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Summary: A simple natural way of eating
Review: A long term believer that simple carbs put on the pounds, NeanderThin is the cleanest approach to low carb eating I've read. Spending most of my adult life battling with a weight problem, I've learned that what I refer to as lean eating is the only long term way for success (unless you become an athlete). I've been highly against the early advice of the Atkins type diet because it promotes consuming pounds of bacon, etc. Get real - this is clearly not the way to health. Fresh produce, minimal cooking and no pasturization. Meats, fish and NO PROCESSING. You feel better and stay leaner. It's really simple and shouldn't be feared as two difficult. I really disagree with the preface where Eades states that this is more restrictive. He includes any amount of complex carbs your body accepts just states that higher complex carbs (fruit/veggies) will slow weight loss. There were some minor references in the book which are assumptions or opinions and are not backed up in research(and possibly not all together true)which I thought discredited it a bit, BUT the vast majority of Audettes statements ARE followed up with references to the research that has been done. A little extreme (makes you think a potato chip will cause extreme problems) but anyone who practices low simple carb eating can tell you 1) your body will tell you it's the proper way to eat, and 2)after extended periods of time, adding simple carbs in will make you gain weight quickly. NeanderThin has renewed my committment to this way of life. I've bounced back and forth with it for the last couple years (after 15 years on) put on 40 pounds and became sluggish. Two weeks into the program, I've dropped about 12 pounds without trying, and after about 1 week I got my energy back - so it's back to the gym and 30 pounds to go. I would recommend this book to anyone affraid of Atkins or the Protien Power books - it's simplistic and 'clean'. By the way -, five years ago, I wanted to drop about 10 pounds fast and decided to follow atkins - It made me sickly and light headed - it ended with a binge of vegetables and fruit which I craved uncontrollably - Audette has the proper balance - it's eat naturally. Sorry for the poor spelling.
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Summary: Worth every penny.
Review: Although initially a little skeptical, I committed to a program of moderate exercise combined with the NeanderThin diet. My results have been stellar. I've gone from being 176 pounds to a leaner 163, all in one month and three days. I feel so much better, and have found the diet easy to stick to once I began to see the results. I estimate that I'll be at my target weight, 160, in about another week, at the most.
Everyone at work thought I was a little strange, with my bag full of beef jerky, nuts, and fruit but now they're all asking me what I've done.
Even better, is that through commitment to the NeanderThin diet, I've learned other new skills. I am cooking my own lean, healthy foods. I've never been a cook before, but now I'm in the kitchen making delicious no-carb, high protein meals with fresh ingredients and a minimum of preparation. I really don't even eat out anymore.
Mr. Audette makes his case on the basis of anthropological and observational data: the basic human digestive tract has stayed practically the same since the early days of prehistory, while our food has radically changed. We cannot properly metabolize the carbs and sugars that surround us, resulting in a sickly, obese populace. Returning to a natural, whole foods diet is simply doing what is natural, and the results can be quite dramatic. Try this book today!
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Summary: Oh, Freedom!
Review: Every dieter can be sure of one thing, each diet book that comes out promises to be THE book, that changes your life for ever. Well, all of those books are gathering dust on my lengthy diet book shelf--THE book that changed my life, forever is "Neanderthin."The premise is simple, eat like your ancestors, get trim and strong and never go hungry. By ancestors, I'm speaking way back, about our Paleolithic forebears. In case you're foggy on this topic, these were the hunter-gatherer people. The diet is somewhat akin to Dr. Atkins' but you don't go into ketosis. "Neanderthin" touts natural whole food, preferably organic. Nuts and seeds; berries and other fruits; veggies, olive & flaxseed oil, plenty of water and a ton of meat round out the offerings. The author encourages folks to reach out of the ordinary supermarket meats, to try ostrich, buffalo, venison and a variety of eggs. Like one of the other reviewers I lost a lot, quickly--12 pounds in the first week. Naturally, the weight has slowed yet it continues each week. I have no intentions of ever going back to a carb-based diet. I've curbed the sugar demons and wheat bloat that I use to suffer from. This diet is a sweet ticket to freedom for all of the sugar and carb addicts out there! I took off 1 star because I've been able to work the diet, which is based on a low glycemic index, to include safe grains and a tiny bit of diary without slowing my weight-loss or increasing cravings. Most people will also probably end up trying to add a smidgen of each but will not suffer ill effects.
