Scientific research is now showing that a diet rich in plant foods can actually help lower stress and reverse stress-related damage to our body and brain. All the recipes in this book are designed to provide you with the nutrients that help fight stress and many of the killer diseases raging through society today.

In addition, this is one of the only excitotoxin-free vegan cookbooks available. Many recipes in vegetarian cookbooks include hydrolyzed vegetable seasonings, such as chicken- and bee-style seasonings, soy sauce-type seasonings, vegetable salts, etc., that are more harmful than MSG. The recipes in this cookbook contain none of these ingredients.

This vegan cookbook and lifestyle resource manual includes lunch-on-the-go ideas, handy serving suggestions, and 24 "health tips" in addition to over 175 health vegan recipes. The recipes are all delicious, quick, easy, and economical, and contain no HVP, MSG, or animal products. The spiral binding makes sure the cookbook lays flat in your kitchen.

Contents: breakfasts, entrees, soups/beans, salad/veggie ideas, succulent salads, gravies/sauces, dressings/spreads, cheeses, breads/crackers, desserts, miscellaneous, cholesterol-free kitchen shopping list, menu planners (breakfast ideas, main meals, light suppers, lunch on the go, pita pockets), health holidays, health helps, excitotoxins–definition and lists, nutritional analyses, and index (recipes listed individually).