Crazy Sexy Diet: Eat Your Veggies, Ignite Your Spark, and Live Like You Mean It!
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Authors: Kris Carr,Rory Freedman (Preface),Dean Ornish M.D. (Foreword)
Tags: #Nutrition, #Motivational & Inspirational, #Health & Fitness, #Diets, #Medical, #General, #Women - Health and hygiene, #Health, #Diet Therapy, #Self-Help, #Vegetarianism, #Women
Infused with Kris Carr’s signature sass, wit, and advice-from-the-trenches style,
Crazy Sexy Diet
is a beautifully illustrated resource that puts you on the fast track to vibrant health and happiness. This new journey into a realm vital to anyone’s health comes on the heels of Carr’s best-selling cancer survival guidebooks and acclaimed TLC documentary.
Along with help from her posse of experts, Carr lays out the fundamentals of her Crazy Sexy Diet: a low-fat, low-glycemic, vegetarian program that emphasizes balancing the pH of the body with lush whole foods, nourishing organic green drinks, and scrumptious smoothies. Plus, she shares the steps of her own 21-Day Cleanse, and simple but delectable sample recipes.
In ten chapters with titles such as, “pHabulous,” “Cupcakes, Coffee & Cocktails,” “Tushie & Milk Mustaches,” “Make Juice, Not War,” and “God Pod Glow,” Carr empowers you to move from a state of constant bodily damage control to one of repair and renewal. In addition to debunking common diet myths and sharing methods for detoxifying our bodies and psyches—drawing both on her personal experience as a cancer survivor and the advice of experts—she provides helpful tips on self-care, stretching a dollar, navigating the grocery store, eating well on the run, and working through the inevitable pangs and cravings for your old, not-so-healthy life.
Crazy Sexy Diet
is a must for all who seek to be a confident—and sexy—wellness warrior.
“Kris Carr makes practical and hopeful suggestions as we face greater and greater numbers of our friends and family falling prey to chronic degenerative disease. I am personally inspired by her example in leading the way for people to take control of their bodies and their health.”
—T. Colin Campbell, PhD,
author of The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health
Kris Carr
—author, motivational speaker, and wellness coach—has written two previous skirt! books: the best-selling
Crazy Sexy Cancer Tips
and
Crazy Sexy Cancer Survivor
. She leads workshops at the Omega Institute, Kripalu, and the New York Open Center. She lectures across America at medical schools, hospitals, wellness centers, corporations, and universities such as Harvard. Carr is the founder of the awardwinning online magazine crazysexylife.com. Her television appearances have included
CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, The Early Show, The Today Show, Montel, Access Hollywood, The Mike & Juliet Show, Good Morning America
, and
The Oprah Winfrey Show
. She lives in Woodstock, New York, by her motto:
Make juice, not war
. Visit her at crazysexylife.com.
Cover design by Libby Kingsbury and Karla Baker
Photograph of Kris Carr by Rick Lew; photograph of Brian Clement © Hippocrates Health Institute; photograph of Emily Deschanel by Jeff Vespa
Printed in the United States of America
skirt!
®
is an imprint of Globe Pequot Press Guilford, Connecticut
www.GlobePequot.com/skirt
Crazy
Sexy
Diet
Eat your veggies, ignite your spark, and live like you mean it!
kris carr
Guilford, Connecticut
An imprint of Globe Pequot Press
skirt! is an attitude … spirited, independent, outspoken, serious, playful and irreverent, sometimes controversial, always passionate.
Copyright © 2011 by Kris Carr
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, except as may be expressly permitted in writing from the publisher. Requests for permission should be addressed to Globe Pequot Press, Attn: Rights and Permissions Department, P.O. Box 480, Guilford, CT 06437.
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Crazy Sexy is a registered trademark of Red House Pictures, LLC, a Kris Carr company.
The recipes for Aztec Salad, Chipotle BBQ Sauce, Roasted Tomato Vinaigrette, and Ginger-Lemongrass Miso Soup were first published in
The Candle Café Cookbook
by Joy Pierson and Bart Potenza with Barbara Scott-Goodman, copyright © 2003 by Joy Pierson and Bart Potenza. Used by permission of Clarkson/Potter Publishers, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc.
