Download or read book Vegetarian Nutrition written by Joan Sabate and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2001-03-21 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approximately 12 million U.S. citizens consider themselves vegetarians, and 13.5 percent of all U.S. households claim to have at least one family member practicing some form of vegetarianism. In the past 30 years, scientific endeavors in the area of vegetarian nutrition have progressively shifted from investigating dietary concerns held by nutritio