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Plant-Based Diet: Expert Guides and Resources
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Live longer, live healthier, and feel amazing with a plant-based diet A plant-based diet has been proved to be a healthy and balanced alternative to diets that include meat. Even more importantly, it can be absolutely delicious and fun! In Plant-Based Diet Cookbook For Dummies you'll get all the recipes you need to guide you through a durable lifestyle change that will boost your energy, lower inflammation, encourage a healthy weight, and reduce your risk of disease.
Cheat Sheet / Updated 02-25-2022
What's great about a plant-based diet is that it's not just a diet — it's a lifestyle. As such, it encompasses many different aspects of your life, and it can be hard to remember everything you want to remember. This Cheat Sheet is here to help you implement your plant-based diet and to be your pocket-sized cheerleader.
Cheat Sheet / Updated 12-21-2021
A plant-based diet is not only good for your health, the animals, and the environment, but also is versatile and delicious! If you’re new to this way of eating, it can be hard to remember everything you want to remember. This Cheat Sheet helps you implement your plant-based diet and acts as your pocket-size cheerleader.
Step by Step / Updated 04-10-2017
The plant world contains a natural army of foods that are ready to fight — infections, that is! Getting a steady supply of the following foods helps you build up immunity so that, when that cold comes for you, you may be able to block it entirely — or, at the very least, not let it affect you as much.In addition to eating these ten foods regularly, you can use them to make home remedies at the first sign of a cold or flu!
Step by Step / Updated 03-27-2016
Did you know that any good commercial beauty product likely contains extracts of plant-based whole foods? If you look at the ingredients closely, you’ll see them — maybe hidden between all the other (toxic) chemicals that are put into most skin products. Why not go right to the source and put these foods directly on your skin, without the fillers and additives?
Step by Step / Updated 03-27-2016
Don’t be fooled — some non-plant-based foods present themselves as plant-based. Look closely at labels on these innocent-looking foods, and you may find ingredients you don’t want in your body. Some of the foods you think are safe actually aren’t.BreadThis supermarket aisle is usually a disappointment for plant-based eaters.
Article / Updated 03-26-2016
It may be daunting to kick a habit that you’ve gotten so used to — especially if you don’t even realize that you have it — but kicking refined processed foods (such as junk food) out of your diet is a worthy cause to take up. They make up a significant amount of your caloric intake without giving you the nutrition you deserve, so they definitely need to go.
Article / Updated 03-26-2016
Raw foods include any natural food that hasn’t been heated. Technically (or scientifically) speaking, that means not above 48 degree Celsius or 120 degrees Fahrenheit. However, different experts have different theories about what constitutes raw food. Raw foods are not only loaded with enzymes (which help break down food), but they’re also bursting with all of their nutrients in their natural state.
Article / Updated 03-26-2016
Ideally, the plant-based diet is a vegan diet with a bit of flexibility in the transitional phases, with the goal of becoming 100 percent plant-based over time. Plant-based dieting is also a goal to reduce your consumption of processed foods to a bare minimum or none. The plant-based diet focuses on whole foods and isn’t just about food; it’s a framework for your well-being.
Article / Updated 03-26-2016
Even if you're trying to lose a few pounds, snacks are an important part of a plant-based diet. The goal for a “snacker” — or, regular eater — is to reach for good foods that make you feel good, not junk foods that make you feel bad. Following are a couple of recipes that are on the lighter side and should help you toward your goals.
