"Regarded as one of the world's leading authorities on plant-based performance nutrition, Brazier's easy-to-follow diet will help you understand why some foods create nutritional stress and how other foods can eliminate it, give you a lean body, sharp mind, and everlasting energy. The Thrive Diet is a long-term eating plan to achieve optimal health through stress-busting plant-based whole foods. In this new edition, Brendan shares over 125 recipes that are all wheat-, gluten-, soy-, corn-, refined sugar-, and dairy-free. Fully updated with 25 brand new recipes, The Thrive Diet is a life-changing plan to eliminate junk food cravings and hunger, lose weight, improve sleep quality, build a stronger immune system, and more to stay healthy for life."-- Provided by publisher.

Subtitle of previous edition: The whole foods way to losing weight, reducing stress, and staying healthy for life. "First published 2007"--Title page verso.