Crazy Sexy Diet: Eat Your Veggies, Ignite Your Spark, and Live Like You Mean It! (62 page)

To all my teachers, without you I would still be eating, drinking, and thinking crap!

To my brilliant posse for their cutting-edge wisdom, passion, and activism.

To Mehmet Oz for his heartfelt guidance and generous support of my work.

To Dean Ornish for being Dean Ornish! Thank you for reminding me to trust my gut.

To my unicorn soul mate Rory Freedman for the kick-ass preface. Nana loves you.

To Neal Barnard, MD, and Jill Eckart. Thank you for believing in me and for helping me move mountains.

To Chad Sarno for creating many of the recipes for the cleanse. Thank you for your culinary genius and for being a really cool dude and visionary.

To all the other contributing chefs for teaching us that delicious can also be healthy.

To my dear friends at Candle 79—Joy Pierson, Bart Potenza, and Benay Vynerib. Thank you for your endless support and for filling my tummy with healing food.

To Sheila Buff for her wonderful research and nutritional expertise.

To Karen Kelly for helping me pull it all together with solid edits and a dash of fairy dust.

To Mary Norris for believing in me for a third charmfilled time around.

To Gena Hamshaw for validating my work and giving me the confidence to put it out there with pride.

To Jennifer Reilly, RD, for fact checking all of my research and giving it her gold star stamp of approval.

To my agent Maura Teitelbaum for being part goddess, part lioness. Someday I’ll buy you a house in Boca (or rent one for a weekend depending on how this book thing goes).

To Karla Baker for her feisty and fabulous designs that make my books delightfully accessible. I hope we work together for a long time.

To the talented Victor Juhasz for his wonderful illustration of an unhappy world.

To all the photographers who shared their gorgeous work and talent, especially Alysia Cotter, David Sax, Clif Bumford, Bob Esposito, and Rick Lew.

To our best friends Mary and Ryan Giuliani for letting me shoot in their gorgeous Woodstock home.

To the Humane Society and Farm Sanctuary for supplying the sobering images of what really happens on soul-crushing factory farms.

To my dear friend Kathy Stevens at the Catskill Animal Sanctuary for supplying many of the inspiring images of her soul-ful farm animals. Thank you for rescuing these individuals.

To wild and wonderful Jenny Brown at the Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary. Thank you for the beautiful cow and pig images. (Please visit and support both of these farms!)

To Steve Heller for allowing me to shoot his fabulous rocket ship art.

To Corinne Bowen, a brilliant writer, a creative tour de force, my right and left hand and cherished friend. Doing what I do is so much better with you. I love you to the marrow.

To Thomas (T-paw) the cat for being Corinne’s industrious intern and confidant.

To Jan Fine, Lola’s godmother and our great pal. Thank you for making my furry daughter’s life fun and adventurous while I sat in front of my computer for two years.

To Lola for being the best rescue dog and a great example of why people should adopt. I love you so much it hurts my teeth.

To my parents, sister, and husband for standing by my side, supporting and loving me.

To Joni Mitchell, the Beatles, Euphoria, the Band, Bob Dylan, Corinne Bailey Rae, Yo-Yo Ma, Krishna Das, Eddie Vedder, Donna De Lory, and Michael Franti, thank you for writing great music that helped me write a good book.

To the birds outside my window, you make me very happy. I’ll feed you millet and seeds always.

And finally, to my fans, and to everyone who has ever wanted to change their life but didn’t know how, everything I do I do for you.