Expert: Tina Volpe - 2/7/2009

Question
I want to vegan and was wondering if you could tell me some health benefits.

Answer
Hi Mandi,

Great choice, I hope it is for ethical reasons as well as health reasons?  If so you will stay vegan, as I have forever, because you will never want to partake in the cruelty involved in putting animals on your plate.  

I host a radio show titled Wake UP America on Voice America.  There are some good informative interviews to answer your question, however, the one book that can answer it entirely, well, 2 books, is "The China Study" T.Colin Campbell, PhD., - and "The Food Revolution", by John Robbins.  These two books will supply you with all of the information you will ever need with regard to health reasons for being vegan, information on prevention of disease, and reversal of heart disease... proper food combining to be sure and get all the nutrients you'll ever need - and so on.... the second one also talks a little about animal cruelty, the environment, feeding the hungry and Global Warming issues you will also be helping by going vegan.

Thanks for the question - good luck.  A lot of great recipes are out there in book form as well as on the internet.... stick with it and you will be amazed at the lack of colds, sickness, weight problems and so many other things by being kind to 'all' creatures, and not eating them :)

With love for ALL,
Tina Volpe