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Very easy read. Really like this book. A few of the links in the back are no longer valid, but other than that, it's good.
This author is no nutritionist and certainly no scientist. Her main argument is that if our ancestors ate it, it must be good for us. She is a "food writer" who needs to go back to reviewing restaurants. People want to believe that they can eat all the fatty, high cholesterol foods they want if they are "organic" or "unprocessed." It is an appealing idea but just not true. Yes, our ancestors had less heart disease and diabetes, but mainly because they died sooner of what are now curable diseases. There is no sound nutritional advice in this book.
It's a real eye opener about the way our country is treating food. I starting a gradual lifestyle change for my health and weightloss about 8 months ago. I rarely ever feel the need to gorge on anything anymore. Anybody trying to be healthier or lose weight should read this book. Also, watch the documentary Food, Inc. On top of all that I have started to encorporate many more servings of organic vegetables, organic fruits, real whole grains and healthier proteins like free range chicken, grass-fed beef and wild caught fatty fish. I get some crazy looks and I finally have something to reference when I tell people that I eat eggs everyday, drink raw goat's milk almost every day and use full fat cheese.
I'm eating all the foods I love and I NEVER crave fast food, white breads, refined sugars and a lot of processed foods that I used to eat regularly and never thought I could give up. And, I'm eating in moderation. This book has given me a way to defend my "new" eating habits. I feel like I'm still in a 'training" phase but that it gets easier the longer I do it to adopt the habits of cooking my own food and being selective about what I buy. Our society is so skewed about food and production that unfortunately it can be a bit more pricey to buy real food and not processed, packaged junk, but I feel I'll be saving in the long run on doctor's bills and prescription medication for all the diseases I'll be avoiding. I feel so good now and my brother now jokingly refers to me as the food nazi b/c I'm trying to police my family's eating habits so they can feel as good as I do and be as healthy as I'm becoming. I'm not anti-government by any means but I do think that our's has gotten far to above themselves. Absurd.And I won't even go into the crazy misleading labeling that is allowed on our food.
I have lost about 40lbs doing this gradual adoption of healthier habits and many of them are just what the author of this book encourages. It's amazing to me that we are not allowed to legally purchase RAW UNPASTEURIZED milk, almonds, and several other things for our own consumption. I feel like the part of my brain that measures satiety isn't out of whack anymore. I wanted to cry when I read this book, b/c I've had times when (despite it working so well for me) I've doubted myself and my new eating just b/c of peer pressure, societal pressure, or even just commercial brainwashing, but I've stuck to my beliefs and I feel better and better everyday as the weight falls off almost effortlessly. It's real food and we should be allowed to eat it without the government telling us it'll hurt us.
Eating really can--and should--be a pleasurable activity free of deprivation, guilt, constraints, and fads. Just like real food itself, Nina's book is packed with the essentials needed for healthy living. It turns out that our grandmothers knew best: the healthiest foods are those that are the closest to nature--and the furthest from the factory. With her highly palatable and nutrient-rich writing, Nina serves up the unrefined truths about real foods. A satisfying 10-chapter meal, the book is stuffed with many a pleasant surprise: butter really is better; eating saturated fats aids in losing body fat; full-fat, raw, whole milk is amazingly healthful; cholesterol is not the evil villain it has been made out to be; diet--not medications--is the most effective front-line defense in the prevention and treatment of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, high-blood pressure and other "industrialized-food-induced" diseases. Drumroll, please: Foods that feel good are real good. [Hooray].
AMAZON was NO help.thier customer service is useless & NOT customer friendly and or oriented. NEVER received item.SELLER kept e-mailing me excuses on why I had NOT received the item for an entire month. Finally the seller admitted they did NOT have the item in stock, despite that I was assured at time of purchase it was in stock and I would receive it within 7-10 days. I will think long & hard before ordering from them again. STILL WAITING FOR MY REFUND.
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