The Wild Diet by Abel James Summary
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Discover how to eat like your ancestors while shedding pounds. Abel James' "The Wild Diet" challenges modern nutrition with its low-carb, high-fat approach that helped contestants on ABC's "My Diet Is Better Than Yours." Forget calorie counting - what if the healthiest foods existed 500 years ago?
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When "Healthy" Food Made Us Sick
Picture your great-grandmother walking through a modern supermarket. She'd be utterly bewildered. Rows of brightly colored boxes promising health benefits, protein bars that never spoil, and bread that stays soft for weeks. She wouldn't recognize most of it as food at all-and she'd be right. Here's a startling fact: the average forty-year-old man today weighs 30 pounds more than his counterpart from 1960, despite our culture's obsession with dieting and "healthy eating." Something has gone terribly wrong. The answer isn't more willpower or stricter calorie counting. The problem runs deeper-we've been eating foods designed by laboratories rather than nature. Modern wheat bears little resemblance to ancient grains; it's been hybridized into a shorter, higher-yielding crop that's simultaneously less nutritious. Processing strips away what little nutrition remains, adds bleaching agents and chemicals, then "enriches" it with synthetic vitamins. Even more concerning, 65% of U.S. corn is now "Bt corn"-genetically modified to contain pesticides in its very DNA. When you eat this corn or its countless derivatives, you're consuming a toxin designed to rupture insect stomachs. Given that nine out of ten cells in our bodies are actually bacterial, this should give us serious pause.
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