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

Sometimes we just need a kick in the right directionby jeshika_keranzuu

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12/02/2009: This book is fabulous. Hands down, without equal.

The women who are complaining about the language should be ashamed of themselves. Look at the title, read the back cover. You buy it, that means it shouldn't bother you.

The other, less obvious, reason women are complaining about this book is because of the rather in depth and hard line look at the meat and dairy industries. And oh, yeah, the rather revealing truth about the insiders interests running our Government agencies and allowing toxins not just into our food chain, but allowing them to remain and trying to regulate the industries defying their chemical mandate.

You know you've been lied to for years, you're just not happy that someone's called you on your apathy. You're also not happy to hear that you cannot just eat crap and be the way you are. You have to make significant changes to make significant changes.

As I said previously, this book is scathing, hard line, and brutally honest. You cannot take it personally when names are being thrown around, but take the insight from this book and work with it. It honestly does make sense, when you look at it, and the source material that it is written from (the research so many people don't like) is true, is honest, and should be taken at face value.

Poorly written, superficial science, and language was distasteful rather than funny.by Anonymous

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11/29/2009: I had great hopes when I first picked this book up, thinking it would be a straight-forward, factual, fun and motivating take on healthy living. At first the use of foul language was funny, but it quickly grew old and off-putting. It was as if the authors were trying to shock, but instead they simply got in the way of their message. I was disappointed and surprised at the superficial understanding of human physiology, given that one of the authors holds a Masters in Nutrition. They wildly extrapolate based on very little good data, and don't even attempt to present both sides of the arguments, which really damages their credibility. I was also annoyed with all of the statements to the effect of "if we were carnivores, we would _____" fill in the blank. We aren't carnivores. We are omnivores. And yes, omnivores eat meat *and* veggies. I agree that we generally don't need much meat, and I think that Michael Pollan's advice is more useful: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." To give only a vegan option serious consideration in the face of some of the serious animal welfare issues is disgraceful. Most people live in an area that, if they look around them, has options for local, organic, humanely grown and harvested meat, eggs and dairy products. In short, I was looking for something fun and motivating, and instead found something offensive on many fronts, poorly-written, and really weak on science. I don't know what to do with the book now that I have it. I would ordinarily pass it on to a friend, but this one is so bad it's probably going to end up in the compost pile.