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Known for her levelheaded, deadpan comebacks to Howard Stern's often outrageous banter, Robin Quivers is a force of nature. Yet few know about her struggles with food. Tired of being sick and tired, Quivers took a stand in her personal nutrition battle and emerged victorious, thanks to a plant-based diet. By filling up on soul replenishing, cell-loving vegetables instead of damaging animal products and processed foods, she left behind the injuries, aches, and pains that had plagued her for years. Filled with more than 90 delicious and nutritious recipes.
Author Notes
Robin Quivers has cohosted The Howard Stem Show, which broadcasts daily on SiriusXM, for more than thirty years. She also runs a nonprofit organization called the 15 Foundation, which funds healthy food and nutrition programs in schools. Quivers lives in New York City.
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Library Journal Review
Radio personality Quivers, Howard Stern's longtime cohost, was a serial Master Cleanse detoxer before she adopted a vegan diet. Her routine was to cleanse for 21 days, eat whatever she wanted for a while, then return to the Master Cleanse detox. She eventually discovered that the solution to her health woes lay in adhering to a vegan lifestyle that made her feel great. While much of the first half of the book is anecdotal, Quivers details the health problems connected with consuming meat, processed foods, and sugar, and she includes a healthy dose of skepticism of physicians and prescription medication. Encouraging readers to start their "vegucation" with a detox followed by an all plant-based diet, she offers recipes in the latter half of the book that focus on vegetables, soups, salads, grains, and sweets. Unfortunately, recipes don't include nutrient analyses. -VERDICT Conversational and funny, this book may inspire fans to try a juice fast or a vegan diet. The recipes feature fresh produce and aren't loaded with tofu or meat-substitute products, which may appeal to readers who might be turned off from veganism by unfamiliar ingredients.-Pauline Baughman, Multnomah Cty. Lib., Portland, OR (c) Copyright 2013. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Table of Contents
Foreword | p. ix |
Part 1 Your Vegucation | |
1 My Wobbly Path to Health | p. 3 |
2 Fat and Sick Is Not Your Destiny | p. 13 |
3 You Are What You Eat and Can't Excrete | p. 21 |
4 Meat, Dairy, and Processed Food: You Can't Build Something Living from Something Dead | p. 31 |
5 Plants: Your Weapon Against Disease | p. 43 |
Part 2 Eating to Live | |
6 Kick It Off with a Detox | p. 51 |
7 Making Friends with Food | p. 67 |
8 Be Good to Yourself | p. 81 |
Part 3 Recipes and Kitchen Know-How | |
9 The Joy of Cooking | p. 97 |
10 Getting Started | p. 105 |
11 Recipes | p. 109 |
Acknowledgments | p. 231 |
Appendix A Kitchen Basics | p. 235 |
Appendix B Seasonal Fruits and Vegetables | p. 237 |
Appendix C Cooking Methods | p. 241 |
Appendix D Herbs and Spices | p. 243 |
Notes | p. 245 |
Index | p. 251 |