According to the Dalai Lama, “The demarcation between a positive and a negative desire is not whether it gives you an immediate feeling of satisfaction…

Buddhists use the image of a hungry ghost. They show a starving body with a large empty stomach waiting to be filled…

The first step in changing how we eat is to recognize and acknowledge what we’re doing with food and why—to look at our disconnection from what or why we’re eating.

Many of us overeat or eat mindlessly or eat the wrong foods, for reasons that have little to do with satisfying true hunger.

Alone, the best intention does not create change.

Perhaps you’ve been advised that you need to change...

You can try many different ways until you find what works for you...

Before we can start to make changes, we have to decide exactly what we want to change or what we want to change first.

It may seem as though it would be impossible to enjoy a diet without, or with limited, animal protein and products, but it’s not.

A plant-based diet means you eat foods that are plants or come from plants

The purpose of this book is to help you change—truly change—how you eat, and to help you identify and overcome whatever is holding you back from eating in a healthy way.

You can change how you think about food. You can eat for your own health and for a greater good.

If I want a salad, I order it without the cheese and don’t use a cheese dressing. I simply say, “I don’t eat dairy.”

Even if you never become 100-percent vegan, you can do a lot for your health by including more plant-based food in your diet...

It sounds as though the person eats only plant-based foods, especially vegetables, but that’s not the case; vegetarians eat eggs and dairy products as well.

Though most of us know about the research that shows we should eat plant-based whole food, we still don’t change the way we eat.

We’ve been told that our genetic makeup is the most important factor in whether or not we get certain diseases...

Eating a plant-based diet is eating with good intention.

Each day we have the opportunity to do something right for ourselves by choosing the best possible building materials for construction of ourselves.

Even if we’re not confused about nutrition, it can be challenging to put what we know into practice.