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34th out of 139 books
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Crazy Sexy Diet: Eat Your Veggies, Ignite Your Spark, and Live Like You Mean It!
by
Kris Carr (Goodreads Author),
Dean Ornish , Rory Freedman
The author of the best-selling Crazy Sexy Cancer Tips
and Crazy Sexy Cancer Survivor
takes on the crazy sexy subject of
what and how we eat, drink, and think.
Crazysexydiet.com
On the heels of Kris Carr’s best-selling cancer survival guidebooks and her acclaimedTLC documentary comes her new journey into a realm vital to anyone’s health. Infused with her signature sass, wit an...more
and Crazy Sexy Cancer Survivor
takes on the crazy sexy subject of
what and how we eat, drink, and think.
Crazysexydiet.com
On the heels of Kris Carr’s best-selling cancer survival guidebooks and her acclaimedTLC documentary comes her new journey into a realm vital to anyone’s health. Infused with her signature sass, wit an...more
Hardcover, 230 pages
Published
January 17th 2011
by skirt!
(first published November 1st 2010)
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Ok - so while I don't ever think that I will be a complete vegetarian, Kris Carr's book has really helped me understand why it is vital to eat REAL food and why. With many excerpts from doctors and other allied health professionals as well as natural foodies, the science really comes to life as to why incorporating these vital nutrients that we often forget into our diets.
I have been fighting the diet struggle for years with calorie counting, carb counting, and even points counting, but this bo...more
I have been fighting the diet struggle for years with calorie counting, carb counting, and even points counting, but this bo...more
After getting over myself and embracing the silly voice of Kris Carr, this book became a fantastic game changer for me. If I'm going to fill my head with things, why not make them happy things? If I'm going to put things in and on my body, why not make them healthy things? I may not be fighting rare incurable cancer (with veggies and unicorns) like Kris, but I do want to live a healthy, happy life and I would recommend this to anyone who is interested in doing the same.
I'm a bit torn on this book, so I'll do the pros and cons.
Pros:
- covers a wide range of topics including pH balance, sugar, dairy, meat, digestion basics, yoga, supplements, and ingredient lists.
- small selection of recipes (more would have been better)
- covers topics that are a bit controversial like factory farming
- the ingredients list was my favourite because it went over the different articifial colours, sweeteners, and preservatives
- testimonials were good to show how the subject relates...more
Pros:
- covers a wide range of topics including pH balance, sugar, dairy, meat, digestion basics, yoga, supplements, and ingredient lists.
- small selection of recipes (more would have been better)
- covers topics that are a bit controversial like factory farming
- the ingredients list was my favourite because it went over the different articifial colours, sweeteners, and preservatives
- testimonials were good to show how the subject relates...more
Due to the re-emergence of health issues I'm back to completely overhauling my diet. This book is my basis for doing so this time around. Though I found the writing style a bit too "girlfriends having coffee" (if that can be a description!) the information was great and the diet plan makes sense. Predominantly Carr suggests a diet that will not create an acidic environment in your body and will therefore be hostile to all the bad bacteria and fungus that make us so sick. Her program is also forg...more
That's a 1.5. I like the recipes in the back. But I'm more comfortable rounding it down to a 1.
There's nothing original in here, especially for someone who's been vegan for 4 years, like myself.
The woman's tone also made me grind my teeth. Condescending, laden with body-shaming (Sick of your dimple thighs?), poverty-ignoring (at one point she writes about her awesome mission to ~help~ the people of hurricane Katrina by teaching them that green juices are healthy! But oh no! These people live on...more
There's nothing original in here, especially for someone who's been vegan for 4 years, like myself.
