Hobbs Suzanne Havala - Living vegetarian for dummies

Living Vegetarian For Dummies

by Suzanne Havala Hobbs, DrPH, MS, RD

Foreword by Michael F. Jacobson, PhD

Living Vegetarian For Dummies

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2009939781

ISBN: 978-0-470-52302-5

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About the Author

Suzanne Havala Hobbs, DrPH, MS, RD, is a registered, licensed dietitian and nationally recognized expert on food, nutrition, and dietary guidance policy. She holds a doctorate in health policy and administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she is a clinical associate professor in the Gillings School of Global Public Health, the nations top public school of public health. There she directs the doctoral program in health leadership and serves on the faculty of the Department of Health Policy and Management and the Department of Nutrition.

Sue was the primary author of the American Dietetic Associations 1988 and 1993 position papers on vegetarian diets and the founding chair of the associations Vegetarian Nutrition Dietetic Practice Group. She serves on the editorial board of Vegetarian Times magazine and advisory boards of the nonprofit Vegetarian Resource Group and the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.

A vegan-leaning, lacto ovo vegetarian for 35 years, Sue explores topics related to food, nutrition, and policy issues in her popular newspaper column, On the Table. The column reaches more than 400,000 readers weekly in The News & Observer of Raleigh, North Carolina, and in The Charlotte Observer. An archive of On the Table columns, as well as Sues blog, may be found at www.onthetable.net.

She has written 11 books, including Get the Trans Fat Out (Three Rivers Press), Vegetarian Cooking For Dummies (Wiley), The Natural Kitchen (Berkley), Good Foods, Bad Foods: Whats Left to Eat? (Wiley), and Shopping for Health: A Nutritionists Aisle-by-Aisle Guide to Smart, Low-Fat Choices at the Supermarket (Harper Perennial). She is a contributing writer for the Bottom Line/Personal newsletter and has been a regular writer for Vegetarian Times and SELF magazines and other national publications.

Sue is a member of the American Public Health Association, American Dietetic Association, Association of Health Care Journalists, Association of Food Journalists, and the American Society of Journalists and Authors. She served on the board of directors of the Association of Health Care Journalists and the Center for Excellence in Health Care Journalism. She also serves on the board of trustees of the North Carolina Writers Network.

She lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Her family includes her husband, Michael R. Hobbs; their children, Barbara and Henry; and dogs Kailani and Sperry and cat Kodak.

Dedication

This book is dedicated to people everywhere who strive to eat well to support their health and to protect the well-being of our environment and the other living things with whom we share our beautiful planet.

Authors Acknowledgments

Heartfelt thanks to the kind, competent, and hardworking team at Wiley Publishing who made this book possible: to Acquisitions Editor Michael Lewis, Project Editor Sarah Faulkner, Copy Editor Todd Lothery, and intern Beth Staton, who expertly guided this book from concept to completion, and to their very talented colleagues, who worked their magic in the design and production departments. Im grateful to Patricia Santelli for her assistance with the nutritional analyses of the recipes, and to expert recipe tester Emily Nolan for her good work. Im especially indebted to my longtime friend and colleague, Ginny Messina, for her help with the technical review. Many thanks as well go to my agent, Mary Ann Naples, and her colleagues at The Creative Culture, as well as to my former agent and good friend, Patti Breitman, with whom I worked on the predecessor to this book, Being Vegetarian For Dummies (Wiley). It is such a privilege and joy to be part of a team of so many outstanding professionals.