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A quick read and in an oddly endearing tough love tone. Veganism is the agenda - totally get the arguments, but just not there myself.
I tried to read it and made it through the first part, but I really didn't like it! Maybe because I already am pretty careful about what I eat? Who knows, but I wasn't a fan.
It may no look like it, but this is a very informational food book. This book is packed with nutritional information, with an in-your-face writing style. I laughed through the entire read, which was helpful because I also felt very ashamed of myself and my eating habits! I don't think I will go Vegan-Organic, but I definitely have some goals and plans after reading this.
Definitely not what I thought it would be but I took a lot of good information from it!
2nd book of 2010
This book was informative and gave me a lot of "food for thought". However, I think some of the advice and point of views were a bit reckless at times. I think they would have gotten their point across a little better had they toned down the "bitch" portion of their book. Ultimately this book left me a little all over the place; I want to eat cleaner but I think this book was a bit too drastic as a first step into doing so.
This book was informative and gave me a lot of "food for thought". However, I think some of the advice and point of views were a bit reckless at times. I think they would have gotten their point across a little better had they toned down the "bitch" portion of their book. Ultimately this book left me a little all over the place; I want to eat cleaner but I think this book was a bit too drastic as a first step into doing so.
This books gets a bad rep for being aggressively vegan but it's a must-read for anyone who is willing to read it with an open-mind. The authors talk about the gruesomeness of the meat industry (which is likely to piss you off if you're a meatlover), they give you a reality-check into your likely diet, and also discuss how terrible foods that are highly preserved and full of sugar are for your body. After reading this book, I completely overhauled my diet and have now been a vegetarian for 2 years. I can't see myself eating meats again -- they're so unnecessary! Your body will thank you.
There's good information here, but the no-nonsense, almost insulting attitude just doesn't work for me.
I did not want to read this book. I was turned off by its title--Not the word "bitch," but "skinny." Skinny, to me, implies not health or fitness, but a yearning for modelesque jutting hip bones. But I recently decided to transition to a plant-based diet and I had heard some positive things about this book's championing of veganism.
I should have followed my first mind and left "Skinny Bitch" on the shelf. The content was nothing new for anyone who has read even a little about health eating. The writing, littered with self-conscious "fun girl" swearing, was poor. But worst of all is the book's overall message that seems ripped from a pro-ana(rexia) site. Motivating tactics include admonitions not to be a gross, fat pig ("Fat pig" is used constantly)and praise for the empty, cleanness that comes with not eating.
I don't believe that health comes from self-hatred. The authors' nutrition advice is surely undermined by a notably unhealthy mindset about female bodies.
I couldn't make it past chapter five.
Read Tracye McQuirters "By Any Greens Necessary" instead.
I should have followed my first mind and left "Skinny Bitch" on the shelf. The content was nothing new for anyone who has read even a little about health eating. The writing, littered with self-conscious "fun girl" swearing, was poor. But worst of all is the book's overall message that seems ripped from a pro-ana(rexia) site. Motivating tactics include admonitions not to be a gross, fat pig ("Fat pig" is used constantly)and praise for the empty, cleanness that comes with not eating.
I don't believe that health comes from self-hatred. The authors' nutrition advice is surely undermined by a notably unhealthy mindset about female bodies.
I couldn't make it past chapter five.
Read Tracye McQuirters "By Any Greens Necessary" instead.
This book was a great, fun read and interesting. I learned things about food I didn't know before. Although it preaches the vegan lifestyle (which I am not adopting because I cannot bear the thought of giving up cheese), it did make me look at what I put in my mouth in a whole new way.
I wasn't too crazy about this book, but I think that was because i was expecting something different. I thought this was more of a diet book and it turned out to be more of a book pushing a vegan diet. However, it contained a lot of interesting information about food and how it is manufactured. The details about the slaughterhouses grossed me out. A great book for anyone who is looking for a vegan lifestyle.