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The Kind Diet
Alicia Silverstone's guide to becoming a vegan and loving it.
BACKGROUND
The Kind Diet: A Simple Guide to Feeling Great, Losing Weight, and Saving the Planet is a book that highlights the benefits and provides directions on leading a vegan lifestyle. The Kind Diet is written by Alicia Silverstone, who is a noted actress, animal lover and vocal vegan. Silverstone uses The Kind Diet as a way to show that eating a plant-based diet can not only help your body, but help animals and the planet we live on.
Throughout the book, many benefits of switching to a plant-based vegan diet are revealed. Those benefits can include clearer skin, weight loss, higher energy levels and smoother digestive function. Alicia Silverstone also tells her story within the book, and shares what made her adopt a vegan lifestyle. Some of the most important things covered in The Kind Diet are the great foods that you can indulge in while on a plant-based diet. Contrary to popular belief, eliminating meat and all animal products from your diet doesn’t mean you have to spend the rest of your life eating grass and herbs. The Kind Diet offers some wonderful recipes to keep you satisfied, and even offers desserts to indulge your sweet tooth. The Kind Diet includes nearly 100 healthy recipes that will help you add a little flair to your plant-based diet.
The Kind Diet is broken into three different levels so that you can progress at a pace that works for you. The three levels are flirts, vegans and superheroes. At the flirt level, you slowly begin replacing some meats with plant-based foods and start to see immediate benefits. At the vegan level, you are completely off all animal products, but still use meat substitutes along with grains, fruits and vegetables. The final superhero stage is built on the foundation of whole grains and vegetables.
Silverstone has also lent her vegan passion to The 21-Day Vegan Kickstart , a three-week challenge that introduces you to experiencing a lifestyle without any animal products.
PRO
- Notice quick results due to the somewhat drastic nature of the program
- Vegan lifestyle becoming more popular
- Includes recipes for variety
- Adopt changes in stages versus all at once
- Vegan lifestyle helps preserve animals and the planet
CON
- Plant-based diet might be too drastic for some
- No meat or animal products allowed
DIET and NUTRITION
The Kind Diet is based on a vegan or plant-based way of living and eating. This means that once the superhero stage of the program is reached, there will be no meat or animal products included in anything that is eaten. To help make some great meals while on a plant based diet, The Kind Diet includes several recipes. Rather than just rattling off a list of what you can eat, these recipes allow for a little creativity when preparing your meals. A typical day of eating on The Kind Diet might include:
- Breakfast: Fruit and cold cereal with soy milk
- Lunch: Herb roasted potatoes with a tossed salad
- Dinner: Spaghetti with marinara sauce and herbed broccoli
- Dessert: Peach cobbler
EXERCISE
More information to come.
CONCLUSION
Overall, The Kind Diet seems to be a great tool for those interested in adopting a completely plant-based or vegan diet. The book allows you to slowly become a vegan instead of switching over all at once. This book also provides a great deal of information on which foods to eat and how to prepare them. There’s also information on doing your part to save the planet and the animals on the planet. Alicia Silverstone has taken a subject she’s passionate about and shared it with the world. If you are considering becoming vegan, The Kind Diet is worth looking into.
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I love that Alicia is promoting a plant-based diet. I was diagnosed with MS almost 10 years ago (and, along with my husband who is a surgeon, have written 3 book on diet and nutrition) I have had great success controlling my symptoms with whole foods nutrition, which includes mostly anti-inflammatory plant-based foods. I do still eat animal foods in moderation (but only the "cleanest" sources such as grass-fed beef over conventional beef) I consider myself a "flexitarian" and try to limit my intake of animal foods to no more than 1 or 2 servings a day. This part-time vegetarian way of eating works for me and helps me stay on track without feeling deprived. Also, the "flexitarian" way of eating definitely helps keep the pounds off---I am now 34 years old and even after having a baby 9 years ago I'm still the same size I was in college. AND! the whole foods I eat now taste much better than the processed foods I used to eat =)
Ivy Larson
I have many books on vegetarian and vegan diets but ive never been as excited about them as i am The kind diet its easy to read and passionate about animals (very important to me) I just spent all day experimenting with the recipes . I love this book !!!!!!!!!!
