PRAISE FOR
THE PLANT-BASED JOURNEY
If youre wanting to eat more plants and fewer animals, congratulations! You now have in your hands a trustworthy guide for how to take the journey, step to step, to a more fabulous you. Youll feel better, youll look better, and youll enjoy life more. If you accept Lani Muelraths invitation, your body will thank you for the rest of your life. Highly recommended.
John Robbins, author Diet For A New America and 9 other bestsellers;
cofounder and president of The Food Revolution Network
Let Lani open your eyes with The Plant-Based Journey. She deserves your attention.
John and Mary McDougall, founders of the McDougall Program
and authors of the Starch Solution
Lani has created a great HOW TO book for every stage of your plant-based journey. Were also thrilled to see her emphasize how our food choices affect not just our own health but the health of our living planet as well.
Suzy Amis Cameron and James Cameron
The journey to evolution and compassion starts with what we eat every day. Read this book and step through the gateway to a new dimension, a whole new world of guilt-free eating and joyous living. As they say, peace begins on your plate.
Jane Velez-Mitchell, editor or JaneUnChained.com, bestselling author
Micro changes, restaurant tips, plantify your pantry and so much more. We want the vitality, weight control, and energy that plant based nutrition offers but dont always know how to implement the plan. Lani scores a bulls-eye in The Plant-Based Journey by making the process so clear cut and reachable. This is a must-read manual for life.
Joel Kahn MD, Professor of Medicine, Wayne State University School of
Medicine, author of The Whole Heart Solution
Way to go, Lani! Youve provided a terrific road map for anyone interested in creating a plant-strong lifestyle. This easy-to-follow guide will have everyone enjoying the health benefits from following a whole-foods/plant-based diet.
Rip Esselstyn, author, The Engine 2 Diet
I love this book. A fresh, clear, and imminently doable approach to a food-choice upgrade that you can start right now and be in love with by tomorrow. If youre even a bit curious about life on the veg side, Lani Muelrath is the perfect guide for your plant-based journey.
Victoria Moran, author of The Good Karma Diet and
director of Main Street Vegan Academy
Lani covers the plant-based journey thoroughly, creatively, and with the exceptional knowledge gained from her years of teaching. When you finish The Plant-Based Journey, not only will you be inspired to eat plant based, but you will have the wisdom how to cook the food you enjoy.
Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., author of Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease
Lani makes leaning into your healthy transformation so doable. She takes you by the hand and guides you every step of the (wonderful) way with her clear-headed and science-based rationale! Take this journey with her. You will be profoundly changed for the better.
Kathy Freston, New York Times bestselling author of Veganist and The Lean
In The Plant-Based Journey, Lani Muelrath delivers sound, practical, and essential advice for improving our livesand the lives of everyone around us. Please get this book and enjoy the adventure of enlivening and awakening your best self.
Gene Baur, cofounder and president of Farm Sanctuary
and bestselling author
Lani Muelraths manifesto on healthy living should be a must-read for anyone wanting to get healthy, reach their ideal weight, and stop dieting forever. In her signature accessible style, Lani offers real-life advice for adopting a plant-based diet with easecomplete with stocking your kitchen, dining out tips and tricks, and cooking delicious food the entire family will love. I frequently meet people who want to ditch the meat and take charge of their health, and The Plant-Based Journey is the book I will tell them to read.
Colleen Holland, cofounder of VegNews Magazine
The Plant-Based Journey is a flawless, comprehensive, easy-to-follow template for implementation and maintenance of the plant-based lifestyle. Whether for weight loss, concern for human or planetary health, ethics, or simple curiosity, Lani provides the perfect balance of information, validation, and motivational gems. Lanis thoughtful and approachable manner of construction with seamlessly woven strategies is impressive to say the leastof particular significance to educators and organizations at all levels. For the immediate benefit of your own health, and that of our planet, this is the book for you.
Richard Oppenlander, author Food Choice and Sustainability
and Comfortably Unaware, Director of Inspire Awareness Now, non-profit
Lani makes research-based information about plant-based living inspiringnot boring! She is a walking testament to health, and I am grateful to have access to her wisdom!
Susan Levin, MS, RD, CSSD, director of nutrition education for the Physicians
Committee for Responsible Medicine, and board-certified sports dietician
The Plant-Based Journey is the most productive trip you can ever make.
Howard F. Lyman, author of Mad Cowboy
A fantastically thorough, thoughtful, and inspiring guide for creating the healthy and compassionate life you desire.
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau, author of The 30-Day Vegan Challenge
As you are thinking of joining the evidence-based journey to buoyant health, genuine compassion, and planetary survival, you have now found in this book your master coach. Experienced, trustworthy, clear, and brilliant, Lani, right at your side, will help you to discover, understand and master this path to freedom, joy, and the fullness of living with ease and delight.
Hans Diehl, DrHSc, MPH, founder of Complete Health Improvement
Program (CHIP) and author of Health Power
As a physician, I have found that there is nothing more vital to a persons health than a whole food, plant-based diet. The problem has been showing my patients how to adopt a plant-based dietuntil now. With The Plant-Based Journey, Lani Muelrathliving proof that this is the fountain of youthhas taken years of experience showing people how to live a healthy life on a plant-based diet and created the definitive guide. Deeply informative, engagingand a must-read.
Garth Davis, MD, author of Proteinaholic
If you find yourself knowing what direction to take but searching for helpful momentum, let Lani and this book be your guide. The Plant-Based Journey is a fabulous support tool for finding your confidence as you build self-esteem on the path to a healthy lifestyle.
Douglas J. Lisle, PhD, coauthor of The Pleasure Trap
THE
PLANT-BASED
JOURNEY
Copyright 2015 by Lani Muelrath
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