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Becoming VegetarianRecommended books

Becoming Vegetarian and Becoming Vegan both by Vesanto Melina RD and Brenda Davis RD, Breaking the Food Seduction
by Neil Barnard, The Food Revolution by John Robbins, Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser, Raising Vegetarian Children, and many more.
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Dietary double standard?

When a non-vegetarian gets sick, people assume it's because of stress, overwork, germs, lack of sleep or just chance; but if a vegetarian comes down with the same illness, often it gets wrongly blamed on their diet.

Vegetarian Food Guides
Monday, 21 February 2005

The American Dietetic Association and Dietitians of Canada have created a food guide that covers different types of vegetarian diets, meets the most recent health recommendations, focuses on nutrients of particular interest in vegetarian diets, and includes a wide variety of vegetarian foods. The guide includes a pyramid and rainbow diagram.
[Link to the food guide, or view as a 5-page pdf]

Rainbow food guides – Vesanto Melina R.D., author of Becoming Vegetarian (see right sidebar), has both a vegetarian rainbow and vegan rainbow guide on her website. Theses are based on the U.S. Food Guide and the Canadian Guide to Healthy Eating.

Pyramid food guides – Vesanto also has both a vegetarian pyramid and vegan pyramid guide on her website.