Our Mission

ATX Alive is part of the PlantPure Nation (plantpurenation.com) effort to create PlantPure Pods where like-minded people can work together to spread the message of plant-based nutrition in their communities. Pod members educate people on the connections of a plant-based lifestyle to our health, the environment, farming, animal welfare, and food and health inequities.

Our purpose is not to compete with existing organizations but to enable people and organizations that have worked separately in the past to come together around the unifying idea of plant-based nutrition. PlantPure Pods use the PlantPure Nation film, the 10-day Jumpstart Program featured in the film, community-building tools and events, and a 24×7 HD video-based content stream in this effort. Although there are many resources available on the web, our goal is to help others learn and share the benefits of plant-based nutrition and to grow a movement that ultimately changes the way we think about food, animals and the environment.

Exciting News! 3/9/2018

Zaika Indian buffet will now have a special vegan oil-free menu!  Check it out their vegan oil-free buffet every 2nd sunday evening of the month, at 5 PM till 9 PM.  See you there on Sunday March 8, 2020!
Aster's Ethiopian has vegan oil-free items on the menu, as does Counter Culture.

Meet Our Team

Patty Falo

President
​Founder & Potluck Event Coordinator

​Patty Falo is a CPA consultant and discovered a low-fat plant-based diet following a breast cancer diagnosis. Realizing healthy eating can sometimes be lonely, she started the ATX Alive community with some friends. Patty organizes ATX Alive’s potluck events, which involve sharing a healthy meal followed by cooking demonstrations or educational talks on the benefits of a plant-based diet.

Dr. Susan Elizondo, OD MS

Co-Leader
Restaurant Event Coordinator
Website Manager

Dr. Susan Elizondo is a plant based optometrist in North Austin at Westlake Hills Vision Center and promotes whole food plant based eating for the reversal of systemic disease and reducing your risk of future eye diseases.   
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Dr. Elizondo also plans all the outings and events in local restaurants that already have whole food plant based no oil items or are willing to change up their menu for ATX Alive to visit for a day. 

Dr. Linda Carney, MD

Co-Leader
Plant-based Primary Care Physician

Dr. Carney, who practices family medicine in Buda, TX, is board-certified by ABEM and also by ABLM in Lifestyle Medicine, where she specializes in more health with less drugs. Her patients learn to reverse or control diseases like lupus, Crohn’s, asthma, diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity, and high cholesterol levels. She enjoyed working with some experts from Forks Over Knives when she was hired by Rip Esselstyn as the first Medical Director for his Engine 2 Immersions, held for the team members of Whole Foods Market. Her patients’ success stories may be viewed at www.DrCarney.com, where she blogs on current medical discoveries of how a low-fat diet rich in whole plant foods optimizes health.

Sara Shannon

Co-Leader
Outdoors Event Coordinator

Sara is a plant-based Registered Nurse who shed 70lbs and reversed thyroid disease following a plant strong diet

Alongside an excellent diet, Sara believes in the healing power of fresh air, sunshine, and comraderie.

A BRILLIANT MENU

Enjoy amazing food and company when you eat whole food plant based no oil. Nothing tastes as good as healthy feels.

Type II Diabetes?

Eat a diet focused on fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and legumes.

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With limited amounts of high fat plant foods

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Leave animal products, oils, and processed foods off the plate and presto Type II Diabetes can be reversed.

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High Cholesterol?

Did you know the only foods that contain significant amounts of cholesterol come from animals?

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Think it's genetic but still eating chicken and fish? All meat not just red meat contains cholesterol and eggs are pretty high too.

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Also watch out for saturated fat from animal products like cheese and butter but also plants like coconut and nuts/seeds which can be made into cholesterol.

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See our resources and local sections for links to books, documentaries, primary care physicians, websites, and more that can help you reverse many chronic diseases.

"Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food" - Hippocrates