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The Hip Chick's Guide to Macrobiotics: A Philosophy for Achieving a Radiant Mind and a Fabulous Body |  | Author: Jessica Porter
Publisher: Avery Trade
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Pages: 304
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 7.3 x 1
ISBN: 1583332057
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.25
UPC: 735918332058
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ASIN: 1583332057
Publication Date: September 9, 2004
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Heralded by New York magazine as one of the city's most popular diets, macrobiotics has become the latest trend in dieting, thanks to high-profile supporters like Madonna and Gwyneth Paltrow.
Speaking to the generation of young women looking to extend their healthy lifestyles beyond yoga and Pilates, macrobiotic chef and instructor Jessica Porter offers fresh, contemporary, and accessible insight into one of the world's oldest, yet most popular, diets. She explains that by eating good quality whole foods, any woman can experience physical, sensory, emotional, and intellectual freedom.
The effects of eating a macrobiotic diet can extend beyond basic health to weight loss, beauty, better sex, and peace of mind. Cooking tips and recipes are combined with Jessica's no-nonsense philosophy and witty anecdotes to create a lifestyle book that will inspire women to hit the kitchen with an understanding of how to strengthen their minds and bodies through food.
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 pretty good book, not convinced to become "macrobiotic" October 25, 2009
Staci Goldsberry (Utah)
This book is humorous, yet not convincing. I do indeed 'chew' all of my food alot more after this read, but just because a cup of grains sitting on the counter doesnt rot as fast as an apple doesnt necesarily make it better. One absurd point this author makes is that if we eat meat, then we will want to kill everyone and everything and turn into to war mongrels. All I can say is "WHATEVER" like that makes any sense at all. I LOVE eating healthy, I love fasting a few times a year, I am almost obsessed with all of the wonderful things healthy food can do for the human body. If you really want a good book on super foods may I suggest Bottom Lines Super Foods RX, I forgot the authors name. However if you want to know how wheat grows in a comical sort of way, maybe the "The hip Chicks guide to macrobiotics" is for you. All in all, I am glad I read this book, perhaps i will adapt some concepts the author has offered, but not all. Oh, I do plan on trying a "rice fast" for 14 days and chewing each mouthful 50 times.
 Life changing October 17, 2009
Whitney Hackett (usa)
I am almost 20 years old. I bought this book by chance and little did I know it would change my life forever.
It is incredibly comprehensive and fun to read. Sometimes I pick it up when I'm feeling stressed out.
It teaches me something new everytime and gives me the grace to understand the changes I experience becoming a young women. My boyfriend loves the philosophy too. We have both become more clear and open with each other. I experienced alot of strange things when I began eating this way, and still am, but I know deep in my heart that following it has been one of the best things I've done for myself, and is totally worth it. The excess weight that I carried for awhile rolled off so fast I didn't even think or notice. My skin isn't giving me troubles anymore. I am satisfied with every meal and reckognize the true healing properties of the earth's food we eat and the intelligence of the human body.
Buy this book! Happy healing to everyone :)
The Hip Chicks Guide to Macrobiotics May 14, 2009
Mary Jane Schramm (Williamsport, PA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is the funniest cookbook I have ever read! I started to explore Macrobiotic cooking about a year ago and this cookbook has helped me focus on going deeper and understanding more of what Macrobiotic cooking is! The receipes are also easy and fun to make.
A Conforming Macro - Chick ! April 21, 2009
Savvy Shopper (Florida USA)
I love this book and Jessica Porter really helps you understand the incredible laws of yin and yang. I was introduced to macrobiotics from a long time practitioner of it and it sounded like something I could do. I'm all about holistic nutrition and using healthy food to heal the body. I don't trust doctors and I lean more toward the preventative healthcare. I take kung fu, so this fits my martial arts lifestyle. The book is funny and not overwhelming at all. You will get the full scope of macrobiotics and be entertained, too!
 Should be called the GULLIBLE chick's guide to macrobiotics March 30, 2009
J. Fuchs (Los Angeles, CA United States)
22 out of 27 found this review helpful
Okay before you all bash me because I didn't love this book, let me state that I was already mostly macrobiotic before reading it -- I'm vegan (other than a couple of tablespoons of milk in the coffee I'm weaning myself off of), my diet consists mostly of whole grains, vegetables, & legumes, I don't eat sugar at all and almost no refined or processed food, and I cook most of what I eat fresh, every day. I'm not reviewing the philosophy or science of macrobiotics, just this book, which I was looking to as just what the title suggests.
The Positives
The book is for the most part well-written and the explanation of macrobiotic philosophy is pretty clear. So far so good. You either agree with the notion of the universe as being composed of the fundamental forces of yin and yang, or you don't, but you can't argue with statements such as "in macrobiotics ______ is seen as yin," or with the idea of creating balance or with a clear statement of activities that increase yin or yang (unless you think she is wrong about what macrobiotics means, but I didn't catch any of that). Porter also sets forth great ideas for helping people achieve balance in a general sense as well as a macrobiotic sense.
The Negatives
There is no substantiation for most of what Porter says and here I'm talking not about the unsubstantiable (carrots are more yang than celery), but about outright statements such as:
1. Dairy food leaves snotty, wet deposits in the lungs (p. 114);
2. Coffee gives you wrinkles (p. 143 -- oh yeah, 1/2 cup a day even? Porter might have just said coffee's a diuretic, but she doesn't, just that it "gives you wrinkles");
3. It's good to snack on 1/2 sheet of nori every day (p. 151, no explanation why);
4. Plopping the kids in front of video is a good idea if it frees you up for an hour a day of cooking (p. 167);
5. More than 15-20 mins. of bathing can leave you weak because after 20 mins. in hot water the body begins to release minerals (p. 178);
6. Microwave cooking is weakening to the blood (p. 179);
7. Spinach and chard generally shouldn't be eaten as they are high in oxalic acid (p. 191 -- this is true, but it's the only reference in the book to oxalic acid, so most people will wonder why it's relevant); and
8. Saturated fat dulls the walls of the vagina (p. 263).
I'm not saying categorically that these points are inaccurate, just that Porter offers not a shred of evidence for these statements, but puts them forth as facts, not just as macrobiotic philosophy. This casts into doubt everything she says, which is a shame.
Porter also gives little more than lip service to the possibility (a reality for most people) that cooking all your food at least every other day isn't feasible, and that most people who work have to eat out a lot. More practical advice would have been helpful.
The Downright Hideous
Gross overuse of the 'word' "desludging". If you're not sick of it by the end of this book, you have a greater tolerance than I do for lazy writing.
Porter would probably say that I'm just too yang, and she may be right, but I'm sure that there are books that could do a better job of convincing me. If scientific accuracy isn't that important to you, and if you think, as Porter does, that Madonna and Gwyneth are the epitome of women who have it all and are living ideal lives, you might enjoy this book. But if you need some actual facts before you chuck meat, cheese, pasta, tomatoes, sugar, alcohol and caffeine out the window entirely, or even before you ditch your version of vegetarianism for the macrobiotic one, look elsewhere. This book is not for you.
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