For anyone who thinks veganism is for pansies, Rip Esselstyn is the manly man you need to meet. This former professional athlete and Austin firefighter got his fire station hooked on plant-based eats ...

The founder of Plant Strong, Rip Esselstyn, uploaded a video of his mother, who is 90 years old, Ann Esselstyn, who just shed some light on the ultimate truth to staying fit. Ann is not your regular ...

Rip Esselstyn is not a doctor, but medicine is in his blood. And now the 46-year-old firefighter, a former professional triathlete who grew up in Pepper Pike, is planting his own flag in the field of ...

A scene in the new food-revolution documentary called Forks Over Knives finds firefighter Rip Esselstyn climbing up a firehouse pole and chanting: “Real men eat plants; real men eat plants.” The ...

How hard do you think it would be to convince a Texas firefighter to go for a Portobello mushroom burger over a big, fat, juicy hamburger? One man’s arguments were apparently so compelling he ...

Rip Esselstyn is a lot of things: son to legendary heart surgeon Caldwell Esselstyn; former firefighter; professional triathlete, New York Times bestselling author, manly man – and plant-pusher. His ...

NORTH RIDGEVILLE, Ohio -- Rip Esselstyn is working to convert at least one Lorain County community to plant-based eating. A mix of residents and city leaders in North Ridgeville, including Mayor G.

He’s a former professional triathlete and current Austin firefighter. But Esselstyn is also the author of a vegan cookbook. The Engine 2 Diet But he doesn’t call it vegan. He’s eating “plant ...

If you’ve ever shied away from a vegetarian diet because you worried that you’d be eating the same scoop of black beans and side of spinach every night, you should check out the latest from Rip ...

His day job is running into burning buildings, putting out blazes and saving lives. He saves lives on the side, too, but in a much more subtle way: firefighter Rip Esselstyn has written a bestselling ...