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Gain the vegetarian advantage! Vegetarian meal plans have been used successfully in everything from bodybuilding to endurance sports. Every day more and more athletes--even those who are not full-time vegetarians--incorporate a plant-based diet when training or recovering from competition.

Relying on the recent evidence-based research, Vegetarian Sports Nutrition details performance and health benefits, including enhanced muscle recovery and optimal bone health. With tailored meal plans and training strategies, you will learn to make smart nutritional decisions and to properly fuel your body throughout your training regimen.

This comprehensive resource simplifies the process of determining your energy, protein, vitamin, and mineral needs and monitoring carbohydrate and fat intake. You'll learn how to optimize a vegetarian diet for peak performance across all sports.

Whether you are a dedicated vegetarian looking to add variety to your diet or an athlete searching for a competitive edge, Vegetarian Sports Nutrition will help you improve your health and performance! ... Read more

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vegetarian sports
I found this book to be very informative.
It was very helpful in finding areas in my diet that need to be improved in relation to nurtition.

Hopping on "popular book title" train
I bought the book to investigate improvements to my diet, especially to increase the plant parts of my meals. I found the book highly confusing, jumping from one end of the topic to another and using a lot of 'should', 'may' or other highly ambiguous recommendations. I also didn't like the interchangeable use of specific terms such as 'a diet is too high on fat....' which doesn't clarify what type of fat. Or 'associated with greater risk for chronic diseases', which doesn't clarify if the author is talking about heart and vascular disease or cancer or whatever.

As a summary, I would say the book is full of popular mambo jambo with no clear precise scientific organization of topics or recommendations.

Waste of time!

Confusing information
My husband and I have been ovo-lacto vegetarians for 13 years and have been reviewing vegetarian meal plans for quite a while.The information in this book reads like a stream of consciousness journal and at times the author contradicts herself.We did not find her argument and meal plans she presents as something we wanted to implement.Since she refers to the USDA pyramid for Vegetarians, it is just as useful to create a profile on that website. ... Read more

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Phytochemicals--substances that may reduce the risk and even the progression of cancer, heart disease, and other debilitating conditions--occur naturally in fruits, vegetables, grains and nuts. This invaluable guide shows how to make phytochemicals part of a healthful eating plan. . ... Read more

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Fabulous Vegetable & Grain Cookbook!
This is the best book I have ever read that tells me not only why to eat more fruits, vegetables and grains -- but also how to cook them. I highly recommend it for all kitchens.

Eat to Heal
I found this book to be a valuable guide to healthy eating.The author really opens your eyes to what our bodies need to stay healthy. The recipes were great and really helped me put the authors advice about what to eat into practice. ... Read more

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(Vegetarian Nutrition Dietetic Practice Group) Text to help dietetics professionals understand the nutritional consequences of these choices for clients who are trying to meet most or all of their mineral needs through plant foods. Test questions for continuing professional education (CPE) are at the end of the text. Approved for 15CPE level-two hours for RDs and DTRs. Softcover. ... Read more

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Topical issues are tackled through the case studies of four children. Readership level: 9 - 14 years. ... Read more

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Absolutely Apalling!
I'm a new teen vegetarian who wanted to read this book for more information.I was appalled at the way it treated vegetarianism--like just another diet to help you slim down!It hardly mentioned environmental, ethical, or moral reasons for becoming a vegetarian. According to the book, "Just follow Dr. Salter's plan and enjoy the healthier, slimmer you that will emerge."This is sending completely the wrong message to teens.Vegetarianism is not a just a diet--it is a whole new lifestyle.I definetly do not recommend this book.Their are many others that offer information on ALL aspects of vegetarianism, and in a less condescending way.I can just say that I'm glad I got this book at the library instead of wasting any money on it.

