Smart and Sassy Sisters: Never Be Fat Again Book Review

Never Be Fat Again: The 6-Week Cellular Solution to Permanently Break the Fat Cycle

I was intrigued by this title. It was an 11 hour CD or 356 page book, so it’s not a quick read, but there were some good gems in it. There were some topics covered that did not really speak to me such as stress, sleep, sun exposure, journaling and breathing, but even so there was still a ton of information that interested me.

Some of the tips I really liked included:

· Weight loss is a side effect of good health. Get your body in order, and weight loss will happen. If you are eating a diet full of only fruits, vegetables and organic meats you will not be obese.

· Medications manage disease, not cure it. I don’t want to just manage high blood pressure; I want to get rid of it.

· It is nearly impossible to eat the standard American diet and be healthy or lose weight. You can’t eat what everyone else is eating and not start to look like everyone else.

· Even a twinkie or chips have more nutritional benefit than a soda.

· You can have a disposition to being overweight, getting breast cancer, developing heart disease, or various other ailments, but you can prevent & reverse it with proper nutrition.

· Genes play a role, but diet & lifestyle make all the difference.

· Take quality whole vitamins, cheap drug store versions don’t do any good and use lots of synthetics and fillers. Don't waste your money on them.

· Make your fast food a crisp apple and handful of walnuts

· White flour is the same thing as eating sugar. Your body metabolizes white flour into sugar quickly. So in reality when you eat breads, rolls, or pasta you are just eating sugar. The average Americans consume 200 lbs. of white flour a year and 160 lbs. of sugar, which actually is 360 lbs. of sugar. During the processing of white flour all the vitamins and minerals are stripped.

· Remove all breads from your diet (Ezekiel and sprouted grains are ok in moderation). As a former carbaholic this one took a little bit getting used to, but I don't devour the breadbasket anymore.

· Use animal protein as a condiment, not a main course. Get your protein from vegetables like broccoli, spinach and beans.

· 90% of all chickens have cancer when they are slaughtered, 80% of pigs have pneumonia when they are slaughtered, and a large percent of cows have cancer. How can we think eating meat from a diseased animal is healthy? When you eat them, guess where those diseases go?

· Get calcium from green leafy vegetables, not dairy. A cow doesn’t drink milk to get calcium, it eats grass. 70% of the world doesn’t drink milk, so why are we guzzling it down?

· Eat for color-find foods with natural bright colors like red, orange, green, and purple.

· If you want to lose weight, don’t just cut calories or the amount of food you are consuming, you need to change the types of food, and add in nutritional options.