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Thrive Foods: 200 Plant-Based Recipes for Peak Health Kindle Edition

by Brendan Brazier (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 216 ratings
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Focusing on an environmentally friendly diet, Brendan Brazier's new book builds on the stress-reducing, health-boosting nutritional philosophy introduced in Thrive. Finding creative ways to use basic ingredients such as kale, blueberries, and wild rice, Thrive Foods recipes are plant-based and nutritionally complete. They utilize the power of superfoods such asmaca, chia, hemp, and chlorella and avoid ingredients like wheat, yeast, gluten, soy, dairy, and corn.

If you're looking for sustainable energy, high-quality sleep, physical strength, and mental sharpness to meet modern-day demands, Thrive Foods is your go-to recipe source.

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"The world needs to move away from meat. As Brendan Brazier so convincingly shows, a plant-based diet is better for the planet and better for human health. His wonderfully inventive vegan recipes give us food that is both nutritious and inviting."
- Chris Goodall
Bestselling author of How to Live a Low Carbon Life

"Brendan's book clearly shows that choosing to eat plants instead of animals is not only the best thing you can do for your own health, but also for the health of the planet. Thrive Foods keeps me healthy and performing at my best, even throughout the longest of tours."
 - Moby

"Drawing from studies preformed by top international organizations, Brendan cuts through the clutter. Putting information into clear and relatable terms, he effectively illustrates the easiest, most immediate, and dramatic form of activism we can all participate in: choosing our food.
- Elizabeth J Kucinich
Director Government Affairs, PCRM

"I am forever grateful to this book and to Brendan...I have noticed increased energy and more restful sleep. My desire for sugar and salt is waning, and what's more, I am following these recipes and loving them."
- Hugh Jackman

"In Whole Foods to Thrive Brendanmakes the art of healthy eating and the concept of a nutrient dense diet easy to understand and compelling to follow. A must read."
- Terry Tamminen
Former Chief Policy Advisor to Governor Schwarzenegger, President of Seventh Generation Advisors

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In the Thrive Foods, I introduce something called the Nutrient-to-Resource Ratio, which considers the amount of each natural resource that goes into food production in exchange for the amount of nutrients that food offers. Based on these findings, I then make suggestions as to what foods are most beneficial to personal health as well as environmental preservation. The goal is simple: get as high a level of health-boosting micronutrients from food, while expending the smallest amount of each natural resource to do so. (Essentially, it's a mathematical way of saying plant-based whole foods make a lot of sense). There are also 200 recipes, including a few from my favorite North American restaurants, as well as a few of my favorite chefs.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B005J4TC7E
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Da Capo Lifelong Books; Original edition (September 6, 2011)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 6, 2011
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 2514 KB
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 379 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 0738215112
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    4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 216 ratings

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Brendan is the formulator and cofounder of Vega, bestselling author of the Thrive book series, creator and host of the Thrive Forward web series, and editor in chief of Thrive magazine. He’s also a former professional Ironman triathlete and a two-time Canadian 50km Ultra Marathon Champion. Brendan is regarded as one of the world’s leading authorities on plant-based performance nutrition, and therefore works with several NHL, NFL, MLB, UFC, and Olympic athletes. Brendan now invests in and works with socially responsible food & tech companies whose mandate is to fix our food system and reduce the environmental strain of food production.

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4.3 out of 5 stars
216 global ratings

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Customers find the recipes in the book sane, simple, and healthy. They appreciate the great information and value of the book for plant-based eaters. Readers describe the book as well-written, easy to read, and articulate. They mention the end result is healthful, plant-based food.

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57 customers mention "Recipes quality"46 positive11 negative

Customers find the recipes in the book very sane, simple, and healthy. They mention that most of the recipes don't require Vega products to complete them. Readers also appreciate the user-friendly and digestible nutrition explanations. They describe the recipes as delicious, versatile, and comprehensive.

"...some of the recipes in this book, but many of them appear to be less labor-intensive and more affordable...." Read more

"...It contains very clean, healthy recipes that will help your body not only perform it's best, during activity, but also to aid in a quicker recovery,..." Read more

"...environmental effects of a plant vs. omnivore diet and there are useable recipes for every once in a while but probably not a lot in the day to day..." Read more

"...A positive for him though is that most of the recipes don't require Vega products to complete them and if they do he offers substitutions like the..." Read more

40 customers mention "Information quality"40 positive0 negative

Customers find the book full of excellent information and recipes. They say it helps clarify questions and build an amazing base of nutritional information. Readers also mention the book is a valuable tool for plant-based eaters or those just seeking a more healthy diet. Overall, they say it's a great learning experience on how to cook these meals.

