| | |  | PDCA / PDSA / Deming Cycle | Home » » » The Gorgeously Green Diet: How to Live Lean and Green | | | | | | | Description: | | Perfect for Earth Day: The bestselling author of Gorgeously Green returns with a simple-and budget-conscious-plan for waist management.
Green guru and ecolicious consultant Sophie Uliano has appeared on Oprah, Good Morning America, The View, and other national television shows; her first book, Gorgeously Green, is a New York Times bestseller. And now, with The Gorgeously Green Diet, Sophie shows how to love food, live healthily, lose weight, and save money and the planet.
Uliano offers three different lean and green eating plans-Light Green, Bright Green, and Deep Green. Each offers a cornucopia of the healthiest and most gorgeous food you've ever eaten as well as the secret to being healthy and staying that way. You'll learn how to reduce your impact on the environment by following the plan and how the Gorgeously Green Diet will improve your overall health. There are money- saving tips, including how to cook a healthy organic meal for five on less than it would cost to eat at Burger King, as well as nearly one hundred recipes and a gentle exercise plan. Readers can take the pledge to become green and lean, ask questions, and get support. This is the celebration of food, the planet, and healthy bodies that Sophie's many fans have been waiting for. | | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Sophie Uliano | | Hardcover:
| 384 pages | | Publisher:
| Dutton Adult | | Publication Date:
| April 16, 2009 | | Package Length:
| 9.3 inches | | Package Width:
| 7.7 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.2 inches | | Package Weight:
| 1.8 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 16 reviews |
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52 of 53 found the following review helpful:
 Good for Beginners to Organic, Healthy EatingApr 17, 2009
By Eco-Friendly Interior Designer
There is a lot of information in Gorgeously green Diet about healthy eating and it is useful for those people used to eating processed food. Uliano, who wrote Gorgeously Green and appeared on Oprah, writes: "Unless the food you eat is minimally processed and packaged, unless its Gorgeously Green--it is likely to be lacking in vitamins and loaded with toxins that could inhibit metabolism and lead to obesity."
Uliano discusses how making even small changes in ones diet can help impact the health of the planet. She advocates "moderation," and tells the reader that she is a flexatarian.
She offers three diets in different shades of green--light, medium and dark. Each diet covers a week's worth of menus.
There is a section on composting and gardening.
According to Uliano, a 2007 Cornell University study showed that an all vegan diet had more effect on the planet than a diet containing a daily 2 ounce serving of meat.
The book outlines how to select the best types of food--grass fed beef, vs. feedlot, for example. This is very useful for newbies and she covers virtually all choices.
Suggestions are made on how to pick food at a restaurant and include a variety of places.
She suggests what to get rid of in the pantry and what to stock.
There was a chapter on cooking the basics likes stocks tomato sauce--all perfect for beginners.
There is a section on fitness, beauty & health and what vitamins to take.
One chapter was on inviting your dream guests for dinner--I found it bizarre--and her list included Shakespeare, Jesus, Julia Roberts and Oprah. Somehow, can't see that group together...
There is a nice sized section of recipes. The book concludes with resources on where to find food that Uliano likes and it is quite helpful for those unaccustomed to grocery shopping outside the traditional stores.
I do question her authority on some of the statements she makes, as she is neither a doctor nor a nutritionist,but her diet recommendations seem fine and are certainly not extreme.
Uliano covers a lot of ground in this book on food and recipes. I would like to recommend a couple other books to supplement:
For 100's of vegetarian recipes, award winner,VEGETARIAN COOKING FOR EVERYONE
For growing your own, THE VEGGIE GARDENER'S ANSWER BOOK
To green & make gorgeous your home, award winner, HARMONIOUS ENVIRONMENT BEAUTIFY, DETOXIFY & ENERGIZE YOUR LIFE, YOUR HOME & YOUR PLANET
For do it your selfers, ORGANIC BODY CARE PRODUCTS
9 of 11 found the following review helpful:
Keen on Gorgeously GreenApr 17, 2009
By readingisfun
"readsalot"
I love the idea of different shades of green for eating plans and diets, let alone the idea that being green is saving money and the planet. the shopping lists and ideas for getting your kitchen in shape are eye opening.
