Reddit mentions of The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World

John Robbins, son of Baskin-Robbins' co-founder Irv Robbins, advocates a vegan diet and has been writing popular plant-based nutrition books since the 1980s. It's safe to say John is the black sheep of the family and does not approve of the family business, much less the Heath bar shake.

John Robbins wrote the foreward to The China Study and authored:

• Healthy at 100: The Scientifically Proven Secrets of the World’s Healthiest and Longest-Lived Peoples, 2006
  
  
• The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World, 2001

As a vegetarian for about 6 years now, I can report no problems with vitamin deficiencies. I was a bit worried at first coming from a meat and potatoes childhood. I did get tested about a year after for vitamins B6, B12 and Iron (it requires a simple blood test) and all was normal.

Like other posters have mentioned, it's important to eat a variety of vegetables and legumes to stay healthy. I like to think of it as eating a lot of colors (bell pepper, eggplant, spinach).

As a vegetarian in a social meal setting, I have found it helps keep the critics at bay by filling your plate. Don't allow it to be assumed that you're missing out on something, that your meal is incomplete without meat. But at the same time, the critic has never been something I've ever responded to with hostility. I usually just smile and tell people if they ask, "I don't care what you eat, you can make your own choices but for me, I'm vegetarian for the following reasons (environmental, animal rights, health etc.) ." If you want a nice resource to back up what you say I would recommend the book Food Revolution

Finally, I have purchased this for every vegetarian and vegan I know. The nutritional chart used to be 5 dollars...ha ha ha. Anyway, it's a handy reference.
Good luck!

I <3 Daft Punk.

The reason I became a vegetarian has nothing to do with moral reasons, in fact I recently went on a fishing trip with my friend and ran around clubbing fish to death with a bat. I converted to vegetarianism because of its health benefits. It'll probably be hard to find good information online because most of the vegetarians making blogs and such are the moral ones who whine about eating things with faces, but I highly recommend getting a book or two on it. There's a lot of stuff im sure you'll be happy to find out in this book. Its what convinced me to make the change.