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This is the home page of Vesanto Melina, Registered Dietitian, specializing in vegetarian, vegan, and raw nutrition, and healthful eating. You will find information about Vesanto's dynamic presentations, personal consultations, and consulting work for government and industry. Her books are nutrition classics for those who are near-vegetarian, vegetarian, vegan, and raw foods enthusiasts, and are widely recommended by physicians, dietitians, and other health professionals.  

Books co-authored include:

• Becoming Raw

• Raw Food Revolution Diet 

• Food Allergy Survival Guide

• Raising Vegetarian Children (Also in Chinese)

• Becoming Vegan

• The New Becoming Vegetarian  and Becoming Vegetarian

In the US this is The New Becoming Vegetarian and in Canada it is Becoming Vegetarian. About 150,000 copies are in print in 12 countries and 3 languages. 

Vesanto is a coauthor of the last Position of the American Dietetic Association (ADA) and Dietitians of Canada (DC): Vegetarian diets (2003).

 and its companion

Translations of the first edition of Becoming Vegetarian are Devenir Végétarien (French) and
A Dieta Saudável dos Vegetais (Portuguese).

Raising Vegetarian Children is translated into Traditional Chinese
完美寶貝健康蔬