Frequently Asked Questions
1. Who would be interested in events organized by Lifestyle Health Alliance?
- Anyone interested in learning how health conditions such as heart disease, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, arthritis, IBS, gout, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, reflux disease and many others can be reversed and prevented without medications and surgery.
- Anyone interested in learning how a desired weight can be achieved and sustained long-term without dieting or counting calories.
- Anyone interested in reducing their risk of cancer, Alzheimer's/dementia, or nursing home confinement.
- Anyone already familiar with plant-based nutrition, but is seeking to learn more from the foremost experts in the field.
- Physicians, specialists, nurses, and other health care professionals seeking to help their patients prevent and reverse chronic health conditions.
- Dietitians, nutritionists, and health coaches interested in helping their clients understand how plant-based nutrition can not only be delicious, but also a powerful tool to improve health.
- Health care payers, such as employers, health plans, and insurance companies, and their human resources and wellness leaders interested in reducing the high cost of health care through the prevention and reversal of chronic health conditions.
- Health care facilities, such as hospitals, nursing homes, and clinics, interested in learning how whole food plant-based nutrition can be incorporated into patient meals and education programs.
- School administrators seeking to improve student health by increasing the nutritional quality of school provided meals.
- Restaurants and chefs interested in offering and preparing plant-based meals.
2. What is whole food plant-based nutrition?
A way of eating that includes unlimited amounts of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and legumes. It excludes meat, dairy products, eggs, but goes beyond a vegan or vegetarian approach by minimizing processed foods as much as possible. Some examples of processed foods include oils, white bread, and those with artificial ingredients. In contrast to a short-term "diet," whole food plant-based nutrition is a sustainable approach that can be maintained for a lifetime as there is no need to count calories or limit portions. It is the position of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics that this approach is "healthful, nutritionally adequate and may provide health benefits for the prevention and treatment of certain diseases" and "appropriate for all stages of the life cycle." The American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists and American College of Endocrinology guidelines for individuals with type 2 diabetes recommend "all patients should strive to attain and maintain an optimal weight through a primarily plant-based meal plan."
Whole food plant-based nutrition "eliminates the need to worry about the details. Just eat lots of different plant foods; your body will do the math for you!" --T. Colin Campbell
3. What is Healthy for a Lifetime?
Healthy for a Lifetime is an event open to everyone that features internationally recognized physicians, researchers, and other experts in the area of chronic disease reversal and nutrition based, lifestyle medicine. It also features actual former patients who describe how they used food as medicine to reverse serious health conditions. The event also provides practical information and a demonstration of how to incorporate these foods into daily life and features a delicious whole food plant-based meals. Healthy for a Lifetime was held in 2019, 2021 and 2023. Please sign up for our mailing list so you will be notified when more information is available about future events.
4. What is the Omaha Food Fest?
The Omaha Food Fest is a new event sponsored by Lifestyle Health Alliance. It will take place on September 27, 2025 at the Kroc Center in Omaha. It will feature a variety of restaurants and other food vendors with a wide variety of plant-based dishes. A unique feature of this event, unlike many plant-based food festivals, often referred to as a VegFest, is that not only will all food be free of animal products (vegan), but each vendor will have at least one dish that is fully whole food-plant based (WFPB), meaning it also does not include oil or other heavily processed ingredients such as white flour and protein isolates. This event is free and open to the public. No advance registration is required, but we encourage signing up on our Facebook Event Page to indicate your interest. The event will also feature food demonstrations, practical information on plant-based eating and inspiring presentations. More information will be released as it is available. We will continue to add new food vendors and if you are interested in being a vendor or know of a restaurant or food provider that would be interested in participating, please contact us at: contact@healthyforalifetime.org. While all the food served at this event will be plant-based, it is open to any restaurant regardless of their regular menu.
5. Where can I find additional information on previous events organized by Lifestyle Health Alliance?
Please visit the Prior Events page for videos, photos, speaker biographies and more from previous events.
6. Are recordings of prior Lifestyle Health Alliance events available?
The videos from the 2019 Healthy for a Lifetime are available on our 2019 summary page. The video from the 2024 Dr. Neal Barnard Power Foods event is available on the Dr. Barnard event summary page. The 2021 and 2023 videos from Healthy for a Lifetime are available to all registered attendees on the 2021 summary page and 2023 summary page respectively.
7. What upcoming event(s) does Lifestyle Health Alliance have planned?
The Omaha Food Fest will be September 27, 2025. Please sign up for our mailing list so you will be notified when more information is available about future events.
8. How can I help support Lifestyle Health Alliance produce events like Healthy for a Lifetime?
We appreciate donations and sponsorships of any amount. Our goal is to keep our events as affordable as possible so that everyone is able to attend. If you are financially able to contribute, please consider making a donation to Lifestyle Health Alliance. If your company or organization would be interested in sponsoring or exhibiting at these events please contact us at contact@healthyforalifetime.org and we can send you a sponsorship booklet outlining the various options available. For more information please visit our Support Us page which also includes non-monetary ways in which to help. Lifestyle Health Alliance is a Section 501(c)(3) nonprofit and subject to applicable laws and regulations your contribution may qualify as a charitable deduction for federal income tax purposes. Please consult your tax advisor.
