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Naturally Thin Book Review |
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 09 January 2010 )
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Introduction Naturally Thin is a book written by Bethenny Frankel. You might not recognize the name right away, but Frankel is most definitely a celebrity within her own right. She starred in the reality television series “The Real Housewives of New York City” and ever since then has been known on the diet and fitness circuit as being one of the more prolific and interesting people to follow. This book is about helping people unleash the thin person within them and for that reason is chalk full of a number of intense tips for you to follow. These tips have sparked both extremely positive and extremely negative comments from users, making them some of the most controversial circulating around the internet today. You should also check out her Skinny Girl Dish Book!
Why Buy The Book?Perhaps the biggest pro to this book is that it is full of sensible advice when it comes to eating. For example, Frankel makes the point in the book that as long as the number of calories you take in equal the amount of calories you burn each day , you are good to go. Essentially, this means that she is acknowledging that you don’t need to strictly watch what you eat as long as your activities burn all of it off. Simultaneously, she also mentions common sense tips like eating sitting down and eating slowly as being good ways to make the food digest better and leave less fat deposits behind.
Why you may NOT want to buy this bookThe most obvious negative of this book has to do with the accusations for eating disorder bias. The Naturally Thin book advises a daily caloric intake that is less than 1000 calories per day. If you examine the diet of the author, you’ll find that her own caloric intake is actually less than 800 calories a day and is mostly liquid on top of that. This type of diet is one that could be dangerous for most people and it is one that could definitely lead to an eating disorder if it becomes ingrained in the mind of the reader. It takes a mind that is especially strong to hold to this diet without developing an eating disorder, so it is not a diet that should be recommended to the vast majority of people.
A second con to this book is that it appears to promote a lot of behavior that is essentially anti-social. Case in point, Frankel suggests in the book that you should never really finish a portion entirely. You can have what you want to eat, but make sure that you don’t eat all of it as a way to ensure that you do not take in too many calories. This can often lead to anti-social behavior at dinner time when a person quickly downs their meal and then heads off. For people that eat socially quite a bit, this is not going to be a lifestyle choice that they can maintain.
Final ThoughtsIn the end, the accusations leveled by some about how this book encourages the eating disorder lifestyle cannot entirely be pushed aside. Things like the partial eating of delicious food are disturbing to some people. If you are one of those people, the best thing that you can do with regards to this book is to just leave it alone. However, there are some that will recognize things that they already do in healthy moderation in this book. If you’d like a chance to parlay those activities into bigger and more organized weight loss plans, feel free to take a closer look at this book. One way or the other, there is no denying that it is well-written and exceptionally clear.
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