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"We can′t recommend The Paleo Diet highly enough!"
– Michael and Mary Dan Eades, M.D.
authors of Protein Power

"The Paleo Diet is at once revolutionary and intuitive. . . . Its prescription provides without a doubt the most nutritious diet on the planet."
–Jennie Brand–Miller, Ph.D., coauthor of the bestselling The Glucose Revolution and The Glucose Revolution Life Plan

"Filled with delicious recipes and meal plans, The Paleo Diet will open your eyes, trim your waistline, and improve your overall health."
–Michael R. Eades, M.D., and Mary Dan Eades, M.D.
authors of The 30–Day Low–Carb Diet Solution and coauthors of The Low–Carb Comfort Food Cookbook

"Finally, someone has figured out the best diet for people–a modern version of the diet the human race grew up eating. Dr. Loren Cordain′s easy–to–follow diet plan cuts right to the chase."
–Jack Challem, coauthor of Syndrome X: The Complete Nutritional Program to Prevent and Reverse Insulin Resistance

Healthy, delicious, and simple, the Paleo Diet is the diet you were designed to eat. If you want to lose weight–up to 75 pounds in six months–or if you want to attain optimal health, The Paleo Diet will do wonders for you. The world′s leading expert on Paleolithic (Stone Age) nutrition, Dr. Loren Cordain demonstrates how, by eating all the lean meats and fish, fresh fruits, and nonstarchy vegetables you want, you can lose weight and prevent and treat heart disease, cancer, osteoporosis, Syndrome X, and many other illnesses. Over 100 delicious Paleo recipes provide enough flavor and variety to satisfy anyone, and the six weeks of Paleo meal plans get you started on a healthy and enjoyable new way of eating. Start reading and following The Paleo Diet today and eat your way to weight loss, weight control, increased energy, and lifelong health–while enjoying every delicious bite.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2069 in Books
• Published on: 2003-01-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

Review
"I′ve lost 10lb, look surprisingly clear–skinned and fit into that LBD.  I′d recommend this to anyone needing a quick fix..."  (Elle Magazine, January 2008)

Review
"I′ve lost 10lb [and] look surprisingly clear–skinned...  I′d recommend this to anyone needing a quick fix..."  (Elle Magazine, January 2008)

From the Inside Flap
Healthy, delicious, and simple, the Paleo Diet is the diet you were designed to eat. If you want to lose weight–up to 75 pounds in six months–or if you want to attain optimal health,The Paleo Diet is the only diet book you need. The Paleo Diet is a low–carbohydrate, high–protein plan, but there’s one major–and delicious–difference from all the other low–carb diets: you get to eat all the fresh fruits and nonstarchy vegetables you want!

The world’s leading expert on Paleolithic (Stone Age) nutrition who has been featured on Dateline NBC, Dr. Loren Cordain demonstrates how you can lose weight while eating your fill by returning to the diet your genes were made for. The genetic makeup of twenty–first–century humans is virtually identical to that of early man and woman. Paleolithic people were fit, slender, and active, and free from heart disease, cancer, and many other modern diseases. Our ancestors were genetically programmed to thrive on the lean meats and fish, fresh fruits, and nonstarchy vegetables they could hunt and gather–and so are you. By following The Paleo Diet, in addition to losing weight, you can prevent and treat Syndrome X (caused by insulin resistance resulting from the wrong fats and too many starches, sugars, and grains in your diet) as well as heart disease, cancer, osteoporosis, and many other illnesses. You can also achieve a level of energy and vigor you never thought possible.

Over 100 delicious Paleo recipes provide enough flavor and variety to satisfy anyone. Unlike other diet plans, the natural balance of lean proteins, nonstarchy carbohydrates, and healthy fats both totally satisfies you and reduces your food cravings. Depending on your personal needs, you can custom tailor your diet to one of three levels of compliance, and the six weeks of Paleo meal plans get you started on a healthy and enjoyable dietary regimen that will last a lifetime–a longer, happier lifetime.

