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Title: Neander-Thin: A Caveman's Guide to Nutrition by Raymond V. Audette, Alan S. Brown, Cro-Magnon, Ray Audette ISBN: 0-9646345-1-1 Publisher: Paleolithic Pr Pub. Date: September, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.76 (21 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: It's now my second Bible
Comment: This diet is simpler than Atkins but very similar.
In my teen years a friend got me on a "natural kick".I retained this through the years elimanating processed sugar,salt, food dies simply by reading labels.
However i still needed more help. On finding this book my search had ended, here was clear logical guidance for a simple weight loss & healthy life style.
Well it wasnt hard to drop grain products, dairy presented some problems,but once I maintained a state of ketotsis pg. 129 and maintained a regular exercise program, I shed 30 lbs. and other health problems disappeared quickly.
So dust off your bicycle, dont eat another potato product, relearn to enjoy food again!!!. p.s. WHY IS SOY used in 95% of all proceesed food???. This stuff is POISON. Unfit for human consumption.
Rating: 5
Summary: Geat introduction to paleolithic nutrition
Comment: I gave this book a five star rating because, within its scope, it cannot be significantly improved. I came to this book having already done considerable thinking (and practice) about the subject. And, so, I can say with confidence, that this book easily passes muster. Ray will give you his ten commandments of eating (5 do's and 5 don'ts) which revolve around simple, easily acquired foods. I know that since I have been eating a lot of fresh meat every day I feel much better, both physically and mentally. While recommending this book without hesitation, I do have a nit to pick. Ray says to avoid foods that are acquired through technology. Since any technique is, ipso facto, a form of technology, this is hardly useful or even meaningful advice. Better, in my opinion, that he should recommend avoiding foods that are intrinsically the product of mechanized labor.
Rating: 3
Summary: A good little treatise - with shortcomings
Comment: I have not read Ray's newest book, but I recall reading this one a couple of years ago. First, kudos to Ray for turning up some of the resources that many diet "experts" remain ignorant of (thanks also for turning me on to Paul Shepard!). Employing an Old Testament structure was brilliant in light of his arguments that we've been in poor health since the first agricultural transitions.
Evolutionary diet principles represent an approach that ever more people, (then) their doctors, (then) their doctors' alma maters, and (eventually) government interventionists will pay homage to - especially as the testimonials and research abstracts continue to mount, and as the theories behind it become more refined.
However, current theories are a problem for Audette and other "paleolithics" such as Eaton et al, who do not sufficiently question or examine the saturated fat-CHD dogma that rests shakily on what has been referred to derisively as Ancel Keys' "armchair epidemiology". For his part, Audette cites authors such as Eaton, Konner and Shostak (low sat-fat, high polyunsat-fat advocates) in the same breath as Abrams and Enig (sat-fat defenders who cite epidemiological associations between polyunsats and certain cancers), without attempting to reconcile these fundamentally different approaches to the issue of fats in human nutrition. There will be a fundamental split in the ranks of "evolutionary" dieters along this issue (see the Kordain v Enig debates on the paleonutrition site - my money's on Enig for the long haul, as she has the greater weight of biochemical and ethnological evidence, whereas that ol' time "armchair epidemiology" is still a major pillar of support for Kordain et al). The most reasonable approach seems to be that taken by John Yudkin and Wolfgang Lutz - both of them are worth a look.
My only other criticism would be that Ray is something of a neo-Luddite regarding the role of technology in food production. If he eats anything that his falcon hunts (and I don't know if he does), he would clearly be exercising a technological imperative in regards to his food choices. Even the concept of shopping for 'only what you could kill with a stick' ignores its obvious technological implications (besides, it stands to reason that most killing with sticks was done by large groups of hunters). As this debate moves forward, we should remember that technology is only a manifestation of human intelligence, creativity and adaptation to external stimuli (such as increasing or decreasing affluence, ecological or social change, etc etc). It's the unforeseen consequences of technologies that sometimes get us into trouble - not technology as an entity unto itself. Furthermore, technology has played a critical role in enabling modern humans to finally reapproach the economic and nutritional well-being of antecedent human cultures; it might even allow us to surpass those cultures in health and well being someday (which God forbid, might require the use of nutritional supplements! ). Ray must also recognize that the ecological insults faced by human bodies are probably far worse than they were 10K to 1M years ago, and in that regard, nutritional supplementation may be of critical importance (the jury is still out, but again, I'm betting against Ray's horse here). Rather than criticize technology on the romantic premise that it inevitably leads to untold human suffering, we would be far better served by exploring how we can most effectively employ technological innovation in the "hunt" for optimal human health.
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Title: The Paleo Diet: Lose Weight and Get Healthy by Eating the Food You Were Designed to Eat by Loren Cordain ISBN: 0471413909 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 07 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Neanderthin: Eat Like a Caveman to Achieve a Lean, Strong, Healthy Body by Ray Audette, Troy Gilchrist, Raymond V. Audette, Michael R. Eades ISBN: 0312975910 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: December, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Secret to Low Carb Success!: How to Get the Most Out of Your Low Carbohydrate Diet by Laura Richard ISBN: 1575668955 Publisher: Kensington Mass Market Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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