Living Vegan For Dummies - Alexandra Jamieson [6]
Even if you aren’t sure a vegan diet is right for you, this book can help you understand the amazing benefits of a plant-based diet. Including more vegetables, fruits, whole grains, beans, nuts, and seeds is something we’re all encouraged to do by the FDA, USDA, and the ADA! Even Mom says so! If you want to improve your health, reduce your health concerns, lose weight, improve your energy and stamina, prolong your life expectancy, protect the environment, and save the lives of countless animals, this book is for you.
Living Vegan For Dummies provides an incredible amount of information that can be useful whether you read it from start to finish or not. Every chapter is written in easy-to-understand language and has distinct parts with helpful references and lots of tips and real-world strategies. The recipes can help you enjoy vegan food even if you aren’t a trained chef. And most important, every chapter helps you get closer to a cruelty-free life.
Conventions Used in This Book
Following are a few conventions I’ve used that you should be aware of:
Whenever I introduce you to a new food or term, I put it in italics.
Keywords in bulleted lists or the action parts in numbered steps appear in boldface.
Web sites appear in monofont.
When this book was printed, some Web addresses may have needed to break across two lines of text. If that happened, rest assured that I haven’t put in any extra characters (such as hyphens) to indicate the break. So when using one of these Web addresses, just type in exactly what you see in this book, pretending as though the line break doesn’t exist.
What You’re Not to Read
For Dummies books are full of useful extras that pop out at you while you’re reading. Fun facts and useful sidebars give you inspiration and ammunition for the vegan road ahead. You’ll notice this extra information highlighted with gray shaded boxes or Technical Stuff icons throughout the chapters. You can commit these items to memory to remind yourself and others of why this lifestyle is so amazing, or you can skip them and just dive into the information that seems most important to you at the time. Just remember that this extra information is just that — extra. You don’t have to read it in order to understand the topic at hand.
Foolish Assumptions
In writing this book, I made a few assumptions about you, the reader:
You like to eat food, but you want to stop eating animal products.
You like to wear clothes, but you want to stop wearing animal products.
You like to wash and pamper your body, but you want to stop using products that contain animal ingredients or products that were tested on animals.
When you buy something to use or consume, you often ask yourself or someone else “where did this come from?” or “what is this made of?” or “what am I contributing to when I buy this?”
You have cooked a little or none at all, but you know you would like to start making some if not all your own food.
You’re curious about how to maintain proper health while eating a vegan diet.
You aren’t afraid to take a risk or be considered “weird” by the rest of society — most cool vegans are a little outside the mainstream, but that’s what we like to be!
If these assumptions spoke to you, you found yourself nodding your head while reading this list, or you can easily picture your loved one who wants to become a vegan, you’re reading the right book.
How This Book Is Organized
Living Vegan For Dummies is divided into seven parts. Each part covers a different area of vegan living. Read through the description for each part and then go to the chapters that excite you the most. Every part works in conjunction with the others to help you build a vibrant, conscious, and deliciously