Accurate, but preachy
I ordered this book out of concern for my ninth grade students who are considering/experimenting with vegetarianism.As one who declines red meat, and is gradually phasing out fish and fowl, I found the book accurate, but too preachy.Any reference book a student picks up "for fun" needs to be hip, interesting, eye-catching, and must,at all costs, avoid talking down to the reader.My students have responded far better to Judy Krizminac's"A Teen's guide to Going Vegetarian." ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Nutrition & Dietetics: The Journal of the Dieticians Association of Australia, published by Thomson Gale on March 1, 2004. The length of the article is 1458 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The rise of vegetarianism.(Leading Article)
Author: Malcolm Riley
Publication: Nutrition & Dietetics: The Journal of the Dieticians Association of Australia (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 2004
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 61Issue: 1Page: 9(2)

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This digital document is an article from Vegetarian Journal, published by Vegetarian Resource Group on January 1, 2010. The length of the article is 873 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Nutrition hotline.(potatoes and vegetarianism)
Author: Reed Mangels
Publication: Vegetarian Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2010
Publisher: Vegetarian Resource Group
Volume: 29Issue: 1Page: 2(2)

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This digital document is an article from Scholastic Choices, published by Scholastic, Inc. on November 1, 2001. The length of the article is 1390 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Vegetarian times: The teen vegetarian population is growing. Here's what you need to know to keep your body healthy on a diet without meat. (nutrition).
Author: Lynn Santa Lucia
Publication: Scholastic Choices (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 2001
Publisher: Scholastic, Inc.
Volume: 17Issue: 3Page: 14(4)

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Colin Spencer provides an in-depth account of vegetarianism. From prehistory to the present, he discusses those who came to vegetarianism by choice, from the religions who preach it such as Hinduism and Seventh-Day Adventism, to the individuals who practice it, including Leonardo da Vinci and, ironically, Adolf Hitler. Throughout history, vegetarians have been maligned and persecuted by their meat-eating brethren. Spencer looks at the psychology of abstention, the ideas behind a meat-free diet, as well as the environmental effects of meat production and the implications of genetic engineering. Although the vegetarian movement dates back to 600 B.C., it is only now becoming a practice valued by many who previously would have wondered, "Where’s the beef?" ... Read more

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Fine reprint of 1995's "The Heretic's Feast"
My son asked if one could survive only on meat. Contrarily, I looked this book up to find out. Orthodoxy and conformity long allied with the herding & consumption of animals. To those in control, those refusing to eat flesh posed a social and moral threat. Not eating meat equalled rebellion against the state, the faith, and the norm.

Spencer starts with early hominids and ends with fast food. He roams necessarily widely, if focusing most modern attention to the British take on vegetarianism. Egypt, Greece, Rome, China, and India all earn ancient testimony for a long-lived counter-cultural tradition. While Middle Eastern and Mediterranean cultures appear to have come down harder on what become known as "Pythagorean" practices, the Hindus seem to have had a more balanced approach. A "dharma-sutra" ca. 600 BCE counselled: "In eating flesh, in drinking intoxicating liquors and in carnal intercourse there is no sin, for such enjoyments are natural, but absention from them produces great reward." ((qtd. 76)

For the West, however, resistance to meat-eating smacked more of deprivation than moderation. Spencer defends deftly the reputation of Epicurus as more principled than "epicurean" today connotes. Gluttony came from satiation which left one more deprived than before, Epicurus reasoned. So, as with any addiction or longing, the cure stemmed from avoiding anger, irritation, and lust. Pleasure, thus controlled, did not lead to overindulgence but to self-restraint as "the absence of pain."

But such subtleties were lost on many pagan and Christian critics. Sacrifice harbored in its action food plus energy to equal meanings charged with much more than merely roasting a beast. As with Jews, Muslims, or Hindus in their dietary choices, it was impossible to keep secret one's preferences: "the lifestyle is an unspoken criticism." (97) For a radical, it became a mark of humanity and higher standards that often "makes meat-eaters uneasy and they often react aggressively."

