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- Subject: Fat Free Vegetarian Resource List
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- Summary: Summary of cookbooks and nutrition books on very low fat
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- Last Updated: 6 May 1995
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- This is a list of books and cookbooks on the topic of extremely lowfat
- vegetarian diets. The criterion for inclusion of cookbooks is that at
- least 2/3 of the recipes must have 15% fat by calories or less (and
- the recipes most be vegetarian or almost totally vegetarian).
- Corrections and additions gladly accepted at: artemis@rahul.net
-
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
-
- Barnard, Neal. Food for Life. 1993. Harmony Books. ISBN:
- 0-517-59230-4. (VEGAN)
-
- A total guide to how and why you should eat the lowfat
- vegan way, with tips on changing your diet and weight loss.
- Includes 21 days of menus and 120 recipes, some high fat.
-
- Barnard, Neal D. A Physician's Slimming Guide. 1992. The Book
- Publishing Company. ISBN: 0-913990-91-4. (VEGAN)
-
- A short book of 80 pages that discusses the basics of very
- lowfat vegan eating. Includes sample menus and a couple
- recipes.
-
- Barnard, Neal D. The Power of Your Plate. 1990. The Book Publishing
- Comapny. ISBN: 0-913990-69-8. (VEGAN)
-
- Discusses why meat, eggs, dairy and fat are harmful and why
- a lowfat vegan diet is nutrutionally optimal. Includes 20
- or so recipes. 240 pages.
-
- Bienenfeld, Florence & Bienenfeld, Mickey. The Vegetarian Gourmet:
- Over 200 Low-Fat, Low-Cholesterol, Low-Salt, Sugar-Free Divine
- Vegetarian Entrees, Soups, Salads, and Heavenly Healthy Wholegrain
- Breads and Desserts. Royal House Publishing: 1987. ISBN:
- 0-930440-48-X. (OVO-LACTO)
-
- A very nice Pritikin-inspired cookbook that is heavy on egg
- whites and skimmed milk products. Uses juice concentrates as
- sweeteners. Good quiche recipes. 200 recipes.
-
- Clark-Grogan, Bryanna. The "Almost" No-Fat Cookbook. 1994. Book
- Publishing Company. ISBN: 0-913990-12-4. (VEGAN)
-
- No added oil vegan cookbook. Heavy use of reduced-fat tofu,
- and some seed recipes, but most under 10%CFF. 120 recipes.
-
- Heidrich, Ruth. A Race for Life: From Cancer to the Ironman. 1990.
- Hawaii Health Publishers. ISBN: 0-9604190-1-2. (VEGAN)
-
- Not a cookbook or nutrition guide. Autobiography of a woman
- who battled breast cancer in her late 40's and then
- transformed her life by training and competing in Ironman
- triathalons as well as adopting a vlf vegan diet. Included in
- this list as a testimonial for the efficacy of the vlf vegan
- diet and as a prelude to her cookbook.
-
- Heidrich, Ruth. The Race for Life Cookbook. 1994. Hawaii Health
- Publishers. ISBN: 0-9604190-1-3. (VEGAN)
-
- A short guide to cheap, healthy, easy, and fat-free cooking
- with extensive discussion on stocking your kitchen and basic
- cooking techniques. No index. Approximately 100 recipes.
-
- Higa, Barbara W. Desserts to Lower Your Fat Thermostat. 1988. Vitality
- House International. ISBN: 0-912547-06-5. (OVO-LACTO)
-
- A cookbook from the "Fat Thermostat" series, a very lowfat but
- omnivorous diet plan. Heavy on egg whites and skimmed milk
- products. Uses juice concentrates as sweeteners. A few
- gelatin recipes. 200 recipes.
-
- Jack, Alex and Gale Jack. Amber Waves of Grain: American Macrobiotic
- Cooking. 1992. ISBN: 0-87040-877-1. (VEGAN)
-
- Macrobiotic cookbook. Focuses on whole foods, simply
- prepared. Heavy on grains and sea vegetables. A few fish
- recipes. Some high fat. Most high sodium. 200 recipes.
-
- Kushi, Aveline and Wendy Esko. The Good Morning Macrobiotic Breakfast
- Book. 1991. Avery Publishing Group. ISBN: 0-89529-442-7. (VEGAN)
-
- Macrobiotic cookbook. Similar to above, but more emphasis on
- grains. Recipes are vegan, but text promotes fish. 100
- recipes.
-
- McDougall, John. McDougall's Medicine: A Challenging Second Opinion.
- 1985. (VEGAN)
-
- Discusses lowfat vegan diet in relation to a variety of common
- illnesses. No recipes.
-
- McDougall, John. The McDougall Program: 12 Days to Dynamic Health.
- 1990. Plume. ISBN: 0-452-26639-4. (VEGAN)
-
- Best introduction to the McDougall diet. Describes the diet
- and how it promotes health, provides instructions for
- implementing the diet, and gives an explicit 12 plan for
- getting started. Includes a section of high-fat
- "transitional" recipes. 130 recipes. Highly recommended.