"...Brendan provides extensive data and documentation demonstrating the decreased environmental stress caused by a plant-based diet, versus one that..." Read more

"...I found out that it is truly possible to up your personal athletic abilities through the use of a whole foods plant based diet...." Read more

"...However, it had really interesting information on the environmental effects of a plant vs. omnivore diet and there are useable recipes for every..." Read more

"...flavorful food and this is the book to have for that, flavorful, nutritious and delicious." Read more

12 customers mention "Readability"12 positive0 negative

Customers find the book well-written, easy to read, and accessible. They appreciate the information in an articulate and accessible way. Readers also mention the book is nicely laid out and has good recipes.

"...Brendan recognizes this and presents the information in an articulate and accessible way. I appreciate the broad nature of the education he provides...." Read more

"...Regardless, I like the book, the layout and recipes it has...." Read more

"...And my time!Otherwise, it's an incredibly thoughtful, nicely designed, informative and well written book...." Read more

"...The book is well put together, easy to read and really has some great tips." Read more

5 customers mention "Health content"5 positive0 negative

Customers find the book's health content excellent. They say the end result is healthful, plant-based food.

"...Sure the end result is healthful, plant-based food but the ingredients are replete with vegan substitutions for animal-derived food...." Read more

"...Well written, excellent information and great recipes. Health conscious (or trying to be)? Buy this book." Read more

"...bang for your buck, versatile, comprehensive, simple yet complex and healthy." Read more

"Easy to understand and very quick recipes that are tasty and healthy" Read more

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Customers find the book detailed and complex.

"...downside to some of his recipes, for me, has been that they are time-consuming, and the ingredients are expensive...." Read more

"...found, too, that many of the recipes in this book are detailed and time-consuming; it was tough to find time to cook them given my work hours each..." Read more

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Sheri E. Barnes
5.0 out of 5 stars Brendan Brazier takes his great ideas a step farther
Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2012
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I am a fan of Brendan Brazier's work and his philosophy. I have read all his books, and I have heard him speak. As a vegan cyclist, I find his athlete-specific information very useful. This book extends his ideas on eating for peak performance and minimal nutritional stress beyond the individual to the environment. Brendan provides extensive data and documentation demonstrating the decreased environmental stress caused by a plant-based diet, versus one that contains animal products. As an ethical vegan, my first motivation is compassion for animals as sentient beings, who are the subjects of their own lives, not objects for human use, but the health and environmental benefits of plant-based eating are undeniable, and different people are reached through different avenues. Brendan recognizes this and presents the information in an articulate and accessible way. I appreciate the broad nature of the education he provides. There are more recipes in here than in his previous books. I have only tried one so far, but it was simple and delicious. A previous downside to some of his recipes, for me, has been that they are time-consuming, and the ingredients are expensive. That is still true for some of the recipes in this book, but many of them appear to be less labor-intensive and more affordable. And, as with any decision we make in life, we have to look at the big picture. The "cost" goes beyond the price tag to the toll that poor dietary choices take on the animals who share our planet, our own bodies, the environment and the health care system. I'm grateful to Brendan for this excellent book, and I look forward to more writing from him.
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Maralee Garrison
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book, solid whole foods recipes.
Reviewed in the United States on September 13, 2016
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I bought this book to increase my knowledge in not only eating a plant based (vegan) diet, but also to learn how to fuel our bodies, better, for athletic activity and recovery. I found out that it is truly possible to up your personal athletic abilities through the use of a whole foods plant based diet.

