While I haven't read all of the book yet, I hear it's a good one, especially if you're trying to go vegan. Which I am, trying is the keyword here. You may be thinking that vegans are just crazed people who think you might as well be eating a dog if your eating a cow...while I disagree I am trying to go vegan for health reasons. I used to think being vegan is unhealthy...where do you get your protein...the truth is you get your protein from vegetables, fruits, nuts, beans, grains, pretty much anything you eat has protein, which is much healthier for you than animal products. Trust me, I've done my research, spent hours upon hours comparing and reading articles, books, and professional opinions. Here is the truth, animal products are making people sick. Most people are lactose in tolerant and they don't even know it. All the chemicals that are in meat, milk, cheese, are making you sick. If you want glowing skin, to feel better about your self, look better, get better hair, longer, healthier fingernails, and most importantly if you don't want to get cancer or other chronic diseases (yes it's been proved that animal products cause cancer and chronic disease, don't believe me...look it up) then cut the animal products out of your life. I'm not talking about a diet here, I'm talking about how you are going to eat for the rest of your life. Here is an excerpt from "Skinny Bitch" Thanks gather.com
Skinny Bitch: "Okay. Use your head. You need to get healthy if you want to get skinny. Health = skinny. Unhealthy = fat. The first thing you need to do is give up your gross vices. Don't act surprised! You cannot keep eating the same shit and expect to get skinny. Or smoke."
"To make matters worse, some alcohol (and non-organic wines) still contain urethane, a cancer-causing chemical....Trade your booze for organic red wine produced without sulfites. (Sulfites are additives used in food and wine - to extend shelf life and fight bacteria growth. Asthma and allergic reactions can be triggered by sulfites...Read the label - it should say "No Sulfites Added" or "NSA." ...This magical elixir - organic red wine with NSA - is rich in cancer-righting antioxidants, can reduce risk of stroke, helps thin the blood, and has flavonoids, which lower cholesterol. Yes, organic red wine is good for you...."
"Brace yourselves, girls. Soda is liquid Satan. It is the devil. It is garbage. There is nothing in soda that should be put into your body. For starters, soda's high levels of phosphorous can increase calcium loss from the body, as can its sodium and caffeine....And the last time we checked, sugar, found in soda by the boatload, does not make you skinny! Now don't go patting yourself on the back if you drink diet soda. That stuff is even worse. Aspartame...has been blamed for a slew of scary maladies, like arthritis, birth defects, fibromyalgia, Alzheimer's, lupus, multiple sclerosis and diabetes. When methyl alcohol, a component of aspartame, enters your body, it turns into formaldehyde. Formaldehyde is toxic and carcinogenic."
"Junk food will never go away. It becomes more alluring by the minute with laboratory-developed aromas, artificial flavors, chemical food colors, toxic preservatives and heart-stopping hydrogenated oils...Candy bars, potato chips, and ice cream taste like heaven, of course. But they will pitch a tent on your hips and camp out all year. "
"Give up the notion that you can be sedentary and still lose weight. You need to exercise...Eating properly will dramatically improve your health, body, and all other aspects of your life. But you've still gotta move your ass. Anyone with a brain can do the math. When done in conjunction with a good diet, exercise will make you lose weight faster than healthy eating alone....When we exercise, our elevated heart rates and deep breathing cause our ‘bodyminds' to enter a fat-burning mode that can last throughout the day." Regardless of what time you work out, you'll soon become addicted to exercising...Plus, working out tends to keep our junk food cravings and elephant appetites at bay. It's a win-win. Work out."
On the Atkins diet:
Skinny Bitch: "Hmm. Eat the flesh of dead cows, dead pigs and dead chickens. Avoid fresh fruit. You are a total moron if you think the Atkins diet will make you thin, Or, you are a gluttonous pig who wants to believe you can each cheeseburgers all day long and lose weight. Perhaps you weren't listening the first time: You need to get healthy if you want to be skinny! Eating carcasses all day while avoiding fruit is a recipe for disaster. Of course, if you stop eating refined carbohydrates, you will lose weight. That's the part of the Atkins diet that actually works...When you eat large amounts of animal protein and saturated fats and do not eat whole grains, vegetables and fresh fruits, there is no fiber to bind all of the toxins and fat together to be eliminated from your body."
Read below and you will never want to eat meat again..."Of the ten billion animals slaughtered each year for America's consumption, the vast majority of them come from factory farms. Factory farms that raise cattle, pigs, chickens, egg-laying hens, veal calves, or dairy cows have an enormous amount of animals in a small space... The animals are confined inside buildings, where they are literally packed on top of each other. Egg-laying hens are crammed into cares so small, they are unable to open their wings, and their mangled feet actually grow around the wire mesh floors. This overcrowded, stressful environment causes chickens to peck at each other and factory farm workers, so the ends of their beaks are seared off their faces using a hot knife. Pigs and cows are imprisoned in stalls so small, they are unable to turn around or lie down comfortably. Cattle are subject to third-degree branding burns and having their testicles and horns ripped out. Pigs also suffer from branding and castration, in addition to the mutilation of their ears, tails and teeth. They all live in the filth of their own urine, feces and vomit, with infected, festering sores and wounds. To keep animals alive in these unsanitary conditions, farmers must give them regular doses of antibiotics....
"Half of all the antibiotics made in the United States each year are administered to farm animals, causing antibiotic resistance in the humans who eat them..."
Skinny Bitch also compiled a partial list of the ingredients in meat, poultry, seafood and dairy: benzene hexachloride (BHC), chlordane, dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT), dieldrin, dioxin, heptachlor, hexachlorobenzene, (HCB), and lindane, all of which have been linked variously to cancer, birth defects, obesity, liver and kidney damage, nervous system disorders.
To get "Skinny Bitch" go to any book store or buy it off amazon.com
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