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The Plant-Based Solution
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This is your complete guide to doing plant-based diets right!
Dieticians and medical professionals agree, a diet focused on plant-based foods is very healthy, providing we take care of a few harder to find nutrients.
The Plant-Based Solution is packed with research-backed information on how to reap all the benefits of a plant-based diet whilst avoiding those tricky areas that many people get stuck on.
With sections on iron, zinc, calcium, B12, protein and omega 3s, you will find easy to read, priceless information on recommended daily intakes, suggested sources and background information on each of these critical nutrients.
Along with a bonus chapter that explains all about anti-nutrients, and why they aren't as bad as they sound.
It's the sure fire way to make a plant based diet work for the health of you and your family.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Protein
Iron
Zinc
Calcium
Ω3
B12
Antinutrients
RDI Table
Sources
Introduction
The world of nutritional science is a confusing place, filled with what’s right
and wrong
and where opinion seems to be considered as important as fact.
Well, along with some other professionals in the field, I am trying to do things a little differently.
This ebook is research driven and has been written to inform and guide. It doesn’t pretend to have all of the answers and it doesn't pretend to be the only way to good health.
In fact, the route to good health is extremely personal.
Food impacts on health in 2 significant ways - nutritional status and having a healthy relationship with food.
Without getting too sciency (a conscious effort throughout this guide), we as a population vary dramatically and what works for Peter Smith might not work so well for Annabel Watkins.
And what works for Peter Smith in his 20s might not be so sustainable in his 40s when there are 3 kids running around him.
This guide, along with my practice, doesn’t preach an all or nothing dietary approach.
It’s about balancing pros and cons, costs and benefits for each of us, based on each of our values and personal variations.
Whether your reasons for choosing to try a Plant Based Diet are rooted in health, finances, environment, religion, culture, morality or ethics, it’s important to be informed about the change in diet and do it right.
Sounds good huh?
This is what the Dietitians Association of Australian (DAA) have to say about vegetarian diets -
"Vegetarian diets can be