Eat Like the Animals: What Nature Teaches Us about the Science of Healthy Eating (Hardback)
By Raubenheimer, David
By Simpson, Stephen
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Our evolutionary ancestors once possessed the ability to intuit what food their bodies needed, in what proportions, and ate the right things in the proper amounts--effortlessly balanced. When and why did we lose this ability, and how can we get it back? David Raubenheimer and Ste...phen Simpson answer these questions in a compelling narrative, based upon five eureka moments they experienced in the course of their groundbreaking research. The book shares their colorful scientific journey--from the foothills of Cape Town, to the deserts of Australia--culminating in a unifying theory of nutrition that has profound implications for our current epidemic of metabolic diseases and obesity. The authors ultimately offer useful prescriptions to understand the unwanted side effects of fad diets, gain control over one's food environment, and see that delicious and healthy are integral parts of proper eating.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Diets & Dieting
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Nutrition, Appetite, Proteins in human nutrition, Food supply - Environmental aspects
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Eat Like the Animals is a must-read. This beautifully written book proposes a highly original and compelling explanation for why so many of us gain weight in today's over-processed food environment. Raubenheimer and Simpson are biologists who use their deep knowledge of animal and insect physiology, evolution, and feeding behavior to construct a compelling hypothesis: We share with animals an innate appetite for protein that regulates what we eat. -- MARION NESTLE, Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health, Emerita, New York University and author of Unsavory Truth At last a book on diet and nutrition that makes sense. In a world awash with misinforma-tion about what and when to eat, Eat Like the Animals is a breath of fresh air. I couldn't put it down. Based on more than 30 years of cutting-edge research, it explains how the modern food environment hacks our hunger control system, then explains what we all should be eating to live healthily and age well. -- DAVID SINCLAIR, Professor of Genetics and co-Director of the Paul F. Glenn Center for the Biology of Aging, Harvard Medical School and author of Lifespan: Why We Age-- and Why We Don't Have To Eat Like the Animals is a wonderfully clever and unusual introduction to the science of healthy eating. Full of drama, insight, and surprise, I love the way it is written. Rauben-heimer and Simpson make a very compelling case for the importance of protein in reg-ulating our hunger and very powerfully demonstrate the horrific role that the junk food industry has played in our lives. Essential reading. -- DR. MICHAEL MOSLEY, author of The Fast 800 and The Fast Diet Eat Like the Animals is quite simply a masterpiece. I am completely blown away by the science and enthralled by the clarity and elegance of the writing. Raubenheimer and Simpson have revealed the deep evolutionary secrets of the most important physiological need any animal faces by asking the right questions, and have eviscerated all the charla-tans, quacks, and pseudoscientists who seek fame and fortune by peddling rubbish. The story the authors have told is very important -- more so than many people will realize. -- DR. GEORGE McGAVIN, zoologist and nature television host
Author's Bio
DAVID RAUBENHEIMER, PhD, is the Leonard P. Ullman Professor of Nutritional Ecology and Nutrition Theme Leader in the Charles Perkins Centre at the University of Sydney. STEPHEN J. SIMPSON, PhD, is Professor and Academic Director of the Charles Perkins Centre. They live in Sydney, Australia.
Eat Like the Animals: What Nature Teaches Us about the Science of Healthy Eating
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