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Worth reading! , 15 Aug 2006
The writer is clearly an intelligent man, who has researched well and understands why a stone age diet would work for us.
Thanks Philip for this book.
The first chapter really scared me, making me realise how we have gone to far in making our food poor in nutrients, and altered our diet very differently to the stone age diet. I think as humans we have lost thre plot of what we should eat, and even scientists still can not make up their minds. I feel this writer has got a far better idea of what we should be eating, and it is sensible, without going to the extreme. Although I wished he had summerised the diet, and given a chapter on a stone age diet plan for a week to give me a summery of exactly how Philip made the diet work for him, and so it was easier for readers to go to this chapter again, for a reminder or reference of what to eat when needing more ideas. He does not confirm which foods we should stay clear from exactly, but gives you an idea of which path you should be taking. I think it maybe better if the reader took notes throughout reading the book, writing the diet ideas, or what Philip suggests, in a notebook for you to look at, so you do not forget anything. He doesn't mention much on cooking food, or any recipes.
I should not call it a diet, Philip's diet advice is so sensible, in the way that, what he suggests, is more a way of life. Eating as we genetically were meant to do, as nature intended... its pretty near to the right diet, I feel.... Higher protien (not raw!), No junk foods, plenty of vegetables,some fruit, low fat. But you will only understand the significance of this diet when you compare charts in the book showing the difference between our meat of today compared to ther stone age to see that wa really are eating to much fat, even when we try to cut out fat. I mean chicken breat is twice as fat as venison, and a third more fatty than pheasant. Lamb of today is 23.1-32.0 grams of fat per 100g and thier was not an animal as fat as this in the stone age time. Agricultural practices only care about making money, they do not care what will result from selecting the fattest animals and punping them full of hormaones, e.g. poor animals! Philip, the writer, does give us much hope of what we can do, without making us ill like the Atkins diet, although with a similar diet. The Atkins diet may explain why it worked so well.... it is a lot more like the diet of our ancesters.
I would reccomend this book for a person who realises that NO ONE IS WELL EATING JUNK FOOD, it is a downward spiral that we must bring ourselves out off. Obesity was not present 1000's of years ago, it has only really reached epidemic levels in the last 100 years, because of all the sugar and fat we are eating. When we eat this sugar and fat our appetites are further stimulate our appetites making us more and more fat... and making food manufacturers richer. We eat lkots of sugar via, excess fruit...I mean some of us eat little vegetables, and a lot of friut, and if you have read the Fat Land book by Greg, he mentions how fructose by passes the lkiver to be broken down, so it can be quickly absorbed compared to other sugars. Therefore excess fruit (fructose), may lead to diabettes. Also with the huge rise in cereal foods, which the stone age never ate, e.g. rice, wheat, corn, gives rise to further sugars and much less protien in or diet....
WE ARE ASKING TO BE FAT AND DIABETIC, WE DO NOT REALISE HOW DANGEROUS OUR DIETS ARE!!!
The rise of dairy produce, e.g. cheese, milk, gives rise to too much fat, calcium not in proportion to other nutrients that help facilitate calciums absorbtion, e.g. magnesium (search for book on Magnesium, deficiency can cause chocolate cravings, binge eating, and heart attack, spasms and raising heart beat (allergy can too). Anyway, the stone age did notr eat diary produce apart from in infancy. they ate not eat nuts and seeds, and vegetables for calcium, and osteoporosis was rare, in fact their stature was much more stongly built and their brains were bigger. It is amazing, we could be very different if we ate normal again. Stone age ate a lot of fish and meat with Omega 3's and vitamin D, while our meat is predominantly Omega 6 fats due to domesticated animals eating corn, wheat and under nourished diets. We eat the meat and get lots of fat, little nutrients. Our beef, according to the writer has nearlyt no EPA (an essential Omega 3 fatty acid, essential for the brain and heart...to help beat depression, manic depression...see book on Omega 3).
This book has been writen by an honest writer who has dug deep into our past, with 25 pages of references to back up his claims, to help remind us what we should be eating, in a mix up world of today that has forgetton.
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