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PublisherInner Traditions International, The Limited

ISBN-101620555190

ISBN-139781620555194

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Edition3

Book TitlePrimal Nutrition : Paleolithic and Ancestral Diets for Optimal Health

Number of Pages384 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicSpecific Ingredients / Natural Foods, Nutrition, Diet & Nutrition / Nutrition, General, Agriculture & Food (See Also Political Science / Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy), Longevity, Customs & Traditions

Publication Year2015

IllustratorYes

GenreCooking, Social Science, Health & Fitness, Medical

AuthorRon Schmid

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight15.9 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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LCCN2015-013554

ReviewsConfused about the paleo diet fad? Dr. Ron Schmid, now a retired naturopathic physician, has a broader perspective on what has worked well for traditional cultures for millennia. He's informed by the work of Dr. Weston A. Price, a dentist who studied indigenous people's good health and disease resistance with their diets of whole, natural foods including meat from wild game and grass-fed domestic animals, seafood, raw-milk dairy products and, to a lesser extent, whole grains. As Schmid explains, modern diets with processed foods are at odds with ancestral diets. In some traditions, certain nutrient-dense foods such as seafood, liver and raw milk products had a sacred quality with rituals that revolved around them, reinforcing their importance for health and immunity. And yet when indigenous cultures shunned their traditional foods, ill health resulted. Today, the modern diet is so often industrialized and denatured, so Schmid's dietary advice is particularly relevant. We have to be increasingly aware of the source of our foods: for example, seafoods from Pacific Ocean waters affected by Fukushima nuclear radiation are to be avoided. In this substantially updated fifth edition, originally titled Traditional Foods Are Your Best Medicine, Schmid reaffirms the role of ancestral diets in overcoming ill health, chronic disease and degenerative conditions. He has a wealth of advice supported by scientific studies to help us tailor-make our diets to our specific needs to support our health and longevity., All in all I don't think I can recommend this book highly enough. Not only is it well-researched and based in cultural history, but Schmid allows for each person having their own unique dietary needs; he does not in any way put forth this book as a one-way-fixes-all manner. He also allows for the differences in what's available to us now versus what was available, food wise, in ancestral times. Not only that but he encourages the reader to slowly make small changes so they are better able to see what works, what doesn't and to adopt the changes slowly so as to make permanent lifestyle changes. While it is always recommended to check with your doctor before starting any major diet change, I do still highly recommend this book to anyone interested in health, nutrition and/or ancestral ways., In Primal Nutrition , Dr. Ron Schmid has done a superb job of integrating the work of Weston Price, D.D.S., and Francis Pottenger, Jr., M.D., with recent research and a variety of popular diets, such as the macrobiotic diet, the Atkins diet, and the Pritikin diet. This book will be of great value for all clinicians interested in healing their patients or clients. In my opinion, it should be required reading for all medical students, dental students, nutritionists, chiropractors, naturopaths, dentists, and others in the healing arts. It will also be valuable to anyone interested in improving his or her health. I recommend it without qualification., Schmid brings together traditional stories with modern scientific research to provide recommendations of food for today's society., All in all I don't think I can recommend this book highly enough. Not only is it well-researched and based in cultural history, but Schmid allows for each person having their own unique dietary needs; he does not in any way put forth this book as a one-way-fixes-all manner. He also allows for the differences in what's available to us now versus what was available, food wise, in ancestral times. Not only that but he encourages the reader to slowly make small changes so they are better able to see what works, what doesn't and to adopt the changes slowly so as to make permanent lifestyle changes. While it is always recommended to check with your doctor before starting any major diet change, I do still highly recommend this book to anyone interested in health, nutrition and/or ancestral ways.

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal613.2

Table Of ContentAcknowledgments Foreword by Sally Fallon Morell Foreword by Nora Gedgaudas, C.N.S., C.N.T. Preface Healing, Health, and Wholeness Introduction Primal Diets, Weston Price, and Healing Part 1 AN ANCESTRY OF PRIMAL NUTRITION Diets of Traditional Societies and a Legacy of Health 1 Sacred Practices of Ancient Ancestors and Contemporary Hunter-Gatherers 2 Dr. Weston Price and His Studies of Traditional Societies 3 Protective Characteristics of Primal Nutrition 4 The Long-Lived People of Vilcabamba, Hunza, and Georgian Russia 5 The Benefits of Raw Food as Determined by Dr. Francis M. Pottenger, Jr. 6 The Unique Nutrients of Seafood Part 2 DIET AND DISEASE Planning for Health and Recovery 7 Guidance on the Path to Good Health 8 Creating a Primal Diet for Health and Longevity 9 Dietary Considerations for Specific Conditions Part 3 PRIMAL VERSUS MODERN FOODS A Deeper Understanding of Primal Food Groups 10 Meat, Fowl, and Eggs 11 Fresh and Saltwater Seafood and the Environment 12 Milk and Milk Products 13 Vegetables, Whole-Grain Foods, Fruits, Nuts, and Seeds 14 Extras: Oils, Condiments, Seasonings, Beverages, and Refined Products 15 Special Foods and Food Supplements Epilogue Toward a Philosophy of Natural Living Appendix 1 The All-Meat Diet of Arctic Adventurer Vilhjalmur Stefansson Appendix 2 An In-Depth Look at Seafood Selection Appendix 3 Understanding Laboratory Tests Appendix 4 Movement, Games, and Sports Bibliography Index

SynopsisThe 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 common sense primal diet, tailored to your specific needs, to rebuild health and improve longevity., Explores how the traditional foods of ancient cultures can naturally help prevent and treat degenerative disease and chronic conditions, Explores how the traditional foods of ancient cultures can naturally help prevent and treat degenerative disease and chronic conditions - 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.

LC Classification NumberRA784