Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 613
EAN num: 9780060916350
ISBN number: 0060916354
Label: Harpercollins
Manufacturer: Harpercollins
Quantity: 1
Printing Date: 1989-08
Publishing house: Harpercollins
Sale Popularity Level: 295339
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Stop reading right now if you don't believe in evolution. Evolution is central to the book's tenets. The Paleolithic Prescription is far from a diet book. It builds a very compelling case from fossil records and modern-day hunter gatherers that the lifestyle our bodies have evolved to excel in consist of FAR more exercise and fiber and far less sugar and fat than our modern culture gives us.
Whether you read this book to gain a better understanding of the human body or to simply inform your choices on diet and exercise with real science, it's a great read. Highly recommended.
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i've read a lot of crazy things both for and against the so called "cave man" diet. some would say its an unfounded fad diet from the 80's. on the other side you have cave man diet websites telling you beans and potatoes are toxic.
this book isn't either. i feel its a sound, well reasoned look at diet from a different perspective. the basic premise is to look at the foods man's body evolved on. what has man been eating for the last 50,000 years? how is this different from todays diet? how can this paleolithic diet be approximated with modern foods? what would the heath benefits be? how does the modern diet differ in salt content, fat content, carbohydrate content? what diseases are more prevalent with todays diet?
its looks at both the fossil record and modern hunter gather societies to determine the content of the paleolithic diet.
in addition to diet it covers (in less depth) exercise, and some lifestyle.
weather you take up the diet or not i feel its informative and very interesting.
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