The heretical associations of vegetarianism in the Bogomil, Gnostic, and Cathar movements outraged the Church. The renunciation of meat did come out of a more negative refusal by the dissenters to separate themselves from the profane, rather than a celebration of the natural realm as deserving of its own rights. "It is a doctrine that expresses fear of humanity more than a love of God. With such ideas, animals became too easily associated with the devil and his evil minions, hence the domestic cat came to be seen as the witch's familiar."(161)

For most people now as then, vegetarianism may have been involuntary, furthermore. Not out of religious objection or ethical solidarity, but because of poverty. Only when surpluses exist can a community afford a minority to find alternative foods. For a few faithful Christians, monks and saints, renunciation of meat was not identical with vegetarianism, perhaps oddly to us. Heretics were linked to vegetarianism, but clerics were not. "For a vegetarian philosophy to exist, it needs an ethical system of greater power and significance than the prevailing code in society." (181)

The glimmers of this began for the West with those who chose, for ideological reasons, to eschew meat. The Renaissance alerted Leonardo da Vinci and Giordano Bruno to the options argued by classical predecessors. Here, as in Bruno's proto-holistic system, or Leonardo's rarely cited vegetarianism, a sympathy for animals within the cosmos begins to emerge. Suffering elicits sympathy, and rather than a Christian solution, humanists begin to compete with the Church for an earth-based understanding of harmony and kinship.

As modernity dawns, Spencer concentrates on Britain. The Victorian denial of flesh and its promotion of unadulterated, but often unsalted or unspiced foods, formed the common English stereotype of sandals and nutloaf, bland pablum as fare for pale aesthetes and bearded cranks. This was a wise reaction to the horrors of slaughterhouses, true, but one that went so far in its po-faced rejection that its grim, ascetic influence lingers nearly two centuries later. Dogmatic puritans, the 19c and early 20c proponents of vegetarianism often carried with them a severe air.

George Bernard Shaw, Edward Carpenter, and Leo Tolstoy, famously, symbolized theintellectual contingent. George Orwell fulminated in 1930: "One sometimes gets the impression that the mere words 'Socialism' and 'Communism' draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, 'Nature Cure' quack, pacifist, and feminist in England." (qtd. 299)

Orwell objected to a vegetarian, for not being able "to relate to the working classes," in Spencer's interpretation-- as "a person out of touch with common humanity." Faced by such prejudice, our author wonders if Orwell's disgust is with the bourgeoisie associations; "If Orwell could have found a vegetarian coal miner he might well have written differently." (300) Orwell continues his own holy war against what Spencer labels a "secular heresy" for the Victorians. Immorality, sexual license, and fervent egalitarianism allied with it in popular opinion.

The book moves predictably if appropriately into an outcry against factory farming and ecological degradation. The examples are well-chosen, if again largely British. This is one shortcoming, perhaps, for readers expecting a global treatment; the book narrows as it nears the present into a study of British reactions to the vegetarian refusal. Spencer writes with verve and compassion, and has read widely. The book can be a bit repetitious, but he makes his claims and supports them well.

We face, he concludes, a dual challenge. Consumption of meat psychically for most of us still marks a celebration, an entry into affluence, a fine night out to cash in a bonus or mark a raise. Yet, he reminds us that, despite the persistence of the off-beat vegetarian caricature, abstention from meat also runs through our history back to ancient times as a reminder of our higher nature, in league with Nature.

Today, the notions may persist of woolly-headed middle-class do-gooders, but Spencer, writing this in 1995 ("The Heretic's Feast: A History of Vegetarianism, apparently unchanged in this reprint as "Vegetarianism: A History"), also notes a sea-change in attitudes among those who came of age in the hippie era. Urbanization perhaps ironically or appropriately drove together the scattered rural-based resisters to the meat-eating rule, and the media and markets allowed people in cities to rally, shop together, and raise their own crops in gardens. The seeds of today's farmer's markets, locavores, and green cuisine might be planted a century ago in such alliances.