Don’t experiment with fad diets and drastic weight–loss plans that work only in the short term and may seriously endanger your health. Start reading and using The Paleo Diet today and eat your way to weight loss, weight control, and lifelong health. It’s the only diet proven by nature to fight disease, provide maximum energy, and keep you naturally thin, strong, and active–while enjoying every bite.

Customer Reviews

Sensible approach to weight loss
The Paleo diet is a very sensible approach to weight loss. I am all for going back to a more natural way of eating. However, I do find it rather offputting that Dr Cordain is so negative about other low carbohydrate diets - perhaps he wishes to dissociate himself from the negative publicity. But once you get past those comments, it is a good read. "Neanderthin" by Ray Audette also gives a good grounding in paleolithic eating, but without rubbishing other low carb authors.
I do not agree with Cordain's idea that you can eat fruit all the time and still expect to lose weight. After all, it would only have been available in the summer/autumn to our paleolithic ancestors even if they did move around.
He also seems to rate fats solely on their omega-3 content - and anyone who has read anything by Dr Mary Enig will have a much broader attitude towards fats in general.

Darwin'd disciple
The Paleo Diet is a serious contribution to the diet debate, though not as the writer claims (as they nearly all do) that it is the one and only RIGHT answer. It is a well-argued case but there are some statements I have to disagree with, for instance, Cordain claims that the early stone age people ate a salt free diet, which is highly unlikely given that the African Rift Valley and areas around the Mediterranean basin are rich in naturally occurring salt pans and the herds of animals which hunting tribes follow travel over great distances to seek out these minerals. Our Palaeolithic ancestors were smart enough to do the same and our kidneys are well adapted to eliminating any excess. Salt also provided the original convenience food in the form of salted and sun dried antelope strips still favoured by bushmen to-day.
Another other aspect I take exception to is his statement that since we have fruit and vegetables available all year round from all over the world we should enjoy these unlimited supplies. This disregards both the cost of these air miles in fossil fuel as well as the simple contradiction there is in eating what is not naturally available at times of the year not at all in rhythm with the seasonal rise and fall in our metabolism. For the importance of seasonal and local produce see Udo Erasmus's "Fats That Heal, Fats That Kill" Chapter 67.
Moreover, my most pointed criticism is about the attitude, fairly common among health gurus, of one-diet-fits-all. Cordain's Paleo Diet is, perhaps unwittingly, aimed at the Big Zero - that is the majority of people who still carry the Original genetic marker of the primeval hunter, blood group O. However, evolution did not stand still with the hunter; there is the cultural adaptation of the A group to agriculture rather than gathering by developing a greater tolerance to carbohydrate and of the nomadic B type to a high consumption of dairy produce as a result of the intelligent herding of animals rather than the simple chase after meat.
On the first page of Peter D'Adamo's "Live Right for Your Type" he says : "the science of blood type offers us a unique opportunity to examine the past, tinker with it, and pass along an improved version. It provides the knowledge and the tools, not only to improve our own lives in the here and now, but to codify those improvements into our genetic hard drive. "
So my recommendation to everyone interested in this line of research is to read Cordain's book in the understanding that he is addressing the O's but if you have landed on the A or B side branch of the evolutionary tree your genetic hard drive has already made the necessary adjustment to cope with their specific cultural developments. The amount of knowledge out there is so vast and the lines of research so diverse that no-one can claim to have the complete picture. The Paleo Diet provides a very useful and easily comprehensible starting point and in spite of my criticisms I highly commend it.

The most logical way to shed weight, regain health & energy.
Dr. Loren has managed to explain in simple terms about the types of food which our ancestors ate as well as explaining why it should be the manner in which we should eat in the 21st century. The reason for growing numbers of obese people is only because "we are what we eat". It has been stated many times but too many folks just dont take that little extra time to prepare food from the basic ingredients- which is natural - but will use 'prepared foods' which contain salt, sugar and other preservatives which our forbears would not have had. Certainly not refined sugar! It really is a case of back to basics, eat what our Stone Age ancestors would have eaten - because that is the way our body is geared to cope with and process food. For energy, stamina amd a slim body - eat like Paleolithic Man.