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Summary: Food Poisoning
Review: Excellent, this book will change your life if you follow it. It is very logical in its arguments and it all makes perfect sense. I used to suffer from acne and eczema but now that I've changed to a paleolithic diet my skin skin look great. I feel better as well and lost a bit of excess weight around the tummy. This book will put you on the road to healthy living, follow it and you'll see. The book advises eating more green vegetables but I don't like to eat them but I have a shot of wheatgrass juice everyday which is equal to 2kg of green vegetables. Lucky for me. Other books i can recommend to compliment this is "Power of Juicing" by Ray Kordich for those who don't like eating vegetables and "Beyond Brawn" by Stuart McRobert for those who wish to buff up.
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Summary: I'm a Believer!
Review: I did research a few years ago because of arthritis pains, becoming a borderline diabetic, and having thyroid problems. For all those starting off I recommend a book called "Lick the Sugar Habit". Keep eating legumes and stone ground wheat. Give your body 6 months to one year to heal, then go to Neanderthin.
I'm still able to eat wheat and rice (in small amounts). I let my body tell me what's going on. Do i have arthritis pains? Is my stomach in pain? You'll need a good support system (family and friends) and also you will have to read Neanderthin at least twice very carefully to get all the information down.
This book has changed my life for the better. I UNDERSTAND why I have health problems and what kind of foods to heal. Also, I like the "chaos" approach to exercise explained in this book. You will find that it is not as strenous and more interesting and fun which will keep you fit and healthy if you combine it with Neanderthin. This is by far the best diet of the top 8 diets in America/Canada. The "Paleo-Diet" is not a good book because it is TOO restrictive and almost impossible to follow. Plus you can't get variety in meals, etc.
I'm living proof because I've followed this diet for 2 years now. I don't have any health problems anymore.
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Summary: Giving It A Try-Makes Sense!
Review: I received the NeanderThin book the other day and have spent all my free moments reading it. WONDERFUL! It makes sense to me and seems sensible and "on target". I have struggled to lose a bit of weight (5-10lbs not much) for years since the last child. I have began to eat the paleolithic way and it has made me feel less tired and has kept me full! If I get hungry I grab my walnuts or seeds or berries or even eat a plain hamburger to satisfy myself. I am dedicated to attempting to practice this. I was concerned about calcium at my age but am taking a 1500 mg supplement and if I eat the green leafy veggies I should I also get calcium. This is so natural, makes sense and is perfect for me. I liked the "history" in the book too. I checked out paleolithic eating online and found alot of interesting info and nothing to determine it is "unsafe" nor "unhealthy". I am recommending this way of eating to others. I like the way the book is put together because he doesn't call it a "DIET" and its not geared only toward losing weight, its about eating healthier and more natural. We are a spoiled society with all of our preservatives. If Dr.'s recommend to eat this way, they would lose business no wonder they don't! They want their salaries too. More Dr.'s should recommend this healthy way.
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Summary: I have lost 6 pounds in 7 days with this incredible book!
Review: I was very skeptical of this book when I first got it but after trying the suggested foods (made very simple for those of us who are nutritionally-challenged)for only 7 days I have lost a whopping 6 pounds! I didn't even lose that much while fasting for 7 days! How exciting! I feel almost manic, I am so happy and healthy. All I can say is this diet works! Buy it, believe it, and see the difference in your weight.
