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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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Title: Nutrition hotline: this issue's Nutrition Hotline provides those who either don't like to cook or can't find the time to do so with a philosophy for creating meals.
Author: Suzanne Havala Hobbs
Publication: Vegetarian Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 2005
Publisher: Vegetarian Resource Group
Volume: 24Issue: 2Page: 2(2)

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The term Alternative Medicine encompasses many forms, and elicits at least as many opinions. This authoritative, objective set is in tune with the subjects that matter to students and researchers, presenting four volumes of current, unbiased information on alternative and complementary medical practices. Covering all aspects of the subjectTherapies, Conditions/Diseases, Herbs/Plants and Peoplethe Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine identifies 150 types of alternative medicine being practiced today, including reflexology, acupressure, acupuncture, chelation therapy, kinesiology, yoga, chiropractic, Feldenkrais, polarity therapy, detoxification, naturopathy, Chinese medicine, biofeedback, Ayurveda and osteopathy. For the practitioner or interested patient, there are current training requirements, listings of organizations, as well as descriptions of treatments.

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Title: Vegetarianism and tennis: a natural partnership: an interview with Peter Burwash.(Vegetarian Action)(Interview)
Author: Heather Gorn
Publication: Vegetarian Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 25Issue: 2Page: 35(1)

Article Type: Interview

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Customer Reviews (6)

Really needs to be taken seriously
I doubt many of the other reviewers here who gave this book 1 star actually read the whole book. Kathryn Paxton George realizes that humans and esspecially women lose when a pro-animal rights agenda is forced on them. She picks up on the conflict between animal rights and humanist feminism. Veganism is ideal for a healthy adult male, but is difficult in practice for women and child, esspecially in the third world. Veganism requires a complex and well planned diet to work. Unfortunately many don't have access to these resources. Read the book, she presents actual science. Kathryn Paxton George understands veganism is healthy and that animal products are not environmentally sound, but opposes the tying of the feminist agenda with the vegan agenda. Feminism is an easier goal than worldwide veganism and should be applied before we even think of such. You can support both agendas and agree they should not be wedded.

great overview of vegetarian philosophy w/great critique
I bought this book because I have a passionately vegetarian friend who is constantly shaming me because I eat meat. She claimed I was ignorant and if I only knew what she did then I would change my mind. She even told me she was a fundamentally better person than I was because of her vegetarianism. I bought this book in self defense. It is hard to find a book that argues the real IMPLICATIONS both philsophical and practical of vegetarianism. I find that those vegetarians who are constantly imposing their views upon others really don't understand the issues very well, meaning that they are making moral arguments without understanding what it means to make a moral argument. George talks about how moral vegetarianism smacks of sexism, racism, and classism. I think she makes very cogent arguments on all of those points. She IS very intelligent and a professor of this stuff, so attempts to dismiss her arguments should be strongly scrutinized! This doesn't mean that vegetarians ARE bad people. IT means that when we actually think about the implications of a seemingly unassailable idea that one shouldn't eat animals, it turns out that there are many ideological inconsistencies. But this book also has good pratical application--it's not too tangled in abstract philosophy. IN the end George comes up with a good compromise that respects the dignity and needs of *all* living creatures, human and animal alike. See vegetarians and carnivores CAN get along...

Puh-LEASE help Kathryn George see the light!
This book is utter hogwash. George irrationally attempts to a imply that you are either feminist OR you eat meat. Unfortunately for her, eating meat and feminism (as well as civil rights, etc) fall under the same holistic philsophy that life is either respectable and that all beings should be free to walk their own path. I repeat, other species, colors, genders, nationalities, etc, are NOT here for the misuse and abuse of an elite few or collective many. She is no better than the bureaucracy that shamefully denied women (and blacks) rights when insinuating that women are "above" other sentient beings. I got news for George: she's an animal, too! And anyone with a clue about nutrition knows that meat and dairy products are abominable, causing disease and stress on the human body, ESPECIALLY the pregnant woman. Check out the health statistics and reports at any medical school library, in any compendium of studies - there is not one shred of evidence that dairy is or has ever been helpful! In fact, there are pages illustrating the heinous damage it wreaks on the human system. Why? Because no other animal nurses off another animal, that's absurd! And no other animal ingests milk after weening....Unfortunately once again for George, it is hard to take a feminist seriously if she can turn around and repeat the same horrors inflicted against female human animals on other animals in the animal kingdom. What a joke. Save your money and buy some Carol Adams or somebody reputable.....

