On Nutrition and Physical Performance: A Handbook for Athletes and Fitness Enthusiasts

This book is for athletes who hope to reach their full potential, the coaches and trainers who work with them, and the everyday sport s enthusiasts who wish to excel.... A philosophical approach to healthful eating encourages us to eat only those foods to which we are biologically adapted, one type at a time, and only when hungry. This method is practiced in the wild by every animal on the planet. Healthful eating teaches us to eat until satiated, never overeating and never becoming fat. The value of a food should not be judged by the amount of advertising it receives, how exciting or novel it is, or what its traditional use has been, but by its ability to satiate without stimulating, subduing, drugging, irritating, or outright harming its eaters. In the words of my old friend and mentor , health reformer T. C. Fry, "The Golden Rule of Eating is "Thou shalt not poison thyself." No one should have to recover from a meal.