Sharon Palmer RDN - The Plant-Powered Diet: The Lifelong Eating Plan for Achieving Optimal Health, Beginning Today

Praise for The Plant-Powered Diet

The Plant-Powered Diet is a compilation of compelling arguments for the ideal nutrition planone that is based on whole plant foods. Palmer is welcoming to her readers as she provides solutions for eating in a more health-promoting way. I recommend this as a resource for anyone seeking a healthier diet.

Julieanna Hever, MS, RD, CPT, plant-based dietitian and author of The Complete Idiots Guide to Plant-Based Nutrition

The Plant-Powered Diet makes the transition to a plant-powered lifestyle simple. The support tools, such as pantry lists, dining out tips, and recipes, will help anyone realistically make the leap into a plant-powered lifestyle. Its refreshing to see a focus on whole food, vegetarian recipes.

Dawn Jackson Blatner, RD, author of The Flexitarian Diet

In The Plant-Powered Diet, Sharon Palmer shares her passion for wholesome, delicious plant foods. This book, which is based on compelling scientific evidence, will help you find your own plant-based eating style thats healthy, sustainable, and delicious.

Cheryl Forberg, RD, James Beard Awardwinning chef, New York Times bestselling author, and original nutritionist for The Biggest Loser

A plant-powered diet is a very powerful step in the right direction toward an all plant-based, whole-food diet. A very useful and very informative book.

Gene Stone, editor of Forks Over Knives: The Plant-Based Way to Health and author of The Secrets of People Who Never Get Sick

The Plant-Powered Diet is not your typical diet book, but a very well-researched and practical guide to help people shift away from the typical meat-centric lifestyle. Sharon Palmers wisdom will be invaluable in helping people embrace efforts like Meatless Monday, which can benefit their health and the health of the planet.

Peggy Neu, president of The Monday Campaigns

The Plant Powered Diet is a spot-on roadmap for our time. Eating deliciously, healthfully, and with a sense of our place in the world has never been easier, thanks to SharonI love this book!

Kate Geagan, MS, RD, author of Go Green Get Lean: Trim Your Waistline with the Ultimate Low-Carbon Footprint Diet

The Plant-Powered Diet is a celebration of the delicious, healthful qualities of beautiful plant foods in their natural form. Everyone can gain tremendous benefits from eating this way.

Patricia Bannan, MS, RD, nutrition expert and author of Eat Right When Time Is Tight

Sharon Palmer gently guides you to a menu of healthier food choices in this well-researched and beautifully written comprehensive plan. The Plant-Powered Diet will educate you and motivate you to include more powerful plant foods in your diet every day.

Jill Weisenberger, MS, RD, CDE, author of Diabetes Weight LossWeek by Week

Sharon Palmer, RD

THE PLANT-POWERED DIET: The Lifelong Eating Plan for Achieving Optimal Health, Beginning Today
Copyright 2012 Sharon Palmer
Foreword 2012 David L. Katz

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Palmer, Sharon.

The plant-powered diet: the lifelong eating plan for achieving optimal health, beginning today / Sharon Palmer.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-61519-058-4 (pbk.) -- ISBN 978-1-61519-152-9 (ebook) 1. Vegetarianism--Popular works. 2. Self-care, Health--Popular works. I. Title.

RM236.P35 2012

613.262--dc23

2012008247

ISBN 978-1-61519-058-4
Ebook ISBN 978-1-61519-152-9

Cover design by Howard Grossman | 12edesign.com
Cover photograph Supakit Kaimook | 123RF
Author photograph by Vanessa Stump
Text design by Pauline Neuwirth, Neuwirth & Associates, Inc.

Manufactured in the United States of America
Distributed by Workman Publishing Company, Inc.
Distributed simultaneously in Canada by Thomas Allen and Son Ltd.
First published July 2012
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BY DR. DAVID L. KATZ

We actually cant say on the basis of truly conclusive evidence what specific dietary pattern is best for human health. There is evidence that a Mediterranean diet can be better than a low-fat diet at improving a wide array of cardiac risk factors. There is evidence that a portfolio of foodssuch as whole grains, nuts, legumes, fruits, and vegetablesassembled with the specific goal of lowering cholesterol can do so better than a low-fat diet, and as well as a cholesterol-lowering drug. And yet there is also evidence that a very low-fat, plant-based diet can reverse the damaging effects of plaques that accumulate in the coronary arteries and lead to heart disease, as well as alter the way certain genes are expressed in a manner expected to reduce cancer risk.

We cannot say what specific dietary pattern is best, because definitive head-to-head comparison trials have not been done, and almost certainly wont be. Would you sign up to be randomly assigned to a specific dietary pattern for the next several decades? Only if thousands were to answer yes would such a trial be feasiblewith the enormous costs and daunting logistics still standing in the way.