Skinny Bitch Bun in the Oven
A no-nonsense guide to eating well for you and baby during pregnancy.
BACKGROUND
The Skinny Bitches are at it again. This time, vegan authors Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin are back telling mothers-to-be how to eat right during their pregnancy. If you’re familiar with the sassy and brazen tone of the Skinny Bitch sisters than their book and diet plan, "Skinny Bitch Bun in the Oven: A Gutsy Guide to Becoming One Hot (and Healthy) Mother!" won’t send you into premature labor with their in-your-face advice and motivating tips.
They hit hard with their overriding mantra that you and your baby are what you choose to eat during your pregnancy. Supporting a whole-foods, vegan diet, the Skinny Bitches provide you with heaps of information on how the chemicals and antibiotics pervasive in our food system contribute to a host of health issues for both mom and baby.
In addition, they offer answers to many of the side effects to pregnancy and also include post-partum information such as breast-feeding, exercise and sex.
PRO
- Supports a whole foods diet full of fruit, veggies, protein and grains
- Skinny Bitch Bun in the Oven can help you create a healthy pregnancy for you and your child
- 'A vegan diet can be healthy for baby and mom' is a claim that is also substantiated by the American Medical Association
- Provides post-partum guidance
- Promotes exercise
CON
- Veganism may be too extreme for some pregnant women
- Diet may be difficult to follow especially for multiple births
- Foods included in the diet plan may not be available to all pregnant women
- Tone of book may be offensive to some
DIET and NUTRITION
Skinny Bitch Bun in the Oven is all about food: what you should eat and what you should not. Their vegan eating plan includes noshing on plenty of fruits, veggies, nuts, seeds, grains and legumes during the nine months of your pregnancy. It also includes sample menus and vegan tips to satisfy food cravings.
EXERCISE
Skinny Bitch Bun in the Oven encourages getting regular gentle exercise like yoga, tai chi, and walking to keep you in shape and to keep your digestive tract moving.
CONCLUSION
Skinny Bitch Bun in the Oven is an entertaining and informative diet plan that seeks to help women stay healthy during their pregnancy and beyond. Its strong support of a vegan diet and/or the harsh tone of the Skinny Bitch series may turn off some pregnant women.
Common Misspellings
Skinny Bitches, Skinny Bitch Pregnancy Diet, Skinny Bitch Vegan Pregnancy Diet, Bun in the Oven Diet, Skinny Bitchin', Pregnancy Diet, Vegan Diet
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this book is amazing. No, Humans are NOT omnivorous. USA is the only country with so many illness linked to meat and dairy.
Let's compare the bodies of humans and herbivores to the bodies of carnivores and omnivores. First, the length of human and other herbivore intestines falls somewhere between 8 and 13 times the bodies' length. The length of carnivore and omnivore intestines is only 3 to 6 times their bodies' length. The short intestinal length allows rotting animal flesh, animal protein, cholesterol and saturated fat to pass through quickly which is why it's impossible for any real carnivore or omnivore to get clogged arteries. Clogged arteries, however, kills 50 percent of all
meat-eaters!
So before one starts claiming that a vegan diet is the WORST thing...please do your research. This is not
propaganda, it is what it is. It's not a "lose weight die"
It's a way of life.
My story: 3 kids, all vegan, all intelligent, all healthy.
A vegan diet is the absolutely WORST thing you can do yourself or your unborn child. It is nothing less than child abuse. Humans are omnivorous and require rather large amounts of animal (yes, you read that right) fats to stay healthy. Traditional peoples around the world routinely feed pregnant women such things as: whole eggs, liver, and bone broths. Please, for the love of God, ladies. Please don't eat a vegan diet while you are pregnant. PLEASE. A lacto-ovo vegetarian diet can be appropriate, IF the mother makes sure to eat clean, organic and/or preferrably GRASS FED animal products. In fact, pastured animal foods from organic or biodynamic sources are vital to a healthy pregnancy. Please don't believe the claims of extremist nutjobs like these women. Your baby will thank you.
Just because these authors have an opinion (that veganism is "good") doesn't mean it's propaganda. Other diet gurus have opinions too and ti's rarely called propaganda.
I think this book rubs people the wrong way because they feel like the authors are making a moral judgment about a reader's lifestyle. But the reader does not need to be so sensitive.
In fact, the reader can actually to be open minded for once. I'm not a vegetarian but after reading this book, looking up their sources, and doing my own additional research I have reduced my intake of meat and other animal by-products. Those products have a lot of saturated fat and other harmful chemicals (even if they're organic) and should be consumed in limited amounts. I don't want my baby near that!
Also this book isn't entirely about being a vegan. There's a lot of other useful information. I found the information about artifical sweeteners and breastfeeding particularly helpful.
A really fun, informative book with easy to follow menus (although some of the foods took a little searching for!) As someone who loves to eat healthily and wanted an enjoyable pregnancy diet this was great - and provided some good lifestyle tips too.
Unless you are a vegan stay far away from this propaganda fill book. This book made me feel that if I ate meat, dairy, or eggs I would have a deformed, diseased, mentally challenged baby and that everyone from the government to well established companies were all out to harm our children!!! I took this book quickly back to Chapters for a refund - what a waste of time!!!
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