Julie Johnson

Julie was introduced to a whole-food, plant-based diet when her meat-eating son came home his freshman year in college. His friends had bet him he couldn't go without meat until Thanksgiving. He suggested the family watch the Forks Over Knives movie, and that was the beginning of a shift in her thinking about what counted as healthy eating. She dabbled in making the switch for a few years, and then got serious when her husband developed cardiac microvascular disease and her bloodwork showed prediabetes. This lifestyle has improved their health and is giving them the energy to live life to its fullest in their retirement year.