Your Vegetarian Pregnancy : A Month-by-Month Guide to Health and Nutrition
by Holly Roberts
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Author: Holly RobertsEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2003-07-02
ISBN: 0743224523
Number of pages: 400
Publisher: Touchstone
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Book Review: A little panicky, a little preachy, a little inaccurate and no help
Summary: 1 Stars
I was really looking forward to this book as being a voice of insightful reason about what it means to be pregnant in a world that regards vegetarianism as a faze and therefore pregnancy as an opportunity to end that faze. In that sense the assessment of vegetarian diets for nutriets combined with meat eaters was somewhat helpful. But also a little tedious.
What made me really dislike this book though is that I sometimes found it a little panicky-- you must see you doctor immediately if a, b, or c happen when other books and sources are much quicker to reassure readers that lots of things happen in pregnancy and most are normal; this book could send a nervous mom-to-be in to repeated panics.
Secondly, it was a little preachy-- "vegans are the purest", notions like pregnant veggies are special because they are "bringing a new life into the world without taking a new life" came across as santimonious rather than helpful. For people who are already committed to vegetarian lifestyles, this is unneccessary. For people contemplating vegetarian lifestyles, this is condescending and rude.
Finally, there were some general scientific inaccuracies (not about vitamins or what to eat maybe) but the counting system for instance is just wrong. Month 1 is 4-8 weeks. Month 2 is 8-12 weeks. Which month is week 8 again? Inaccuracies like that suggest someone without much practical experience or intellecutal rigor.
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