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To Robert, for his vision and his unconditional love in this crazy vegan life.

To Michele, who is the glue that holds it all together.

Introduction

I have been lucky with circumstances in my life. I decided who I would be in the world, worked at it and now I live that life. I adopted a vegan lifestyle about twenty-five years ago so that I could live more healthfully and compassionately; making my best effort to do no harm in my days. I discovered that its everyones birthright to live this way, but for some reason we dont. So here we are.

With the help of the advice in this book, youre going to lose weight, get fit, get healthy, look young, age magnificently, be nice to the planet and fundamentally rethink your life. It sounds like a lot, so dont panic. You dont need to be a rocket scientist to do all this but youll be a genius if you do. You are going to choose brilliant health by eating delicious food and moving your body. You will become a healthy human.

What does that mean exactly? Before you read on, take a minute to do a little personal inventory. How do you feel right now? Can you honestly say that you feel vital and strong? Could you feel better? Do you even know what that means to wake up each day full of vigor, eager to meet the challenges and embrace the opportunities that await you?

Now think about your world. When youre at the local mall, how many of the people you see are truly vital, alert and physically fit? How many have clear eyes, firm, glowing skin, gorgeous hair and a body of normal size? Not many, sadly.

As humans, we have taken ourselves so far from what is natural that we dont know what natural is anymore. We think its normal to feel tired, lethargic, to have aches, pains, bumps, lumps, bulges, dots, spots and hair in places we didnt think possible and no hair where we want it! We think its normal to walk with hunched shoulders, head low, guts hanging over our pants, muffin tops spilling over our jeans, our hair as lackluster as our skin. What appears to be normal is not how it should be.

Eating food that is not fit for humans carries a hefty price tag; and we are paying it, with tired, achy, overweight, sick, weak bodies and foggy minds. Now, before you close the book and say nuts to her and her attitude; who is she to tell me how to live my life, Ill tell you who. I am one of you. I was where you probably are and I changed completely and rethought everything. And if I can do it, so can you! Like me, you have to have to accept no more excuses; no more bullfrom yourself and from others. You have to change the way you think and act.

Youve picked up this book for a reasonand its the best first step you can take to a new life. You can become one of the many people living and breathing a new life, changing your world and the world around youone broccoli spear at a time, so to speak.

I was on the phone with my publisher, mentor and friend, John Duff, when this book took on life. While we were talking about my next project, the success of the South Beach Diet came up. John said, Any plan works if you do it. Truer words were never spoken. But that led us to a discussion about the need to rethink what we know about health, weight loss, aging and fitness. Because even with all the nutritional, weight-loss and fitness programs out there, as a nation we are growing less healthy, less fit and fatter.

As a vegan, I can tell you that what you will read in these pages worksif you commit. As a teacher/advocate of healthy vegan cooking I agonize over the fact that many people listen to what I say and agree that it makes sense. But there is a huge disconnect between hearing, understandingand doing. So I decided to put it all into this book, which demands a rethinking of everything.

This book will guide you to a lifetime of vitality, graceful aging and, yes, your ideal weight, but you will have to be the one to commit to real change. Before you quickly place this book back on the shelf because its scary vegan stuff and what youre looking for is some magic bullet, I want you to understand something: To make the change needed to live a healthy life, free of the aches and pains we consider normal; to remain vital and fit; to age gloriously, not as a burden on society; to have beautiful skin, hair, nails and a body that you love ... you need to change how you nourish yourself. That is where the commitment part comes inand that is, in fact, the magic bullet.

I once studied with a brilliant Japanese philosopher, Michio Kushi, who said that it was easier for people to change their life partners than it was for them to change their food. You may laugh; I did. But then he explained that our food is who we are, right down to the cellular level. We literally are what we eat. Look around and you will see irrefutable evidence of that fact. Think Frank Perdue: You may laugh, but see what I mean? So when I say that committing to the idea of this book involves change, I am talking serious change here. I am talking a big 180. But its time... seriously.

We are in trouble. We are becoming more and more unhealthy, with disease occurring at much younger ages and reaching epidemic proportions, from diabetes and osteoporosis to cancer and heart disease. And fat? Its time to own up to how truly important our food choices are to our day-to-day well-being and how truly important food choices and exercise are to living long, healthy, productive lives. Its time to move our fat butts, step up and take action. And it aint about skinless chicken breasts or opting for a bucket of thighs just because there are no trans fats added now! This is the real deal, kids. Its time to stop the madness, get off the spiral of unhealthy food, followed by pharmaceuticals, followed by disability... and a bad ending to your personal story.

Were all tired of the screaming headlines, articles, books and talk shows about how easy it is to lose weight and stay healthy for life. If it was so easy, everybody would do it and we would all stop talking about it. Ive been known to rant at the television when I watch those ads or infomercials touting the easy and dramatic results achieved by one or two peoplewith the rest of the country in the results may vary fine-print disclaimers. The only result that doesnt vary is that these people are taking your money and leaving you still fat and unhealthy. I say enough already!

In my youth I was athletic, active and happy but always a bit bigger than I should have beenwhat we might have referred to euphemistically as a big-boned girl. Id tried most of the popular diets from Weight Watchers to the cabbage soup diet but my weight yo-yod until I had my own quarter-life crisis. I was diagnosed with a terminal form of leukemia and told that I had mere months to live. I believe that my diagnosis, while shocking, was the result of a lifetime of choices I had made, which resulted in my degenerating health. Its a long story, but the condensed version is that I grew up in an Italian household that lived for food. My mother was always in the kitchen, always at the stove. Food was our answer for everythingthe good and the bad. Had a tough day? Eat! Got great grades? Eat! Just showed up in the kitchen because youre bored? Eat! You get the picture. I grew up, eating for every occasion and for no occasion.

My mother, a most amazing cook, insisted that every meal be cooked from scratch and that the family sit together at the table. Her passion for food made from fresh ingredients was rivaled only by her passion for fitness and the environment (long before it was cool). As she and I cooked together or walked to the market together (to be fit and save resources), she lectured me about all things healthy.

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