“Eat food. Not much. Mostly plants…”
Excellent article in the online bodybuilding magazine, Testosterone Nation, which highlights some excellent nutritional recommendations in The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan. The book explores the American food manufacturing system and based on this article and reviews I have seen, is a ‘must-read’.
It provides clear evidence that despite our personal opinions on evolution, and hence a nutritional plan based on it, any of the ‘ancestral diets’ proposed by the paleonutrition community is going to be head and shoulders above the ‘modern diet’. And I don’t only mean ‘western’ diets, since nutrition in the east is going to the dogs too…
[...] Jim Ballard wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptExcellent article in the online bodybuilding magazine, Testosterone Nation, which highlights some excellent nutritional recommendations in The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan. The book explores the American food manufacturing system and based on this article and reviews I have seen, is a ‘must-read’. It provides clear evidence that despite our personal opinions on evolution, and hence a nutritional plan based on it, any of the ‘ancestral diets’ proposed by the paleonutrition community is going to be head and shoulders above the ‘modern diet’. And I don’t only mean ‘western’ diets, since nutrition in the east is going to the dogs too… [...]
“Eat food. Not much. Mostly plants…”
March 23, 2008