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The Paleo Answer: 7 Days To Lose Weight, Feel Great, Stay Young (2000)

by Loren Cordain(Favorite Author)

3.73 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1118160096 (ISBN13: 9781118160091)

languge

English

genre

Food & Cookbooks

review 1: I'd give this 4 stars for content, 3 stars for readability. There's a lot of info in this book. But this vegetarian of 5 years has turned to meat eating again and is feeling good, with no hint of the chronic inflammation I've had in the past. And a bonus is that other medical issues have seemingly resolved themselves - issues I did not think were related to vegetarianism based on my iron levels during blood work. Needless to say, I think Dr Cordain's spot on when saying that hematocrit is a poor indicator of long term iron status. Those tests indicated my iron levels were fine year after year, though my body certainly acted anemic. After just a few weeks of adding meat, I think I can now ignore my doctor's hysterectomy recommendation at age 34. And for those of my f... moreriends who might rail about the horrible saturated fats and inflamation causing Omega 6 fatty acids in red meat - the information seems pretty clear that grain feed contributes to high omegan 6 fatty acids, while grass fed beef is high in healthy omega 3s.
review 2: A masterwork, a lifetime of study and research condensed down into one book. Loren Cordain views human diets through the lens of evolution to point to foods that may induce health issues and then presents a wide variety of studies showing what the detailed issues are. He recommends (and backs up with studies) avoiding grains and legumes (both contain a wide variety of anti-nutrients intended to keep animals from eating them), milk (filtered cow's blood intended for calves, containing all sorts of hormones and other substances that effect us negatively), and potatoes (more anti-nutrients). All of these substances provoke leaky gut, breaking down the intestinal barrier, resulting in auto-immune disease as our immune system fights off multitudes of foreign substances entering our blood streams from the intestines and then begins attacking parts of our own bodies that are similar to the foreign substances. In our current confusing world of diets and human health, filled with yelling voices advocating one thing or another, often motivated by profits or fixed ideas or ideologies that ignore the science that exists, Loren Cordain is a calm voice of science and common sense. Because of the huge amount of noise generated by the profit and ideologically motivated, I'm afraid his approach will be unlikely to become the mainstream, however, those who do some digging will be able to find it, benefiting their own health. less

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