Long before it was cool to "be green," critically acclaimed actress Alicia Silverstone was coming forward as a passionate and vocal advocate for environmental causes. In her new book, Silverstone reveals how eating a plant-based diet not only provides numerous health benefits for you, but is also a major contribution to the health of the planet.
Filled with personal anecdotes, motivational tips, and nearly 100 recipes, The Kind Diet is a fun and accessible way to begin your own journey toward better health. Whether you’re simply curious about life without meat or are ready to go macrobiotic, The Kind Diet's three different approaches offer a way to choose the path that's right for you.
Bio
Alicia Silverstone
Alicia Silverstone is an American actress, author, and former fashion model. She first came to widespread attention in music videos for Aerosmith, and is best known for her roles in Hollywood films such as Clueless (1995) and her portrayal of Batgirl in Batman & Robin (1997).
Silverstone recently published the vegan nutrition book, The Kind Diet: A Simple Guide to Feeling Great, Losing Weight and Saving the Planet. The guide includes diet and fitness guidance and advice, along with holistic living tips. It "explores the connection between what we put in our bodies and what we're doing to the planet, and how choosing the right foods in the kitchen can help you feeling lighter, sexier, and more alive." She has also produced an online production called "The Kind Life."
It is described as an online expansion of her book, focusing on global warming and vegetarian topics.
Theory or practice of eating only plants. The vegetarian diet includes grains, vegetables, fruits, and nuts; it excludes meat, poultry, and fish, but some vegetarians eat dairy products (lactovegetarians), egg products (ovovegetarians), or both (ovolactovegetarians). Those who eat no animal products (including honey) are called vegans. Motivations vary and include ethics (both unwillingness to kill animals and abhorrence of modern methods of raising animals for meat), self-denial or religious taboo, ecology (including concern about the wastefulness and environmental costs of beef farming), and health. Vegetarians point to the many health benefits of their diet, including low rates of heart disease, diabetes, colon cancer, and obesity. While obtaining sufficient protein is seldom a problem in affluent societies, vegetarians must be careful to consume enough iron and, especially for vegans, calcium and vitamins D and B12. The most influential early proponent of vegetarianism was Pythagoras, in the 6th century BC. Many Hindu sects and most Buddhists are vegetarian, and much of the world eats hardly any meat because it is unavailable. The Enlightenment led to a humane concern for animals; in the 19th century Britain became a major centre of vegetarianism, and vegetarian movements soon arose in Germany, the U.S., and other countries.
A young Hollywood actress selling her diet book is not science by any stretch of the imagination. The claims she makes for this book, which also appears to be a political manifesto, may belong on an infomercial. It does not deserve to be categorized as science on this website.
The only reason these people can get away with eating vegan and/or vegetarian is because we are wealthy and have enormous choices when it comes to food items. When the zombie apocalypse hits, you'll be feasting on red meat along with the rest of us.
One thing that is really important to remember is that this is not a religion. It's not the TRUE way of happiness, health and wisdom. What I admire about her is that she found something she truly believes that it's good and she's promoting it. She's showing the way she found herself and sharing so maybe other people are inspired. That's always a beautiful thing to do.
Hey, if I'm wrong, I'm wrong. I'm sure you can have a non-meat diet and successfully cover all your nutritional bases, although I'd imagine it's easier for flexible vegetarians than for hardcore vegans. I don't know... Maybe a lot of the vegans I've met aren't doing it right. They always seem to have an underweight and hollow-eyed look I have a hard time incorporating into my concept of "healthy."
Alicia Silverstone combines the crazy-eyed passion of a true zealot with the pasty-skinned waifishness of a true vegan. I admit I've never met a vegan who I would describe as someone who *looks* healthy. Maybe it's the lighting, but neither does Silverstone. Is that just me?
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