People who went plant-based after 50 didn’t make a trendy lifestyle choice — they made a decision that required dismantling decades of habits, traditions, and emotional attachments to food that were tied to their identity, their family, their culture, and their childhood, and rebuilding all of it from the ground up at an age when most people have stopped rebuilding anything

Watching my 68-year-old friend sob in her kitchen after her doctor’s ultimatum about her diet, I realized she wasn’t just being asked to change what she ate — she was being asked to abandon the pot roasts that meant Sunday family dinners, the recipes that connected her to her late mother, and seven decades of muscle memory that knew exactly how much butter to add without measuring.Read More