-
- McDougall, John. The McDougall Program for Maximum Weight Loss. 1994.
- Dutton Book. ISBN: 0-525-93678-5. (VEGAN)
-
- Book promotes a special diet for those with the most stubborn
- weight-loss problems. The diet recommended in this book is
- even stricter than that espoused in the other McDougall books.
- The most biggest difference is the elimination of all flours
- and flour products (including whole wheat). Pushes a 3-5%CFF
- diet. 100 recipes.
-
- McDougall, John A. & McDougall, Mary A. The McDougall Plan. New Win
- Publishing: 1983. ISBN: 0-8329-0289-6. (VEGAN)
-
- McDougall's first book. Discusses in detail the problems with
- the Standard American Diet and the benefits of adopting a
- lowfat vegan diet. More detailed than the above. Some recipes
- high-fat. 120 recipes.
-
- McDougall, John A. & Marry McDougall. The New McDougall Cookbook.
- 1993. Dutton. ISBN: 0-525-93610-6. (VEGAN)
-
- Contains short summary of the McDougall diet, advice on
- changing your diet, and a list of McDougall-approved packaged
- foods. Recipes are easy to prepare for the most part. Some
- high-fat recipes. Caution: the book confuses brewer's and
- nutritional yeast, make sure you use nutritional yeast in the
- recipes that call for brewer's yeast. 300 recipes.
-
- McDougall, Mary. The McDougall Health-Supporting Cookbook. Volume
- One. New Win Publishing: 1985. ISBN: 0-8329-0393-0. (VEGAN)
-
- McDougall, Mary. The McDougall Health-Supporting Cookbook. Volume
- Two. New Win Publishing: 1986. ISBN: 0-8329-0422-8. (VEGAN)
-
- Both of these are strictly cookbooks, each containing 250
- recipes. Most are easy to prepare. Recipes are coded with
- symbols indicating whether they contain: high-fat vegetable
- foods, simple sugars, high-protein foods, and/or salt.
-
- Moran, Victoria. Get the Fat Out: 501 Simple Ways to Cut the Fat in
- Any Diet. 1994. Crown. ISBN: 0-517-88184-5. (OVO-LACTO).
-
- Compendium of 501 tips for cooking and eating without fat. A
- few non-vegetarian and higher fat tips and recipes (all
- specially marked), but for the most part the focus is on no
- added fat vegan cooking. 40 recipes.
-
- Ornish, Dean. Dr. Dean Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart Disease.
- 1990. Ballantine Books. ISBN: 0-345-37353-7. (OVO-LACTO)
-
- Best introduction to Dean Ornish's dietary and health
- recommendations. Describes his experiences with patients with
- heart disease. Contains recipes by America's top whole foods
- chefs. Very gourmet and absolutely delicious. Over 3/4 of
- the recipes are vegan. 150 recipes. Highly recommended.
-
- Ornish, Dean. Eat More Weigh Less. 1993. HarperCollins. ISBN:
- 0-06-016838-2. (OVO-LACTO)
-
- Ornish's latest book. Focuses on weight loss, discusses
- emotional issues in a very understanding and helpful manner.
- Recipes by top chefs. Lots of gourmet, generally spectacular
- recipes. Heavy on egg whites and skimmed milk products. 250
- recipes.
-
- Ornish, Dean. Stress, Diet & Your Heart. 1982. Signet. ISBN:
- 0-451-15853-9. (LACTO)
-
- Ornish's first book. Covers exercise and meditation in
- detail. Somewhat higher in fat then his later books. Recipes
- are mostly vegan, some using nonfat yogurt. 100 recipes.
-
- Pinckney, Neal. Healthy Heart Handbook. 1994. Healing Heart
- Foundation. ISBN:0-9643880-0-6. (VEGAN)
-
- Excellent review of heart disease. Guidance on treating heart
- disease with exercise, stress reduction, and a vlf vegan diet.
- Pinckney writes from personal experience, and book is
- influenced by members of his support groups and online
- communities, including the internet. 52 recipes.
-
- Rose, Norman. No Fat Fudge. 1994. ISBN: 0-9631847-5-X. (LACTO)
-
- Fudge and bon bon cookbook. Some (but not all) of the recipes
- call for marshmallows. 40 recipes.
-
- Rosenberg, Madge. The Best Low-Fat, No-Sugar Bread Machine Cookbook
- Ever. 1995. ISBN: 0-06-017174-X. (OVO-LACTO)
-
- 150 bread machine recipes that use no added fats and no
- concentrated sugars other than fruits. All the recipes are
- under 10%CFF. A few salt-free recipes are included. Uses
- both whole grains and refined grains and includes many
- inventive recipes (such as Qunioa, basil, and sun-dried tomato
- bread). The definitive very low fat bread machine cookbook.
-
- Schlesinger, Sarah. 500 Fat-Free Recipes, A Complete Guide to Reducing
- the Fat in Your Diet: 500 recipes from soup to dessert containing one
- gram of fat or less. 1994. Villard Books. ISBN: 0-679-41589.
