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4.0

This book is about how to have a healthy lifestyle. It discusses having a whole foods diet, talks about intermittent fasting, how much sleep to get, how exercise benefits a body, employing cold stress and basically being mindful about your mental health and wellness and decisions that affect that. I have been reading a lot of Dr. Gregor's books and will admit this writing style just did not have the pull that those have for me. I'm not sure if it was the way the research was presented or what. Not bad or dry necessarily, just not extremely engaging. They have the 6 daily 3's which sounds exactly like Dr. Gregor's daily dozen just not in as much detail. Basically highlighting a plant based diet and what the basis of that should consist of.

I was pretty impressed with the recipes. I liked that they had FLAVOR, there's been so many plant based cookbooks I've looked at that have hardly any herbs and spices in them and they are so bland. I love the pictures, of course I would have loved pictures for every recipe, but the pictures you do see are beautiful and appetizing. I felt like there were a variety of cuisines without have a ton of hard to find/unheard of ingredients.

I loved the recipe 'formulator's' that gave you a basic recipe and then ability to alter for a variety of meals. (Cream of soups being 1, bean burger being another - (ex. basic recipe then alterations to make bbq burger, thai burger, curry burger, etc) LOVED that.