy

The Carnage of Carnism
Animal-Based Eating Styles - What is the opposite of a whole food, plant-based diet?

Processed Food, Animal-Based (PFAB) Diet
Carnistic Standard American Diet (CSAD)
Carnistic Western Pattern Diet (CWPD)

Rationale for Plant-Based Eating - What are the major motivations for reducing our consumption of animal products?

Health - Reduce chronic disease and foodborne illness.
Animals - Reduce suffering of sentient beings. / Expand our compassion footprint.
Planet - Reduce our carbon footprint.
Hunger - Reduce starvation by breeding less animals for food, so grains can be fed directly to people instead of livestock.
Antibiotics - Reduce drug-resistant bacteria developed by factory farming.
Pandemics - Reduce emergence of zoonotic diseases from factory farms, wet markets, and land deforested to graze cattle.
Taste - Plant-based alternatives to animal products have equal or better flavor and nutrition, plus increasing availability.
Cost - Whole-food plant-based eating generally costs less money than processed-food animal-based eating.