beautiful resolution.
it's life shifting, life affirming.

some of my favorites
over the last 25 years as veggie (am 45)

http://www.herbdoc.com
on youtube:
liferegenerator
durianrider

http://www.foodnsport.com
http://www.worldpeacediet.org

fit for life book
harvey diamond marilyn diamond.

for ultimate health, vitality,
automatically
lean towards the high carb, low fat road.
(meaning you'll be a fruit lover
very shortly)

get a blender any type.
enjoy smoothies.

just make the inward resolution,
and everything will open up for you.

going veggie is the most liberating, revolutionary, natural thing you can ever do.

Diet For A New America by John Robbins is a must-read. It's the vegan Bible. John Robbins was the son of one of the founders of Baskin Robbins Ice Cream, and he grew up sickly as a child. His uncle died of a heart attack.

The McDougall Program: 12 Days to Dynamic Health by John McDougall, M.D. is also excellent.

To learn about the importance of greens and a delicious, convenient way to consume them, read Green For Life by Victoria Boutenko.

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My favorite resource for the nutrition side of going vegan is nutritionfacts.org, which is run by a vegan Doctor, Michael Greger. Every year he reads every single English-language nutrition publication and makes short and easy to understand videos to share the most recent, ground-breaking, and practical studies that he finds through an unbiased and free resource. I love learning about the science behind nutrition, and I have learned so much information from him.

-Keane

Hello Lynne
welcome to Vegan word.
I like to add some links including guides and useful pages.

Guides:
Start using “Vegetarian started kid” , it is an easy but useful guide for the beginning.
Download here:
http://www.pcrm.org/health/diets/vsk/vegetarian-starter-kit

An other guide is “Becoming Vegan: The Complete Guide to Adopting a Healthy Plant-Based Diet” by Door Brenda Davis,Vesanto Melina
download link:
http://books.google.nl/books?id=7Np8oDorPswC&printsec=frontcover&dq=becoming+vegan&hl=nl&ei=QU3rTf3SG4GhOr62vIwB&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false

Useful pages:
http://www.vegansociety.com/lifestyle/
http://www.veganhealth.org/
http://www.downtoearth.org/go-veggie/top-10-reasons
http://michaelbluejay.com/veg/natural.html

And a Canadian page
http://www.earthsave.ca

I think the inner change is the most important.
Go vegan!
Have a healthy and happy New Year!
Haris

Hello Lynne,

Internet is certainly an infinite source of whatever you can imagine on whatever subject you can imagine, and since the other posts have already covered this side well enough, I will play the 'opposite' side just for the sake of maintaining the balance:

The #1 TOP Favorite Reference in all things related to food, nutrition and living the life you want is YOU.

Listen to yourself, be sincere and open to yourself and be totally willing to fully and unconditionally love and accept all the aspects of yourself without reservation.

You already have everything you need - it is only a matter of allowing yourself to discover and fully own it, to trust what you feel and not being afraid to make mistakes.

We as humans are often searching 'externally' only in order to confirm and validate what we already feel and know internally. This is not always necessary, but often is perceived as important, therefore most people choose to go through their own 'rituals' before they can fully own and bring to surface what they have felt all the time but were discouraged to recognize and fully own. Hence comes the need for 'scientific backing'.

Having said that, I would like to add as a sidenote that the 'perfect' diet for a person will depend very much on their specific constitution (e.g. see http://www.banyanbotanicals.com/constitutions/) and any approach which neglects the constitution will by definition only work for one type of people and not work or be detrimental for other types.

So, to sum it up, be willing to trust and listen to your own self and if you feel you need more external validation to what you feel you already know, then recognize it as such and do your 'validation' from this perspective - it will be more fun and you will realize that you were never empty-handed to begin with. :)

Enjoy your journey,
Vio

Welcome on board :)

Films:
Earthlings will put you off animal products for good: http://earthlings.com/?page_id=32
Forks Over Knives: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1567233/

Links:
http://www.drmcdougall.com/
12 days meal plan & recipes: http://www.drmcdougall.com/free.html
Forum: http://www.drmcdougall.com/forums/index.php

Recipes:
http://www.drmcdougall.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=5&sid=80038a70143af4517abbd721a013f478
http://fatfreevegan.com/
http://blog.fatfreevegan.com/
21 day meal plan & recipes: http://pcrm.org/kickstartHome/mealplan/index.cfm

Books:
The Pleasure Trap (you can read online) http://paperc.de/9731-the-pleasure-trap-9781570671975#!/pages/I
The China Study: http://www.amazon.com/China-Study-Comprehensive-Nutrition-Implications/dp/1932100660

Videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iosoXlr3ZVI
Diet, Drugs and Diabetes - One Hundred Years of Missed Opportunities by Dr.McDougall

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJvrlwnEqbs&feature=channel:
John McDougall MD discusses what dairy products have going for them. They are a great source of nutrition -- for getting fat and growing tumors!

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1308977765978236346#:
Celebrated Cornell professor T. Colin Campbell discusses his decades of NIH-funded research which show that meat and dairy promote cancer growth and a plant-based (vegan) diet can prevent and even reverse cancer. Covers the Oxford-Cornell-China Study which the New York Times called "the Grand Prix of epidemiological studies."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VWi6dXCT7I :
Neal Barnard MD discusses the science behind food additions. Willpower is not to blame: chocolate, cheese, meat, and sugar release opiate-like substances. Dr. Barnard also discusses how industry, aided by government, exploits these natural cravings, pushing us to eat more and more unhealthy foods.

http://andybrisson.blip.tv/posts?view=archive&nsfw=dc:
• Clinical Nutrition - 2010
• Clinical Nutrition - 2009
• The Skinny Bitch
• The Starch Solution (Dr.Mcdougall)
• Maximum Weight Loss
• The Fallacy of Early Cancer Detection
• Breaking The Food Seduction
• Healing Cancer
• The Pleasure Trap
• The Continuum of Evil
• A Plant-Based Diet for Type-2 Diabetes
• The Essential Facts on Fats

Also one of my favorite sites for recipes: http://www.findingvegan.com/

I also use more general sites like http://www.yummly.com/, because I can easily just enter whatever ingredients I have in my fridge, toggle to veg*n and voila, instant recipes with whatever I have right now in the house. And you can play around with other variables like fat content, how sweet or savoury you want your food, etc.

Great decision, Lynne, as I can tell you from personal experience.

Here are a couple web sites of mine that I hope will be quite useful:

Eco-Eating at http://www.brook.com/veg

and

Food for Thought --- and Action at https://sites.google.com/site/foodfood411

(By the way, if anyone would be willing to translate either of these sites into any language, please contact me.)

Peace,
Dan

I particularly enjoy the "Forks Over Knives" movie. Also "Eating"

I am super impressed with this resource list, I am definitely going to save this on a word document!!

A major resource I have been using is the 90-day challenge. They have different kits depending on your goal, and have seen a bunch of my family really change their lives on the challenge! There is a bunch of new perks they added for 2013.... www.sethmansur.com

Def let me know if you want to get started on the challenge!

-Seth
413-824-9573

Hi lynne thats wonderful decision i hope you got enough answers above, welcome to healthy world and best wishes for you on being more human ;)