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Nourishing Diets: How Paleo, Ancestral and Traditional Peoples Really Ate

Publish date:

June 26, 2018

Nourishing Diets: How Paleo, Ancestral and Traditional Peoples Really Ate

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.

Authors

Image	Author	Author Website	Twitter	Author Location
	Sally Fallon Morell

Topics

	Carbotoxicity	The harm of eating carbohydrates.
	Human Predatory Pattern	Killing animals larger in weight than humans - a rare occurrence for carnivores. Generally means hunting mammoths and other large fat megafauna.
	Pre-civilization races
	Grains	Grains are small, hard, edible seeds or kernels that are produced by grass-like plants. They are a staple food for many people around the world and provide a significant portion of the daily calorie intake in various cultures. Grains are widely cultivated for their nutritional value and versatility in cooking. There are several types of grains, including wheat, rice, corn, barley, oats, rye, millet, buckwheat, sorghum.
	Pregnancy
	Paleo
	Carnivore Diet	The carnivore diet involves eating only animal products such as meat, fish, dairy, eggs, marrow, meat broths, organs. There are little to no plants in the diet.