In VB6: Eat Vegan Before 6:00 to Lose Weight and Restore Your Health…for Good, the bestselling author and New York Times columnist presents a straightforward way to take meat out of your diet as much as you feel comfortable, with all the health benefits, and none of the suffering.

Bittman offers an easy-to-follow diet plan plus 60 simple everyday recipes—exclusively vegan meals for breakfast and lunch, and as flexible as you need to be for dinner. He outlines the reasons that a partially vegan diet can dramatically improve your health. When you eat lots of fruits and veggies while cutting back on meat and dairy, and cook as much as possible at home, you automatically find yourself eating more sensible portions and almost no junk food.

Bittman’s How to Cook Everything books, with one million copies in print, are a mainstay of the modern kitchen. He is also the author of Food Matters, Food Matters Cookbook, Fish, and Leafy Greens.