9. What is the evidence for the ability of whole food plant-based nutrition to reverse chronic health conditions?
There has now been decades of both long-term and short-term research studies documenting the ability of plant-based nutrition to significantly improve health and in many cases reverse longstanding health conditions. Lifestyle Health Alliance has prepared a summary of some of the most significant research studies demonstrating the prevention, treatment, and reversal of chronic health conditions with whole food plant-based nutrition. The PDF of this summary is available here.
10. What is Lifestyle Health Alliance?
Lifestyle Health Alliance is a non-profit Nebraska corporation operated entirely on a volunteer basis. It is also classified by the IRS as a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) public charity. All the members of our board of directors have experienced significant health benefits upon adopting whole food-plant based nutrition and want to provide the opportunity for others to hear directly from the leading physicians and researchers how anyone can enjoy these same benefits.
Healthy for a Lifetime is an event open to everyone that features internationally recognized physicians, researchers, and other experts in the area of chronic disease reversal and nutrition based, lifestyle medicine. It also features actual former patients who describe how they used food as medicine to reverse serious health conditions. The event also provides practical information and a demonstration of how to incorporate these foods into daily life and features a delicious whole food plant-based meals. Healthy for a Lifetime was held in 2019, 2021 and 2023. Please sign up for our mailing list so you will be notified when more information is available about future events.
4. What is the Omaha Food Fest?
The Omaha Food Fest is a new event sponsored by Lifestyle Health Alliance. It will take place on September 27, 2025 at the Kroc Center in Omaha. It will feature a variety of restaurants and other food vendors with a wide variety of plant-based dishes. A unique feature of this event, unlike many plant-based food festivals, often referred to as a VegFest, is that not only will all food be free of animal products (vegan), but each vendor will have at least one dish that is fully whole food-plant based (WFPB), meaning it also does not include oil or other heavily processed ingredients such as white flour and protein isolates. This event is free and open to the public. No advance registration is required, but we encourage signing up on our Facebook Event Page to indicate your interest. The event will also feature food demonstrations, practical information on plant-based eating and inspiring presentations. More information will be released as it is available. We will continue to add new food vendors and if you are interested in being a vendor or know of a restaurant or food provider that would be interested in participating, please contact us at: contact@healthyforalifetime.org. While all the food served at this event will be plant-based, it is open to any restaurant regardless of their regular menu.
5. Where can I find additional information on previous events organized by Lifestyle Health Alliance?
Please visit the Prior Events page for videos, photos, speaker biographies and more from previous events.
6. Are recordings of prior Lifestyle Health Alliance events available?
The videos from the 2019 Healthy for a Lifetime are available on our 2019 summary page. The video from the 2024 Dr. Neal Barnard Power Foods event is available on the Dr. Barnard event summary page. The 2021 and 2023 videos from Healthy for a Lifetime are available to all registered attendees on the 2021 summary page and 2023 summary page respectively.
7. What upcoming event(s) does Lifestyle Health Alliance have planned?
The Omaha Food Fest will be September 27, 2025. Please sign up for our mailing list so you will be notified when more information is available about future events.
8. How can I help support Lifestyle Health Alliance produce events like Healthy for a Lifetime?
We appreciate donations and sponsorships of any amount. Our goal is to keep our events as affordable as possible so that everyone is able to attend. If you are financially able to contribute, please consider making a donation to Lifestyle Health Alliance. If your company or organization would be interested in sponsoring or exhibiting at these events please contact us at contact@healthyforalifetime.org and we can send you a sponsorship booklet outlining the various options available. For more information please visit our Support Us page which also includes non-monetary ways in which to help. Lifestyle Health Alliance is a Section 501(c)(3) nonprofit and subject to applicable laws and regulations your contribution may qualify as a charitable deduction for federal income tax purposes. Please consult your tax advisor.
9. What is the evidence for the ability of whole food plant-based nutrition to reverse chronic health conditions?
There has now been decades of both long-term and short-term research studies documenting the ability of plant-based nutrition to significantly improve health and in many cases reverse longstanding health conditions. Lifestyle Health Alliance has prepared a summary of some of the most significant research studies demonstrating the prevention, treatment, and reversal of chronic health conditions with whole food plant-based nutrition. The PDF of this summary is available here.
10. What is Lifestyle Health Alliance?
Lifestyle Health Alliance is a non-profit Nebraska corporation operated entirely on a volunteer basis. It is also classified by the IRS as a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) public charity. All the members of our board of directors have experienced significant health benefits upon adopting whole food-plant based nutrition and want to provide the opportunity for others to hear directly from the leading physicians and researchers how anyone can enjoy these same benefits.