Eat the Yolks: Discover Paleo, Fight Food Lies, and Reclaim Your Health
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Eat the Yolks: Discover Paleo, Fight Food Lies, and Reclaim Your Health
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Overview
We live in an era of health hype and nutrition propaganda, and we’re suffering for it. Decades of avoiding egg yolks, choosing margarine over butter, and replacing the real foods of our ancestors with low-fat, processed, packaged substitutes have left us with an obesity epidemic, ever-rising rates of chronic disease, and, above all, total confusion about what to eat and why. This is a tragedy of misinformation, food industry shenanigans, and cheap calories disguised as health food. It turns out that everything we’ve been told about how to eat is wrong. Fat and cholesterol are harmful to your health? Nope—they are crucial to your health. “Whole grains” are health food? Not even close. Counting calories is the way to lose weight? Not gonna work—nutrients are what matter. Nutrition can come from a box, bag, or capsule? Don’t count on it! In Eat the Yolks, Liz Wolfe debunks all these myths and more, revealing what’s behind the lies and bringing the truth about fat, cholesterol, protein, and carbs to light. You’ll be amazed at the tall tales we’ve been told in the name of “healthy eating.” With wit and grace, Wolfe makes a compelling argument for a diet based on Paleo foods. She takes us back to the foods of our ancestors, combining the lessons of history with those of modern science to uncover why real, whole food—the kind humans ate for thousands of years before modern nutrition dogma led us astray—holds the key to amazing health and happy taste buds. In Eat the Yolks, Liz Wolfe doesn’t just make a case for eating the whole egg. She uncovers the shocking lies we’ve been told about fat, cholesterol, protein, carbs, and calories and brings us the truth about which foods are healthy—and which foods are really harming us. You’ll learn truths like: - fat and cholesterol are crucial, not harmful . . . and why - “whole grains” are processed foods . . . and what to eat instead - counting calories is a waste of energy . . . and what we actually should be tracking - all animal products are not created equal . . . and which ones we truly need - nutrition doesn’t come in a box, bag, or capsule . . . and why there’s no substitute for real food!
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781628600193 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Victory Belt Publishing |
| Publication date: | 02/25/2014 |
| Pages: | 288 |
| Sales rank: | 1,042,851 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.30(w) x 9.20(h) x 2.10(d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Foreword Diane Sanfilippo 7
Introduction 11
The propaganda police (or how I learned to stop worrying and start eating real food) 13
What we talk about when we talk about Paleo 18
On scientific studies 23
So here's where we stand, and here's where we're going 28
Chapter 1 Fat 30
Let's talk about fat, baby 33
History and the heart 36
Cholesterol: Don't hate! 50
Saturated science? Fat chance 62
But what about the calories, yo! 77
So what to do? 79
Chapter 2 Protein 80
How did we get here? And actually, where the heck are we? 82
Kellogg's flaccid flakes 83
The essentials on protein and amino acids 87
Myth: Animal protein causes cancer 89
Myth: Animal protein is bad for the kidneys, liver, and bones 95
Myth: We can get all the protein we need from plants 100
Myth: We need to eat like primates Cor, don't monkey around with ape food) 111
Don't be cruel (or, veganism: I get it) 116
So what to do? 128
Chapter 3 Carbs 130
Crops and carbage 133
Carbohydrate confusion 142
The chemistry of carbs 153
What comes with your carbs? 161
After agriculture: Traditional food, traditional cultures traditional preparation 170
So what to do? 175
Chapter 4 Nutrients 178
Calories, energy, and food 180
It's the hormones, honey 183
Nutrients, not calories 190
Nutrients: Bank them, and bank on them 192
Nutrients we need: A is for animals only 200
Nutrients we need: D is for don't get deficient 206
Nutrients we need: K2 is for kick-ass 218
Nutrients we need: Omega-3 (or, fish oil-what's the catch?) 222
Nutrients we need: Minerals matter, and they're better together 230
So what to do? 249
Conclusion 253
Where we've been 253
Where we're going 255
How we get there 257
Where to begin 259
Nutrition in 100 Words 262
Acknowledgments 263
Sources 266
Index 281