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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Firefighter James Rae loves fried fish, but after a health scare, a colleague convinced him to eat healthier. Now Rae and his colleagues at Austin Firehouse No. 2 feast on soy-cheese pizza and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Austin firefighter Esselstyn's 2009 best-selling The Engine 2 Diet earned many a convert to his meat and dairy-free approach to nutrition. Here, he offers more of the same, but with additional reasons ...

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AUSTIN, Texas -- 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 ...