Title: The hunter-gatherer within : health and the natural human diet /
Authors: Brock, Kerry G.,; Diggs, George M. 1952-
Year: 2013
Subjects: High-protein diet.; Nutrition; Health; Diet therapy.; Prehistoric peoples Nutrition.
Abstract: "We want to examine what the scientific evidence suggests is really going on when we eat food, and how we can eat and live in a way that best gives us the health benefits of a hunter-gatherer lifestyle while living in and enjoying the advantages of the modern world. We also hope to use the evidence to explore how we can increase our chances of avoiding chronic diseases, obesity, and other health problems -- the "Diseases of Civilization."--Page 7.
Contents: Introduction -- Our evolutionary background -- The big picture -- Carbohydrates: sugars and their disguised cousins -- Lipids: fats and oils, the body's natural fuel -- Proteins: the body's building blocks -- Basic metabolism: how things work -- Diets now and through the ages -- Hunger and its controls -- Plants fight back: eating clean and avoiding plant toxins -- Poisons of our own making? Man-made chemicals -- Food and nutrition in the modern world -- A quick diversion into the "world's worst foods" -- Perspectives on eating in the modern world: "recommendations" -- Real world application: enjoy quick and easy, great-tasting food -- Appendices: 1. Why do the experts often get it wrong? -- 2. Variation: why we're all different -- 3. The special importance of indigenous peoples -- 4. Health and nutrition myths: things everyone "knows" -- Natural/evolutionary nutrition: summary of "recommendations".