Description
The classic guide to vegetarian nutrition, now in a completely updated edition. The New Becoming Vegetarian provides practical tools to help your client make food choices that promote optimal health. This new edition contains the latest information on protein, calcium, iron, good fats, vitamins (including B12), protective phytochemicals, and more—and how to get these nutrients in a well-balanced diet.

If your client is pregnant or breast-feeding, caring for babies, children, or teens, or a senior vegetarian, this information will help your client address their special nutritional requirements.

Teach your client how to manage successful weight loss on a vegetarian diet.
Use “vegetarian diplomacy” to help your client feel comfortable in any setting where food is involved.

Level: Intermediate
ISBN: 1570671443
ISBN-13: 9781570671449
Format: Paperback, 384pp
Publisher: Healthy Living Publications
Pub date: 2003
Edition Number: 2

Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Why Be Vegetarian?
2. Maximizing the Vegetarian Advantage
3. Power from Plants…legumes, nuts, and seeds
4. Bone Boosters…milks, greens, and other calcium champions
5. Energy Plus…goodness from grains
6. Perfect Protectors…vegetables and fruits
7. Fat Feuds…who’s winning?
8. Fine-Tuning the Vegetarian Diet…vitamin B12
9. Designing the Diet…the vegetarian food guide
10. Vegetarian for Life
Part 1: Pregnancy and Lactation
Part 2: Infancy (Birth to Two Years)
Part 3: Childhood (Two to Twelve)
Part 4: Focus on Teens (Thirteen and Over)
Part 5: The Prime of Life (Fifty Years Plus)
11. Vegetarian Victory over Weight
12. Vegetarian Diplomacy
13. From Market to Meals
14. Recipes…simple treasures
Appendix: Dietary Reference Intakes for Vitamins and Minerals
Index

Book author
Vesanto Melina, M.S., R.D., 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, R.D., is a nutrition consultant in private practice and the Lead Nutritionist with the Diabetes Wellness Project in Majuro Marshall Islands. She is a past chair of the Nutrition Dietetic Practice Group of the American Dietetic Association.

Dietetic professionals
CPE Level: 2
Suggested Commission on Dietetic Registration Learning Need Codes: It is the sole responsibility of the dietetic professional to determine the learning need code met by a course. numedix.com provides the following "suggested" codes, but the professional can deviate from them if they feel another need is met.
4000 Wellness and public health
4010 Community intervention, monitoring, and evaluation
4040 Disease prevention
4050 Epidemiology
4110 Vegetarianism