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A self-published phenomenon examining the habits that kept our ancestors disease-free -- now with a prescriptive plan for "The Human Diet" to help us all live long, vital, healthy lives.Physician and biochemist Cate Shanahan, M.D. examined diets around the world known to help people live longer, healthier lives -- diets like the Mediterranean, Okinawa, and "Blue Zone" -- and identified the four common nutritional habits, developed over millennia, that unfailingly produce strong, healthy, intelligent children, and active, vital elders, generation after generation. These four nutritional strategies -- fresh food, fermented and sprouted foods, meat cooked on the bone, and organ meats -- form the basis of what Dr. Cate calls "The Human Diet."Rooted in her experience as an elite athlete who used traditional foods to cure her own debilitating injuries, and combining her research with the latest discoveries in the field of epigenetics, Dr. Cate shows how all calories are not created equal; food is information that directs our cellular growth. Our family history does not determine our destiny: what you eat and how you live can alter your DNA in ways that affect your health and the health of your future children.Deep Nutrition offers a prescriptive plan for how anyone can begin eating The Human Diet to:*Improve mood*Eliminate cravings and the need to snack*Boost fertility and have healthier children*Sharpen cognition and memory*Eliminate allergies and disease*Build stronger bones and joints*Get younger, smoother skinDeep Nutrition cuts through today's culture of conflicting nutritional ideologies, showing how the habits of our ancestors can help us lead longer, healthier, more vital lives.
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Catherine Shanahan MD, is a corporate health consultant and consultant for Mark Sisson's Primal BluePrint certification program, and served as science director of the LA Lakers PRO Nutrition program for 6 years. She is a board certified Family Physician and author of the underground classic Deep Nutrition: Why Your Genes Need Traditional Food, and the easy-to-read executive summary of holistic nutrition, Food Rules: A Doctors Guide to Healthy Eating, and The FATBURN FIX. Before medical school, she studied biochemistry and genetics at Cornell's PhD program, enabling her to recognize the fallacies in the theory that saturated fat could promote atherosclerosis. Dr Shanahan first became an advocate for real foods when she began to observe dramatic declines in the health of her patient's bone structure, immune-system function, and behavioral development in subsequent generations of patients in the same family. She attributes these changes to the two most ubiquitous processed foods in the American diet: Vegetable oils and sugars. Combined, these two account for 70-80 percent of our total daily caloric intake.Deep Nutrition describes how these changes in genetic health have resulted from changes to our eating habits. She ditches the Food Pyramid and outlines the original human diet based around elements that comprised all traditional diets, the 4 Pillars of World Cuisine. These are the four categories of foods that helped to make our ancestors strong and fit, but most of us today are lucky if we include one of the four. Food Rules provides a quick, how-to guide to expanding our diets, including new foods and adapting new habits to create a powerfully healthy lifestyle.Dr Cate wants to empower her patients and her readers with the knowledge to lose weight, get healthy, and have healthy children by following principles of traditional nutrition. She has received many thank you letters from around the world written by readers who have astounded their friends, family, and their doctors and been taken off chronic prescriptions.