The recipes in this book are solid and easy to follow. Although, I do wish there were more in the way of images, as I am a visual person. Regardless, I like the book, the layout and recipes it has. It contains very clean, healthy recipes that will help your body not only perform it's best, during activity, but also to aid in a quicker recovery, helping to reduce stress on your body. This book has been used in my household a lot and I'm very happy with it.
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Penny Naud
3.0 out of 5 stars Not bad but not really what I was looking for either
Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2012
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A lot of books on plant based eating spend the entire book telling you why you should convert to a plant based diet. I was interested in this book specifically because I thought it would be more filled with specifics on what to eat and recipes. There are more recipes than some, but it's still more than 50% why you should do it and for me was thuse just preaching to the choir. I also found that the recipes themselves were geared toward a single person more focused on covenience than cost (i.e. recipes depend on some of the more expensive powders frequently used). I was looking for a very practical day to day meal plan with recipes and this is not that. However, it had really interesting information on the environmental effects of a plant vs. omnivore diet and there are useable recipes for every once in a while but probably not a lot in the day to day rotation.
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J. Murszewski
4.0 out of 5 stars A Vegetarian's Take On Thrive Foods
Reviewed in the United States on August 17, 2012
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To give you some perspective on myself and how I use the information in the book I am a lacto vegetarian looking for ways to go vegan in an extremely clean/nonprocessed way. I became vegetarian for health reasons first, ecological reasons second.
The beginning of this book goes to great lengths to impress upon the reader the graveness and implications of eating meat, how far our food originates from before it reaches us, and the ecological impact like CO2 emissions of diets based on meat. It's great for people who are unaware of this issue but I think to most well versed vegans or vegetarians it seems old hat. Those omnivores looking to become vegan entirely based on health reasons will undoubtedly skip those chapters. The odd thing about these opening chapters is that there is no mention of meat food borne illnesses or prions which have been on a steady rise within the American meat industry. These issues need to seriously be addressed as they do impact the health of humans everywhere and in and of themselves are a reason to cease consumption of meat. The great thing about this book is it tries to encompass many ideas such as raw and macrobiotic. Before the recipes begin he gives a rundown of the mineral/nutrient needs for vegans and in which foods you can find abundant sources for them. He also goes into great detail listing the nutritional benefits of every single kind of oil, legume, vegetable, oat, grain, sweetener, and seed a vegan could think of. Chapter 5 is like a mini bible on this. I truly appreciate this because you can make educated dietary decisions for yourself as to what specific things you want to incorporate into your diet. Some recipes he features are also from popular restaurants from across the US which is a nice touch. As some other reviewers have noted he DOES push Vega in the book. I have never tried Vega and I may buy Vega products in the future, I may not. A positive for him though is that most of the recipes don't require Vega products to complete them and if they do he offers substitutions like the Fresh Pasta Puttanesca which calls for Vega Antioxidant & EFA Oil Blend which he states can be substituted with hemp or flaxseed oil. I hate to be overly picky but for starters but I am not a vegetarian who is scared off by the words "tahini", "miso", "nutritional yeast", "chia seeds", "vital wheat gluten" or other vegan/vegetarian basics. I even make my own seitan on a regular basis. The things that get me are "yacon syrup" which leads me to google it, see that it's a sweetener and then wonder if I can use agave, molasses, something else. I wish he would just add a suggestion of a substitution. How much effort would that take? On top of it, I could stomach the specialty food ingredient if it was prevalent in the book making that special item worth purchasing but I can only find it in maybe 3 recipes. 99% of the recipes do use common ingredients found in vegan/vegetarian pantries though which I appreciate. If you have a garden or access to a farmers market you are absolutely going to benefit from this book. Every single recipe (even pizza dough) calls for the addition of a vegetable. There aren't any strictly grain recipes in this book. I have many vegetarian/vegan cookbooks that call for an abundance of noodles. Don't shy away from this book because of that fear! Even the recipe for Beet Ravioli with Basil Macadamia Ricotta is entirely vegetable based with no noodles. This book truly tries to put an emphasis on veggies first and then grains/nuts/oils as an afterthought when creating a meal. The bulk of the recipes are seasonal so you will be able to take advantage of your garden/farmers market and don't have to worry about vegetables being rare/out of season. Two really different and nifty recipes that I found in the book were energy gels for workouts. Totally something you wouldn't think you can make on your own without a recipe, right? The weirdest part of the book was towards the end when he lists his favorite restaurants- a solid 8 pages of them. I literally murmured aloud, "Why?" It felt so out of place and almost like the ending to a travel book. I wondered why it was wedged between "Guide to Nutrients" and "Calculating the Numbers [on carbon emissions]". A better resource would've been to skip the printed pages in the book and offer a vegan restaurant search option on his website. If you can get over those few nitpickings you will find this book to be a truly great resource and I look forward to making quite a few of these recipes.
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Agnieszka Fulthorpe
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in Canada on December 10, 2014
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great book full of fantastic information about good food. !
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Daniel Scherer
4.0 out of 5 stars Sehr Interessant
Reviewed in Germany on September 25, 2013
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Brendan Braziers komplementäre Rezepte Sammlung zu seinen Thrive-Büchern ist grundsätzlich sehr interessant und auch ohne
die anderen Bücher den Kauf wert, da im ersten Teil die Ideen, die der Thrive-Ernährung zugrunde liegen, noch einmal erklärt werden.
Sehr positiv ist mir bei allen Thrive-Büchern aufgefallen, dass es endlich mal einer schafft, eine vegane ernährung ohne(!!!) Soja umzusetzen. Allerdings zu einem gewissen Preis. Denn nicht alle Rezepte sind ohne weiteres Umzusetzen, da der nordamerikanische Supermarkt wohl doch ein anderes Sortiment umfasst als der nordeuropäische...
Vorallem Produkte aus Südamerika lassen sich hierzulande nur schwer finden.
Und hier steht das Buch meiner Meinung nach vor zwei Paradoxien:
1. Brazier errechnet sehr lang und ausgiebig den Energieverbrauch und CO2 Ausstoß, den die Produktion verschiedener Lebensmittel verursacht (Tierisch vs. Pflanzlich), was im Grunde genommen richtig ist. Allerdings glaube ich, sieht diese Bilanz schon wieder ganz anders aus, wenn ich mir einen großen Teil der Lebensmittel die ich brauche um mich vegan ausgewogen zu ernähren, um den halben Globus einfliegen lasse...