The woman's tone also made me grind my teeth. Condescending, laden with body-shaming (Sick of your dimple thighs?), poverty-ignoring (at one point she writes about her awesome mission to ~help~ the people of hurricane Katrina by teaching them that green juices are healthy! But oh no! These people live on...more
While this book promotes some great concepts (i.e., raw foods, juicing, limiting meat consumption, maintaining your body's pH balance, environmental impact of the foods we eat), there was nothing new in it for me. If you are already a health conscious person, you won't find anything groundbreaking in here. The language, while cute at first, became irritating about halfway through. I actually thought it diminished her credibility. But my biggest gripe was the almost judgmental way Kris looks at p...more
I read CSD just after I finished "The Acid-Alkaline Diet for Optimum Health," so I had a pretty good understanding about the value of maintaining proper acid-alkaline balance. (I've been consistently checking my pH balance since I finished that book.) Throughout the book, Carr manages to treat a critically important, and in her case life-threatening, topic with appropriate seriousness dressed up in laugh-out-loud funny remarks, sassy girl talk, and comical irreverence for the disease that led he...more
I hate diets. I hate the concept of eating one way for the rest of your life. Because that's the only way most diets will work. "I lost 18 lbs on the Atkins diet, but the first time I ate a potato I gained 25 lbs back." I've been on all of them. Cabbage soup diet, the Mayo Clinic diet (I use to like grapefruit juice) Atkins, South Beach...blah blah blah. But I like food. I also love to cook food. But being diabetic I have a lot of guilt when it comes to food. And being overweight I tend to berat...more
I read about this book recently in VegNews and decided to check it out. This visually-appealing and easy-to-read book is full of information about transitioning to a healthy, mostly-raw vegan lifestyle, including a 21-day cleanse for people seeking a more prescribed set of instructions to get started. But this isn't some fad cabbage soup diet. The author is providing lots of scientific data and personal insight from her own remarkable battle against cancer to compel people to permanently make he...more
I bought the Kindle version of this book and have returned it. It is not formatted for Kindle, which meant that important pieces of the content - most notably the 21-Day Cleanse - could not be read on the Kindle. Those pages were very small and very light, and could not be manipulated (the font size could not be changed, the zoom was disabled). There are complaints about this in the Amazon reviews, so I hope the publisher will take notice and address the issue.
Apart from the legibility issues, I...more
Apart from the legibility issues, I...more
Kris is my new Idol. Her book is FANTASTIC - not just for a health-conscious person like myself, but for ANYONE looking for a healthier way to live and add years to their life! Green juice is Kris' motto, and it is working for me! I have never felt better! I am going to a book-signing tomorrow night - I have never been to a book-signing in my life, but I just have to meet Kris Carr in person. What an amazing and hilarious and uplifting and positive and inspiring writer/person (I could go on with...more
Jan 06, 2011
Paige
rated it
5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
YOU, Mom, Sister, best friend...anyone looking to live a better, cleaner life.
Sigh. What can I say other than-
This. Book. Is. A. Godsend.
Kris delivers in every way and she is my hero. And listen, I don't run around calling people heroes very often...if ever. Please, please....buy this book and help yourself and your loved ones. Inform and arm yourself with the best information on how to be your best you.
Here is a lifestyle book chock full of informative goodness...spiritually, physically and digestively! If you want to live like you mean it and do it healthfully...then...more
This. Book. Is. A. Godsend.
Kris delivers in every way and she is my hero. And listen, I don't run around calling people heroes very often...if ever. Please, please....buy this book and help yourself and your loved ones. Inform and arm yourself with the best information on how to be your best you.
Here is a lifestyle book chock full of informative goodness...spiritually, physically and digestively! If you want to live like you mean it and do it healthfully...then...more
GREAT book! I love Kris' writing style, her humor, her honesty, and that she truly cares about the wellbeing of her readers and the planet. She has some big name doctors, nutritionist, and other natural health professionals contributing tidbits to the book. I loved reading it and have started employing some her her suggestions. Definitely a must read for anyone interested in their health, veganism, disease prevention, etc.
