Barrington Goldson wants to change your mind about the way you eat. The Easton-based chemist, culinary instructor, blogger and Instagram darling is working hard to raise awareness of the benefits of a plant-based diet. If Goldson had his way, all of America would be sitting down to meals that look nothing like what we’re used to.
At an age when most young people are focused on work and relationships, Goldson’s attention turned to heart disease and diabetes. “I was always interested in health and nutrition, fitness and bodybuilding,” he explains, “but when I turned 24 or 25 my interest changed. Instead of losing weight or looking better, I wanted to live better and improve my quality of life.”
Goldson, now 30, specifically wanted to learn all he could about the mechanism of disease. He took a deep dive into the literature, studied with nutritional scientists at Cornell, and what he found surprised him. The heart disease and type 2 diabetes he believed were an inevitable part of aging? Actually not inevitable—and instead tied 100 percent to what we eat. Even more intriguing: a whole-food, plant-based diet would not only prevent these diseases, but would reverse them.
