Primal Body, Primal Mind : : Beyond the Paleo Diet for Total Health and a Longer Life
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Primal body. A look at where our dietary requirements originated -- So, what's for dinner? -- Grains: are they really a health food? -- So what about soy? -- Digestion and nutrient assimilation: a north-to-south journey -- Your gut and the immune connection -- Dietary facts: the good, the bad, and the ugly -- Dispelling the cholesterol myth -- Vitamin D: what all da buzz is about -- Making the omega-3 fatty acids connection -- The tyranny of the trans fats -- So, how much natural fat do I need, anyway? -- Carbohydrate metabolism 101 -- Leptin: the lord and master of your hormonal kingdom -- Weight management 101 and the path to type 2 diabetes -- Taming the carb-craving monster -- High fructose corn syrup: a sticky wicket best avoided -- What about fiber as an essential carbohydrate? -- Adrenal exhaustion: a uniquely modern epidemic -- A word about water -- Understanding the role of protein -- Our primordial past: understanding mother nature's plan and where we fit in -- Using insulin and leptin to our advantage -- Primal mind. Feeding your brain: why it matters -- How important is fat to the brain? -- Where does ADD/ADHD fit in to all of this? -- Relief from anxiety and depression in our uncertain world -- What about food allergies and sensitivities? -- The impact of modern dietary and environmental stress on the brain -- Paradise lost. Surviving in a modern world -- What generation of Pottenger's cat are you? -- Appendixes.
"Combining your body's Paleolithic needs with modern nutritional and medical research for complete mind-body wellness"-- Provided by publisher.
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Excellent Resource submitted by smgop on July 2, 2015, 3:07pm very extensively written
PUBLISHED
Rochester, Vt. : Healing Arts Press, c2011.
Year Published: 2011
Description: xxiv, 391 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781594774133
1594774137
SUBJECTS
Dietetics.
Diet therapy.
Health.
Nutrition.