Name: Vb6
ISBN: 9780385344746

Mark Bittman

The popular New York Times columnist builds on the theories of his hit book, Food Matters, to outline a menu plan that eliminates meat and animal products throughout the day to promote weight loss and overall better health. 100,000 first printing.

Eat Vegan Before 6:00 to Lose Weight and Restore Your Health ... for Good

Kim Tyo-Dickerson

Sane advice about how to eat more fruits and vegetables, eat less industrialized food products including bloated, antibiotic pumped meats and dairy, and eat a celebratory supper every night including as many of your favorite foods as you like. Music to my ears and health to my body. More philosophy than diet, this way of eating is easy, delicious and satisfying. Never hungry, never lamenting the lack of five or more servings of the good green stuff, never guilty. Be as strict or lenient as you need, Bittman is all about simplicity and self-regulation and carefully bringing attention to bear on the sad state of the Standard American Diet and how critical it is to change our ways not only for our own health but for the long-term health of the planet.

Bryan Alexander

I came to this book on the recommendation of my new family doctor. I'd asked her about weight loss, and she insisted on heading towards a vegan diet.

VB6 has an interesting approach, compared with other vegan texts. It is about a part time diet, rather than a total transformation. You follow it from waking up until 6 pm, then can return to your carnivorous and dairy-chowing ways.

Some of the book is infrastructural, advising you on mental changes, how to shop, etc. Useful stuff.

The recipes look decent so far. I've tried a half dozen, modified for local conditions. Thanks to gut problems, I can't eat anything acidic (tomatoes). I also am supposed to cut down carbs (here: bread, rice, potatoes). And we have a family member afflicted with celiac, so that means avoiding gluten (wheat etc). 

On the positive side, I'm enjoying experimenting with new dishes. It's good to get back into some food I used to make: corn tortillas, red beans and rice. And I don't meet 6 pm with ferocious hunger.

On the downside... the whole thing still feels joyless and punishing at worst. I can't escape experiencing this as medicinal or constrained. I don't feel better after eating one of these meals. The best I can say is that I feel full. Does this mean I'm missing recipes that would rock my world? Perhaps.

Which is all useful for me. As a futurist, I'm curious about the idea of shifting humanity towards a vegan diet. My experience is only an n of 1, but it's experience, not theory.

Vb6 Eat Vegan Before 6:00 to Lose Weight and Restore Your Health ... for Good