Name: The Kind Diet
ISBN: 9781609611354

Alicia Silverstone

Addresses the nutritional concerns faced by many who are new to plant-based, vegetarian diets and shows how to cover every nutritional base, from protein to calcium and beyond. Features irresistibly delicious food that satisfies on every level --including amazing desserts to keep the most stubborn sweet tooth happy.

A Simple Guide to Feeling Great, Losing Weight, and Saving the Planet

The Kind Diet

In The Kind Diet, actress, activist, and committed conservationist Alicia Silverstone shares the insights that encouraged her to swear off meat and dairy forever, and outlines the spectacular benefits of adopting a plant-based diet, from effortless weight loss to clear skin, off-the-chart energy, and smooth digestion. She explains how meat, fish, milk, and cheese—the very foods we’ve been taught to regard as the cornerstone of good nutrition—are actually the culprits behind escalating rates of disease and the cause of dire, potentially permanent damage to our ecology. Yet going meat- and dairy-free doesn’t mean suffering deprivation; to the contrary, The Kind Diet introduces irresistibly delicious food that satisfies on every level—it even includes amazing desserts to keep the most stubborn sweet tooth happy. Alicia also addresses the nutritional concerns faced by many who are new to a plant-based diet, and shows how to cover every nutritional base, from protein to calcium and beyond. Alicia knows that changing life-long dietary habits is a process, and that each person progresses at a different pace. For that reason, The Kind Diet encompasses 3 separate levels, from Flirting to Superhero. Flirts learn to dip a toe into the vegan pool, reducing their meat-eating and swapping out a few key foods for plant-based substitutes to see quickly how even small changes can reap big results. Vegans get to experience the life-altering effects of forgoing animal-products entirely, while still enjoying many convenience foods and meat substitutes in addition to the wonderful grains, vegetables and fruits that form the core of that diet. True enlightenment comes with the Superhero program, based on the principles of macrobiotics and built on a foundation of whole grains, vegetables, and other yummy foods that Alicia describes in detail. Whether your goal is to drop a few pounds, boost your energy and metabolism, or simply save the world, Alicia provides the encouragement, the information, and the tools you need to make the transition to a plant-based diet deliciously empowering.

Joy Bush

Now Im going to have to buy it just to have a copy of all the recipes

I love Alicia Silverstone and her fun enthusiasm and sweetness just jumps off the page at you, also has great information altho I cried in one of the early chapters talking about how they treat dairy cows.

Katelyn Broad

I enjoyed this book. The recipes were nice and it gives you a new way to look at food-as nourishment and not just enjoyable. When you think of food and what it does for you and use it as nourishment you make different choices. This book does a good job in explaining that. By eating a healthy plant-based diet like we're supposed to we get more energy, better skin/hair/nails and less diseases. We also become a healthy weight and have a glow to us. The author does acknowledge that people have a hard time just adopting this diet and has three stages-Flirting, Vegan and Superhero. She also acknowledges that there will be slip-ups and that it is important to not beat yourself up if you slip-up. I found this book to be informative without being too preachy.

Erin Noel

I applaud Alicia Silverstone's lust for vegan life even if "Cher's" voice is all through this book. While she made plaid miniskirts, viriginity, and 1997 as a whole, awesome, I found her writing style to be a bit too cutesy for a compelling vegan argument. 

But whatever, she's the smart one for making her career out of something meaningful and forgoing temptation to make a Clueless 2.

3 stars. You go, Cher.

Taylor Murphy

The bestselling author of The Kind Diet offers practical solutions for a healthier, more vibrant approach to new motherhood When did making babies get to be so hard? Infertility is on the rise globally, affecting as many as one in six couples. But instead of looking at diet and lifestyle as key factors, doctors are racing to pump their patients full of expensive and invasive fertility treatments. Once pregnant, women just accept that carrying a baby will be the gassy, swollen, irritable, sleepless nightmare that has become the new normal. Once their babies are born, they assume it will be just as challenging—from breastfeeding woes to screaming fits and constant trips to the doctor. It doesn’t have to be that way. In The Kind Mama, Alicia Silverstone shows that if we kick nasty foods that fight our bodies and replace them with nutrient-rocking “clean” foods that heal and nourish, we can create a more positive baby-making experience, from conception through the third trimester (and beyond). By encouraging basic diet and lifestyle modifications and drawing on wisdom from medical experts, friends, and her own experience, Silverstone has created a one-stop guide that empowers women to take charge of their fertility and pregnancy, and helps them to embark on a healthier, more vibrant path to parenthood.

The Kind Diet A Simple Guide to Feeling Great, Losing Weight, and Saving the Planet

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