The Flexitarian Diet by Dawn Jackson Blatner

The Mostly Vegetarian Way to Lose Weight, Be Healthier, Prevent Disease, and Add Years to Your Life

Dawn has reviewed and critiqued many new diet books for newspapers and magazines. She knows what to look for in a good one – realistic and scientifically sound advice. No quick fixes or junk science.

Within the pages of The Flexitarian Diet you’ll find realistic and scientifically sound information. You will find tips, tricks, and strategies for all kinds of situations, and recipes that are tasty and quick.

From the Back Cover

Thanks to the growing health movement known as “flexitarianism,” you can manage your weight, increase your energy, and lower your health risks with a flexible nutrition plan that minimizes meat without excluding it. The Flexitarian Diet is not a diet in the strict sense of the word but a smart new way of cooking, eating, and living that’s as flexible as you are.

You can eat what you want with the Five-by-Five Flex Plan–five basic five-part guidelines that you customize to your taste:

• Five Flex food groups
• Five main-ingredient recipes
• Five types of FlexLife troubleshooters
• Five Flex fitness factors
• Five-week Flex meal plan

Here’s how it works:

There are no rules and no restrictions. Just eat more plants during your regular meals–and try to do the best you can. It’s that simple. Once you understand the basics of “FlexFoods,” you can swap your ingredients, change your dinner plans, beef up your main dishes with “meaty” alternatives, and spice up your vegetables for fully satisfying meals.

The secret is “flexibility,” according to registered dietitian Dawn Jackson Blatner, the creator of The Flexitarian Diet. As a health columnist for LifetimeTelevision’s website, she knows what dieters are looking for. As a spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association, she realizes that vegetarianism keeps us slim and healthy. But as a “closet meat-eater,” she understands how hard it is to live exclusively on tofu and sprouts. That’s why she developed this wonderfully flexible plan-so you can make your own choices and go at your own pace. (If you’re worried about how everything will taste, relax–Dawn is an experienced cooking instructor!)

The choice is yours. Just follow some of the suggestions some of the time, and you can still lose weight, improve your heart health, decrease your risk of diabetes and cancer, and live longer–with the veggie-smart diet that lets you have your meat and eat it too.

About the Author

Dawn Jackson Blatner, RD, LDN, is a registered and licensed dietitian and a national spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association. She appears regularly in print and video on Lifetime Television’s website, MyLifetime.com, hosts a “Healthy Eating” segment on Chicago’s “Fox News in the Morning,” writes a food and nutrition blog for USA Today, and teaches cooking classes at The Chopping Block Cooking School.

She is an advisory board expert for Fitness and Time Out Chicago magazines. She has appeared on CNN as well as “Dateline NBC,” “NBC Nightly News,” and other programs. Visit her website at www.dawnjacksonblatner.com.

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