By Reed Mangels, PhD, RD

A 4^th edition of The Dietitian’s Guide to Vegetarian Diets has just been published. It’s a great resource for dietitians, nutritionists, and other health care professionals as well as students in these areas. As a contributor to this book, I can confirm that this edition has been extensively updated. It includes 4 new chapters – Carbohydrates, Vegetarian Diets and Bone Health, The Vegetarian Athlete, and Strategies for Working with Vegetarian Clients.

The book includes summaries of the most recent research on health benefits of vegetarian (including vegan) diets in prevention of heart disease, high blood pressure, cancer, and diabetes. It discusses important nutrients for vegetarians and provides lots of sample menus, lists of good sources of nutrients, and other information that will be helpful for those seeing clients who are interested in vegetarian diets. There are five chapters with updated information on use of vegetarian diets throughout the life cycle which include details about nutritional assessment of vegetarians at various life cycle stages. Chapters on soy foods and phytochemicals include lots of new research.

For more information, see the publisher’s website.