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Nourishing Diets

How Paleo, Ancestral and Traditional Peoples Really Ate

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 Sally Fallon Morell, bestselling author of Nourishing Traditions, debunks diet myths to explore what our ancestors from around the globe really ate—and what we can learn from them to be healthy, fit, and better nourished today.

The Paleo craze has taken over the world. It asks curious dieters to look back to their ancestors' eating habits to discover a "new" way to eat that shuns grains, most dairy, and processed foods. But, while diet books with Paleo in the title sell well—are they correct? Were Paleolithic and ancestral diets really grain-free, low-carb, and based on all lean meat?

In Nourishing Diets ,Sally Fallon Morell explores the diets of our primitive ancestors from around the world—from Australian Aborigines and pre-industrialized Europeans to the inhabitants of "Blue Zones" where a high percentage of the populations live to 100 years or more.

In looking to the recipes and foods of the past, Fallon Morell points readers to what they should actually be eating—the key principles of traditional diets from across cultures—and offers recipes to help translate these ideas to the modern home cook. Cooking Diets, Nutrition & Healthy Eating Fitness, Diet & Nutrition Food & Wine Gastronomy Nutrition Healthy Diet Low Carb
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The book itself is interesting but a couple of notes. Plenty of information came from after the colonisation of the countries in Africa, Asia etc. Which meant that the land had been taken away from the indigenous people, for that reason they had no choice but to eat what was available (every living thing and all parts of it). So this diet needs to be taken in with a pinch of salt. As not everything was what these people were used to. Similar story goes with the Okinawas. Okinawa people started to have the canned meat recently because it was imported by the USA as a luxurious food. A huge mistake since from there on the lifespan has decreased significantly in there. Their diet previously was filled with sea produce (seaweed, coral etc) and hence their lifespan was much higher than the rest of the world. The is a recent peogram which was broadcasted in British TV showing the past and present in Japan/Okinawa region.

I would have loved to hear more about northern European foods because it differs a lot and the issues they are getting now vs back in the time is also very different.

Otherwise interesting read.

interesting but

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