Discover Plant-Based Eating: The Vegan Starter Kit to Jumpstart Your Healthy Lifestyle

Vicki Khouli: My husband and I are not novices when it comes to eating vegan, but this little book was a good review. It's also good to lend to friends and family when they ask questions about eating vegan. We gave up dairy a few years ago, and red meat, but we did appreciate a lot of the suggestions that Dr. Barnard provides here.

United States on Feb 28, 2023

Texas Nanna: It’s a short read with essentials, which helps if you are just starting and don’t want to be overwhelmed. Takes you by the hand. This should come first, Greger second. Both are are part of the journey.

United States on Dec 12, 2022

Lisa: Dr. Barnard is such an excellent writer. The book covers just about all the topics you want to know about as you consider, or start on, the path to a vegetarian or vegan lifestyle. You can look at the table of contents from the book's image on the website to see what the chapters cover. You'll get a good overview of why whole plant foods are good for you, nutrition, and improving health conditions so often caused by poor diet. It's a delightful and quick read, and in the back of the book you get more resources to check out and recipes. I definitely recommend this book to anyone new to the topics of nutrition, plant-based eating, vegetarian or vegan lifestyle.

United States on Jun 28, 2022

luke: Great book, loads of useful information. Love Dr Barnard 👍🏻

United Kingdom on Jun 02, 2022

Catherine Griffin: Is going to be a great help to me , it explains loads and has meal ideas, easy to read and understand

United Kingdom on May 18, 2020

Deborah: Good book for vegan start up, arrived in good condition

Canada on Mar 22, 2020

Conrad Coleman: Even if you know little to nothing about this sometimes complex subject, Dr. Neal D.Barnard made the unknown simple.
Easy to follow. Easy read.
Conrad.

Canada on Jul 04, 2019

Left Handed Leo: Neal Barnard offers some useful information in this concise book about veganism. I'm not vegan, however I do follow a whole foods plant based style of eating which includes occasional and very limited amounts of organic pasture raised eggs, cheese, fish, chicken and beef. Many people claim vegan and whole foods plant based are the same thing. Untrue. Whole foods plant based implies that one eats whole natural foods closest to their original form while having plants make up the majority of the nutrition. While a vegan diet free of animal products can still include frankenfoods and absolute junk.

I finished the book and for the most part obtained some valuable information. However, I take major issue with something written in Chapter 9 and it basically puzzled me how an intelligent Dr can make such a claim. To the question can dogs and cats be vegan he states: YES. And a brief paragraph of explanation follows. At that point I almost didn't finish the book. I was very disappointed to read such a claim coming from someone who is so influential and respected in the plant based community. While perhaps technically a dog might be able to eat vegan ( i wouldn't advise it). A cat is...

United States on Jun 15, 2019

a: Found it very useful. In particular, loved the sections on rasing your kids vegan and busting myths. If you are new to veganism or have been but not completely there knowledge wise, this is a great little read.
It definitely answers all the questions non-vegans tend to throw at you.

United Kingdom on Jan 31, 2019

Bookaholic: 1. Easy to read book about adopting a vegan diet. I've been eating vegan for nearly 3 years and have lost about 30 needed pounds, reversed Type 2 Diabetes shocking my physician, lowering my A1c and blood pressure. I fall off the wagon and get back on. I was looking for a book to send to a friend to encourage her and her family toward healthy living. I think this is the one! I've tried other books but this is very straightforward and not overwhelming in detail. You can find plenty of that elsewhere.
2. Yesterday My Orders indicated the package containing this book had arrived and was handed to a resident. It was no where in my house and my husband didn't get it. Tonight I happened to be in the living room when a mail truck drove up and I went out to greet the hardworking mail carrier and save him the few steps up my walkway. He handed me the padded package containing this book. Amazon is usually so honest and reliable, this is a major fail. If they lied about this unimportant thing, what else is fake and fraudulent?

United States on Jan 09, 2019