Alicia Silverstone has made no secret of her vegan status, appearing in risqué PETA ads and even writing a weight-loss book The Kind Diet. In the book she details how certain foods can actually make you fat and sluggish while a vegan diet can help you lose weight, make you feel vibrant and also help keep your bowel movements regular.

Alicia Silverstone’s Diet Plan

Breakfast
A persimmon, a few collard greens, a cup of brown rice, a cup of miso soup

Lunch
½ heirloom tomato, a cup of fresh spinach with avocado, bowel of lentil soup

Dinner
Bowel of lentil soup, ½ cup brown rice, beet salad, slice of whole-grain bread with pesto, 2 peanut-butter cookies

Celeb Diet Doc…
This a is a good plan to follow… with a higher intake of veggies than most. Also note her The Kind Diet plan contain soups which are one of the best strategies for weight loss.

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After months of anticipation Alicia Silverstone has finally launched her new book, The Kind Diet: A Simple Guide to Feeling Great, Losing Weight, and Saving the Planet. She’s already heavy on the media circuit this week having spoken with various newspapers and she appeared on The View to promote her vegan-friendly book.

While at the launch party in NYC she told New York Magazine,

“The truth is, there is a list of foods that will make you fat and make you sick and hurt you and make you older and tired and slowly deteriorate.”

The example she gave to stress her point was a little analogy about cows and baby calves. She explained that dairy milk is for baby calves to turn into 400-pound cows once they grow up, so if humans drink cow milk they too will grow fat.

In her book Silverstone explains how being a vegan will not only make you healthy but will also help you lose weight and feel vibrant. Another benefit to a vegan diet is having regular bowel movements, or as Silverstone says, ‘pooing.’ She explained,

“I know two girls in my life who are good friends, who were not pooing, but now they’re pooing ’cause I helped them. I taught them how to poo.”

She’s right that a vegan diet will keep a person regular because of the high fiber content of fruits and veggies. Carnivores can also be regular but they may have to be more conscious of their fiber intake to make sure they are getting enough of the daily allowance. She’s already heavy on the media circuit this week having spoken with various newspapers and she appeared on The View to promote her vegan-friendly book.

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Alicia Silverstone is on the cover of this month’s Health magazine. A few years go she raised quite a stir with her naked PETA PSA back in 2007 and since then she has continued to be vocal about the benefits of vegetarianism and veganism. In the interview she talks about her new book that hits stores this month, The Kind Diet, and also her new line of cruelty-free beauty products. Alicia is very excited about the release of her book because she believes that when we are more gentle and kind to ourselves and the planet we receive gifts of ‘mental clarity and vitality.’

The actress is now 32 years old and she became a vegan when she was 21 and since then she feels and looks younger than she did back when she was a meat eater. She explained,

“Yet when I look at those pictures from back then, I can see the puffiness in my eyes. It’s weird to be 32 now and feel and look younger. What saved me was my love of animals. Right after I first made the switch to a plant-based diet, people were literally telling me, ‘What have you done? You’re sparkling.’”

When it comes to her weight, she is considerably slimmer than she was as a curvaceous teen movie star and she credits that to her diet. She said,

“Diet first, exercise second. Exercise is fantastic, and when I need to be a certain way quickly, I amp up my exercise by walking the dogs and doing yoga.”

Silverstone’s book will be out in the fall. Her beauty products line includes makeup bags and brushes by EcoTools which are made from recycled materials, bamboo, and hemp.

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Want to know Alicia Silverstone’s secret to maintaining your youthful appearance? Go Vegan. In a recent interview with Health.com, the 32-year-old actress revealed that what “saved her” was her love of animals.

“When anybody told me to be healthy, I thought people were just telling me [to lose weight] because I’m in this business. So I was like, ‘Go F yourself!’,” she said. “Yet when I look at those pictures from back then, I can see the puffiness in my eyes. It’s weird to be 32 now and feel and look younger.”

The Clueless actress became a vegan at the young age of 21 and says that when she made the switch people literally came up to her to say she was “sparkling”. Not only did her skin benefit, so did her body weight. She admits that exercise is great and helps her target specific muscle groups, but she’s a firm believer that your diet should always be your main priority.

