🧭 Trusted Health Resources

Every organization and tool we recommend, all in one place. Free to explore. 🌿

🥗 Plant-based nutrition and recipes

📗 T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies ↗Free recipes, articles, and the SOS-free guide we follow; Plant-Based Nutrition Certificate
🟢 NutritionFacts.org ↗Dr. Michael Greger’s free nonprofit: videos, recipes, and Traffic Light eating
🩺 Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine ↗Free recipes and the Food for Life ↗ instructor program
🍴 Forks Over Knives ↗Mostly oil-free recipes and articles
🥕 Full Plate Living ↗Free program from the Ardmore Institute of Health
🇺🇸 VA Practical Plant-Based Cooking (PDF) ↗Free U.S. government cooking guide
🌿 PlantPure Communities ↗Local “pods,” recipes, and community support
🗽 Plant Powered Metro New York ↗Community, events, and education
🌱 The Plantrician Project ↗Education for clinicians and communities
💚 National Health Association ↗Health-promoting, plant-based education
✨ Plantspiration ↗Stefanie Ignoffo’s coaching and community (Chicago area)

🌳 Lifestyle medicine and whole health

🌳 American College of Lifestyle Medicine ↗The six pillars, education, and conferences
🏋️ The Lift Project ↗Dr. Darren Morton’s program for lifting mood and wellbeing
🎖️ VA Whole Health ↗Whole-person care resources for Veterans and everyone
🍳 Teaching Kitchen Collaborative ↗Teaching kitchens in health and education
🚶 Walk with a Doc ↗Free community walks with clinicians

🩺 Nursing organizations

🏛️ American Nurses Association ↗The national voice of U.S. registered nurses
⭐ Healthy Nurse, Healthy Nation® ↗Free wellbeing challenges for every nurse
📖 OJIN: The Online Journal of Issues in Nursing ↗Free peer-reviewed nursing journal
📰 American Nurse Journal ↗Practical articles for nurses
🍀 Careful Nursing ↗A professional practice model rooted in compassion
🩺 American Association of Nurse Practitioners ↗Education and advocacy for NPs
🌸 American Holistic Nurses Association ↗Holistic nursing education and community
🧭 Integrative Nurse Coach Academy ↗Nurse coach training
💼 National Nurses in Business Association ↗Support for nurse entrepreneurs

👩‍🍳 Cooks and food makers we love

🌿 Chef Robin Jeep ↗Flourishing Culinary Hero and Kitchen Monk collaborator · her page
👩‍🍳 Chef AJ ↗Flourishing Culinary Hero; SOS-free recipes · her page
🧁 Enliven Foods ↗Mug Muffin Meals, co-founded by Robin Jeep
🍲 Chef James Nutrition ↗Prepared plant-based meals, shipped in the continental U.S.
🥫 Well Your World ↗SOS-free seasonings, condiments, and recipes
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💚 More people we celebrate, including Meryl Fury’s organizations, our nurse leaders, and community partners, are in the Flourishing Nursing Network.

🔬 Tools

📊 USDA FoodData Central ↗, the food database behind our numbers · 📱 Cronometer ↗, an optional free food log (our guide)

📰 Live news from these organizations

🟢 NutritionFacts.org

🌳 American College of Lifestyle Medicine

📗 Center for Nutrition Studies

🩺 Physicians Committee

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