The Complete Vegetarian: The Essential Guide to Good Health (The Food Series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0252032519 ISBN 13: 9780252032516

Verlag: University of Illinois Press, 2009

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Citing health concerns as the number one reason why people adopt a vegetarian diet, this collection makes important scientific connections between good health and vegetarianism. The Complete Vegetarian examines the diet&;s impact on chronic diseases and serves as a nutritional guide and meal-planning resource. Leading vegetarian nutritionists and medical doctors devote entire chapters to nutritional aspects that include fats, protein, and fiber; to diseases such as diabetes, cancer, heart disease, and high blood pressure; and to vegetarian meal planning, including specialized diets for children, pregnant women, and athletes.

The contributors' cutting-edge research finds that it is not only an absence of meat that accounts for the health effects of a vegetarian diet; other contributing factors include less saturated fat and more fiber, antioxidants, and unsaturated fats than other diets. The Complete Vegetarian promises to be an essential resource for health professionals and the growing number of people who have adopted or are thinking about adopting a vegetarian lifestyle.

Contributors include John J. B. Anderson, Dina Aronson, Peggy Carlson, James Craner, Brenda Davis, Simon K. Emms, Jeanene Fogli, Suzanne Havala Hobbs, Michael A. Klaper, Erin L. Kraker, Valerie Kurtzhalts, D. Enette Larson-Meyer, Reed Mangels, Carol M. Meerschaert, Virginia Messina, Mary Helen Niemeyer, Carl V. Phillips, Sudha Raj, and Cheryl Sullivan.

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Peggy Carlson, MD, is an emergency medicine physician with a background in occupational medicine.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Illinois Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0252032519
• ISBN 13: 9780252032516
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 376
• Herausgeber: Carlson Peggy M.D.
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