Eat Like an Indian: The Real Paleo Diet

Do you, like most people today, feel like you have to have a “scientist” tell you what you can or cannot eat? We like to think of ourselves as civilized - regarding people before us as living “nasty, brutish and short” lives. But was that really always so? This is straight dietary and nutritional information you need to survive and hang on to your health in today's world of conflicting medical and nutritional claims made by people whose only real interest is corporate or personal profit. This is is an unapologetically non-scientific, well written document, with extensive references, in a new updated edition. If you're looking for the usual diet book that claims it will magically make a few pounds disappear for a reunion, good luck. This is intended to be the only nutrition book you'll ever need. The edition includes important material for the serious or not-so-serious athlete. It's based on years of personal experience by the author, as well as uncounted years of experimentation by indigenous peoples in their laboratory - nature. While thousands of books have been written about the Indians, no one has ever paid serious attention to how their lifestyle affected their wellbeing. There is nothing complicated about what the Indians ate, but you won't find this information, some of which has been rescued from oblivion, in one place anywhere else. The idea is simply that if you think you can learn something about the “Paleo Diet” from most publications claiming to discuss it, think again. They mostly seem to conjure up some mythical cave society from 30,000 years ago in Europe and fill in the blanks in their knowledge with some pretty creative “Paleo” ideas, such as, for example, one writer who recommends only artificial sweeteners and “lean meat,” as if that's what cave men ate. But real Paleo societies existed in our New World “backyard” until we destroyed them 150 years ago. And we can still study that much more closely than trying to reconstruct European tribal culture. While we can't live like real traditional Indians today, there are major benefits to approximating their diet. There are no paid reviews for this or for any of my books.