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Skinny Bitch: A No-Nonsense, Tough-Love Guide for Savvy Girls Who Want to Stop Eating Crap and Start Looking Fabulous! Price

Loved the authors writing style. I have found the information in other books but never this entertaining. I was 50 pages into it when I realized that the authors want you to become vegan. Some chapters are very graphic and gross but it will make you think twice about buying red meat ever again! Are there better books about Vegan? Sure. but I don’t think they would make you laugh till you pee!

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Very Disappointing and Riddled with Wrong Information - Kim L - Charlottesville, VA United States
If anyone is interested in a vegan diet, then I suggest they skip this book and look elswhere. There are far better books about the subject with accurate information.

One of the most disappointing things about this book is that it is riddled with errors and misinformation. (This is esp. worrying considering one of authors has an M.A. in Nutrition.) For example, the book claims that rapeseed oil should be avoided like the plague because it “can cause cancer,heart disease, [and] vision loss” yet in another chapter, they encourage the use of canola oil for frying. Rapeseed and canola oil are the SAME THING. Yet another example is the claim “all you need to do to obtain Vitamin D is get direct sun exposure on your skin.” In reality, most Americans (esp. people of African-American heritage and the elderly) are deficient in Vitamin D. Furthermore, the majority of the American population live in places where the sun’s rays in the winter are too weak to stimulate Vitamin D production for months at a time. (The New England Journal of Medicine reports that even as far south as Atlanta vitamin D production from the sun doesn’t occur from November to February.)

Another troubling aspect is that no where in the book does it mention insulin resistance which affects a high number of the population or the fact that such people may have problems if they follow the sample menus which include high G.I. orange juice at nearly every breakfast. And while the authors are right about avoiding processed foods, many of the items on the sample menus are meat subsitutes which are actually even more processed then the animal foods they are standing in for.

Lastly, the tone of this book is pretty off-putting. While some may find it find, I found that many of the passages were vulgar or appeared to be shocking just for the shake of shocking the reader. (Really, ladies, was it really necessary to say that “onions and garlic smell like someone took a **** down your throat”?) I hope at the very least that if they ever revise this book, they will at least get their facts straight.

Blatant lies. - Sarah J. Donadio - Dunedin, FL
One of the worst books I have ever read. So much false information pulled from other vegan books. No scientific evidence to support any of their claims. The first thing listed in their glossary of bad ingredients is “amino acids”. That should say it all right there.

Save your money - Jeanette Fedei - Erie, PA United States
I am very disappointed with this book for so many reasons. First, the language is condescending and outright insulting to the reader. Did these women even consider who their audience was before they published this? If I had a friend talk to me the way these two monkeys did, they would not be my friend. Second, they don’t back up any of their claims with research. In fact, they make contradictory statements… telling us that we eat too many processed foods, but then in another statement recommend eating processed Vegan foods (it’s OK, because it’s Vegan). What?! Honestly, there is noting new here that can’t be found by running a Google search on the Internet. If you want to read a book that is backed up by sound research on eating a plant based diet, try “The China Study” or “Becoming Vegan”. There are so many other great books out there that get the message across, minus the vulgarity and idiotic statements laced throughout this book. I think they do more harm to the Vegan community then good.
Product Information : Feb 05, 2010 16:45:11

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