Where's the logic ?
This is a poorly constructed thesis and serves only to display the typical weak minded headonism of carnivores.Perhaps a person so simple could only serve one cause.I would also recommend ignoring the false information provided regarding health issues of veganism.

An absolutely absurd thesis
There are some ethicists who seem to operate on a crude hydraulic model of ethical concern, which has as its primary assumption the belief that you can't be concerned with more than one kind of injustice without dissipating valuable energy.This is the underlying presumption behind George's "Animal, Vegetable, or Woman."She claims that to be concerned with giving animals moral concern takes away moral concern for women--as if the two are mutually exclusive.She ridiculously claims that pregnant women need to eat meat or consume dairy products to ensure the health of their fetuses (jeez, where does she get this nonsense from!?) and that consequently moral defences of vegetarianism are anti-woman.Never mind that Peter Singer has made a career from comparing speciesism to sexism, or that careful and profoundly feminist vegetarians such as Carol Adams or Deane Curtin think otherwise.It's difficult to figure out if George's primary motive is to trash vegetarianism or defend a strangely unfeminist woman-uber-alles kind of position.A shameful book. ... Read more

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Exercise, train, and compete at your best on a vegetarian diet.

Few segments of the population are more mindful of their food intake than athletes and vegetarians. This book combines the unique demands of sports with a healthy vegetarian diet that can help you build energy and endurance and reduce body fat. Whether you are carbo-loading before a marathon or fine-tuning nutrition to get the most out of your workout, registered dietitian and elite vegetarian athlete Lisa Dorfman provides step-by-step information on how to customize your own sport-specific nutrition program and calculate a personal dietary plan for training The Vegetarian Sports Nutrition Guide includes personal stories of athletes who have made the switch to vegetarian diets–from football players and wrestlers to ice skaters and marathoners, some of whom have beaten life-threatening illnesses with the help of this lifestyle. Lisa Dorfman provides a rich array of tasty and diverse vegetarian recipes, menus, easy-to-use charts, and food guides for vegetarians of all types, from the semi-vegetarian to the fruitarian. She also shares the training secrets of seventeen Olympic and world-class athletes who have used their vegetarian diets to achieve peak performance in their careers and optimum health in their lives. ... Read more

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Best so far
This is the best sports nutrition (plant-based or othrewise) book I have read to date.It goes over training, body composition, diet, meal frequency and timing, calorie expenditure, optimal macro and micronutrients intake, etc... posing it all in an inviting format that allows the reader to actually read the book cover to cover (as opposed to just picking out what you "need")I cannot help but want a little bit more depth, but I forgive this due to the large spectrum of an audience the author is writting for.She simply would not be able to cover the plethora of athletes and body-types sufficiently no matter how many volumes she published.I like to believe her remedy for this is her "case-studies" of several different athletes differing in body-type, sport, and dietary preferences.She analyzes them all very thouroughly so that the reader can sort of scrapbook together a profile for themselves based on this information.I was personally happy to see that she included herself as one of the profiles because as a fellow petite female long-distance runner I find it difficult to get accurate information on health and nutrition.Most guidelines appeal to the 'average'size and bodytype which really doesn't help a lot of people.

This is a book for vegetarian and carnivorious athlete (or semi-athlete) alike, wanting to know the science of the feul s/he puts into his/her mouth, and be able to use it to his/her advantage.

