"Eat to Live" by Dr. Joel Fuhrman

I'm reading the book "Eat to Live" by Dr. Joel Fuhrman, and as a vegetarian, I think its great!  It reinforces why I became a vegetarian in the first place: 1) To stop eating the majority of animal products for the environment and health b) To cut back on processed foods 3) To be healthy and fill my body with natural vitamins, minerals, and phytochemicals to protect against disease.  I highly reccommend it if you have yet to read it, its full of great information that all veggies should be aware of, especially in the face of such a non-veggie society...

 I've been vegetarian for a long time and I've recently gained back some weight, and this book helped me realize it was because I was relying too much on cheese and processed vegetarian foods and grains as well as oils (FAT), even though I considered me diet to be quite healthy (which it is in comparison to the avergae American Diet).

 This book really answers the question of why Americans are such a wealthy country economically, but so poor in regard to health as shown by our terribly high rates of cancer, heart disease, and osteoporosis.   

Has anyone else read it or tried the the "plan" at the end?

 Thoughts? 

I finally bought the book yesterday, read it, and today is my first day on "the Plan"!!  I may not do it to the T, as I like to have a strudel at a local vegan bakery here in San Diego once a week, but that's not all bad.  But as for everything else, I'm sticking to it.  I'm really excited to see how it goes.  Hopefully people notice and ask me what I've been doing so I can refer the book to them!

 I especially like it because I need a plan to stick to.  When I became vegan I was pretty confused about what I should be eating.  I knew most of the principles of eating healthy, but I was making excuses for eating vegan cookies too often.  (They're vegan so they can't be bad for you, right??!!  haha!)

I was reading some of the highlights of it to my husband, and he's going to do it too!  He just called me to tell me how awesome his salad was for lunch.  He's not completely vegan, so we'll see how he does, and if he'll stick to it after the 6 weeks are up.

It's funny, a year ago, I was on The Zone, and I wasn't eating salads at all because Dr. Sears said that they aren't worth anything nutritionally.  What a joke, and what was I thinking??  I think I was just proud that I wasn't one of those fools on the Atkins diet!