I'm so glad to see so many of you like this book and have found it very helpful. I wanted to do some research on it before I bought it. After reading all of the comments on this page, I can't wait to go out tomorrow and pick it up. Good luck to all!!!
This book is truly life changing if you want it to be. Always loved my meat, chicken, and especially dairy, but never felt that great. eating it all. Only been 2 weeks of flirting with it, and know I will be a true convert as I feel better then I have in years and already lost 7 pounds.
I started the ovo-vegan plan on Ash Wednesday as an appropriate timing to sacrifice something. WOW...I thought I would crave meat, chicken, cheese, etc. Was I wrong! Alicia is totally right...the energy is amazing, never hungry, fun to plan meals, found a health foods store in my hick area even! Hubby even likes it, even thought I make him some meat or chicken several times/wk but he loves beans and loves all the dishes I make vegan. I plan to stay on this until Easter, then decide if it is for me or not. After 90 days on it I will get my blood labs done for the year and see if it helps my numbers there. The Kind Diet book is excellent...it's a "Can't Put It Down" book if you love nutrition reading like I do. I made her oatmeal cookie recipe today and they tasted so sinful I gave the last half of my huge cookie to hubby to finish. Also, in one week I have dropped 3# without even trying, kept up my normal exercise routine and ate as much of the vegan foods as I needed to be satisified and no evening snacks. I plan to lose 20# by summer. If you have not tryed this way of eating I would recommend it highly.
Really love this book. She make each level of the diet seem so easy. I have tried to go vegan three times (up from being a vegetarian) and have not succeeded and felt deprived. She made it sound so easy with her "build a vegan meal" plan that I tried it and have stuck with it and feel great on it.
You must understand that this is a lifestyle diet. You will lose weight slowly but surely. However, she does have tips on quicker weight loss. I'm going to try the daikon tea pretty soon to take advantage of that.
Love love love this book and the philosophy behind it... and it's so fun trying out new foods and recipes. I just wish everything was readily accessible in Australia!
Love this book. It really opened up my eyes.
JimmyC
Love the idea, just need to get the book!
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Great book for everyone to check out.
I have bought a few books so far this new year.
1. Flat Belly Diet for Men: Some good advice, but overall...IT STINKS!
2. Pollan's : In Defense of Food and Food Rules: Food for thought! Thoughts on Food! Good Advice!
3. The Kind Diet. I've known the principles behind vegan, sustainable, eco-friendly, locavore and macrobiotic eating for years. I am semi-vegetarian. This book is so well written and inspiring, this this may just be the year it happens for me.
That Flanagan women who wrote the article damning Alice Waters' School Farming program is an idiot! Children need to know where food comes from and how we as humans depend on the natural world! If it wasn't for the Vegetarian Restaurant I worked in during High School back in Highland Park, NJ. I wouldn't know the wonders of beans, sea veggies or so many other things! Eat Well, Be Well everyone!
I have been follow the Kind Diet for 30 days after buying and it is working for me. Alicia explains everything so well and why the Kind Diet does work.All the recipes I have made are so good!!
I got this book as a Christmas present from my younger brother. I was a little skeptical when I saw Alicia Silvestone on the cover. I knew she was a vegetarian, but I don't usually go for celebrity endorsed things. However, after reading the book, I love it! I am a pescatarian and I am going to make my way toward veganism. The book is enlightening and the recipes are meat free as well as eco-friendly. Great ideas for transitioning from omnivore to herbivore as well.
I love the book thus far. I just got it yesterday, and it has a wealth of information that is to be taken seriously. I plan on becoming a full fledged vegan as right now I am a pescatarian. However, after reading about fish, we have to part ways. The book is excellent and I recommend it.
I also wanted to comment my favorite thing about this book is that it shows you in a very simple way three stages to go about eating this way. Flirts,Vegans,Superhero. Anyone can start at whichever level. I thought to try it from the flirt to give myself the best chance of sticking to it. It kind of re teaches you the right way to eat. I don't mean to sound corny or anything when I say that this book is about being kind to yourself but it is true.
I liked it. It's been about a week and a half. I got the book the very next day it came out. What I like about it is that it is more about a way of eating healthier for long term. It's definately not a way of eating that makes you feel deprived and cranky.Will recommend to friends.
