SWITCH TO RICH—The Nutrient Rich Way to Eat
Now you know there is a genuine food revolution going on, and why. People are finally realizing
that there is a fundamental problem with the way our society is eating, that obesity and chronic
disease statistics are steadily increasing each year, and that small changes yielding small results
won’t change that.
The good news is that it’s possible (and easy, once you’ve made the wholehearted decision and are
fully-informed) to eat in a genuinely healthy way that promotes all of the benefits and success
results anyone could want. Those benefits and results include (but are not limited to), natural
weight loss—the reversal of the most obvious symptom of eating an unhealthy nutrient-poor diet
However, we need to make a far-reaching and significant change beyond weight loss-only and half-
baked “healthier” diet tactics to experience these optimum levels of health and natural weight loss.
We refer to these changes as the Switch—the fundamental shift from nutrient-poor to nutrient-rich
healthy eating.
You can learn to seek out those foods with the most nutrients, and prepare quick and easy meals
and menus that are 90% Or More Plant-Based Nutrient Rich®.
Okay already, so what exactly is nutrient-rich healthy eating?
An optimal diet is predominantly plants, including leafy greens, green and colored vegetables, beans
and legumes, fruit, nuts and seeds, and whole grains—rather than a diet consisting of mostly animal
products like meat, fish, poultry, eggs, dairy and the countless refined foods available to us today.
Nutrient-rich foods of plant origin can no longer just be the side dish; they need to be considered
the main dish if there is any hope of our population pulling out of its downward health spiral.
A plant-based diet doesn’t just fight chronic disease and obesity; it also eliminates the root causes.
By the end of this book, you will have enough information to feel certain about this fact.
According to Reed Mangels, Ph.D., R.D., and the nutrition advisor for The Vegetarian Resource
Group, “While plant-based diets are not novel, the fact that the trend is catching on is new.” She
adds, "More people are interested in plant-based eating; it goes along with the movement to eat
more locally-grown vegetables and fruits, and the availability of plant-based cookbooks.^9 "
The beauty of plant-based eating is that it's flexible and doesn't mean that you have to give up
animal foods 100%. The U.S. Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, which was tasked with
looking at the body of nutrition science in order to make recommendations for the 2010 Dietary
Guidelines, defines a plant-based diet as a diet that "emphasizes plant foods.^10 " Thus, plant-based
eating covers a spectrum of eating styles, from a strict vegan diet with no animal products to an
(^9) The Vegetarian Resource Group. 31 Projects of The Vegetarian Resource Group.
(^10) U.S. Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee. Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2010.