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| The Evolution Diet: What and How We Were Designed to Eat | Paperbackby Joseph Stephen Breese Morse (Author)
| List Price: | $14.98 | | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours |
| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | Code Publishing | | Page Count: | 188 Pages | | Publication Date: | February 23, 2006 | | Sales Rank: | 439,907th |
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Product Description
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! |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 3.0 based on 12 reviews)
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Helped me lose weight. by nmb22 (Ohio)  5 Stars
February 07, 2009
This book definitely helped me to lose weight. It recommends eating most of your healthy carbs in the morning and eating a light amount of carbs throughout the day followed by a lot of protien for dinner. Prior to reading this book I actually followed a reverse eating pattern and now I know why I couldn't lose weight. Not sure how entertaining you might find it as a read but at least for me, following the tips worked.
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How does eating broccoli for 9 hours sound?? by Woodchuck (Australia)  1 Stars
August 26, 2008
Yes the information is interesting but unfortunately not practical in the slightest. I would have imagined a diet called 'the evolution diet' would be based around fruits, veg and meat. This diet however calls for buttered toast and orange juice for breakfast followed by 9 hours of broccoli and banana or Triscuit crackers and carrots. A chicken wrap or burrito for dinner is hardly what 'natural' man (or the 'Hunter Gatherer') was eating in Central Africa!. I wouldn't be wasting your money on this one - borrow from the library for a laugh because it seems like that's what the author is doing all the way to the bank - while eating his danish, bagel and orange juice might I add(pg 70).
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not really a "natural" diet by U. Ring (Florida)  2 Stars
March 19, 2008
I don't usually write reviews...but I want to write a review on this to possibly save someone from buying this book that is mislead. I'm very interested in paleolithic nutrition and what is considered our "natural" diet. Our bodies haven't changed dramatically in the last couple thousand years, so when we eat the best food, the food our body was designed to eat, and designed to digest we have the best health. Morse's "The Evolution Diet," basically advocates a typical USDA Pyramid diet...I don't find this very "natural." Morse advocates eating triscuits in his meal plan...I don't remember ever seeing a triscuit tree...the way I look at it if you could kill it or pick it you can eat it and still call it natural.
I'm not saying the book doesn't have some good ideas, but if you're looking for a truly natural diet, check out "The Paleo Diet," or "Neanderthin." I lost quite a bit of weight under those principles...I lost 10 pounds just the first week. I was hoping for more meal ideas with Morse's book, but that is not what I got...
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A waste by Berby 2 Stars
March 06, 2008
This was a pretty amateurish book, IMO. I'm not an expert, but the timing of when you should eat various things seems dubious at best. Hunter/gatherers ate what was at hand. If they killed a large animal in the morning, I doubt they waited til evening to eat it.
But what made this book the most amateurish was the extremely poor English usage. It seems like at least every page had an extra "it" where it didn't belong, or lacked "the" where there should have been one. I think this was caused by a failure to proofread. I cannot take any writer seriously who publishes a book with this many errors. After about 1/3 of the way through, I just scanned the rest of the book, having lost interest.
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Junk science, silly diet, bad prose. by Jason S. Gardner (St. Louis, MO) 1 Stars
September 07, 2007
I was wondering what foods humans evolved eating and if it would be sensible to eat predominately those foods nowadays, so I bought _The Evolution Diet_. It has nothing to do with any of that. I expected it to discuss evolution and early human diets, and why certain foods are more suitable for humans than others. It doesn't. I expected it to make scientifically supported claims about diet and nutrition. It doesn't. When it does cite a source, it's often an article in _Redbook_, not a peer reviewed one from the likes of _Nature_. The book is high-school-term-paper-grade fluff surrounding a weight loss plan. And here's what the book advises: eat very little, exercise on most days, and only eat protein after you exercise.
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