2. Da eine ausgewogene vegane Ernährung, vorallem was die Versorgung mit Eiweiß und Vitamin B12 angeht, nicht mit den Standard nordeuropäischen oder noramerikanischen Gemüse zu erreichen ist, stellt sich doch die Frage wie natürlich eine Ernährung ohne tierische Produkte tatsächlich ist. Unsere Vorfahren müssten als Veganer wohl doch unter der eine oder anderen Mangelerscheinung gelitten haben...

Alles in Allem ist es aber doch ein sehr interessantes Buch. denn auch wenn man nicht zu 100% vegan Leben will, bekommt man hier Anregungen und Hilfestellungen, wie man Seine Mahlzeiten doch zumindest etwas "veganiesieren" kann.
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River
5.0 out of 5 stars Very refreshing! Definitely recommend!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 4, 2012
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A diet of gluten-free veganism with no processed sugars? What would you actually eat? This wonderful book goes through the logical steps of why veganism is better for you, for animals and for the planet. I was veggie when I bought it and would never have dreamed of becoming a vegan because I wouldn't really know what to eat. But this book is packed full of recipes that are mostly very quick and easy to make - a chuck it all in a blender or food processor deal.

This book is perfect for those who live in a warm climate and it is still very possible to use if you don't. A lot of the food in here is raw food - cold soups, various salads, no-bake cookies, healthy ice creams, etc. But some do require cooking. I think if you live in a country that has cold winters this might be a difficult diet to stick to, so I recommend '125 Best Vegetarian Slow Cooker Recipes' by Judith Finlayson as a complementary cookery book. It has a lot of hearty stews, etc and many are vegan recipes, too.

I feel so much better now I have found so many creative ways to feed my sweet tooth, and all through natural sugars. Definitely would recommend this book, even to meat-eaters who are looking to cut down their meat/fish/processed sugar intake, and especially to those who are gluten or dairy intolerant!
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Alixe
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
Reviewed in Canada on June 24, 2012
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.....had my order in days which is amazing as it had to go through Canadian customs. Definitely will order through these people again.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great recipes
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 18, 2013
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I have read Thrive earlier and liked the information, but the recipes in Thrive were not that spectacular. Here, in Thrive Foods: 200 Plant-Based Recipes for Peak Health, you will find many delicious meals. And my husband loved them too! The first time I made Cheesy Broccoli Bowl he nearly ate it all (the recipe was for 4 servings!) - and he usually dislikes broccoli! Highly recommended!
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