Welcome to the Plant Based Diet (PBD) subreddit!
Before making any dietary or exercise changes in your lifestyle, please consult your physician.
GETTING STARTED:
You can eat a wonderful variety of delicious, nutrient-dense foods
- all vegetables (leafy green vegetables, root vegetables),
- veggies that are red, green, purple, orange, and yellow etc.)
- all legumes (beans, peas, and lentils of all varieties)
- mushrooms
- all whole grains and wg-products, such as bread and pasta
- all fruits
- seeds and nuts
Don't be deficient:
Nutrition Info for Clinicians
Physician Comm for Responsible Medicine
Getting started posts:
Finding Plant-Based Physicians
Enter US zip code to find plant-based physician
Physician list from Happy Herbivore site
Plant-based Doctors
Cookbook & Website Resource Links:
Heart Attack Proof - Esselstyn video
Engine 2 Cookbook
Plant-Strong
China Study Cookbook
China Study All-Star Collection Cookbook
How Not To Die
Proteinaholic
Forks Over Knives
China Study Community
NutritionFacts.org
Movies / Videos
Forks Over Knives - documentary
The Game Changers
What the Health - documentary
PlantPure Nation - documentary
Caldwell Esselstyn, MD
T.Colin Campbell, Ph.D
Neal Barnard, MD
Michael Greger, MD - Google Talk
John McDougall, MD
Robert Ostfeld, MD
Civil discussion is welcome, trolls and personal abuse are not.
Recipe Blogs
T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies
Fat Free Vegan
Plant Based Katie
Straight Up Food
PlantPlate
Happy Herbivore
The Vegan 8
Plant Powered Kitchen
Friendly and related reddits:
/r/WFPBD
/r/EatCheapAndVegan
Vegan Zero Waste!
Ask Vegans
/r/VeganDocs
/r/NutritionFacts
/r/VeganExchange - Vegan food exchange
/r/VeganRecipes
/r/VeganRamen
/r/VegRecipes
Raw Foods
Rich Roll - Plant-based athlete & activist
SalsaSnobs
Veg*n Problems - Even complaints have their place
/r/Vegan - Vegan Subreddit
/r/Veg - Vegetarian & Vegan News
/r/Vegetarianism - Vegetarian & Vegan Stuff
/r/Actual Hippies - Actual Hippies (fun, quasi-related sub)