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SynopsisA transformative family lifestyle guide on the power of plant-based eating-with 120 recipes-from world-renowned vegan ultra-distance athlete Rich Roll and his chef wife Julie Piatt
Created by renowned vegan ultra-distance athlete and high-profile wellness advocate Rich Roll and his chef wife Julie Piatt, The Plantpower Way shares the joy and vibrant health they and their whole family have experienced living a plant-based lifestyle. Bursting with inspiration, practical guidance, and beautiful four-color photography, The Plantpower Way has more than 120 delicious, easy-to-prepare whole food recipes, including hearty breakfasts, lunches, and dinners, plus healthful and delicious smoothies and juices, and decadent desserts.
But beyond the plate, at its core, The Plantpower Way is a plant-centric lifestyle primer that finally provides the modern family with a highly accessible roadmap to long-term wellness and vibrant body, mind, and spirit health. The Plantpower Way is better than a diet: It's a celebration of a delicious, simple, and sustainable lifestyle that will give families across the country a new perspective and path to living their best life.
Review
A graduate of Stanford University and Cornell Law School, Rich Roll is a world-renowned plant-based ultra-endurance athlete, bestselling author, full-time wellness & plant-based nutrition advocate and motivational speaker.
Born in Colorado and raised in Alaska, Julie Piatt has spent decades traveling many paths and studying many traditions. She is a true renaissance artist who expresses her creative voice as a plant-based chef, singer-songwriter, yogi, sculptor, painter, spiritual guide, and homeschooling parent to four children.
Rich and Julie live with their four children in Malibu Canyon outside of Los Angeles.
Title Page
Foreword
Let's Get Plantpowered!
Beginning the Journey
Sprouting
Superfoods for the Win
Fermented Foods
Master Plantpower Shopping List
Equipment List
Kalelujah!
Blends + Juices
To Blend or to Juice . . .
Raising Healthy Kids with a Plantpowered Lifestyle Approach
Milk + Cheese
Nut Milks, Creams & Cheeses
Beyond the Kale
Sauces + Dressings
The Secret Is the Sauce
Evolutionary + Revolutionary
Breakfast + Brunch
Out of the Breakfast Box
Getting Back to the Root
Soups + Salads
Warm + Cool Vibrations
Chew on This!
But Where Do You Get Your Protein?
Mains + Sides
Is It a Main or a Side?
Embracing the Now
Lattes + Teas
Transform Your Lattes & Teas...
Treats + Sweets
The Sweet Life
The Creative Voice of Food
Life + Style
Lifestyle Paths
Vitality
Performance
Transformation
Recipe Index
Julie Piatt
Rich Roll
Gratitude
Resources
FOREWORD
It would be too easy to call this a book of recipes or a guide to go vegan. It is much more than that. It is an invitation to be a guest at the home of a truly marvelous family. As you know, one can learn quite a lot about people through the foods they consume, and you will feel like you are part of this family by the time you are done with The Plantpower Way. Julie, Rich, and their kids-Tyler, Trapper, Mathis, and Jaya-are all ridiculously fit, good-looking, and oozing bliss. They share a lot of themselves in this book and seamlessly weave together their stories, their philosophy, and their food-the final product feels wonderfully complete, authentic, and delicious. Quite simply, Julie Piatt and Rich Roll have authored the best book I have read on the topic, and I have read many. The Plantpower Way is remarkably thorough, teaches you about the very essence of the foods, provides a guide to buying those foods, and includes the perfect preparation and the astonishing benefits. There are big lessons and small, such as when to add herbs and spices for maximum return, and also a reminder to take time to smell those herbs every now and then.
The book quickly jumps onto your wavelength and is so intuitive that it provides answers before you even ask the question. To blend or to juice. How to get your kids on the diet and the age-old query about whether plants can provide adequate protein. In case your curiosity is piqued, Rich Roll says you can absolutely get the building blocks of protein you need through Plantpower, and decrease the risk of vascular disease at the same time. He will show you how.
By the way, I am living proof of his philosophy. It worked for me.
If you are perusing this book, you are probably already looking for a change. You are likely dissatisfied with the standard American diet (SAD) and already believe in something more. If that sounds familiar, this book could change your life. Give it a place of prominence in your home. Share it with your friends. It will be one of the greatest gifts you ever provide. They will definitely thank you for the Cherry Cacao Blend; it is almost too good to be true.
