THE VEGETARIAN CHILD by Joy Gross with Karen Freifeld

What do you do when your child announces that he or she decided to become a vegetarian?
Before you panic, consider these facts: The greater part of the world’s population exists quite adequately and happily on a vegetarian diet … Meat is actually second hand protein and plant foods are the source of all protein.

A meat- free diet of natural, unprocessed foods is the surest and safest way for you and your family to avoid heart disease, cancer and the other killer diseases that plague our modern civilization.

The Vegetarian Child contains a closely reasoned and documented account by Joy Grossof the advantages of vegetarianism. This should allay any fears parents might have for the health and well-being of their vegetarian child. The author, herself a vegetarian, also offers helpful hints and advice to parents who may worry about the possible adverse social effects of their child’s new lifestyle. She introduces the principles of vegetarian cooking and meal-planning to the unsure homemaker.

Concentrating on the superiority of a meatless diet rather than on the “evils” of eating flesh foods, Joy Gross offers a convincing and reassuring argument for a sane alternative to our present wasteful, expensive, and downright dangerous eating habits.

Joy Gross is the director of the famous Pawling Health Manor of Hyde Park. N.Y., and is author of 30 days to a Born- Again Body. She is the mother of five children
who were raised as – and continue to be- vegetarians.