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The Paleo diet : lose weight and get healthy by eating the foods you were designed to eat / Loren Cordain.

Cordain, Loren, 1950- (Author).

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

Physical Description: xv, 266 pages ; 24 cm
Edition: Rev. ed.
Publisher: New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2011]
Copyright: ©2011

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-248) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Pt. 1. Understanding the Paleo Diet. Introduction. Not just another low-carb diet ; The ground rules for the Paleo Diet ; How our diet went wrong and what you can do about it -- pt. 2. Losing weight and preventing and healing disease. Losing weight the Paleo Diet way ; Metabolic syndrome : diseases of civilization ; Food as medicine : how Paleo diets improve health and well-being -- pt. 3. The Paleo Diet program. Eating great : what to eat, what to avoid ; The Paleo Diet user's manual ; The meal plans for the three levels of the Paleo Diet ; Paleo recipes ; Paleo exercise ; Living the Paleo Diet.