The Evolution Diet: What and How We Were Designed to Eat

by J.S.B. Morse

For 2 million years, humans evolved to eat a certain way: in the hunter/gatherer style, which consists of snacking on plant foods while roaming around before hunting and consequently filling themselves with animal meat. For the last few thousand years, however, our culture has forced us into a diet that is contrary to this. As a result, it is increasingly difficult to eat the way we were designed to eat. JSB Morse's Evolution Diet explores this modern problem and how to adjust our diet to fix it. In the book, you'll find a thoughtful, often funny, survey of the makeup of the human body, contributing factors to our diet (such as culture), and an easy-to-grasp explanation of what exactly we should eat. You'll also find over 50 recipes for tasty Evolution Diet foods. This book will help you become the healthy and happy person you've always known you can be. It's time to evolve!

188 pages, Paperback

First published December 29, 2008

About the author

JSB Morse is a husband and father and an author, entrepreneur, and philosopher. His latest project is Paleo Family, which he co-authored with his wife. He has written several critically acclaimed novels including the political thriller "Gods of Ruin" and the spiritual fiction "Now and at the Hour of Our Death" and the "Take Advantage" non-fiction series. He paints, creates web applications, and writes/produces music under the name Whacktus. He lives in New Orleans with his lovely wife Gina Maria and their family.

Reviews

[John · Rating 5 out of 5]

"Eat to live, don't live to eat" Part One of The Evolution Diet starts off with some poignent quotes and some facinating stories. He also brings a humorous approach --Morse seems to have wanted to make his informative and enlightening book entertaining also. It worked! But besides staying amused at the anecdotes and jokes, I learned a great deal about how my body works and why I feel tense or tired at certain times of the day, or why I can't sleep some nights. It all goes back to my diet and the fact that I haven't been eating "what or how I was designed to eat."

If you are over the gimmick diet books that exclude half of natural food, or you want to add some variety into your diet while you try to lose weight, this thing works. It's a plan for eating that you can stick with and enjoy for the rest of your life, not just 5 weeks before you're over it.

It works like this: you eat certain types of food at certain times. Snack on LoS Hi-Fi (read the book) throughout the day, eat high-energy foods during exercise, and fill yourself with high-protein after exercise and before sleep. Morse goes into how this helps you attain perfect health including ideal weight and so much more.

Other good books about health are the "Good To Eat" and "Our Kind" by Marvin Haris. To our collective health!

[Dave · Rating 2 out of 5]

In some ways a good common sense book that talks about decent basic nutrition. Eat fresh fruits and vegetables, avoid processed food like hot dogs and candy bars, get enough sleep, don't eat a lot at once, get exercise, etc.

Other than that it's a lot of stuff eating carbohydrates in the morning and protein at night, the usual success stories here and there, etc.

[John · Rating 5 out of 5]

great but read the second edition instead!

[Renee Marie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very informative, enlightening. Similar premise as "Healthier Without Wheat" by Stephen Wangen, which I enjoyed greatly and changed the way I eat, cook, live, and shop.