You Skinny Bitch and Raw Food Running

I was really disapointed by comments that were made over at Craig Ballantyne turbulance training website

The entry was about the book The Skinny Bitch Diet

When the Authors were interviewed  about the title they laughed , saying it was more about getting people’s attention than anything else.

“We thought, ‘All right, we’ve got to cater to the mind-set and mentality of people now,”’ says Freedman, 32. “No one cares about being healthy. No one cares that obesity and diabetes and heart disease are more rampant than ever before. People care about being thin. That’s it.”

“We did say, ’Can we get away that?”’ Barnouin, 38, adds with a laugh.

So they did not write a book grounded on any high moral ground of integrity, and even more so when the reviews had comments such as ” the book has raised objections from some readers who complained they thought they were getting a diet guide and wound up with something closer to an anti-meat treatise.”

Graig wrote his piece stating that he was going to eat cow and chocolate flavored bacon if he could get it, but did have  what, on the surface appear to be a good couple of comments.

“If you consume meat, dairy, and eggs in moderation, I have a tough time seeing how you can’t live as long a life as someone who abstains, provided you…

* Take care of yourself.
* Go to the doctor.
* Stay out of trouble.
* Don’t develop any addictions to alcohol or drugs.
* Eat lots of fruits and vegetables.
* Stay active.
* Associate with wonderful people who give you positive social support.
* Love someone.
* Pet a dog thrice daily – this is key.”

I wrote a comment on the entry

I prefer a raw food diet practice where by I prefer to consume my foods uncooked and of a plant derivative .

I am an endurance athlete participating in Olympic distance triathlon, MTB riding, at the present time it is the X country season here in Oz.

I get all my protein, carbs, fats, etc from plant based sources. I do not stand on a soap box and say its the way but when you say

“If you consume meat, dairy, and eggs in moderation, I have a tough time seeing how you can’t live as long a life as someone who abstains”

I would think you have missed a valuable point about why you should question if the rhetoric of animal consumption is real or built up by vested interests and misrepresentation of facts.

I will spare you the its inhuman line of vegetarian dogma, and brush over the environmental consequences of farming practices that are practiced at this time.

Instead I ask you to actually consciously think about why you eat like you do, ask yourself where it came from, ask your self if I could not buy it ready made, could I Kill it, cook it, and consume it, easily.

Ask yourself what impact is my way of consuming foods impacting on the whole of our world.

I personally do not expect to change anybody’s way of thinking by any thing else except by example.

If you choose to stay within the guidelines that you have been fed all your lives you will not be able to see what is a necessity for us a human beings to put as our priorities .

All growth comes from a change of circumstance either forced on us or bought on by asking questions.

Your journey into health and fitness started with some incidence that caused you to take action, many wont, and will suffer the consequence .

By being conscious and making choices that are based on our own questions and answers.

Formulated from, not what can i get, but what can I contribute to the sustainability of the world we all live in.

Heck I am right out in the left field I even advocate and practice barefoot running, and eating organically grown foods

Apart from a couple of commentators that actually could see beyond the smoke screen that gets put up by vested interests to maintain the food pyramid lie.

This is the caliber  of the  replies

1. Finally, I have yet to see a really healthy looking vegetarian/vegan.

2.  Indeed, without good quality meat in your diet you miss out on essential amino acids that you CANNOT obtain  by ANY OTHER SOURCE.

2.   following their diet you can also plan on losing your muscle…

3.  If I was going to battle I would not want a under nourished vegetarian by my side!!

4.   Hence my position is train hard with knowledge and eat a mixture of foods both meats, veggies, fruits and nuts

I believe there is a reason that our bodies process animal proteins much more easily that protein from other sources.

5.   Many of us need animal protein or we feel starved all the time.
6. Not everyone can afford to eat the ideal organic diet. It’s expensive.

The comments were just what I would expect from people who either choose not to examine a truth as  a matter of inconvenience or are  just living proof,  to what corporate and subtle advertising can do.

That is to have people live a life of non examined consciousness of their eating habits and the consequence it has on all inhabitants of this world .

So as one of many, many proofs that you do not need animal products to live an athetic or well nourished life

I will leave you with a video of  Tim VanOrden over at       www.runningraw.com and this 41 year olds
Corning Tower Stair Climb race

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