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Deep Nutrition: Why Your Genes Need Traditional Food (2008)

by Catherine Shanahan(Favorite Author)

4.21 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0615228380 (ISBN13: 9780615228389)

languge

English

genre

Food & Cookbooks

publisher

Big Box Books

review 1: We all know that food affects the way we look, individually. But few of us know that the food we eat today, can affect the way our grandchildren look tomorrow. Did you know that we can actually fail to pass on our genetic wealth to the next generation, because of what we may be eating in this generation? Sad, but true. This is no longer just a theory. It has been demonstrated in post-war epigenetic studies, in which dietary shifts turn off genes and keep them turned off, up to the second and third generation. That's an effect of Biblical proportions. Dr. Shanahan elaborates on these findings. She has a lot to say about the relationship between dietary health and beauty, some of which I found compelling and some of which l did not. All in all though, it w... moreas a fascinating read, even poetic in places, while remaining scientifically robust (or at least as scientifically robust as you can be about any brave new topic that does not enjoy big-pharma level funding). It helped me understand what it really means to win the genetic lottery and how that process can be managed, not just within a single lifetime, but from lifetime to lifetime, intergenerationally. It's a powerful look at the inner and outer beauty of the human species through the lens of epigenetics, and specifically how traditional diets may play a role in shaping not just our health, but our physiognomy, for generations.
review 2: Shanahan posits a strong argument for adopting what she calls, “The Four Pillars of World Cuisine”, while simultaneously cutting out all products comprised of vegetable oils and sugars. Shanahan begins with an analysis of what the human family considers to be a universally beautiful face, that is, a face with symmetry. She argues that this type of symmetry comes from a long line of genes that have been nourished by natural foods. She provides a list of foods that she says will program your body for beauty, brains and good health, all things which you will then be able to pass on to your descendants (as long as they keep up the job of eating in a nutritionally sound way, as well). Shanahan disagrees with the current philosophy that high cholesterol, high blood sugar, arthritic joints, asthma, seizures and a number of other common medical issues should primarily (and in some cases, only) be remedied with medication. Instead, she claims that by eating the right foods and omitting the wrong foods from our diet, we can use food as a language to communicate with our body at the cellular level to achieve our ideal health and weight. less

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