Chris Carr is hilarious! This fun, engaging book has a serious message though - she explains how, after being diagnosed with a terminal illness, she completely changed her diet & life and is now cancer-free and extremely healthy. Here's a quote from the introduction: "Just picking up this book, you've proved that you have what it takes to become a kick-ass Wellness Warrior. Let's give you the body and soul and makeover you deserve! It's time to clear the slate and get back to basics. Like th...more
About a third of the way through this book I was kinda annoyed by the language, but still enjoying the information that this book had to offer. Now that I have finished it, though, I have a different perspective! By the end of the book the author TOTALLY won me over, to the point that I was so interested in what she was saying that the language became completely irrelevant to me. I like the layout of this book, and enjoyed the lovely photographs. And as I said, the info was great! I learned a fe...more
Four stars because though I find her tone grating, judgmental, and condescending - she's managed to break down complicated health stuff in a way that most people should understand. The information she provides is a great tool for anyone looking to take control of their health. I commend her for taking control of her health and the outcome of her cancer with the information that she provides. Though, her "all or nothing" attitude is just too much for the normal person looking to get healthier, no...more
I've been reading Crazy Sexy Diet over the last couple of weeks and have to say that Kris Carr's verve for a healthy life is very contagious!
Crazy Sexy Diet is a fabulously inspirational and instructional book on revamping your lifestyle choices for optimal health, happiness and overall vitality. It's loaded with invaluable information on food choices that will improve bodily functions, heal the body and prevent or inhibit the onset of disease. Crazy Sexy Diet is a must read for anyone looking...more
Crazy Sexy Diet is a fabulously inspirational and instructional book on revamping your lifestyle choices for optimal health, happiness and overall vitality. It's loaded with invaluable information on food choices that will improve bodily functions, heal the body and prevent or inhibit the onset of disease. Crazy Sexy Diet is a must read for anyone looking...more
Coming from a completely new perspective, this is about a woman's confrontation with Cancer and how she learned to master diet and environment to take control of her own life and heal her body. The information is interesting and eye-opening and really makes you think about who it is that's creating our food pyramids and ideas of health and what their agendas are.
Although it's full of facts and article excerpts from doctors and leaders in the health industry, don't expect a dry, dull, "this is wh...more
Although it's full of facts and article excerpts from doctors and leaders in the health industry, don't expect a dry, dull, "this is wh...more
Very inspiring! Fun, informative format that had a lot of awesome information I've never thought about or even knew to research. Great collection to give you a great launch pad to health. Some reviews said that it wasn't worth reading if you already get healthy and vegan lifestyle is the best. But I'm already vegan and know the issues with factory farming, sugar, white foods, etc. But I had never heard of dry scrubbing, and all the information on specific supplemants and why they're important we...more
Seriously? I like reading about my health as much as the next person, but this woman's tone drove me nuts. And that's not to mention that she didn't teach me anything I didn't already know: Eat your veggies, meditate, don't smoke or drink, processed foods and meat are bad. The only reason I stuck with it was because I felt like a loser for not finishing my last book (A Discovery of Witches) and couldn't fail again! This author writes like a Susan Powter for the millennium. I didn't find her ador...more
She made a good case for the diet she proposes, but not how to get there. She makes it sound like something she just adopted and has had total success with; although she says "I'm not perfect" not perfect seems to mean that she enjoys alcohol from time to time, not that she cheats on the food part of the diet. I'm also deducting a star because she refers to meat products as "tush" and "corpse" and dairy products as "mucus," which may be how she feels about it but overstates her case so much that...more
Full of so much health-promoting, life-balancing inspiration. I blew through this book in record time (for me at least, a very slow reader). I was already familiar with Kris Carr's loosey-goosey writing, so I wasn't bothered by the foul langage or peppy "You go, gorgeous!" type interjections.
