Vegetarian Diet Resource Guide

Vegetarian diet and nutrition, for healthy eating and a green planet

"Leave your drugs in the chemist's pot if you can heal the patient with food." - Hippocrates

Books:

The Answer To Cancer - Is Never Giving It A Chance To Start, by Hari Sharma, M.D. & Rama K. Mishra, G.A.M.S. with James G. Meade, PH.D, Select Books, 2002. This is a book everyone should read, because it's informative, helpful, compassionate, and upbeat, and unlike most "must reads", wise and witty. James Meade's sense of humor is priceless, making a frightening subject easy to take. He recommends a vegetarian diet. Order it from Amazon

The Bone Density Diet, 6 Weeks to a Strong Body and Mind, by George J. Kessler, D.O., P.C. with Colleen Kapklein, Ballantyne Books 2000. Even though I suspect he may have some incentive to recommend HRT, there is more than enough excellent material on the alternatives to make it worthwhile. Kessler's dietary recommendations are easily adapted to vegetarian diet. His book tells how osteoporosis, which afflicts most elderly N. American women, and a significant percentage of men, can be completely prevented, and reversed at any age. Order it from Amazon.com

The Food Revolution, by John Robbins: What's "The Food Revolution about? What we eat, how it gets to our plates, and what that's doing to us and the planet. It exposes the lies about factory farming that the American public accepts without question. It can't help being a persuasive argument for vegetarianism.

The New Becoming Vegetarian - The Complete Guide To Adopting A Healthy Vegetarian Diet , by Vesanto Melina, R.D., Brenda Davis, R.D., Victoria Harrison, R.D., Macmillan Canada 2005. This is an excellent vegetarian nutrition reference, that I recommend to all vegetarians. I would have liked to see more chapters on making the vegetarian transition, including cooking and social adaptation. But hey, that's what Savvy Vegetarian free reports are for! You can order this book from Amazon.com

Veggie Revolution, Fulcrum Publishing, by authors Sally Kneidel, Ph.D., and Sara Kate Kneidel: A new book about an old subject: the connection between vegetarianism, social activism and the environment. Veggie Revolution connects the dots. To preserve the natural environment man and animal have to return to the principles of good animal husbandry and sensible farming practices.

Links:

American Heart Association about Cholesterol
I was looking for information about cholesterol, for my own education, and came across this page, which answered most of my questions.

Bio-Integrity
Why concerns about health risks of genetically engineered food are scientifically justified.

Go Dairy Free
Go Dairy Free was developed with a desire to access the most complete information on how to cook, shop, and dine dairy free, while still promoting a healthy lifestyle. A special emphasis on vegan diets is included throughout the extensive product lists, news, guides, and product reviews. This is the best online resource for the lactose allergic and intolerant that I've seen - it covers every possible aspect, from explaining the condition through alternative dietary options and nutrition.

Green Peace has massive amounts of information on the world wide fight against GE. Find out which foods are GMO free

Green People This site claims to be, and likely is, the world's largest searchable database of eco-friendly products, including food co-ops, whole food grocery stores, and farmers markets. Pretty cool stuff here!

In A Vegetarian Kitchen Family oriented online vegetarian site from Nava Atlas, with recipes, tips, books, articles, and vegetarian forums. I especially liked the kid friendly recipes, with Tofu 101.

Juicing For Health: A complete juicing information site, covering the health benefits, methods, recipes, juicer pros and cons.

MAPI (Maharishi Ayurvedic Products International): Ayurveda is focused to a large extent on eating your way to health, and is oriented to a lacto-vegetarian diet; dietary advice and recipes, articles, preventative health advice, ayurvedic cooking and herbal medicine

Persistent Vegetarian State Simple Vegetarian Recipes for Real People. Great title, layout and copy as well as outstanding recipes, such as Crockpot Chickpea Curry, or Tempeh Wasabi Wraps

Sprouting 101: An excellent sprouting instruction manual, and resources, from sprouting veteran Dave at Vegan Cycling. He makes it simple and easy.

Sprouts for Optimum Nutrition
Concise and complete article on methods and nutritional benefits of sprouting. For instance, did you know that "Dried seeds, grains and legumes do not contain discernible traces of ascorbic acid, yet when sprouted, they reveal quite significant quantities which are important in the body’s ability to metabolise proteins. The infinite increase in ascorbic acid derives from their absorption of atmospheric elements during growth." If you weren't a sprouter before you read this, you probably will be after you do.

Ten Decades.com: Juicers, Juicing, Juice Extractors & Dehydrators - Info, books, products and links to help with juicing and raw foods lifestyle.

USDA
Free search for the nutrient content of most any food, either simple, as in cheese, or by brand name, as in Kraft Macaroni & Cheese

Vegetarian Resource Group
Vegan non-profit support site, funded by donations, memberships and subscriptions Recipes, nutrition info, veg travel, community projects.

Vegetarian Society of the U.K
Free membership site - get vegetarian nutrition info, and find out about the vegetarian scene in Europe.

Vegetarians in Paradise
Los Angeles based vegetarian site, with a wonderfully complete link section, and a staggering array of vegetarian resources. Highly recommend.

VegSource Vegan political activist online newspaper. Lots of articles & links. Informative.

VegWeb Over 6,000 vegan recipes. Also, MANY cookbook listings, VegWeb Personals, free coupons.

Zimbio: Vegetarian Cuisine: Zimbio, 'the people's guide to the web', is a new online resource, a collection of cool, relevant, and interactive web portals. The vegetarian cuisine portal, listed under the Food and Drink directory, lists vegetarian links, feeds, blog search results, images, and also has a group blog. You can contribute to any Zimbio portal, or start your own.

Magazines:

Vegetarian Times
Lightweight, a quick read, recipes, useful tidbits of information, but sometimes incomplete or erroneous information, as in a recent article stating that soy was now safe to eat. The article didn't mention that soy has at least 16 known allergens, and should still be used with caution. This issue also featured many ads for soy products. I include this magazine because any publication that supports vegetarianism is a good thing. Read with a grain of salt.

Veg News Vicarious green living at it's best. This is a very cool magazine, and lovely to look at. Ads galore, of course - but mostly ones you'll want to see. Veg News is fun to read, informative, not ponderous or wordy, just light and upbeat.

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