Green Your Beauty

The Healthy Skin Diet
RATING: 3.5 TREES

This book is written by a nutritionist named Karen Fischer. It is great if you want information on a recommended skin diet for a particular ailment, but is not focused as much on an overall regime for younger looking skin. I don’t care as much for the organization compared to Feed Your Skin, Starve Your Wrinkles, but it is still a decent overall read with specific diet plans for things like eczema and dandruff. I have followed some of the advice in this book with helpful results.

Feed Your Skin Starve Your Wrinkles
RATING: 5 TREES

This book was really organized and easy to read. It broke down the foods by category (fruits, vegetable, etc), and explained exactly what vitamins they had and how those vitamins benefit you. It discussed portion size. Contained some good recipes. If you already know about nutrition it doesn’t really say anything new, but for me, it really helped drive the point home.

Eat, Drink and Be Gorgeous
Rating: 3 TREES

This book  is written by a dietitian and holistic  nutritionist. It offered some useful tips in a very  “Sex and the City,” type of writing style, which may or may not be your thing.  I like that she offers supplement recipes for varying ailments from PMS to hangovers. However, I felt that the book was too much focused on supplements and not enough on diet.  She does stress that the supplements are in addition to a healthy diet and I like that the recommendations are reasonable and not a clear cut “plan.” I would recommend this book as a fun read to get some good tips on supplements. I did follow one of the hangover prevention recommendations to take 2 primrose capsules prior to drinking, hardly drank, and ended up getting nauseous. Go figure!