This may surprise you, but most doctors didn't learn nutrition in medical school. It seems almost absurd, given that our foods can be medicine. Nearly all I learned has been on my own. And around the time I turned forty it took on a new sense of urgency. With heart disease running in my family, I was not prepared to accept the same destiny as generations of men before me. Not only did I want to avoid that seemingly preordained fate, I wanted to turn it on its head. I wanted to get fitter, healthier, and even younger than I was the year before. I spent late nights reading and then traveling the world to meet the people who could teach me even more. Rich Roll was one of the first people on my list.
Rich Roll is one of America's most admired athletes. It is not because he is an ultraman, which makes most people tired just describing it. It is not because he has clocked top finishes at the world championships. It is not because he is one of the world's fittest men, and one of the humblest at the same time. It is not even because he accomplished all of this on a plant-based diet. It is because he is just like you, and me. He was sedentary and overweight at age forty, and believed he could be better. At a time when shortcuts and "hacks" had become the new normal, Rich worked incredibly hard and invested in the journey. It paid off.
No, this is not your typical recipe book. It is a book about hope, and the universally shared belief that any one of us can be better.
The book is also a story about unwavering support, steadfast faith, and love. Julie Piatt has spent decades perfecting the content of this book. She also spent countless hours developing strategies to nourish the body and the soul of her ultraman when he returned from his high-intensity training rides. From energy bars to green drinks to the perfect vegan brunch, it is all in here. If you ever considered a plant-based diet while training, this book is essential.
A few years ago, I had the good fortune of eating in the Malibu home of Julie and Rich. You will see the pictures of this magical place sprinkled throughout the book. It was an outstanding meal, and I didn't miss meat or dairy one bit. Even more powerful, though, was the infectious enthusiasm and support of the hosts themselves. Through The Plantpower Way, you will get to experience all of it for yourself.
I take immense pride in helping introduce the world to Rich Roll and Julie Piatt through a television story. As a health journalist, I have never found it sufficient to simply report on better ways to manage disease. And it wasn't good enough to simply preach wellness. I believe in the optimization of the human body and the human spirit. You will not find better guides in that quest than the authors of The Plantpower Way.
My friends Rich and Julie are going to help a lot of people become better versions of themselves through this book-and create a lot of joy along the way.
LET'S GET PLANTPOWERED!
Now Is the Time to Embrace the Next Level of Nutrition to Live Your Best Life
If this book is anything, it's a family celebration of just how dramatically our lives have changed in the last decade.
Eight years ago, enslaved by a dehumanizing career track dominated by eighty-hour workweeks, Rich was hurtling into a disillusioned middle-aged malaise. He had a hopeless addiction to fast food and a myriad of unhealthy lifestyle habits that left him fifty pounds overweight and on an inevitable crash course with depression, obesity, heart disease, and, ultimately, an early grave.
Eventually, Rich's pain became so great that he found a way out. When his bloated body was defeated by a simple flight of stairs on the eve of his fortieth birthday, Rich was struck with a profound moment of clarity precipitated by labored breathing, a sweaty brow, and acute tightness in his chest-not only did he need to change, he finally wanted to change.
By contrast, Julie has always been the healthy example in our relationship. Raised in Alaska on game meat delivered by the hands of her adventuresome, bush pilot father and prepared by her proper Chilean mother, she is an expert in many things-a lifelong yogi, spiritual guide, artist, chef, musician, and mother. But the essence of her life can be defined by a singular pursuit: the unrelenting quest to continually expand the horizons of her mind, body, and spirit.
As Rich lay awake in bed that night after his staircase episode, he was reminded of how some years prior Julie had used the principles of Ayurveda-a system of alternative medicine derived from ancient Hindu culture that promotes balance through stress reduction and a predominantly plant-based diet-to completely heal and eradicate a golf ball-size cyst in her neck.
This miraculous event confounded the medical specialists consulted, all of whom emphatically professed that Julie's condition could never be resolved without surgery. The inexplicability of this phenomenon had always perplexed Rich's unfailingly logic-oriented, Stanford-trained brain. But that night Rich's thoughts turned instead to the sagacious words uttered by Hippocrates more than 2,300 years ago:
Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.
The answer was clear. This simple yet prophetic statement catalyzed a fantastic, revolutionary, and evolutionary family voyage we continue to explore, refine, and reimagine to this day. An odyssey in healthy, rejuvenating, whole, plant-based foods that recalibrated every aspect of Rich's life and birthed a foundational template for healthy, sustainable lifestyle practices that can be embraced and enjoyed by the entire family.
