Resources
Here are additional resources for more information on the benefits of plant-based nutrition and how to incorporate these principles into a healthy lifestyle. These include some of my favorite websites, books, cookbooks, documentaries and newsletters.
Books
In Defense of Food, Food Rules and others by Michael Pollan – Food ethics
Becoming Vegetarian and Becoming Vegan – Brenda Davis, R.D. and Vesanto Melina, MS, RD
The Complete Idiots Guide to Plant-Based Nutrition – Julieanna Hever, MS, RD, CPT
The China Study – T. Colin Campbell, MD
Eat to Live and Disease-Proof Your Child – Joel Fuhrman, MD
21 Day Weight Loss Kickstart and Breaking the Food Seduction – Neal Barnard, MD
The End of Overeating – David A. Kessler, MD
Food Revolution – John Robbins
The Dietitian’s Guide to Vegetarian Diets – Reed Mangels, Virginia Messina, and Mark Messina
Skinny Bitch – Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin
Thrive: The Vegan Nutrition Guide to Optimal Performance – Brendan Brazier
The McDougall Program for Maximum Weight Loss – John McDougall, MD
The Volumetrics Eating Plan – Barbara Rolls, PhD
Nancy Clark’s Sports Nutrition Guidebooks – Nancy Clark, MS, RD
Intuitive Eating (Evelyn Tribole, MS, RD) and Mindless Eating (Brian Wansink, PhD) – Behavior modification
Websites
Vegetarian/Vegan Nutrition
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM)
Vegetarian Resource Group
Vegan Health
T. Colin Campbell Foundation
VegNews
Dr. Joel Fuhrman
Dr. John McDougall
VegSource
Vegetarians in Paradise
General Nutrition/Wellness
Center for Science in the Public Interest
The World’s Healthiest Foods
Sports Nutrition
Brendan Brazier
American College of Sports Medicine
Sports Cardiovascular and Wellness Nutrition
Disordered Eating
Intuitive Eating
National Eating Disorder Association
Culinary/Food
Happy Cow
Foodily (help find recipes WITHOUT animal-based ingredients!)
Whole Foods Market
Eating Well
Vegetarian Times
Cookbooks
Eat, Drink & Be Vegan and Let Them Eat Vegan – Dreena Burton
The Vegan Table – Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
Veganomicon – Isa Chandra Moskowitz and Terry Hope Romero
The Happy Herbivore Cookbook and Everyday Happy Herbivore – Lindsay S. Nixon
How It All Vegan – Sarah Kramer and Tanya Barnard
Quick Fix Vegan – Robin Robertson
The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Vegan Cooking – Beverly Lynn Bennett and Ray Sammartano
The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Gluten-Free Vegan Cooking – Julieanna Hever, MS, RD, CPT
Documentaries
Forks Over Knives
Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead
Earthlings
To Your Health
PLANEAT
Newsletters
Nutrition Action Health Letter (CSPI)
Tuft’s University Health & Nutrition Letter
If you are curious about specific popular diet plans/books found in the media, the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (Formerly the American Dietetic Association) provides peer reviewed analysis of these on their Consumer Diet and Lifestyle Book Reviews page. However, the best “diet” is no diet at all. Think about the long-term goal and choose to Go Veg!