I went straight to the recipes and found that they seem easy to follow and are not as frightening to cook as your average cook book. The book is also very engaging and easy to read, not preachy about green or anything like that.
this book is full of info. from shopping, to fitness and the eating plans and lists. much more than I expected and it is easy to read. pretty happy with this one so far.
10 of 13 found the following review helpful:
The most fantastic green book on the planet!Apr 21, 2009
By Lynette R. Fleming
"Coauthor of Lunch Buddies: Buddy Up for a Better Diet"
Do you care about your health, the planet, and good food? Then this book's for you. From cover to cover, you'll find the tools to help you learn how to select the foods which will turn you into the slender and healthy person you've always wanted to be. And in the process, you'll be greening up the world too!
Eating the rainbow is essential to good health, but many people omit the color green. What a mistake! Green fruits and vegetables contain potent phytochemicals, such as lutein and indoles, as well as other essential nutrients. This color group can help lower cancer risk, improve eye health, and keep bones and teeth strong. Fruits from this color group are: apples (green), avocados, grapes (green), honeydew, kiwifruit, limes, and pears (green). Vegetables include: artichokes, arugula, asparagus, beans (green), broccoli, broccoli rabe, Brussels sprouts, cabbage (Chinese), cabbage (green), celery, chayote squash, cucumbers, endive, greens (leafy), leeks, lettuce, okra, onions (green), peas (green or English, now sugar snap), peppers (green), spinach, watercress, and zucchini. Still think boring when you think of green foods? This book will teach you everything you need to know about green foods and many other colors, from the garden to the plate, with more than 100 ecolicious recipes.
If you buy this book, and eat these recipes, you may never have to meet up with the little green men on other planets. You'll be doing your part to make sure that our planet remains habitable. So celebrate Earth Day by ordering this book, and learn what green can mean . . . for you and for our habitat.
Lynette Fleming, Coauthor of Lunch Buddies: Buddy Up for a Better Diet
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
LOVE IT!! Just what I've been searching for!!!Dec 29, 2010
By T. Anderson
"Just Me"
I hate to say it but...I grabbed this book from the library. :-) BUT, I'll NOW be buying it! For so long, I've been looking for easy recipes and a book with a simple shopping list to just have an easy, healthy diet. VOILA!!! Here it is! I'm very impressed with this book. I've not even read the whole thing and I'm totally blown away by its ease of use and wealth of information.
There is ONE thing I'd like to comment on, though...it suggests canola oil as an oil option. I just want to make people aware that a significant amount of consumers have allergic reactions/sickness related to canola oil (and they don't even realize it) - so do your research before using it!!! Just google "canola oil side effects" or "dangers" and you'll find an entire list. Canola oil is a genetically modified rapeseed oil.
"Claims of several human health side effects from canola oil are loss of vision, disruption of the central nervous system, respiratory illness, anemia, constipation, increased incidence of heart disease and cancer, low birth weights in infants and irritability...Rapeseed oil used in China for stir-frying produced highly carcinogenic smoke. According to The Wall Street Journal on June 7, 1995, an increased incidence of lung cancer occurs in people who breathe the smoke...From 1986 until 1991, rapeseed was used in animal feed in England and Europe; its use was halted in 1991 when studies indicated health problems directly related to it. Problems subsided when it was no longer used."
For instance, here's some info on eHow:
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Otherwise, this book is one of my favorites and I really feel is the only cookbook I need. As an amateur culinary-extraordinaire who is headed for minimalism, I'm actually going to sell all the others on Amazon!
Thanks so much for this book Ms. Uliano. You rock!
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
A Wonderful StartOct 18, 2009
By Cami
This book is very helpful even if you are not ready to go completely green. There are 3 different levels depending on the time, money, and energy you have to dedicate to it. There are even shopping list that are already written out in the book for each level. So no matter where you are in your commitment to going green there will be a plan that will work for you. Every little bit helps, as Sophie Uliano points out. There are also many resources on where to find the different foods that you may have trouble getting. Mostly though everything is reasonable easy to get. There are many websites that she also list, many of which have a store locator on them. Plus she includes many wonderful recipes that are not too time consuming to make. I highly recomend this book to even those of you who are just wanting to test out the waters of going green.
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