Fueled by Julie's original, beautiful, delicious, and incredibly nutritious food creations, which you'll find in this book, Rich quickly dropped the weight, resumed a fitness regimen for the first time in many years, and went on to achieve astounding feats of middle-aged athleticism he could have never previously fathomed. Two years later, Rich had transformed from a chubby couch potato to being named one of the "25 Fittest Men in the World" by Men's Fitness magazine after a top finish at the Ultraman World Championships, a 320-mile double-ironman distance triathlon widely considered one of the most grueling endurance challenges on the planet. A year later, Rich accomplished the unimaginable when he was the first person (along with friend Jason Lester) to complete the EPIC5: five Ironman-distance triathlons on five separate Hawaiian Islands in under seven days. That's 703 miles of swimming, biking, and running in less than a week!
Inspired by Rich's sea change, Julie continued to push the boundaries of conventional wisdom in the kitchen, creating a litany of fantastically appetizing, wholesome, easy-to-prepare, budget-conscious recipes to fuel her athlete husband and please four children's finicky palates.
It's been eight years since our amazing journey began. There have been unimaginable highs matched by countless low lows as we faced insurmountable obstacles while blazing a new lifestyle path for ourselves and our children premised not on fear and insecurity, but rather on faith, experience, and adventure. It's our bold experiment in living from the heart.
With a focus on service to others struggling with their own evolution/revolution, we made a conscious decision to share our journey openly with a terrifying level of transparency and vulnerability that often left us wondering if our version of courage just might be foolishness.
However, the outpouring of support has been nothing short of staggering. Lighting our path through the dark times were the thousands of deeply inspiring e-mails that flooded our inbox from all corners of the world-people from all walks of life sharing the intimate details of their own monumental health and lifestyle transformations catalyzed by adopting their personal versions of our "Plantpowered" way of life.
The scope of these shared life transformations is beyond extraordinary-dramatic weight loss; freedom from cholesterol and blood pressure medications; notable athletic accomplishments; and the reversal of chronic health conditions such as atherosclerosis, diabetes, fibromyalgia, migraines, asthma, arthritis, urticaria, autoimmune disorders, and intestinal illnesses such as Crohn's disease, irritable bowel syndrome, and ulcerative colitis.
Even more profound are the many tales of spiritual awakening. We all know that surrounding ourselves with positive-minded people can favorably impact how we perceive the world around us. Food is no different. It, too, is energy, carrying a certain vibration-a charge that can be positive or negative. Indeed, the nature of the frequency we ingest has an indelibly profound impact on every aspect of how we feel, interact, behave, comprehend, and appreciate the world around us.
Food is not just a reparative nourishment for our physical bodies; it is a vehicle for improving clarity of thought. It is a key to unlock the soul to ponder new horizons of personal possibility-and ultimately pave the road to discover, unlock, and unleash your best, most authentic self. This is what this book is truly about.
What this book isn't? A "diet" book. Because diets don't work. Intuitively we all know this to be true. When the honeymoon period ends-and it always does-we fall off the wagon. Of course we want to look and feel better, thus we continue to search for a sustainable wellness solution that will work within the constraints of our increasingly busy professional and family lives. So time and again, we naively buy into irresistible weight-loss marketing hype, only to find the solution temporary at best. Failing again, we despair. Ultimately, all too many of us give up on the truth that has been staring us in the face all along: sustainable long-term wellness is always well within our grasp.
Personally, we're fed up with all the hype, hyperbole, pseudoscience, and misinformation surrounding diet, health, weight loss, and disease. Tired of marketing campaigns that relentlessly dupe us into subscribing to unhealthy and unsustainable lifestyle patterns. Sick of being manipulated into buying products we don't need, most of which quite ironically only lead us toward-rather than away from-a life of enslavement to the pharmaceutical companies and a litany of avoidable chronic illnesses that unnecessarily plague modern society.
It's time to stop the insanity. There must be a better way. And we're here to tell you there is. A straightforward back-to-basics solution that will repair, restore, energize, and invigorate your body, mind, and soul beyond what you might think possible. And it all begins and ends with one simple word: plants.
Eating plant-based is neither a fad nor a momentary fashion trend, but rather a deep, lasting, sustainable lifestyle that can and will transform your life and the life of your children. This is our promise.
The best part? It's just not that hard. In fact, it can be fun. That's been our experience. And it can be yours, too.
If this all seems like a utopian fantasy, trust in the process. Start slow and lean in at your own pace. Pay close attention to how new foods make you feel. And understand that your body will indeed begin to make the shift for you. As we often say, transformation is in the gut. Replacing the animal products and processed foods with nourishing, organic, locally grown fruits, vegetables, legumes, nuts, and seeds will begin to alter the ecology of your intestinal microbial population. Science proves a powerful nexus between the nature of your gut flora and the foods you crave. So don't be surprised if your previously uncontrollable lust for unhealthy foods begins to dissipate, miraculously replaced with a craving for the foods that invigorate rather than enervate.
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