The Primal Blueprint: Reprogram your genes for effortless weight loss, vibrant health, and boundless energy
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- ISBN13: 9780982207703
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Product Description
Combining modern genetic science and evolutionary biology, The Primal Blueprint dispels a number of the myths that modern medicine and conventional wisdom have come to accept as fact. Author Mark Sisson takes the reader on a fascinating journey through human evolution, comparing the life and robust health of our hunter-gatherer ancestors with a day in the life of a modern family – exposing potential health issues that arise from trying to do the right things living in the 21st century. Sisson offers a solution in 10 empowering ‘Blueprint Lifestyle Laws’ that can help us reprogram our genes away from disease and pain towards a direction of effortless weight loss, vibrant health and boundless energy. The reader learns how the right high-fat diet can actually help one lose weight; how popular low-fat, grain-based diets might trigger illness, disease, and lifelong weight gain; why doing too much cardio exercise might actually suppress the immune system and how some of today’s most common medications might make a health condition even worse. The consummate book on ‘Paleo’ or ‘Primal’ health.
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Let’s just say I’m a skeptic. Grog, shmog. It’s just another fad diet and not made for everyone. I buy into some of its premises, but others (like no sunscreen for outside activities) can be just plain irresponsible.
Rating: 2 / 5
He may well be right that the “paleo” diet is better for us than current diets — I’m pretty sure it’s better than a diet of Big Macs and Twinkies. There is an intuitive logic to the idea that most of our evolutionary history took place before the invention of agriculture, and certainly before we had refined processed foods.
Unfortunately, he cites quacks and charlatans like Deepak Chopra and Bruce Lipton as scientific authorities. Dude, these guys are mystical woo-meisters whose work bears no resemblance to science. Because of this, I have to doubt his judgment about every single thing. Somebody who cites Deepak Chopra as an authority simply has zero credibility on any topic involving physical reality.
Like I said, his bottom line conclusions may well be correct. But there is too much gobbledygook, and too many quacks and mystics.
Very disappointed — I’d have enjoyed reading an evidence and reality-based book.
Rating: 1 / 5
Whether we like it or not, losing weight all comes down to two basic criteria:
restrict calories and exercise more.
What Mark Sisson preaches is you must eat more fat (without calorie counting) to lose weight, but what happens if you overeat fat (which has the lowest thermic effect of all food)?
The answer is if you overeat anything in your diet, be it: fats, carbohydrates or proteins, you will eventually gain weight. I gave two stars because Mark does try to ground his book in science. However in the long run, this book will become self-defeating for anyone looking for a quick ‘cut out the carbs’ fix.
Look up Tom Ventuo instead for no nonsense solutions.
Rating: 2 / 5
I found the caveman/evolution backdrop distracting and silly. All that caveman-running-from-sabertooth tiger fiction just doesn’t belong in a serious book. Reconstructions of caveman/hominid life are mostly theory and conjecture. Why not just present the principles and the evidence that they work better than the establishment lies and let it go at that?
Rating: 4 / 5
Book has a lot of “pseudo-science” in it, claims are made and loosely linked to other claims with a conclusion not warranted. Not badly written, though, some decent ideas, but, really to me felt like reading a bunch of interesting theories without backing to prove them. Here’s an example: whole grains may cause mineral deficiencies. People in third world countries often have diets based on grains. People in third world countries often have mineral deficiencies. *Therefore* whole grains *cause* mineral deficiencies. Also saying that we have the same physical make-up as our hunter-gatherer ancestors and human evolution has stopped since then seems a bit unrealistic. I wish there were more proof to his theories as it does sound intriguing – but I don’t buy it the way it is!
Rating: 2 / 5