Primal Nutrition
Paleolithic and Ancestral Diets for Optimal Health
by Ron Schmid
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Pub Date Oct 05 2015 | Archive Date Sep 18 2015
Inner Traditions | Healing Arts Press
Description
• Examines the protective nutrients inherent in primal foods, such as wild seafood, grass-fed meat, and raw dairy, explaining how they differ from Western refined foods
• Explains how to create your own commonsense primal diet, tailored to your specific needs and conditions, such as allergies, eczema, arthritis, and even cancer
• Builds upon the work of Dr. Weston A. Price, Dr. Francis Pottenger, and other nutritional health pioneers
The human body’s innate mechanisms for healing and immunity extend beyond the mending of cuts and broken bones or recovery from colds and flu. Given the foods we evolved to thrive on, foods our ancestors knew well, the body can naturally prevent and overcome a host of degenerative conditions and chronic illnesses, from allergies, eczema, and arthritis to dental caries, heart attack, and even cancer.
Drawing on the work of Dr. Weston A. Price, Dr. Francis Pottenger, and other nutritional health pioneers, Dr. Ron Schmid demonstrates that the strongest and most disease-resistant indigenous cultures around the world lived on whole, natural foods--seafood, wild game, healthy grass-fed domestic animals, and, in some cases, whole grains and raw dairy. He explores how modern refined diets differ from ancestral ones, the dramatic declines in health seen in indigenous cultures that adopt modern diets, and the steps you can take to build health with traditional foods. He observes that the foods considered essential and “sacred” in native cultures--the foods around which rituals and ceremonies evolved and that were emphasized prior to and during pregnancy--were invariably animal-source foods such as seafood, liver, and raw milk products, thus underscoring the importance of these foods to overall health and immunity, a fact that modern nutritional science has overwhelmingly proved true.
Blending the wisdom of traditional eating patterns with modern scientific knowledge, Dr. Schmid explains how to apply these principles to create your own commonsense primal diet, tailored to your specific needs, to rebuild health and improve longevity.
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| ISBN | 9781620555194 |
| PRICE | $24.99 (USD) |
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Featured Reviews
Lore N, Reviewer
This book verifies many of the observations, on health, that I had noticed over the decades.
When I was growing up in the 1950's and teen years in 1960's, I never met an autistic child, anyone with cancer, Parkinson's, or Alzheimer's and all of my friend's had living healthy, grandparents, and great-grandparents. All of my grandparents lived well into their 80's. I
Today teenagers are getting root canals at 16, fighting obesity, dying of cancer, are autistic, and learning disabled. 12 year olds with adult onset diabetes. or dying of Crohn's. We now have 50% cancer rates. Our elderly take 10-15 medications. We are being poisoned and malnourished to death.
There is no such thing as dying of old age. We die of cancer, heart disease, and strokes. We drive around in little wheelchairs because we no longer can walk. Everbody gets hip and knee replacements. Our bodies are disintegrating.
The fact that children, growing up in societies that eat unprocessed food, have perfect teeth, are healthy and strong; and their elderly are active, healthy, and alert in their 90's, is an indictment of the Western diet.
Primal Nutrition details how the changes in diet from our so called "primitive" ancestors to our "modern" diet have caused all of these health problems.. Ron Schmid shows how rotting teeth, cancer, arthritis, and disease have become the new norm. We don't need another pill; we need real food.
We are constantly being told that fat, salt, cholesterol, dairy, meat, and grains are the problem; and if we just remove them, we will be healthy. The problem is that all of these foods have been modified to the point that they are no longer food.
Primal Nutrition shows in great detail the good health enjoyed by people who eat healthful nutrient rich meat, fish, and dairy,. Removing these foods can actually make us sick. Ron Schmid proves that investing in grass fed meat and dairy will make major differences in our health.
This book is well written, meticulously documented, and extremely informative. He has made a powerful case that reverting to a hunter-gatherer diet of minimally processed milk, cheese, and meat from pastured animals, along with fish and whole grains; makes all the difference in health and longevity.
I would highly recommend this book.