I approach this review with 4 stars because of the title and my own personal opinion about nutrition, which I will discuss and allow you to make your ouw decision.Firstly I agree that the title is a bit misleading.Many vegans/strict vegetarians embrace (understandably) any material that endorses their cause, this book seemingly being one of them.Howver, upon reading, one realizes this is a book geared moreso to the health-conscious vegetarian than to the ethical vegetarian.This has upset some of the other reviewers and I suggest you consider it yourself.While the material thoroughly aknowledges the ethical vegetarian, it is obviously secondary to the matter at hand, nutrition.The two ideologies clash on many fronts, so I was suprised to find the author contadict herself on only a few, albeit a very significant few, issue:the dairy and calcium issue and protein.If you are unaware of the 'saga', strict vegetarians preach that dairy products inhibit absorption of calcium due to their high protein content rather than assist it.Furthermore, due to the lower protein content of the vegan diet, not as much calcium is needed because the body can make better use of what calcium is is getting from figs, dark leafy greens, etc...I tend to agree with this as it has been backed up by numerous epidemiological studies around the world, even though I am not a vegetarian. And while Dorfman initially agrees with the health benefits of a lower protein diet, she goes on to warn strict vegetarians/vegans about their low calcium intake recommending supplementation and fortified foods. This can be understood but for reasons on which she does not elaborate.Before agriculte was as large-scale as it is today (yes including organic), flooding the feilds between crops was common.This built up the mineral content of the soil and thus the mineral content of the vegetables growng therein.In today's world this simply is not the case, add that up with an already difficult task of eating a wide and plentiful variety of foods everyday (especially seasonal)and you end up with the unevitabl truth that both vegetarians and carnivors alike should be supplementing their diet with a good daily multivitamin (as a side note, a healthy diet full of fruits and vegetables should give you plenty of vitamins, as these come from the plant itself, and so in this case only a multi-mineral supplement would be necessary).She also slips off the low-protein wagon a few times, applauding "low-fat-high-quality protein" as can be seen in her egg-white omelete recipe.I was kind of dissapointed here because one of my favorite parts of vegetarian dogma is how it busts the 'more protein the better' myth, showing that the bonelss skinless chicken breast you're eating for dinner or those 3 glasses of skim milk your drinking or the scoop of protein powder you put in your smoothie still contain calories, and just because a calorie comes from protein doesn't mean it wont be stored as fat.That being said, I want to stress that I am intentionally nit-picking here in the interest of the consumer, and that for all my complaints the author largely does well and only 'slips up' on few occasions.
My last qualm was her apprach to dietary fat.As with my her other inconsistencies, she does well on most accounts to promote dietary fat in its monounsaturated forms and praises its use in place of saturated fats found in animal products.She recommends between 10-30% of daily calories come from fat.This sort of left me luke-warm because although this is standard advise, recent studies show that a diet consisting of up to 40% fat, givin that it is mostly mono-unsaturated, is actually a much healthier diet than the low-fat craze we heve only recently begun to put an end to.However, she does not argue that a moderate amount of good fat in the diet is a bad thing, which is a worthy stride considering the release date of this book.

All that being said, her errors can be made up for by her accuracy in other areas.I recommend the book Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy by Walter Willet for more recent nutritional advise (warning, not a strictly vegetarian book, but not against vegan/vegetarinism either) as far as fat intake and the dairy calcium issue are concerned.But let it be known that he is not writting to the same audience as Dorfman, and therefore generalizes on much of the information about calorie balances, meal frequency, and timing that you would get if you bought the Vegetarian Sports Nutrition Guide.
To get an idea of the message in Eat, Drink,and Be Healthy, go to [...], and look at their food pyramids.Searching this site would probably be only slightly less effective than buying the book.

Geared toward the serious athlete
If you are looking for a book with ammo to attack the non-vegans in your life, this is not it. As several of the previous reviews have stated, this book provides numerous alternative nutrition plans. Some of the references made in the book measure the effectiveness of vegetarian diets to non-vegetarian diets when addressing some specific nutritional deficiencies associated with intensive training programs. I suggest that this information is presented as comparative and not as encouragement to become omnivorous as has been implied. As a committed vegetarian I took no offense to any of the suspect references.

Read with the absence of political bias this book is extremely informative to the serious athlete. Actual nutrition plans and specific rationale are included from vegetarian athletes with unequivocal credibility. The book is also extremely readable with bios and recipes inserted appropriately to support the nutritional strategies.

My reason for buying this book was to get an edge on my long run times and learn how to recover faster after races and heavy workouts. This book delivered on both accounts.
If you're a weekend mall walker looking for a recipe book, there are several out there that will teach you how to make foo-foo dishes until your eyes bleed. If you are serious about athletic training and understanding vegetarian sports nutrition, you are in the right place.

Not a vegetarian book
This book uses many examples of athletes who call themselves "semi" vegetarian.Meaning they still consume meat, poultry, eggs, and dairy products, consuming any amount of animal flesh is not vegetarianism.

