Reading List

A couple months ago, I obtained a library card. I checked out a ton of books, and ended up reading a few pages of each, non too happy. I didn't return them on time and had to pay a small fee. Well, I decided to give it another shot. I just happen to be driving by my local library one evening on the way home from work. Likely to happen on the ONE DAY I want to stop by the library and get a short list of specific reads, the system was down! I searched for a couple titles for about 1/2 hour and picked up some other interesting or pretty books. Some more vain than others, like Skinny Chicks vs. Food Rules.

The list: Food Rules, Michael Pollan. Eat Drink & Be Gorgeous, Esther Blum, A Green Living book, based on the Fine Living tv show, Skinny Chicks, (author). Not so ambitious this time, for sure.

Food Rules is probably the most informative with simple ways to eat better and in doing so lessen environmental impact. It is amazing how much energy goes into processing food that isn't even that good for our bodies. His tag is, "Eat food, not too much, and mostly plants." Simple, right? Trying to get away from processed food, not made by corporations is hard. It is even harder, in our sustainably glam lives, to do this while on the go adding in local, fresh, and things our great grandmother would recognize. That is the ultimate goal in sustainability, though. Eat things that come from the Earth, are locally grown, which in turn means, seasonal. Go-gurt is his example of a foreign food. In my other readings of Pollan (a couple assigned chapters of Omnivore's Delinma) he basically points out the science of how we, as humans, have digested our food since the beginning of time coupled with the point, now our food comes from corporations that market enhanced, processed food based on marketing packaging. For instance, tomatos are best digested with olive oil. Or better said, there are nutrients in each that work together to absorb more good stuff better. (eloquent, huh).

Eat, Drink, and Be Gorgeous: I am several pages into it and looking for nutritional facts that are going to make me feel better. Life, how to get protiens without eating meat. My goal there is not to be accomplished, other than animals I have found 2 sentences that provide this info. One on whey protien, and the other on mixing legumes with brown rice. Hmm.. I could use some recipes for the latter, and may have to get another book on my next trip to the library. I am really looking forward to the section on supplements, but also plan on doing my research about different companies. Rumor has it (listening to rumors is always a bad idea) that some vits have lead in them.. Def need to research that!