This presentation by dynamic dietitian and author, Vesanto Melina, addresses these topics. In a plant-based diet: Can you get enough protein at all stages of the life cycle, from pregnancy and through the senior years? Even for an athlete? Can you get the tastes you like? Can it be easy? What vitamins do you need to consider? What’s an overall food guide? Vesanto is lead author of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics latest Position Paper on Vegetarian Diets. She is co-author of award winning books that are the classics on plant-based nutrition. Her book: Plant-powered Protein, co-authored with Brenda Davis and Cory Davis, reached #1 on Amazon for Sustainability.

Would you like to reduce your and your family’s risk of heart disease, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and cancer? How can this be done? What are links between dietary choice and chronic disease? Exactly how can we eat to stay in optimal health?

Is your diet shifting in a plant-based direction? Are you considering going plant-based? What are the benefits? What supplements should you consider? Can you get enough protein? Can an athlete be plant-based? In this presentation, you will learn how to incorporate plant based eating into your breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks. This can work whether you are a gourmet chef, a novice in the kitchen, or mainly a restaurant eater. And, your meals can be delicious!

Join award winning Registered Dietitian Vesanto Melina, co-author of bestselling books: Plant Powered Protein, The Kick Diabetes Cookbook, Becoming Vegan: Express Edition, Becoming Vegetarian, The New Becoming Vegetarian, Becoming Raw, Becoming Vegan, Raising Vegetarian Children, The Raw Food Revolution Diet, The Food Allergy Survival Guide, Cooking Vegetarian, and Cooking Vegan, for a comprehensive overview on how to keep yourself in superb health on a plant-based diet. Enjoy an update on protein power from plant foods, bone building without a drop of dairy, getting reliable sources of vitamin B12, including the good fats in your menus, and keeping your blood sugar level between meals without resorting to vegan junk food.

Enjoy recent highlights in the world of vegetarian, vegan, and raw food nutrition and a few of the topics people wonder about. These include, on a plant-based diet:
– Where will I get my protein?
– What are iron rich plant foods for babies, children, (and everybody else)?
– Are carbs good or bad?
– Is soy good or bad?
– Will a vegetarian diet make me healthier?
– Can I get tasty food?

Across North America, cohousing communities, the 21st century version of the village, are providing a new and heart warming way to live. These communities express many ideals such as trying to leave a lighter ecological footprint, share meals (vegetarian and non-vegetarian), learning to live with compassion for other beings, and finding safe and happy ways to live in community.
In this beautifully visual presentation, Vesanto Melina will introduce you to the concept of cohousing, touch on existing communities and present features of WindSong Cohousing Community near Vancouver, British Columbia, where she lived for almost 2 decades  and Vancouver Cohousing, where she and Cam continue to appreciate being part of part of the community. They have visited 23 cohousing communities in British Columbia, Alberta, Washington, Oregon, California, and in Denmark where cohousing began.