Forks Over Knives - Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition | Healthy Plant-Based Lifestyle Book | Perfect for Educators & Health Enthusiasts

The book "Forks Over Knives" does a wonderful job of performing two disparate tasks:It provides concise explanations of why a whole-foods, plant-based diet is healthiest for people, the planet, and the animals, andIt offers a wide range of amazing recipes to help people get started.The editor pairs these tasks to perform one goal: to help people live healthier lives through their food choices.The book does this in three parts: (i) why a plant-based diet is best for your health, the planet, and the animals (37 pages); (ii) basic facts on plant-based foods (19 pages), and (iii) recipes (133 pages). While the bulk of the book is for recipes, there is a lot of powerful information in the first two parts that has appeal for anyone from the newcomer to the most informed, with topics as diverse as the environmental impact of food choices to nutrition labels. Even after having read literally dozens of books on plant-based foods and having finished Campbell's eCornell course in plant-based nutrition, I became more informed after reading the first two parts. The third part is filled with tempting recipes from some of the top plant-based chefs who refuse to compromise on health to sell meals.The writing style is, for lack of a better word, "comfortable". You can almost imagine yourself having a casual discussion with 11 experts on healthy eating, with insights that would surprise your general practitioner, but with language suitable for the layperson.My only qualms with the book are with the image quality of the graphs and people, which are technically disappointing, although still discernable, and with the arrangement of the bios, which seems out of order with their contributions.As a result of the dual tasks, some of the Amazon reviewers were negative. I've summarized them here, along with some counterpoints:Claim: The educational part of the book was too concise and contained biosIf you are interested only in Dr. Esselstyn's work, try