My theme for 2012 was "kitchen as pharmacy" so this book was a perfect way to start off the year. An important thing to keep in mind when reading this is to listen to your own body and honor what's right for...more
My theme for 2012 was "kitchen as pharmacy" so this book was a perfect way to start off the year. An important thing to keep in mind when reading this is to listen to your own body and honor what's right for...more
I did it, you guys. I actually read a book called "Crazy Sexy Diet". HOWEVER, this book was pretty much amazing. I really appreciated Carr's accessibility when discussing alkaline/acidity and ph levels when discussing our food choices. I have been opting for a 70/30 balance since last week and can dramatically feel the difference in my body and my mood. Also, as cliche and weird as they can be, I really appreciated the affirmations and the intense discussion of self care/meditation that come wit...more
This book kept coming up in a magazine I subscribe to so I decided to buy it and see what the fuss was all about. While the author is inspiring,(cancer survivor for 8+ years) has a fun, sassy and practical voice her cursing and invented words could get annoying. And, I felt at times, she was a little too preachy towards becoming a vegan. However, I am reinvogorated to eat more vegetarian meals again and more real foods in general. Overall,its a good guide to check out; she offered up well writte...more
Yes, I'm on a vegan kick and reading everything I can get my hands on.
Even though I hate the name of the book, her story + her info on an alkaline diet is super useful.
Any other vegan/alkaline book recommendations?
Even though I hate the name of the book, her story + her info on an alkaline diet is super useful.
Any other vegan/alkaline book recommendations?
I liked this book because it embraces a vegetarian/vegan lifestyle (something that is not covered in so many diet/health books). Also, I think she does a great job at explaining (in layman's terms) why eating certain things are good or bad for you, how your body processes different things, etc.... A really good basic text for learning why you need to eat better.
A caveat -- sometimes, her conversational style (while usually a great way to convey info) veered into hip/teenager-style speak, other t...more
A caveat -- sometimes, her conversational style (while usually a great way to convey info) veered into hip/teenager-style speak, other t...more
As a breast cancer survivor and smart-ass I love Kris Carr and her writing style. She has what I find is lacking in a lot of people nowadays: a sense of humor! She remains light and funny and positive in the face of cancer. I find her refreshing, this book has helped me and I've never felt better in my life. Energetic, happy, bouncy, crazy and sexy, all things I wanted but found hard to get, now I have them! Becoming vegan is a lifestyle, not a fad diet. It's not eating the 'same way' forever as...more
Similar to other reviewers, I really didn't like the condescending tone of the author, blaming the food industry for all our problems, and just using the off-putting language to get attention. Her story is inspiring, but the writing voice wasn't resonating with me. I do like Kriss and I feel she has a great message, is it possible to package it in a more compassionate way without all the finger pointing?
I also wish this book had more smoothie and green juice recipes. There is very little creati...more
I also wish this book had more smoothie and green juice recipes. There is very little creati...more
Years from now, she will look back at her writing style and cringe. It's "cutesy." I start reading and immediately get an image of 1960's rich hipsters in some B movie. As for what she's saying, it's a tad extreme. Her take on how to keep cancer at bay is to go vegan, and preferably raw, and that all else is just inviting the devil in. After making myself NUTS with reading diet & health books, watching movies designed as recruitment tools, and reading critiques, I had to go with the voice of...more
This book was outstanding in every way! Loved how entertaining she made healthy living. Already being a vegetarian and relatively healthy, this book gave me lots of ideas on how to be even healthier, and why the choices I've been making regarding my diet are right on target! I also loved her spiritual tips and have made major changes incorporating them into my daily routine. Between the inventive diet ideas and inspiring spiritual ideas, I am slimmer, and mentally healthier than ever before! Tha...more
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Kris Carr is a multi-week New York Times best-selling author, speaker and wellness activist. Kris is the subject and director of the documentary, Crazy Sexy Cancer, which aired on TLC and The Oprah Winfrey Network, and the author of the award-winning Crazy Sexy Cancer book series. Her latest books, Crazy Sexy Diet and Crazy Sexy Kitchen, will change the way you live, love and eat! Kris regularly l...more
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