She also references the lacto-vegetarian diet as consuming poultry, eggs, and dairy.Poultry is meat and does not constitute vegetarianism. Lacto means consuming dairy.

She is a strong voice for the supplement industry suggesting large amounts of creatine supplements as well as protein supplements.It is well known that the body cannot store protein and any excess is excreted in the urine along with calcium used in the process of alkalinizing and excreting the protein which can put you at risk for osteoporosis, not a good idea.

Much of the information in the book is highly outdated, focused on supplements and does not offer any sound advice for a true vegetarian who avoids all animal flesh.

The book has a slight undertone of trying to persuade you away from vegetarianismwhich I found odd for a book that claims to be for vegetarians.

I would not recommend this book, I should have read the other reviews before buying it.There are numerous truly vegetarian and vegan olympic or world class athletes, this book gives terrible examples of "semi" vegetarians or what should be termed non-vegetarians.
If you are a true vegetarian, I wouldn't buy this book as it really isn't for vegetarians.

deceitful title
I read in one review posted above "and you are (or aspire to be) a vegan, then this book is definitely for you." is this a JOKE? THIS reader obviously did not open this book at all! the term "vegetarian" in used so freely that people that eat a burger a week are considered "semi-vegetarians". What is that supposed to mean? And what about "pesco-vegetarians"? This guide is a joke. If you take veganism or vegetarianism seriously, don't waste your money on this title. However, I give it 2 stars because it has some information on vitamins and other supplements. Yet, I can get the same advice from any other "omni/carnivore" regular nutrition book.

Just what I was looking for !!!
If you consider yourself to be an endurance athlete (of any type) and you are (or aspire to be) a vegan, then this book is definitely for you. I have seen many other books that say the word "Vegetarian" on the cover, when they really mean ovo-lacto-pesco-vegetarian (eggs, milk, and fish). This book lives up to it's title by featuring lots of recipes, example diets (from professional vegan athletes), and nutrition information for vegans (persons who eat absolutely NO animal products)! ... Read more

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Written by the author of the popular nutrition classic, Diet and Nutrition, this book explores the health issues surrounding vegetarianism and helps the aspiring vegetarian make the transition in a way that provides the greatest health benefits. The book is well researched, easy to read, and an excellent resource for both the seasoned and would-be vegetarian. ... Read more

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The pros and cons of a vegetarian diet
In Transition To Vegetarianism: An Evolutionary Step, Doctor Rudolpf Ballentine presents an informed and persuasive survey of the value and reasoning to a vegetarian diet. Dr. Ballentine's informative text is laced with health relevant information such as meat-eaters having three times as many heart attacks as vegetarians, that a vegetarian diet decreases osteoporosis dramatically, that in endurance tests vegetarians had more than twice the stamina and strength of meat-eaters, and that the vegetarian diet is a time-honored technique for promoting alertness and clarity of consciousness. Ideal for the non-specialist general reader, Transition To Vegetarianism covers red meat, poultry, fish, and the question of milk and eggs in a vegetarian diet. If you are considering the pros and cons of a vegetarian diet for yourself, begin with reading Dr. Rudolf Ballentine's Transition To Vegetarianism.

Excellent info on vegetarian and part-vegetarian diets
Most people can't stop eating meat one day and put a red "X" on the plate instead. Unless you live in a culture like India, or eat lots of beans and rice, it takes a bit of adjustment to move to a plant-based diet.

When newly minted militant vegetarian friends reject the idea of starting out by simply eating less meat, this book is the place to turn for support. After twenty years of shepherding people toward a more vegetarian diet, I've seen definite trends that emerge when giving up meat: persistent cheese-eating, a plethora of omelet dishes,a sudden craving for peanut butter, etc. This guide gives sound practical explanations about why these cravings happen; it also gives suggestions for maintaining nutrition without going overboard on fat. Vegans will be unhappy with the assertion that a plant-based diet with some milk products is a typical solution for Americans, but realistically, how many of us are willing to do what it takes to maintain a strictly vegan diet the rest of our lives? And as additional research emerges on fatty acids (such as Omega-3 and Omega-6 oils) there seems to be an increasing number of reasons to consider fish as a practical substitute for supplements like hempseed or flaxseed oil.