If I can look like Alicia in her Peta TV ad in the video above, I think I might consider veganism as a way of life too…

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Emmy and Golden Globe Award nominee Alicia Silverstone proclaimed her vegan/vegatarian status back in 2007 when she modeled for a risque PETA ad that was actually pulled from the Comcast line-up of commercials.  Over the past two years we haven’t seen much of her on the silver screen but she is currently writing a book titled, The Kind Diet: A Simple Guide to Feeling Great, Losing Weight, and Saving the Planet.  When she first started writing the book she said in USA Today that the book,

“explores the connection between what we put in our bodies and what we’re doing to the planet, and how choosing the right foods in the kitchen can help you feeling lighter, sexier, and more alive.”

She is hoping to spread the word about certain healing foods to boost one’s health and to live better.  The book is part informative and part cookbook as she gives some of her own recipes for healthy eating.  For example, she writes a lot about the benefits of seaweed, which is rich in calcium and B vitamins and she said,

“It makes your skin look amazing and your hair really strong.  One of the recipes in my book is leftover nori (a type of seaweed) wraps. Anything in the fridge I want to use up, I shove into nori. It’s delicious.”

The Kind Diet will be released in the fall of 2009.

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The Peta ad featuring a naked Alicia Silverstone promoting a vegan/vegetarian lifestyle was axed at the last minute by Comcast as it was set to air in Houston on E!, Lifetime and Food Network. Even though it had already been approved to air, Comcast says the reason it was pulled was because of nudity.

Peta had chosen Houston to air the ad because it has the dubious distinction of having some of the most unhealthy eating habits in America. Houston was also ranked by Men’s Fitness Magazine as the 6th fattest city in America. The ad implied that a vegan/vegetarian lifestyle can give you a beautiful body, although it obviously seemed to rile up a few feathers in the Lone Star State.

Here’s the ad that is causing such a stir:

Celebrity Diet Doctor Weigh in…
Wow, less than 24 hours and this ad is making news again! Remember just because a food is vegan or vegetarian does not mean it’s healthy. A vegan and vegetarian diet loaded with white flour and sugar is junk. The key is fill your diet with as much unprocessed fruits and veggies as possible.

As far as this controversy is concerned. Someone should tell these Houston Comcast guys to lighten up!

Alicia Silverstone is in a sexy new ad for Peta promoting a Vegetarian/Vegan Lifestyle. Peta is taking a page out of Madison Ave and banking on the adage “sex sells.”

Alicia alternates labeling herself as a vegetarian and vegan in her statement on the Peta website:

“Like most people, I wasn’t always a vegetarian, but I’ve always loved animals. If you ever have a chance to meet a cow, pig, turkey, or goat, you will see that they are just as cute and funny as your dogs and cats and that they, too, want to live and feel love. They don’t like pain. Now when I see a steak, it makes me feel sad and sick because right away, I see my dog or the amazing cows I met at a sanctuary. I’ve been vegan for 10 years, and it’s the single-most important and helpful decision I have ever made. Physically, the effect has been amazing. Once I went vegan, I lost the weight I wanted to lose, my nails were stronger, and my skin was glowing. I feel great, and I look better now than I did 11 years ago.

Being vegan truly is the secret to my life’s joy and peace. I feel physically and spiritually better than I could have ever imagined knowing that I am doing everything I can to reduce animal suffering with simple lifestyle choices like being vegan, never wearing any products made from animals (like wool and leather), and buying only from companies that NEVER test their products or ingredients on animals.”

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Provocative ad to say the least. Alicia is clearly taking an ethical stance on her decision to go vegan/vegetarian.

From a nutritional perspective we clearly need to get more unrefined fruits and veggies into our diet. However, remember there are junk vegan and vegetarian diets. Refined carb products full of sugar and white flour are technically vegan and vegetarian. A vegan diet can be a very healthy diet when it consists of unprocessed fruits and veggies, but it is deficient in B12 vitamins and the Marine form of Omega-3. While the plant form of Omega-3 has shown some health benefits, the majority of cardio-protective and neuro-protective benefits have been with the marine form.