Additional Reading

Below is a list of books that explore the benefits of a whole-food, plant-based diet as well as guidance on how to get started – in addition to my book on the right.

Read John Robbins’s incredible story about The Pig Farmer from Iowa that is moving and transforming.

An excellent getting started guide is below. It describes a gentle way of starting by committing to a whole-food, plant-based diet for three weeks. This will give you enough time to start to the health benefits by limiting the amount of changes required. Frequently the changes are so profound that fully embrancing the concept is not as difficult as it first appears.
Vegan Starter Kit

Cover	Book	Authors	Description
	The China Study Revised Edition	Colin Campbell, Thomas Campbell	The China Study is one of the most important books relating to health and nutrition ever published. Surveys were conducted in China starting in 1983. The study consisted of 6,500 people in 65 counties. They examined over 360 different health, lifestyle, and nutrition factors and found over 8,000 significant correlations. This, as well as other research, led Campbell to believe that the vast majority of our modern day aliments can be prevented and possibly reversed with a whole-food, plant-based diet.
	The Starch Solution	John McDougall	Complex carbohydrates are the foundation of a healthy diet which contradicts many popular commentators as well as many medical practitioners. The book also contains many recipes.
	Dr. Neal Barnard’s Program for Reversing Diabetes	Neal Barnard	Dr. Neal Barnard’s Program for Reversing Diabetes outlines a dietary approach to preventing, controlling and reversing diabetes. The program is based on a series of research studies Dr. Barnard and his colleagues have conducted over the years, the latest funded by the National Institutes of Health. Published in the August 2006 issue of Diabetes Care, that study found Dr. Barnard’s program to be three times more effective than the American Diabetes Association dietary guidelines at controlling blood sugar.
	Healthy at 100	John Robbins	John Robbins looks at four different cultures to discover the common themes that allow them to be the healthiest people on the planet.
	Whole Rethinking the Science of Nutrition	Colin Campbell, Howard Jacobson	After a review of the evidence that shows a whole-food, plant-based diet is the best for our health, Colin Campbell examines the reasons that prevent this from being more widely known.
	The China Study Solution	Thomas Campbell	Written by Colin Campbell’s son, who is a medical doctor, it looks at the steps required to incorporate a whole-food, plant-based diet into our lives. Recipes are also included.
	Diet for a New America	John Robbins	Diet for a New America was first published in 1987 with a 25th anniversary edition published in 2012. This book examines our dependency upon animal products for our food and the impact it has on our health, the environment and the animals involved. An important important book to awaken our hearts to the impacts of our eating habits on our everyday lives. Read John’s incredible story about The Pig Farmer from Iowa that is moving and transforming.
	Catching Fire How cooking made us human	Richard Wrangham	Richard Wrangham is a Professor of Biological Anthropology at Harvard University and a director of the Kibale Chimpanzee Project in Uganda. Wranghams’s view is that cooking food is an essential human activity. Cooking increased the value of our food. It changed our bodies, our brains, our use of time and our social relationships. How Cooking Made Us Human
	How to Survive a Pandemic	Michael Greger	The majority of infectious diseases (and all viral diseases) result from our interaction with animals. This is book with thousands of references gives a detailed descriptions of our greatest diseases from bubonic plague, smallpox, the deadly influenza of 1918 and the deadly viral diseases SARS, MERS and COVID-19. Our collective memory of the horror of the 1918 influenza plague appears to be largely forgotten – the scale of it simply too large to comprehend even though it is only a century in the past. Poultry causes more deadly disease than all other animals combined with goats, sheep, camels, poultry, bars and fish being the main other source.
	How Not To Die Cookbook	Michael Greger, Gene Stone	A beautifully produced cookbook with many practical and quick whole-food plant-based recipes. A brief introduction describes Michael's journey that led him to become an advocate of a plant-based diet.
	LeAnne Campbell	LeAnne Campbell	Another beautifully produced cookbook that has been revised and includes many-easy-to-prepare recipes. LeAnne is the daughter of Colin Campbell and currently lives in the Dominican Republic. She founded Global Roots, to help create sustainable communities through whole foods, plant-based eating.
	The Future of Nutrition	Colin Campbell Nelson Disla	Whilst they are in the minority of the general population, there have been advocates for diets devoid of animal products for centuries in populations such as ancient Rome and the Italian Renaissance. There is extensive research regarding nutrition and health with thousands of articles published in medical journals, health websites, blogs and news stories. The profit motive and the need for medical researchers to be published too often leads to misinformation. There is ample evidence that a whole-food, plant-based diet (with NO added oils) is the healthiest diet for our health.
	Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease	Caldwell Esselstyn	He won an Olympic gold medal in rowing at the 1956 Olympics. He was an army surgeon in Vietnam, a member of the Board of Governors of the Cleveland Clinic, one of the world’s top cardiac centres and was named in 1994-1995 as one of the top doctors in USA. Dr. Esselstyn demonstrates that a plant-based, oil-free diet can not only prevent and stop the progression of heart disease but also reverses its effects. A coronary angiogram examines the heart’s blood vessels using X-rays. Images of coronary angiograms of the circumflex artery in this book shows a severely damaged artery completely healed following 32 months on a plant-based diet. (with NO added oils). Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn

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