This is a featured talk from the 2018 Northwest Health and Nutrition Conference in Portland, Oregon by famous Plant Based Registered Dietitian Brenda Davis. She is an internationally acclaimed speaker and coauthor of 10 books, including "Becoming Vegan", "The Kick Diabetes Cookbook" (in press), "Becoming Raw", and "The Raw Food Revolution Diet". She is a past chair of the Vegetarian Nutrition Dietetic Practice Group of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Brenda is currently involved in a major diabetes intervention research project in the Marshall Islands, where diabetes is rampant. Sixty years ago, diabetes was virtually unheard of in the Marshall Islands, but now close to 50% of adults older than 35 have type 2 diabetes. www.brendadavisrd.com .