Over the years, I've heard countless people wake up to nutrition and tell me they've discovered the "only healthy diet there is." Every one of those diets has been different! Rather than rushing out to try someone else's diet, I'd recommend looking at Dr. Ballentine's set of guidelines first. This is one of the only books on vegetarianism I know that doesn't tell you "here's the best diet." Instead, the author presents the pros and cons of various food options, and gives you a reasonable way to work towards a diet which suits both your body and your life situation.

A Very Wise Guide
I wish I had this book when I first eliminated meat from my diet - it would have saved me a LOT of grief and prevented some pretty bad dietary habits.It gives a unique and well-grounded approach to becoming avegetarian or shaping up your diet if you're already vegetarian.It doessay that eating dairy can be helpful, which there is some controversy on,but even many experts who are anti-dairy object to milk products mainlybecause they are packed with hormones, pasteurized, and homogenized.Whendairy is pure, organic, and fresh it's a good source of nutrition when usedproperly and in moderation.Also, the book says you should eat dairy ORfish as a supplement to a vegan diet, which makes sense when you look atthe traditional diets of native cultures around the world - I don't know ofany that are purely vegan.Rudolph Ballentine seems to be a very wiseauthor with a lot of grounded perspective on holistic nutrition.

a poor guide for those who cannot digest milk
I bought this book on the recommendation of my homeopath, who had worked under Rudolph Ballentine.I was disappointed.While the nutrition in terms of meat's value and replacement in the diet may be of great help tomy sister, who *is* vegetarian, I found the "dairy is good foryou" message questionable in terms of my personal experience and interms of different articles I've read.I'll take a sensible vegan cookbookany day. ... Read more

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A Vegetarian Smorgasbord of Information
Sometimes trying to live vegan feels like walking through a minefield. Even grocery stores and health food stores can be difficult but the real problems come when trying to eat out or plan a diet. Often, those other food counters aren't helpful at all.

I travel a lot and often I can't find anything other than fast food places to stop at. Until now I assumed that they were totally off limits to me. Then my sister bought me this book. Problem solved! I can flip through the pages, find the fast food section and spot the vegan items at a glance by checking the last column of every entry. Suzanne Havala has marked each item with a V, L, or L-O to indicate whether it is vegan (no animal products), lacto-vegetarian (includes dairy but not eggs), or lacto-ovo vegetarian (includes dairy and eggs). For this alone I am grateful!

However, she didn't stop there. This is a full nutrition counter. It includes information on protein, fat, fiber, sodium, cholesterol, calories, and vitamins and minerals for every item. Since it doesn't cover all those icky meat things I wouldn't touch with a ten-foot fork, she has plenty of room for the really important things: like every variety of veggie burger, frozen entree, soy milk and vegan cheese on the market. If it is sold in your local health food store, it's probably covered in this book. What that means is that I can sit home and plan my latest diet with accurate information. (I hope this doesn't mean I have to stick to it.)

In addition to the nutrition counter section, she also includes sample menus, information on vegetarian nutrition, and information on food additives that aren't vegetarian. Did you know that the food color carmine is made from crushed up insects? Yuck!

It's a great book and I'm delighted to have it. Just a few nits to pick: 1) It's hard sometimes to see where each category starts and ends. The book either needs an index or little tabs. 2) Since it's a standard paperback the crease makes reading the tables a bit difficult. It would have been nicer if this book had been spiral bound.

Suzanne Havala is one of the stable vegetarian voices in our community. She's been part of the Vegetarian Resource Group forever and has both the contacts and the credibility to produce a book like this. This book easily meets the high expectations I have of her work. I want to know when she's going to come out with the vegetarian diet log for my computer. I'll be the first to buy it. ... Read more

Book Description
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 SportsNutrition 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 SportsNutrition will help you improve your health and performance! ... Read more

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A must for the philosophical vegetarian
Every vegetarian society should have one of these in theirlibrary. If you thought vegetarianism started with PeterSinger or even Henry Salt, think again. The ancient Greeks have already said it all: the health argument, the ethics argument, the religious argument, they're all there. If you're a vegetarian and you really want to know why, this is where you start, not Animal Liberation or Animal Rights. Instead, take Dombrowski's advice and look up Porphyry's On Abstinence, which you can also order from Amazon Books! ... Read more