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Previous Volume 345:775-776 September 6, 2001 Number 10

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(CRC Series in Modern Nutrition.) Edited by Joan Sabaté. 551 pp. Boca Raton, Fla., CRC Press, 2001. $89.95. ISBN 0-8493-8508-3.

This book contains expert summaries of various aspects of plant-based, or meatless, diets. It provides not only ethical, moral, and religious viewpoints from different periods of history but also modern perspectives on health promotion and disease prevention. The editor, Joan Sabaté, is a physician and nutrition specialist who for several decades has been a principal investigator in observational and intervention studies of health promotion among Seventh-Day Adventists. He has recruited an international group of authors and many of his colleagues at Loma Linda University for this collection. That the 26 contributors include only 2 physicians may indicate the need for . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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