A noble and eccentric history
This is a delightful social history of vegetarianism focusing primarily on the Western world and the individuals who pioneered "bloodless" cuisine and dietary practice.The section on this lifestyle in 18th century Europe & America is rich in the cast of remarkably thoughtful and reasonable little known characters of great passion who sought to bring the dharma of ahimsa to others.Within 50 miles of where I live there was a mid-19th century attempt at a vegetarian community established by British settlers along the Marmaton river in Bourbon County, Kansas.It lasted barely a year.

Mr. Spencer's style is chatty and anecdotal yet scholarly.Which makes this a great read for anyone not merely dedicated vegetarians. Before reading this book I had thought vegetarianism as a social force was the outgrowth of 19th century intentional community life as with Fruitlands, New Harmony & the Oneida colony culminating in the often bizzare but influencial writings of Sylvester Graham of childhood cracker fame and Seventh day Adventism.As with most subcultures and alternative movements- often they were attempting to manifest a good before its time.Highly recommended.
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This book is an updated edition of the author's previous book, "Nutrition for the Nineties". Chapters include: * "Healthy Plant-Based Diet", * "Diet and Chronic Disease", * "Vitamins and Minerals", * "Herbs and Spices", * "Family Health", * "Food and Water Safety". ... Read more

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Wonderful book
This is a great book. Good information. However, the price is outrageous. The price in bookstores was $20 to $30. I paid 19.95 for a new one. Besides, it has not been updated since 1999. I would not pay $188 for this kind of book ... Read more

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This is the vegetarian dialectic of diet and ethic: not coincidentally, but absolutely essentially, those foods that deprive the fewest lives of others contribute to the longest lives for ourselves. (from the preface)
Vegetarians are not a better sort of people, just a better sort of carnivore, writes Braunstein in Radical Vegetarianism, and carnivores are just a better sort of cannibal. In this updated edition of the 1981 classic, Braunstein courageously takes on the canned canards, sacred cows, and wooly thinking of carnivores and vegetarians alike, and proposes a vegetarianism that goes beyond the stereotypes of pot-lucks and Birkenstocks to one that embraces contradiction and candor, or, as Braunstein says (channeling the Ancients), Gnaw Thyself.

Contents:
Nutrition in the Light of Vegetarianism
Ashes to Ashes, Life to Life
Letter to a Young Vegetarian
Traveling Fast
The Milky Way
Animals and Infidels
Carnivoral Death and Karmic Debt
The Illogic of the Ecologic
The Problem of Being a Flesh Eater
An Apologetic Addendum ... Read more

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The Quest for the Vegetarian Lifestyle
For those for whom vegetarianism is a quest not easily achieved, this book offers great hope and new insight. Literary, humorous and easy to read, it is also surprisingly spiritual. The human condition and the suffering we endure is blamed upon the way in which we have treated our fellow creatures, as well as the stress and torture prior to their sacrifice. It does not address the plight of those who cannot afford non animal foods in our present corporate food distribution system but it does provide much food for thought on what should go into our bodies if we are to become the people we think we want to be.

The next level...
After you've read John Robbins' "Diet for a New America", and digested it (pun intended) for a few months/years, it's time to read "Radical Vegetarianism".Mr. Braunstein will take your thinkingand mentality about food, nutrition, and health to the next level. Sometimes caustic, often funny, and always intelligent andthought-provoking, this book is a great read and very inspiring. ... Read more

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Each individual has its own reasons why he or she hasturned to vegetarianism ? purely health related, ethical,moral or religious ones. The practice of abstaining fromconsuming various food groups has become more popularduring the recent decades. Famous people advocatevegetarianism, stating its health, as well as economicaland environmental benefits. Today every self-respectingrestaurant has a special menu for vegetarians and numerouscookbooks with recipes have been published. Nutritionexperts warn that the only way a vegetarian diet will workis if it will be balanced and people will compensate thelack of certain nutrients and vitamins with adequatesupplements. In order to find out more about vegetarianism,its main types, cuisine and the emerging issues likeeconomic and environmental vegetarianism ? read this book. ... Read more