Book to rejoice

This cookbook is the best I have ever had. If you are interested in improving your health through a better diet, this is the book for you. It is amazing how easy it is to prepare and preserve delicious and nutritious foods. .I also
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A Vitally Important Book

I've been studying nutrition for many years, and I wish I'd seen this book about 20 years ago. It is one of the most well-documented and intelligent books on the subject I've ever seen. The authors revive ages of ancient wisdom that was suppressed and even outlawed in the early part of the 20th century in favor of drug and surgery oriented health "care." Some of the most popular concepts today of what is healthy is just plain wrong. In many cases, the opposite is true. There is so much truth in these pages, I was sometimes moved to tears, because I just KNEW it was right. I now feel reconnected with my ancestors and the lost wisdom of the past concerning how to feed the human body.

I strongly suggest that you first read the Preface and the Introduction so you see where the authors are coming from. Otherwise, you may not understand, because a lot of the data is quite contrary to what we've been told by even some of the most aware leaders of the natural foods movement.

Whole Grains are best

Spare me the lovely, delicate little drawings --a trick to get health-conscious, counterculturally influenced young people to look inside this book.

I disagree with the premise of this book--which is just more Atkins hype: that consuming more and more animal flesh and having meat or dairy as the base of your diet will somehow make you healthier than the person who has a grain-based diet with plenty of beans, nuts and vegetables as well as fruit (and perhaps occasional dairy, meat or fish when necessary or maybe having more of these foods at certain times in one's life.)

The information about fermented foods can be found elsewhere including Michio Kushi's books on Macrobiotics or other such publications (that actually are based on facts regarding the traditional Asian diets.) The fact is all the regions of the world have whole grains as their base, not meat! In Europe and North America it is wheat, Asia it is rice, Latin American it is corn, etc. (Didn't someone say that "bread is the staff of life?") Although meat has been used by people over thousands of years, never was it the centerpiece of anyone's diet. I mean, how many chickens, lambs and cows can most people afford to slaughter every day to keep up such a habit? Not to mention that giving your kids a quart of dairy milk every day is an excellent way to keep them permanently stuffed up and congested as well as more at risk for other, more serious health complications.

As for not eating junk food, using only whole, unprocessed grains and stopping our dependence upon the medical-pharmaceutical industry, as well as the horrors of margarine (which we have known for years) Fallon is just preaching to the choir. There are plenty of books that have been written by doctors themselves that stress a healthy, balanced diet based on whole grains and vegetables to avoid or reverse cancer, heart disease and diabetes.