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The Vegan Diet As Chronic Disease Prevention: Evidence Supporting the New Four Food Groups

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The author writes with zeal about the "new medicine" - vegan diet. Full of references and detail, this is a solid discussion of how chronic disease can be prevented (and managed/reveresed) with diet. As a vegan for over 3 years and a Registered Nurse, I thought I knew it all, but this book proved me wrong. Your average physician is going to do one thing, wait until you have disease and then prescribe medication or surgery to "manage it." You can do better. Take matters into your own hands and read this book! Highly recommended.

This book, "The Vegan Diet as Chronic Disease Prevention", reinforces common sense attitudes toward the relationship between the quality of the diet and the resulting effect on health. This is the only book on the subject of health and diet that I have found that is simple enough for anyone to understand and yet sophisticated enough to cause most doctors and other health care providers to re-evaluate their practice of medicating the symptom and ignoring the root cause. Anyone doing research will love all of the credited sources and references, there is no "opinion" in this book, it is all proven with cited sources and studies.

I received "The Vegan Diet as Chronic Disease Prevention" a few days ago for my birthday and have not been able to put it down since. I know, that sounds like something one would say about a good novel, not a diet book, but this isn't your typical "diet" book. It outlines all the different "diseases" that are CAUSED by diet, and provides a roadmap for reversing or stopping the damage. As I read the "Vegan Diet...", I can't help but think about the friends and family that I have that could be helped by following the advise given within. From the coworker with a daughter "diagnosed" with A.D.D. (this same coworker blurted out the other day that Cheetos must be healthy because they have "cheese" on them), to my dangerously overweight cousin, everyone knows someone that could be helped by this book. I know what many of my friends will be getting for Christmas this year, a copy of this book!

This book is one of the most informative and best written works I have read on either the vegan diet or chronic disease prevention. It is also interesting from a historical perspective, as well as religious. There is more valuable information packed into this little volume than you can ever imagine. It would be a steal at 10 times the price. A must read for everyone!

This book is the finest disease prevention book that's come out in a very long time. My question is: Why isn't this on the shelves of every bookstore and why isn't it being promoted by the "natural/health" food stores? Is the publisher not promoting this as it should be? It is a great resource for everyone, as disease prevention and as a diet, as well as historical information. It is a shame, in my opinion, that more people will not have the opportunity to read and learn from it merely because it is not being promoted as it deserves to be. Whoever has dropped the ball on this one, get with it!!!!

This book is the most complete resource that I have found concerning the effects of food on the body and the resulting problems that a bad diet can cause. Anyone with a child that has been diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder ( ADD )needs to read this book before drugging up their son or daughter!

This book is absolutely amazing! Packed with facts about food and how the body reacts to the overly processed, chemical laden junk that the food industry passes off on the unsuspecting consumer. If you are interested in how to live a healthy lifestyle, but aren't interested in fads or kidney damaging diets (Atkins, anyone?) then you owe it to yourself to read this book!

This book is a very easy read, even though it is packed with more references to research than I have ever seen in a book of this type before. Now more than ever I believe we are what we eat.

I think the problem I had with this book is that I read it immediately after having read Joel Fuhrman's Eat to live. Dr Fuhrman presented the same information (and more) in a much more engaging manner. Not to mention that Fuhrman is a practicing physician who actually "prescribes" a vegan diet to hundreds of patients/year and monitors the results. I was inspired by Fuhrman's book. This one? Not so much.

If you need help with any type of disease this is the book for you! This is one of my FAVORITE books! I highly reccommend it! Great book Kerrie!