The Good Karma Diet

April 20, 2015
Moran (Main Street Vegan), a reformed binge-eater who dropped 50 pounds by going vegan and now advocates a “high green, high-raw, high-energy” way of eating, offers an anemic follow-up to her Main Street Vegan book and podcasts. The Good Karma approach is pretty basic: eat foods high in nutrient density, and avoid animal products and processed foods to “lessen the suffering
of billions of animals lighten the burden on the planet.” The rewards of such conscious eating, Moran says, are radiant good health plus improved karma. In 25 brief chapters, the book offers some superficial nutritional information; a 21-day, nine-point plan for gradually going vegan; a suggested batterie de vegan cuisine; a short list of vitamins and supplements; and (sometimes) inspiring personal testimonials from the author and 16 of her friends, which together make up almost half of the entire volume. Thirty-six recipes and a recommended reading list appear in the appendices. Slim on content, this book is unlikely to be much of a contender in the now hugely popular genre of vegan cookbooks and nutrition guides. Agent: Steven Troha, Folio Literary Management.

May 1, 2015

Best-selling author and vegan lifestyle proponent Moran (Main Street Vegan) returns with a good-karma message. Eating the right foods, she says, will cause positive returns to everyday health such as increased energy, weight loss, and the regaining of a positive attitude and vitality. Whereas Main Street Vegan took readers step by step through the conversion to eating vegan, each chapter in this book imparts its message by introducing men and women who have changed their lives by altering their eating and adopting a vegan lifestyle. In the appendixes, the author shares her favorite recipes and an extensive recommended-reading list on living vegan. VERDICT Those who embrace the vegan path will enjoy this title; readers who are unwilling to consider that lifestyle are better served by other organically based books such as Vani Hari's The Food Babe Way to learn about dangerous food additives and how to shift to a more healthy way of organic eating.--Crystal Renfro, Georgia Inst. of Technology Lib. & Information Ctr., Atlanta

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