Praise for TheGood Karma Diet
Every one of Victoria Morans marvelous books helps people, animals, and the earth. The Good Karma Diet is no exceptionits eminently readable, highly informative, and wonderfully useful.
Gene Stone, author of The Secrets of People Who Never Get Sick and the #1 New York Times bestseller Forks over Knives
The Good Karma Diet solves your food questions and diet challenges with a fun, practical, and remarkably simple approach. If youd like to ramp up your motivation and accelerate your success, this refreshing and uplifting book will be the one to do it.
Neal D. Barnard,MD, founder of Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine and author of the New York Times bestseller 21-Day Weight Loss Kickstart
Victoria Moran is an inspiration to all who know her, and The Good Karma Diet gets the formula right: combine food thats full of life, a heart thats full of love, and expect to experience joy, vitality, and beauty at every age.
Mimi Kirk, PETAs Sexiest Vegetarian Over 50, and author of Live Raw, Live Raw Around the World, and The Ultimate Book of Modern Juicing
The Good Karma Diet shows you why its in your self-interest to care about animals and the future of this planet. You feel better and avoid the ills plaguing American society, like heart disease and obesity. We all win a better world. And, good karma is delicious.
Jane Velez-Mitchell, creator of JaneUnchained.com, journalist, and author of Addict Nation
Once again, Victoria Moran provides a plan that can help so many people. One of my med school professors taught, We kill the cows and the cows kill us. Moran shows us how good the results can be when We cherish all life and life will love you back.
Joel K. Kahn, MD, FACC, Professor of Cardiology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, and author of The Whole Heart Solution
The secret to happiness is simple: do your best to contribute to more happiness in the lives of others. Let The Good Karma Diet be your how-to manual and begin today to create a more joyful life for yourself, others, and the planet.
Sharon Gannon, cofounder of Jivamukti Yoga, and author of Simple Recipes for Joy
Inspirational and thought-provoking. A profound and uplifting book that just may save your life.
Robert Ostfeld, MD, MSc., FACC, director of the Cardiac Wellness Program, Montefiore Medical Center, New York
Also by Victoria Moran
Main Street Vegan: Everything You Need to Know to Eat Healthfully and Live Compassionately in the Real World
The Love-Powered Diet: Eating for Freedom, Health, and Joy
Living a Charmed Life: Your Guide to Finding Magic in Every Moment of Every Day
Fat, Broke & Lonely No More: Your Personal Solution to Overeating, Overspending, and Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places
Younger by the Day: 365 Ways to Rejuvenate Your Body and Revitalize Your Spirit
Fit from Within: 101 Simple Secrets to Change Your Body and Your Life
Lit from Within: A Simple Guide to the Art of Inner Beauty
Creating a Charmed Life: Sensible, Spiritual Secrets Every Busy Woman Should Know
Shelter for the Spirit: Create Your Own Haven in a Hectic World
Get the Fat Out: 501 Simple Ways to Cut the Fat in Any Diet
Compassion the Ultimate Ethic: An Exploration of Veganism
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Moran, Victoria.
The good karma diet : eat gently, feel amazing, age in slow motion / Victoria Moran ; with recipes from Doris Fin, CHHC, AADP.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 978-0-698-18447-3
1. Vegan cooking. 2. Vegetarianism. I. Fin, Doris. II. Title.
RM236.M67 2015
641.5'636dc23 2015005072
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The recipes contained in this book are to be followed exactly as written. The publisher or author is not responsible for your specific health or allergy needs that may require medical supervision. The publisher or author is not responsible for any adverse reactions to the recipes contained in this book.
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Please Read the Introduction
T his is an incredibly important introduction. I feel as if Im introducing you to the man or woman you just might fall in love with, or to the CEO whos going to make you vice president and richer than youve ever been. Im introducing you here, of course, not to another human being, but to a remarkable way of life that you may well fall in love with. If you do, youll know very soon that things have taken a decidedly upward turn. Nothing will ever be the same.
Youll be doing something revolutionary: making food choices based on kindness and love instead of preferences formed in childhood, or opinions about calories, carbs, and fat grams that developed later. Those judgments disregard the law of karma that states that every action (and word and thought, too) has a consequence. If we acted as truly rational beings, wed take only those actions, dietary and otherwise, that result in positive consequences, the proverbial happily ever after. But we dontat least, not all the time.
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