Skinny Bitch - I thought I was finally going to laugh about my weight...BUT NO!

If you are someone who wants to take a break from stressing out yourself about your weight, then this book is not for you. I was looking for a new book to read that would give me a lighter feeling about my body. So I browsed through Powerbooks in Trinoma and Fully Booked in Eastwood and I found this book. I thought it was a funny read since the back cover stated in all caps, "Stop being a moron and start getting skinny...you cannot keep shoveling the same crap into your mouth every day and expect to lose weight..." plus the hardly ignorable title, I thought it was going to be a fun read.

Point blank, the book was dead serious. I felt like the authors were scolding at me page by page. Here's a photo of the authors just so you have an idea of what was going through my mind:

So imagine two barbie - like figures telling you what's bad and what's good for you while cursing you at the same time. They had the right since they are ,"skinny bitches". But instead of loathing about the know-it-all feel that the book exudes, you realize that they do make sense.

They talk about all the crap that we place in our mouth. The things we try to give up or substitute with. One important note was about this chemical called aspartame that "non-fat" and "sugar-free" food all contain that happens to be a contributor for several illnesses like Alzheimers', lupus, diabetes, etc. It is often masked as methyl alcohol in the list of ingredients of food packaging, which if given time (in the human body takes about 30 mins. or so) turns into formaldehyde! As far as i can remember, that's what I drenched my lab frog with so I can preserve him. 

They also talk about the inhuman ways of animal slaughter. How they ram up broomsticks and sharp hooks up pigs' and cows' asses. How they boil them alive, how they cut off their noses and put salt on the wound so they can make the killing process faster. How they stun them with electric bolts. How they take their eyes out and push it hard so the knife hits the cow's brain. In some factories, they slit the throat of the pig just enough to let the pig bleed to death while hanging by it's two feet on metal rods.The horror! Not to mention, the manner the animals get transported. They are so rammed up in a small truck for days of travel that they literally bathe in their urine, fecal matter, etc. etc. 

One note that I found very alarming was their take on milk. I am a HUGE!!! HUGE!!! fan of milk especially NIDO and COWHEAD and all the other dairy products out in the market. They stated that in most fresh milk factories, cows are milked by machines with metal clamps. More often than not, because the metal clamps are hard and rough, it wounds the cows' nipples so it gets infected. The factories on the other hand don't care, so most of the time, puss is also mixed with the milk. One point that they also made was the comparison between human milk and cow's milk. 

Human milk can make a baby grow from 8 lbs. to a 24 lbs. toddler in 9 months. While a cow, by design, grows a 90 lbs. calf into a 2,000 lbs. cow in a course of two years. I drink an average of 3 Cowhead tetra packs a day. My...no wonder I'm like this. They also stated that dairy products produce mucus and that there was a study that those who ate mostly dairy products often have colds or allergies - that one hit me hard! I've been suffering from mucus attacks all my life and all my friends and family can attest to that. Maybe it's because of all the milk I drink.

One alarming chapter was about the governnment agencies in the US that I hope doesn't apply to the Philippines (which I doubt). They stated several cases where so many chemicals used to preserve end-products were approved by the USDA. One of them included asparteme, methyl alcohol and a dispute between the artificial sweeteners, SPLENDA, NUTRASWEET, and EQUAL, which all had death inflicting substances but were all approved by the US government.

There was even this sick law passed in the US where substances of rocket fuel were found in the feeds of one of the major cattle farms in the US so they banned it from the US and ENCOURAGED the companies who carried those meat products to just export it to the rest of the world! Worse, they even donated some of the ground beef to schools and third world countries.

I haven't even finished reading the book and yet I have already become so intrigued by it, I couldn't help but share. So for those like me who are still on their journey to physical wellness, my advice I guess is to just take it slow and careful. There are so much edible poison out there that we are all unaware of. There are so many claims and promises that we believe but aren't true. I guess the real key to wellness is discipline and a little bit of "O.C.-ness". Not in calculating calories, fats or percentages but knowing about the ingredients of the food we eat. Easier said than done but I strongly believe we can do it.

In my case, just now, I had my lunch right after reading parts of the book. We had chicken curry and chicken nuggets on the table and I ate just a matchbox of chicken meat and lots of potatoes and bell peppers plus one piece chicken nugget and shreds of carrots and upo. I went back to reading the book and I wanted to vomit the chicken, because I just found out that farmers cut - off chicken's beaks and let them run loose so that they can peck on each other with their bleeding puckers and kill themselves with infection.

Now I'm thinking I wish I didn't read this book - - haha! But then again...the truth shall always set me free...even if it means sacrfiicing huge factors from the thing I love the most next to music - food.