The Paleo Diet: Lose Weight and Get Healthy by Eating the Food You Were Designed to Eat

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Dec 10, 2007 - Health & Fitness - 226 pages
Eat for better health and weight loss the Paleo way with this revised edition of the bestselling guide-over 100,000 copies sold to date!

Healthy, delicious, and simple, the Paleo Diet is the diet we were designed to eat. If you want to lose weight-up to 75 pounds in six months-or if you want to attain optimal health, The Paleo Diet will work wonders. Dr. Loren Cordain demonstrates how, by eating your fill of satisfying and delicious lean meats and fish, fresh fruits, snacks, and non-starchy vegetables, you can lose weight and prevent and treat heart disease, cancer, osteoporosis, metabolic syndrome, and many other illnesses.

  • Breakthrough nutrition program based on eating the foods we were genetically designed to eat-lean meats and fish and other foods that made up the diet of our Paleolithic ancestors
  • This revised edition features new weight-loss material and recipes plus the latest information drawn from breaking Paleolithic research
  • Six weeks of Paleo meal plans to jumpstart a healthy and enjoyable new way of eating as well as dozens of recipes
  • This bestselling guide written by the world's leading expert on Paleolithic eating has been adopted as a bible of the CrossFit movement

The Paleo Diet is the only diet proven by nature to fight disease, provide maximum energy, and keep you naturally thin, strong, and active-while enjoying every satisfying and delicious bite.

 

Contents

Acknowledgments
Lean Meat Helps You Lose Weight
How Our Diet Went Wrong and What You Can Do about
Losing Weight the Paleo Diet
Sallys Story
How Paleo Diets Improve Health and WellBeing
Crohns Disease and Ulcerative Colitis
What to Eat What to Avoid
Individualizing Your Diet
The Meal Plans for the Three Levels of the Paleo Diet
Paleo Recipes
Paleo Exercise
Living the Paleo Diet
APPENDIX B Comparison of the Total Fat in Domestic and Wild Meats
Practical Implementation of Parts of the Paleo Diet on a Global Scale
Index

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LOREN CORDAIN, Ph.D., is one of the top global researchers in the area of evolutionary medicine. Generally acknowledged as the world's leading expert on the Paleolithic diet, he is a professor in the Health and Exercise Science Department at Colorado State University. Dr. Cordain and his research have been featured on Dateline NBC and in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and other media. He is the author of The Paleo Diet and The Paleo Diet Cookbook, among other books, and makes regular media and speaking appearances worldwide.

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