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Primal Body-Primal Mind: Empower Your Total Health The Way Evolution Intended (...And Didn't) |  | Author: Nora Teresa Gedgaudas
Publisher: Primal Body-Primal Mind Publishing
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Pages: 404
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 1
ISBN: 0982184107
EAN: 9780982184103
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Publication Date: February 17, 2009
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In this unique ground breaking and enlightening book, Nora Gedgaudas provides a sane departure from conventional thinking about nutrition as promoted in the media and by conventional diet pundits. You will at last come to truly understand the basic principles of how your body and brain function based on both fundamental human physiology and the ancient selective pressures that shaped it. You'll also come to appreciate how these same selective pressures came to establish our most basic nutritional requirements-your key to health and freedom from disease. Never again be confused-or fooled-by misleading or conflicting dietary information! This is NOT just another book about "caveman diets" or "low carb eating". Although these topics are covered, there is a unique "twist" to the material that will have you seeing your health and your diet in a way you never have before. Fasten your seatbelts. This is not a conventional paradigm...It is most certainly outside the conventional box you were always told was the true picture (the same conventional box that is dedicated to supporting the corporate interests of the food, medical, pharmaceutical and even supplement industries). This book reaches credibly across disciplines and gives you the greater "aha!" of how various aspects of health actually fit together-including aspects of diet, physiology, modern anti-aging research, weight loss, supplementation, brain health, mental health, and even physical fitness. More than this, you will also come to understand where nature's most basic intent may not always be compatible with our own and how to apply information provided by the latest in science and human longevity research to live longer, healthier and more vibrant lives than you ever before thought possible. Regardless of whether you're already healthy and want to improve that, or whether you're trying to lose weight or reclaim your health from whatever is challenging you, this book will be an indispensable tool. Finally, learn how to apply these new and ancient principles in a way that will not only save you from the pitfalls and economic devastation of the "disease care industry", but also potentially save you hundreds, if not thousands of dollars on your grocery bills, as well. Primal Body-Primal Mind is truly the ultimate health approach for the "new economy" and for the New Millenium!
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 This book is the best available on nutrition! November 10, 2009
SewBeIt (Portland, OR USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have read every book I can get my hands on, trying to hone my diet to the optimum diet. Once I found this book, I stopped reading all the others. Nora is brilliant, she has done the research, all the research, and then distilled it all down into a book that anyone can understand. She has done all the work and presented us with a goldmine of information. I cannot recommend this book any more highly! I would give it ten stars if I could. And, being fortunate enough to live in the same city as Nora, I have gone to see her for nutritional counseling, and she is brilliant. My health has changed radically and I have a new lease on life, thanks to her and her nutritional wisdom. Buy and read this book - you won't be sorry! It really is the best book out there!
Life changing book November 2, 2009
John Anderson (Minnesota, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have known about paleo diet concepts for some time but had a difficult time making the changes needed to implement such a diet. I ate a whole foods, organic diet, grew my own vegetables, etc, etc. but grains were a big part of my diet. Without grains what would I eat?
This book gave me exactly what I needed. A clear path from my previous eating patterns to this new approach. I made the switch at the end of August '09 and here it is November and I'm very happy with the results. I've lost weight and kept it off without 'dieting'. I can eat all the vegetables I want, unlike some low carb diets. This book is easy to read, easy to understand and the eating plans in the back make it simple to implement.
I'd recommend it to anyone.
 Some good info mixed with misinformation & unsubstantiated speculation November 1, 2009
Sheryl Canter (New York, NY)
9 out of 12 found this review helpful
I've been looking for a good book on paleo nutrition to recommend to my clients since my favorite - Neanderthin - has gone out of print. Someone on my blog suggested this one and the reviews looked good, so I bought it. When I first started reading I thought I'd found a good source, but then I came across numerous assertions that were either incorrect or unsubstantiated. And then came the blizzard of unprioritized details.
This book is a mix of good information with misinformation and unsubstantiated speculation. In some ways, a book that gets the facts partly right is even more dangerous than one that gets nothing right. The parts it gets right lend credence to the parts it gets wrong.
One statement early in the book caught my attention because I'd never heard it before, and I've read extensively about paleo nutrition. The author was explaining how we know that humans evolved eating mostly meat, and she says, "We have spent 90-95% of the last 500,000 years locked in the grip of mostly ice and snow via the Ice Age, with only the briefest cool periods of reprieve, when edible plant life might have grown over a significant portion of this planet." There was no reference to substantiate this statement, so I researched it.
I discovered it's just plain wrong - we absolutely have NOT spent 90-95% of the last 500,000 years locked in the grip of ice that could not support plant life. It *is* true that we evolved eating a diet composed predominantly of meat, but the evidence is not a mythical Ice Age. We know this is so through other means, which I talk about in a blog post I wrote on what constitutes good nutrition [...].
The Ice Age error is just one small example of misinformation, and arguably a minor one since we did evolve eating mostly meat, but it made me wonder how much of the other information the book presents as fact has no basis in reality. I can't trust the author's journalistic integrity; there's no fact-checking.
The other main problem with the book is the voluminous, unprioritized detail. It does not differentiate between facts supported by solid evidence versus hypotheses supported by thin evidence. Nor does it distinguish between nutrition principles that have an enormous impact on health versus those whose impact is relatively trivial. (This is a common fault among nutrition writers, and I address this, too, in my blog post on nutrition myths and facts.)
For example, the book talks about the dangers of scrambled eggs (versus soft-cooked) and electromagnetic radiation from wireless internet. Assuming, for the moment, that these assertions are true, are they as much a threat to health as excessive quick-digesting carbs and omega-6 fatty acids? I don't think so! The book would be much more helpful as a guide to behavior if it set some priorities.
People trying to improve their diet should start with changes that are well-documented to have a large impact on health - changes important enough that if people do only that, they'll have helped themselves significantly. Then once they've got that down, they may choose to work on refinements. As it stands, the voluminous detail is overwhelming. No one could go from bagels in the morning to following all the advice in this book, and the changes people select to make may not be the most important.
Sheryl Canter
Author, "Normal Eating for Normal Weight"
Paleo Vision + Unsubstantiated Nutrition October 29, 2009
Over-Analysis
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
Having read and owned most of the Paleo diet and related books on the market, this book has a solid and enlightening vision of the Paleo lifestyle in the 1st section. Unlike more academic authors, this author is not inhibited by making only well researched claims. Her wording has impact and the vision she paints was worth the price.
The rest of the book has many novel claims wrt nutrition, which are thought provoking. However, they are not backed by citations or research except from a few, repetitively used sources. In the field of nutrition, much is unknown due to the individual biochemistry of each person and how it has adapted to decades of a person's homeostatis being maintained in a particular equilibrium.
After looking at the current science several of the more intriguing claims, I'd have to say her claims do not stand up. Her book is from her heart, and does suggest some different ideas to try out.
Primal Body - Primal Mind October 23, 2009
Biofeedback Clinic Of Edmo (Edmonds WA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Nora Gedgaudas has hit the nutritional nail squarely on the head. I have begun an eating life-style using Nora's book as a guideline. Already, in two weeks, I have lost 5 pounds, allergies are much less invasive, and I have tons more energy throughout my work day. I have recommended this book to all my clients, who all report the same improvements in their lives. I am going to buy this book in bulk and give them as holiday gifts!
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