Last month I read a book of Alex Kuczynski about plastic surgeries and the obsession with that. The author is a journalist, so she is not only giving her personal perspective towards cosmetic surgeries, but also provide some data and valuable information as well as introducing us to the history of plastic surgery. Author herself is a beauty junkie and she raised a question where is the line between being beauty junkie that can`t live without plastic surgeries and taking care of yourself. She even went that far once that offered her mom to get some botox, because she has too many wrinkles. Since when having wrinkles is a bad thing? There are so many different sides of cosmetic surgery: wrinkle fillers, such as botox is one of the most common ones, boob job, teeth job, nose job, fat removal, face lift, lip fillers and list goes on insanely. So, what is beautiful? Quting the book:
¨There are so many ways to make beauty into political issue and a point of debate as there are definitions of what is beautiful. On a personal level, symmetrical faces, bright white teeth, good physical carriage are things that matter. Additionally, our lack of self-consciousness, an unawareness of our looks, plays a large role in other`s perception of our beauty and always was. In 1500s Baldassare Castiglione whore his etiquette manual Book of Courtier that a beautiful woman appears beautiful only if it is clear that she is not seeking approval for her beauty, if her ¨gestures are simple and natural, without working at being beautiful.¨ «…» We embrace the extreme procedures that we believe will make us beautiful, that will detonate desire in others. On long Island, New York, girls graduating from high school receive gifts of breast implants from their parents. In China, on the island of hainan, patients check into 12,000-square-foot plastic surgery hospital called Dreaming Girl`s Fantasy for extensive head-to-toe cosmetic reworking. In Beijing, women from all over China compete in the Miss Plastic Surgery competition¨.
So this is the world that we live in. The author herself had fat removal from her thights that she later on regretted because of all the pain and complication and she admitted to herself that she just had to go for a running one hour every day for a month and all the fat would have been gone. So, maybe before making any enhancements to the body is simply better to think and stop of what can be done without laying on surgical table. And even if nothing can be done, maybe, just maybe it is just the way it is supposed to be, because we were born this way. I do not promote laziness and not taking care of yourself, I am just saying that there is no point of going into extremities with your body, because there always will be someone around looking better that you, no matter how hard you will try, because the grass is always greener on the other side.
So, for a conclusion, I do recommend reading this book, just because it is always useful to expand your point of view and it is an easy read that does not require too much attention.
took book “Whining and Dinning” not so much for myself as for the family I work with as they have two girls and I wanted introduce them to a bit more healthy eating than Kraft dinner and frozen salmon pie. Don’t take me wrong but when people say that they eat not good food because they could not eat healthy because of the kids, it takes my breath away. Kids know nothing about food and they just experience different tastes and if you introduce them to artificial flavours just because you decide that you don’t want to spend time cooking, then don’t blame the kids afterwards, but blame yourself. Anyhow, since I started my Whole30 challenge I have been making sometimes dishes for them, but usually I can’t taste them, because they are all of the ingredients that are in my “NO” list, so I was glad that I could pick up some nice and easy recipes from this book and could actually taste it. By far my favourite would be:
recipes are made to be eaten with pasta or rice or some other carbs, rather than proteins, which would be my choice. But I did find some recipes on beet, spinach, carrots, some soups and few sauces that I plan to try and see if they are worth to be memorized. It is definitely not a book that I would be buying, so I am grateful of having an opportunity to check and take book from library before I decide to invest in them. I haven’t tried any of the recipes from that book yet as I did not get particularly excited about any of them so much that I could not wait to try it out.
Julie and Charles Mayfield “Paleo Comfort foods”
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Gerilyn J. Bielakiewicz “The Everything Dog Training and Tricks book”
glad that I finished reading this book, because there were many books before that I did not finish reading as they haven’t captured my attention enough before it would be time to give them back to the library. The book is written in the diary form and it definitely captures an attention because there are so many things that you can learn from it. Did you know that heroine stays in blood only 24 hours if you drink lots of water after injection while weed, cocaine and other drugs show traces 30 days after? This is one of the reasons why many inmates become heroin addicts in prison even if before they haven’t touched hard drug in their lives, simply because you sentence can be prolonged in they find let’s say weed traces in your blood. I did not know that. Or for instance that lifers (the people sentenced for long time or for life) are much less likely to cause problems than other prisoners, because they want to have more relaxed life and more privileges? I though that they are the most dangerous one in prison. Did you know that on average in high security prison you spend 22 hours locked in your cell? Can you imagine being locked up for so long every day? The book also tells the stories of other prisoners and why they are hear, how they see their future and what are their perspectives…I learned a lot reading this book and can’t wait to start reading the second book, because I believe that there is a trilogy, because the author was sentenced for 4 years and “A prison diary” describes only the first prison where he spend 3 weeks while he was appointed to other prison. I know that this book received lots of discussions and UK prison authorities demanded it to be banned and I am sure that there are many critics out there that would criticize this book, but I enjoyed reading it and thats all that matters.
