{"id":15685,"date":"2020-06-23T10:00:02","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T14:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=15685"},"modified":"2020-06-03T10:45:01","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T14:45:01","slug":"vegan-for-life-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2020\/06\/23\/vegan-for-life-book-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Vegan for Life Book Review"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/VeganforLife_PB-final-cover-scaled-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15686\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/VeganforLife_PB-final-cover-scaled-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/VeganforLife_PB-final-cover-scaled-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/VeganforLife_PB-final-cover-scaled-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/VeganforLife_PB-final-cover-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>By Reed Mangels, PhD, RD<\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t think of a more perfect book title than <em>Vegan for Life.<\/em> This classic, first published almost 10 years ago, is a practical handbook for being vegan for life \u2013 for your life, for the animals\u2019 lives, and for our planet\u2019s life.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, Jack Norris, RD and Virginia Messina, MPH, RD, extensively updated and revised their book. This revised edition has the same calm, sensible tone as the original edition did. It\u2019s been updated to include the latest research on topics relevant to vegans including fat (how much? What kind?), vitamin B12, digestive health, food allergies, and even lesser known nutrients like choline and selenium. The authors are both vegan dietitians and the book reflects their commitment to honest, evidence-based information.<\/p>\n<p>This is not a dry, nutrition text, however. The authors provide lots of practical information including sample menus, lists of foods, and a food guide. There are also chapters on vegan pregnancy, children and teens, older people, and athletes. The chapter on transitioning to a vegan diet was one of my favorites because of its ideas for simple dinners, packed lunches, and ways to use beans.\u00a0 Even as a long-term vegan I found lots of helpful ideas for fine-tuning my diet.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This book offers resources for new vegans, for those considering being vegan, for vegans of all ages, for seasoned vegans. I plan to urge my local library to order several copies \u2013 it\u2019s that good.<\/p>\n<p><em>Vegan for Life, 2<sup>nd<\/sup> edition <\/em>(ISBN: 978-0-7382-8586-3) is published by Hachette Books. It has 334 pages and retails for $17.99.\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Reed Mangels, PhD, RD I can\u2019t think of a more perfect book title than Vegan for Life. This classic, first published almost 10 years ago, is a practical handbook for being vegan for life \u2013 for your life, for the animals\u2019 lives, and for our planet\u2019s life. Recently, Jack Norris, RD and Virginia Messina, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15687,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15685\/revisions\/15687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}