IntroductionThis book is for all those health-conscious people out there, all over the world, who are looking for healthy meals, which give them essential nutrients, provide them with energy, and thus enable them to stay full of health and vigor, throughout their lives.The vegan diet, which people in the West may consider to be a possibly modern concept, was started in the 1950s by dietitians, but has actually been in the existence for millenniums. It was a part of many ancient civilizations, where people survived on fruit, vegetables, nuts, roots, cereals, and stayed healthy. They also had the benefit of longevity, because they were not eating meat products or any dairy products, because they could not afford them or hunt for them. So the vegan diet was a matter of necessity and not of choice.As times went by, and civilizations flourished, it was only the rich people who could afford to eat meat products or even dairy products. The poor survived on what they could get, grown in their own back gardens, or those plants which were edible and of whose knowledge, they had garnered from the elders of their tribe, or from experienced wise men /people well-versed in herbal and natural lore. This vegan diet was of course an integral part of the diets eaten by people in Asia, Africa, parts of Europe and the rest of the world, where a nomadic lifestyle was more a part of life, than a settled and domesticated lifestyle.