If you’re anything like me, you enjoy doing something productive while listening to your favorite podcast or audiobook, and especially on the topics of veganism, sustainability, and boosting health. So how about a list of some of the best audiobooks on these topics? That’s why I made this post with the top 10 best vegan audiobooks available on Audible.
It can be hard to understand all the nuances of a vegan lifestyle, and particularly if you’re just starting out. That’s why plenty of folks have found these audiobooks helpful. They’re packed with resources and inspiration for powering health.
How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease
Author: Michael Greger, M.D. FACLM
From the physician behind the wildly popular website NutritionFacts.org, How Not to Die reveals the groundbreaking scientific evidence behind the only diet that can prevent and reverse many of the causes of disease-related death. The vast majority of premature deaths can be prevented through simple changes in diet and lifestyle. In How Not to Die, Dr. Michael Greger, the internationally-renowned nutrition expert, physician, and founder of NutritionFacts.org, examines the fifteen top causes of premature death in America-heart disease, various cancers, diabetes, Parkinson’s, high blood pressure, and more-and explains how nutritional and lifestyle interventions can sometimes trump prescription pills and other pharmaceutical and surgical approaches, freeing us to live healthier lives.
Nourish: The Definitive Plant-Based Nutrition Guide for Families: With Tips & Recipes for Bringing Health, Joy, & Connection to Your Dinner Table
Authors: Reshma Shah M.D. M.P.H. , Brenda Davis, R.D.
An evidence-based, practical resource that explores the many benefits of a plant-based diet and provides parents with the tools they need to feed their families for health and with joy. Nourish offers the solution parents have been waiting for when it comes to deciding what and how to feed their families. Authors Reshma Shah, MD, a plant-based pediatrician and affiliate clinical instructor at Stanford University School of Medicine, and Brenda Davis, RD, a world-renowned expert and pioneer in plant-based nutrition, will empower parents to become the experts of nourishing their families.
Vegan for Life: Everything You Need to Know to Be Healthy on a Plant-Based Diet
Authors: Jack Norris RD , Virginia Messina, MPH, R.D.
Going vegan? Here’s the go-to-guide, with a six-step transition plan to a plant-based diet, with detailed nutritional information for everyone from athletes to kids to pregnant women. Whether you’re considering going vegan or just want to learn more about plant-based nutrition, Vegan for Life is your comprehensive, go-to guide for optimal healthy eating. Registered dietitians and long-time vegans Jack Norris and Virginia Messina debunk some of the most persistent myths about vegan nutrition and provide essential information about getting enough calcium and protein, finding the best supplements, and understanding the “real deal” about soy.
The Joyful Vegan: How to Stay Vegan in a World That Wants You to Eat Meat, Dairy, and Egg
Author:Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
Finding plant-based recipes? Easy. Dealing with the social, cultural, and emotional pressures of being vegan? That’s the hard part. Motivated by a desire to eat more healthfully or live more ethically, many people choose veganism as a logical and sensible response to their concerns about animals, the environment, and their health. Yet, despite their positive intentions, they’re often met with resistance from friends, family members, and society at large. These external factors can make veganism socially difficult – and emotionally exhausting – to sustain.
The Vegan Starter Kit: Everything You Need to Know About Plant-Based Eating
Author: Neal D Barnard MD MD FACC
Leading medical authority Neal Barnard, MD, FACC, shows you how to put the power of a vegan diet to work with an easy, step-by-step approach. Many are looking to adopt a more healthful diet but may have questions, like: How do I plan a vegan meal? Is protein an issue? How do I make it work if I don’t cook? Which are the best choices at restaurants? In The Vegan Starter Kit, Dr. Neal Barnard, perhaps the world’s most respected authority on vegan diets, answers your questions and gives you everything you need to put vegan power to work. You’ll learn how to ensure complete nutrition and get quick-reference charts for calcium sources, tips for modifying your favorite recipes, and examples of quick and easy meals. Everything you need for permanent weight control and dramatically better health is presented.
Becoming Vegan: Comprehensive Edition: The Complete Reference to Plant-Based Nutrition
Authors: Brenda Davis, R.D.,Vesanto Melina MS RD
Brenda Davis and Vesanto Melina explore the health benefits of vegan diets compared to other dietary choices; explain protein and amino acid requirements at various stages of life; describe fats and essential fatty acids and their value in plant-based diets; investigate carbohydrate facts and fallacies; reveal the truth about wheat, gluten, and grains; pinpoint where to obtain calcium, iron, zinc, and other minerals without animal products; clarify the importance of obtaining vitamin B12; and show how to attain optimal nutrition during pregnancy and lactation.
The Plant-Based Solution: America’s Healthy Heart Doc’s Plan to Power Your Health
Author: Joel K. Kahn MD
Are you ready to feel better, look better, and heal the planet at the same time? Then it’s time to revolutionize your health from the inside out. With The Plant-Based Solution, leading cardiologist Dr. Joel Kahn shows how everyone can cultivate optimal well-being with a whole-foods, plant-based diet. Known as America’s Healthy Heart Doc, Dr. Kahn has already helped thousands of people prevent and reverse heart disease. But what about other chronic conditions, such as adult diabetes, obesity, gut health, osteoporosis, autoimmune disease, and even low sex drive? It turns out that all these conditions and more can be improved with a plant-based diet-and Dr. Kahn has the evidence to prove it.
The Mindful Vegan: A 30-Day Plan for Finding Health, Balance, Peace, and Happiness
Author: Lani Muelrath
Discover how to shed old thinking patterns – and live more joyfully with food. Are you ready to get to the roots of your challenges around food – whether it’s gratuitous snacking, compulsive or emotional eating, indulging cravings, overeating, or other disheartening habits? Be ready to get mindful. Mindfulness can be the deciding factor between your successful adoption of a healthy vegan diet and repeated frustrating attempts. This simple technique goes under the surface of what is hampering your happiness, providing a sought-after solution to many of life’s ups and downs by rewiring your reactivity to challenges.
This Is Vegan Propaganda: (And Other Lies the Meat Industry Tells You)
Author: Ed Winters
Every time we eat, we have the power to radically transform the world we live in. Our choices can help alleviate the most pressing issues we face today: the climate crisis, infectious and chronic diseases, human exploitation and, of course, non-human exploitation. Undeniably, these issues can be uncomfortable to learn about but the benefits of doing so cannot be overstated. It is quite literally a matter of life and death.
72 Reasons to Be Vegan: Why Plant-Based. Why Now.
Authors: Gene Stone, Kathy Freston
Did you know that if you adopt a vegan diet you can save money? Have glowing skin? You can ward off Alzheimer’s, Type 2 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, and other metabolic diseases. You can eat delicious burgers. Help save the planet. Join the cool kids, like Gandhi, Tolstoy, Leonardo—and Kyrie Irving, Kat Von D, and Joaquin Phoenix. Oh, and did we mention have better sex? (It’s about blood flow.) Those are just some of the 72 reasons we should all be vegan, as compiled and persuasively argued by Gene Stone and Kathy Freston, two of the leading voices in the ever-growing movement to eat a plant-based diet. While plenty of books tell you how to go vegan, 72 Reasons to Be Vegan is the book that tells you why. And it does so in a way that emphasizes not what you’d be giving up, but what you’d be gaining.
I hope you’re able to listen to some of these audiobooks on Audible and gain some value and insight from them about veganism and a plant-based diet.
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