The New Becoming Vegetarian: The Essential Guide to a Healthy Vegetarian Diet

The New Becoming Vegetarian provides practical tools to help you make food choices that promote optimal health. In this new edition, you'll find the latest information on protein, calcium, iron, good fats, vitamins (including B[subscript 12]), protective phytochemicals, and more -- and you'll learn how to get these nutrients in a well-balanced vegetarian diet. Book jacket.

Vesanto Melina, MS, RD, is coauthor of the American Dietetic Association's "Position Paper on Vegetarian Nutrition," and of the Vegetarian section of the Manual of Clinical Dietetics. She consults for individuals, government, and vegetarian food companies and has taught nutrition at the University of British Columbia and at Bastyr University in Seattle Brenda Davis, RD, is a nutrition consultant in private practice and the Vegan Advocacy Director of the CARE campaign (www.hope-care.org). She is a past chair of the Nutrition Dietetic Practice Group of the American Dietetic Association