I was kindly provided with an advanced readers copy of this book and was looking forward to the read. I do enjoy a book about wellness and was looking forward to some new tips on how to improve both my mental and physical fitness.
I got to the food section and the author is clearly a massive fan of Michael Gregor and his book, How Not to Die, he says we should read it and can’t seem to recommend it enough. Michael Gregor is an avowed vegan, he preaches and recommends a complete plant based diet. Indeed our author of this book says eat mostly plants. But then he goes on to completely contradict himself and says “I do not advocate veganism”... ok so why spend much of a chapter telling your reader to read a book by a loud and proud vegan?
He then says: social media trends intermittently suggest bacon causes cancer. A quick foray over to Cancer research UK’s website has bacon down as a type one carcinogen every day of the week... but this is just a trend and what do cancer research U.K. know?
THEN, he quotes the bible “food will not commend us to god. We are no worse off if we do not eat and no better if we do” at this point I had to give up on this book, something I would always try to avoid when I have been kindly gifted a book, but this - in my view - is massively offensive to the mental health teams trying to assist those people with anorexia or those people suffering themselves. We are of course worse off if we do not eat and to suggest otherwise is breatharian and totally crazy and dangerous. Just go and check out the breatharians on you tube and see for yourself...
There were far too many inconsistencies and odd parts to the first 92 pages of this book that I could not go on.
Take this book with a pinch I’d salt and go and do your research elsewhere....
I got to the food section and the author is clearly a massive fan of Michael Gregor and his book, How Not to Die, he says we should read it and can’t seem to recommend it enough. Michael Gregor is an avowed vegan, he preaches and recommends a complete plant based diet. Indeed our author of this book says eat mostly plants. But then he goes on to completely contradict himself and says “I do not advocate veganism”... ok so why spend much of a chapter telling your reader to read a book by a loud and proud vegan?
He then says: social media trends intermittently suggest bacon causes cancer. A quick foray over to Cancer research UK’s website has bacon down as a type one carcinogen every day of the week... but this is just a trend and what do cancer research U.K. know?
THEN, he quotes the bible “food will not commend us to god. We are no worse off if we do not eat and no better if we do” at this point I had to give up on this book, something I would always try to avoid when I have been kindly gifted a book, but this - in my view - is massively offensive to the mental health teams trying to assist those people with anorexia or those people suffering themselves. We are of course worse off if we do not eat and to suggest otherwise is breatharian and totally crazy and dangerous. Just go and check out the breatharians on you tube and see for yourself...
There were far too many inconsistencies and odd parts to the first 92 pages of this book that I could not go on.
Take this book with a pinch I’d salt and go and do your research elsewhere....