Nourishing Diets

How Paleo, Ancestral and Traditional Peoples Really Ate

De: Sally Fallon Morell

Narrado por: Dara Rosenberg

Sally Fallon Morell, bestselling author of Nourishing Traditions, debunks diet myths to explore what our ancestors from around the globe really ate--and what we can learn from them to be healthy, fit, and better nourished, today

The Paleo craze has taken over the world. It asks curious dieters to look back to their ancestors' eating habits to discover a "new" way to eat that shuns grains, most dairy, and processed foods. But, while diet books with Paleo in the title sell well--are they correct? Were paleolithic and ancestral diets really grain-free, low-carb, and based on all lean meat?

In Nourishing Diets bestselling author Sally Fallon Morell explores the diets of our primitive ancestors from around the world--from Australian Aborigines and pre-industrialized Europeans to the inhabitants of "Blue Zones" where a high percentage of the populations live to 100 years or more. In looking to the recipes and foods of the past, Fallon Morell points readers to what they should actually be eating--the key principles of traditional diets from across cultures -- and offers recipes to help translate these ideas to the modern home cook.

An eye opener, and no mistake!

The author critiques current diet fads and mass-market assumptions with a well researched document of eating habits in ancient and modern cultures. Special attention is paid to places that seem to support modern hypotheses about low-fat and plant-based foods. The author essays a (successful, imho) proof of a contrary view: traditional, healthy diets require fat and animal-based foods.

Great information

The information contained in this book is invaluable. It’s an incredibly boring read but if you can slog through, it pretty much debunks every paleo book and guru with actual and factual information from diaries, journals, etc. from the 1700 to the 1940s of people who visited native cultures that were eating their native diets.

We have lost so much! But using these principles, we can regain our ancestral knowledge, and our health back!

I have been following Sally Fallon for a couple of decades now and I keep learning from her. I follow much of her nutritional principles personally, and in my Naturopathic practice. It still amazes me how so many cultures used every part of the animal - even parts we find disgusting- like eyeballs! I have Long believed in the theory "like treats like" and cultures who may or may not have known about that theory, practice it - like eating heart when you have heart issues. I have amazing stories from my practice verifying the truthfulness of eating this way.

Must Read

I consider this a must read along with the nourishing traditions cook book! Very informative and interesting.

...more precious than gold.

This thorough examination of healthy diets cuts through all the misinformation we are surrounded with and gives you a true way to reach optimum health.

Great Insightful Information

The discription of what different people groups eat was fascinating.
There are foods I will change in my diet because of this book.
Thank you!

The Gift of Real Food

This book is a treasure. Sally Fallon leaves no BS stone unturned to find underneath it the nutritional gold that hides out of sight. People in our politically correct, don’t rock the boat culture fear what they don’t know and shrink away from what they don’t understand before they learn about it. In this volume, all the organ meats, fermented foods, animal fats and smelly traditional dishes that scare most of us Americans away take center stage and put real evidence about real healthy human eating patterns right up under our noses. It’s important to take any nutritional advice with a grain of salt, consider the source, and make informed decisions for your health and that of your children and loved ones; this book provides a tremendous piece of that puzzle in a deep and rich way. I loved it!

Disappointed

I have been following Sally Fallon for many years. I am sorry to find this latest book to be so pedantic that I no longer take it seriously. There are several mistakes in areas of common knowledge. Much of what is said is still worthwhile but you have to endure a choppy, abrupt sentence structure and delivery where every statement is short and ended with an explanation mark. This IS the first time I've used an audio book, and there is a lot of good research here. The chapter on Australian aborigines is a wonderful survey of a complex culture.