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The First Diet: Transform Your Health With The Food That Made You Human
The first human remains were found in Ethiopia, almost 200,000 years ago. During that time, Ethiopia was a warm and tropical climate. It is likely that we evolved to be humans in this hot environment. And you're hot too. The human body is 98.6 degrees on average. You are a warm-blooded human.
Humans eventually left our tropical roots and populated the planet in cooler regions north and south of the equator. Since then we have lost brain size, our metabolic rates have dropped, obesity rates have risen, and we have more lifestyle disease than ever before.
Why is this happening? Why are people more sick today than ever before? The First Diet proposes that this phenomenon is largely a result of damaged metabolisms due to metabolic-fuel-incompatibility. We have slowly given up the warm weather foods we were designed to eat with foods that grow in the cold.
Scientists can see what people have been eating by examining their cells. Studies show that since the year 1960 there's been a 310% increase in the “cold weather” fat in our tissues, and a 270% increase in obesity—a close tie in numbers. And that's only the beginning of our problems.
However, this damage can be reversed, the human body is resilient. But in order to heal, we must eat foods that are proven to stabilize and increase metabolic function. The foods that grew where we evolved and became human. The same foods that gave us so much metabolic energy that we could afford to evolve such a large brain. But as The First Diet explains, even our brain size is in jeopardy if we do not change the way we eat, and soon.
The First Diet is focused on showing you the foods that are compatible with our warm-blooded, 98.6 degree bodies. The foods that create more energy, and help increase your metabolism and health. This is the same type of energy that helped us evolve into the big-brained humans we are today. And the very energy we need to restore our health.
Humans eventually left our tropical roots and populated the planet in cooler regions north and south of the equator. Since then we have lost brain size, our metabolic rates have dropped, obesity rates have risen, and we have more lifestyle disease than ever before.
Why is this happening? Why are people more sick today than ever before? The First Diet proposes that this phenomenon is largely a result of damaged metabolisms due to metabolic-fuel-incompatibility. We have slowly given up the warm weather foods we were designed to eat with foods that grow in the cold.
Scientists can see what people have been eating by examining their cells. Studies show that since the year 1960 there's been a 310% increase in the “cold weather” fat in our tissues, and a 270% increase in obesity—a close tie in numbers. And that's only the beginning of our problems.
However, this damage can be reversed, the human body is resilient. But in order to heal, we must eat foods that are proven to stabilize and increase metabolic function. The foods that grew where we evolved and became human. The same foods that gave us so much metabolic energy that we could afford to evolve such a large brain. But as The First Diet explains, even our brain size is in jeopardy if we do not change the way we eat, and soon.
The First Diet is focused on showing you the foods that are compatible with our warm-blooded, 98.6 degree bodies. The foods that create more energy, and help increase your metabolism and health. This is the same type of energy that helped us evolve into the big-brained humans we are today. And the very energy we need to restore our health.
230 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 25, 2016
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May 14, 2020
I never write reviews, but this book deserves one.
Not only is it short, to the point, and nicely written (warm and easy to read), but also one of the most "commonsensical" nutrition books out there. Everyone can read it and everyone should. Teaser: It's a mythbuster for sure!
Definitely a must read for anyone interested in evolutionary or ancestral approaches to health and well-being. It contains a few fresh, but actually very important that I find missing in other "paleo" books.
I was very pleased not only to find the book actually containing some of the same principles I use and teach when working with clients, but that I was also able to add a few pieces to my ever-changing and never-completed "dietary wisdom puzzle".
Not only is it short, to the point, and nicely written (warm and easy to read), but also one of the most "commonsensical" nutrition books out there. Everyone can read it and everyone should. Teaser: It's a mythbuster for sure!
Definitely a must read for anyone interested in evolutionary or ancestral approaches to health and well-being. It contains a few fresh, but actually very important that I find missing in other "paleo" books.
I was very pleased not only to find the book actually containing some of the same principles I use and teach when working with clients, but that I was also able to add a few pieces to my ever-changing and never-completed "dietary wisdom puzzle".
March 6, 2016
Simple and effective
If you are fed up by all of those fad lifestyles, that may contain some truths, but are totally restricting, then this book is for you. There is nothing as absolute bad or good and this book provides the context needed to separate them.
If you are fed up by all of those fad lifestyles, that may contain some truths, but are totally restricting, then this book is for you. There is nothing as absolute bad or good and this book provides the context needed to separate them.
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