Review: This in not a cookbook, but tells you why the paleo diet may be right for you-or not.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 21, 2014
There are so many theories about why diabetes is on the rise and why, in spite of all these different diets which purport to end all your fleshy woes forever still leave 35% of us obese (body mass index over 30%, even as we eat 'low fat' and 'no fat' and 'no sugar' foods).  The rest of us (myself included, and yes, over 30 years ago, I was obese) are most likely heavier than is strictly healthy.  This book explains its own theories of why we are fat.  One theory is we don't eat the right fats.  The prime theme of the work is we need to avoid processed foods as much as possible.  Those foods include sugar, flour, and grains such as rice you have to cook in order to eat.  It does posit that meat (which you really should cook) is good, and most vegetables, particularly leafy greens and non-starchy veggies, are good.  It also suggests that sweet foods, including fruits and honey should be eaten in moderation.  Paleolithic man hunted and gathered food, spending a lot of energy in the process.  The agricultural revolution--when humans settled down and domesticated animals to provide milk, eggs and meat--reshaped our diets rather too suddenly for us to evolutionarily adapt.The writer of the book apparently has lived much of her life with dietary hassles. She has by trial and error found the paleo diet to be least problematic for her.  Maybe if we followed our ancestors lifestyle a little more closely and didn't consider a drive to the local fast food place a 'hunting and gathering expedition' we wouldn't be having so many strange illnesses to contend with these days.