- (OVO-LACTO)
-
- Ornish-based cookbook. All recipes have less than one gram of
- fat per serving. No high-fat ingredients whatsoever. Heavy
- on egg whites and skimmed milk products. Almost vegetarian,
- does call for defatted chicken stock in many recipes. Very
- comprehensive, includes breakfast, lunch, snacks, and drinks.
- 500 recipes.
-
- Simply Good: Recipes and More from C.C.C.T. 1989. Center For Chiropractic
- and Conservative Therapy, Inc. ISBN: 0-941701-15-8. (VEGAN)
-
- Short vegan cookbook that excludes all refined grains, sugars,
- salt, and strong spices. Some recipes use high-fat vegetable
- ingredients. 120 recipes.
-
- Shintani, Terry. Eat More, Weigh Less Diet. 1993. Halpax Publishing.
- ISBN: 0-9636117-0-4. (VEGAN)
-
- An excellent guide to well-balanced vlf predominantly vegan
- diets. Shows you how to build a nutritional complete diet and
- focuses on foods that have low caloric densities. Recipes
- include basic instructions for cooking sea vegetables, beans,
- grains and vegetables and consist mostly of simply prepared,
- lightly spiced recipes with a Japanese flavor. No index. Over
- 100 recipes.
-
- Sorenson, Marc. Mega Health. 1992. National Institute of Fitness.
- ISBN: 0-87346-1002. (VEGAN)
-
- A huge 500-page book that documents virtually every shred
- of evidence in support of a lowfat vegan diet. Extremely
- well footnoted and organized. Very preachy and the
- interpretation of the data is often scientifically unsound. 30
- recipes.
-
- Stern, Ellen and Jonathan Michaels. The Good Heart Diet Cook Book: No
- Meat, No Oil, No Egg, No Butter, No Sugar, Low Salt. 1982. Ticknor &
- Fields. ISBN: 0-89919-053-7. (OVO-LACTO)
-
- Possibly the first vlf vegetarian cookbook by a layman.
- Simple easy-to-prepare recipes in inspired combinations.
- Good use of chestnuts. About 1/3 to 1/2 the recipes are
- vegan. Pritikin inspired. 200 recipes.
-
- Updike, Earl F. The Mormon Diet - A Word of Wisdom: 14 Days to New
- Vigor and Health. 1991. Best Possible Health. ISBN: 1-66617-076-0.
- (OVO-LACTO)
-
- A book strongly inspired by McDougall's. Summarizes the info
- from McDougall, Ornish, and Pritikin. Discusses Mormon
- doctrine and why a lowfat, ideally vegan, diet is biblically
- ordained. Most ovo-lacto recipes indicate vegan substitutes.
- 100 recipes.
-
- Updike, Ethel C., Dorothy E. Smith, and Earl F. Updike. The Mormon
- Diet - A Word of Wisdom - Cookbook: Fat-Free, Cholesterol-Free,
- High-Fiber. 1992. Best Possible Health. ISBN: 1-55517-090-0. (OVO)
-
- Companion cookbook to the above. No milk products are used
- in these recipes. Most are vegan, and vegan substitutes for
- egg whites are indicated for many of the ovo recipes. A
- handful of recipes call for defatted meat stocks or gelatin.
- 250 recipes.
-
- Victor, Steve. The Lighthearted Vegetarian Gourmet Cookbook. 1988.
- Pacific Press Publishing. ISBN: 0-8163-0718-0. (VEGAN)
-
- Extremely lowfat, vegan recipes using no concentrated sugars
- from any source. No high-fat vegetable ingredients at all,
- most recipes get about 5% fat by calories. Lots of
- off-the-wall "humor". 100 densely written pages, 50 recipes.
-
- Woodruff, Sandra. Secrets of Fat-Free Baking. 1994. Avery Publishing
- Group. ISBN: 0-89529-630-6. (OVO-LACTO).
-
- Good guide to substituting for fat in baked goods. Discusses
- fruit, dairy, liquid sugars, prunes, and squashes as
- substitutes. Although text says that only the last chapter of
- recipes use any added fats, a few of the other recipes do call
- for lecithin (a fat). Contains photographs and 130 recipes.
-
- Woodruff, Sandra. Smart Bread Machine Recipes: Healthy, Whole Grain &
- Delicious. 1994. ISBN: 0-8069-0690-1. (OVO-LACTO).
-
- Not a guide to cooking breads totally without added fat:
- nearly every single recipe calls for 1 T of lecithin (a fat).
- However, about 80% of the recipes fall between 11 and 15%CFF,
- with the remaining 20% above 15%CFF. There are only one or two
- no added fat recipes. 95 recipes.
-
- Yoneda, Soei. The Heart of Zen Cuisine. 1982. Kodansha International.
- ISBN: 0-87011-848-X (VEGAN)
-
- Japanese recipes calling for traditional ingredients.
- Recipes are somewhat fussy. Some high-fat. 150 recipes.
-