The information contained in this book is intended to help readers make informed decisions about their health. It should not be used as a substitute for treatment by or the advice of a professional healthcare provider. Although the author and publisher have endeavored to ensure that the information provided herein is complete and accurate, they shall not be held responsible for loss or damage of any nature suffered as a result of reliance on any of this book’s contents or any errors or omissions herein.
Text design and layout: Karla Baker Project editor: Kristen Mellitt Nutrition consultant: Jennifer K. Reilly, RD Culinary expert and chef contributor: Chad Sarno
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available on file.
ISBN 978-1-59921-801-4
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For my talented husband, Brian, you are my North
Star, my muse, and my mentor. Without your support
(and brilliant edits) this book would still be in my head.
Thank you for your endless guidance and for helping
me become the woman I always wanted to be. I will
love you unconditionally for many lifetimes.
Oh My God! I Can’t Believe I’m Writing a Diet Book!
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My Story: From Illness to Activist
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What’s Your Shit Pickle?
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Bad Genes versus Bad Habits
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Be a Veggie Vixen
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Pick a Number—Not Just Any Number
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What the Hell Happened?
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Inner and Outer Global Warming
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Let’s Go!
pH 101
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Pee Is for pH
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Robbing Peter to Pay Paul
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Enzymes: The Sexy Spark of Life
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The Power of Raw and Living Foods
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The Raw Living Remedy with Dr. Brian Clement, PhD, NMD, LN
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Chlorophyll: Liquid Sunshine
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Fight Back against Free Radicals
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Vitamins
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Phytonutrients
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Not All Acidic Foods Are Created Equal
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Choosing Alkaline Foods
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Take Inventory
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Debunking the Fad Diet Myths
Sugar: The Legal Drug
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Carbs 101
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Glucose
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Sugar and Cancer
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The Glycemic Index
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Artificial Sweeteners Are NOT Sexy
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Controlling Cravings
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Inflammation with Lilli B. Link, MD
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Gluten-Free Living
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Go Gluten-Free with Mark Hyman, MD
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Social Lubricants and Java
Preventing the Big Three with Neal D. Barnard, MD
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Omnivore or Herbivore?
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Protein: The Myth and the Magic
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Got Propaganda?
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Strong Bones with Lilli B. Link, MD
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Hormones
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C is for Carcinogenic
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The Skinny on Atkins with Alejandro Junger, MD
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P is for Processed
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The Real Cost of Meat
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A Day in the Life of a Factory Farm with Wayne Pacelle
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Make the Connection
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Soy as a Meat Protein Substitute
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Don’t Have a Cow!
A Tour of Your Digestion
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Take Out the Trash
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The Slime of Your Life
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Unclog Your Pipes with an Inner Plumber
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Detoxing Your Body with Alejandro Junger, MD
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Food Combining
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Beans
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More on Bacteria
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It’s in the Crapper!
Juicing Jewels
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Choose the Right Juicer
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Pass the Grass
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Blend, Baby, Blend
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Juicing versus Blending
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Fasting
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Fallout: What to Expect When You’re Juiced
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Water
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Drinking Buddies
Meditation Boot Camp
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The Busy Person’s Guide to … Stopping
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Morning
Sadhana
with Sharon Gannon
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Yoga Baby
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Shake Your Ass
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Your Sexy Epidermis
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Body Burden Beauty with Stacy Malkan
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Dry Brushing
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Essential Oils
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Sinus Happiness
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Breath Work
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Massage, Acupuncture, and Hands-On Healing
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Bathing
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Sleeping Beauty
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Take Care
Toss It!
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Shop Girl!
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Understanding Ingredients in Our “Food” with Stefanie Sacks
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Crazy Sexy Shopping List
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Good Snacks, Chocolate, and Easy Chow
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Good Fats are Foxy
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Crazy Sexy Kitchen Equipment
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Cutting Costs
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Support Your Local Farmers
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Getting the Best from Conventional Foods
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Eating Out with Kathy Freston
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Eating Sanely
Probiotics
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Superfoods and Protein Powders
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Don’t Worry B Happy
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Vitamin D
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Vitamin D with Frank Lipman, MD
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Multi-Supplements
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Omega-3 Supplements
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Digestive Enzymes
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Aloe Vera
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Full Spectrum