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Summary: Eat healthfully for the first time in your life
Review: I'm a low-carb dieter who lost 47 lbs on the Atkins diet last year. During that time I felt great, slept better, skin cleared up, had wonderful energy and also experienced other little side benefits to the weight loss that are too numerous to get into here. However, after several months I plateaued at about 25 lbs above my ideal, and of course I wanted to jump-start my weight loss again. So, I did a little investigating, discovered the Neanderthin diet and decided to give it a try. A brief summary of the basics of this diet: eat no technology-dependant foods. By that, author Ray Audette meant that if a food needs technology beyond a sharp stick or stone to process it to become edible, or to exist in its present form, it was never a natural part of our human diet, which had its origins with hunter-gatherer societies. What foods absolutely must be processed and/or cooked are: grains, including wheat, rice and most others; starchy vegetables like potatoes and yams; legumes, including peanuts, beans and peas. Refined sugars and artificial sweeteners are absolutely unnatural, although a small bit of honey is fine. Modern fruits are okay but must be eaten sparingly due to the fact that they have been altered over thousands of years to barely resemble the wild originals that our ancestors snacked on, usually much larger and with a much higher sugar content. Fermented foods are of course absent without our technology, so that excludes cheeses, vinegars and alcohols. Dairy products are also absent from the lives of hunter gatherers for obvious reasons. That leaves us with meats, fish/seafood, eggs, nuts, most vegetables, greens, and small amounts of fruits and berries. I tried the hunter-gatherer diet for about one month. Just as with Atkins, I felt wonderful and had all of the other side benefits of the low-carb diet, but my weight loss was still stalled. You see, the allowance of fruits on this diet was too great a temptation and I overdid it there. Longtime dieters may be familiar with the term "trigger", which is anything that causes your cravings to resurface. Some people like me have carb triggers so sensitive that even fruits can activate them. So, reluctantly I concluded that I would have to replace the Neanderthin diet with a low-carb diet that forbid me to have any fruit, at least during the weight loss phase. When I am finished and at my goal weight, however, I will return to the Neanderthin diet to maintain my excellent health, as I can't imagine a life entirely without strawberries, peaches and melons! I should note here that the authors Audette and Gilchrist do not advocate this diet as an aid to weight loss per se, but for reversing health problems and improving overall fitness. They theorize that diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, obesity and many other curses of civilization are the byproducts of an immune system response to unnatural foods like grains: they show how you can trace the origins and progression of these conditions from the time grains and other technology-dependant foods were introduced into a culture. Examples in our European culture point to the Industrial Revolution as the biggest health problem of our history, when steam powered mills made refined white flours and sugars commonly available and cheap to the masses. Until then heart disease and diabetes (just to pick two examples) were so rare as to be unheard of; now they are epidemic in the USA, which by the way consumes more refined flour and sugar per person than any nation in the world. Audette's theories and explanations make perfect sense to me, a non-scientist. They may partly explain why other low-carb diets are successful for weight loss. I can also see the sense in removing refined and processed foods from my diet, along with all the chemicals and trans fats that come with them. It's just too bad that a hunter-gatherer diet has a built in flaw, namely that the diet food industry can't cash in on it (remember, no artificial sweeteners or processed foods), and therefore it won't get the kind of publicity that diets like Atkins and Protein Power have had. Hopefully, the good word of mouth from satisfied dieters will spread and eventually get Audette nd Gilchrist the acclaim they deserve for helping so many people get back their health and quality of life.
-Andrea, aka Merribelle
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Summary: Eat healthfully for the first time in your life
Review: I'm a low-carb dieter who lost 47 lbs on the Atkins diet last year. During that time I felt great, slept better, skin cleared up, had wonderful energy and also experienced other little side benefits to the weight loss that are too numerous to get into here. However, after several months I plateaued at about 25 lbs above my ideal, and of course I wanted to jump-start my weight loss again. So, I did a little investigating, discovered the Neanderthin diet and decided to give it a try. A brief summary of the basics of this diet: eat no technology-dependant foods. By that, author Ray Audette meant that if a food needs technology beyond a sharp stick or stone to process it to become edible, or to exist in its present form, it was never a natural part of our human diet, which had its origins with hunter-gatherer societies. What foods absolutely must be processed and/or cooked are: grains, including wheat, rice and most others; starchy vegetables like potatoes and yams; legumes, including peanuts, beans and peas. Refined sugars and artificial sweeteners are absolutely unnatural, although a small bit of honey is fine. Modern fruits are okay but must be eaten sparingly due to the fact that they have been altered over thousands of years to barely resemble the wild originals that our ancestors snacked on, usually much larger and with a much higher sugar content. Fermented foods are of course absent without our technology, so that excludes cheeses, vinegars and alcohols. Dairy products are also absent from the lives of hunter gatherers for obvious reasons. That leaves us with meats, fish/seafood, eggs, nuts, most vegetables, greens, and small amounts of fruits and berries. I tried the hunter-gatherer diet for about one month. Just as with Atkins, I felt wonderful and had all of the other side benefits of the low-carb diet, but my weight loss was still stalled. You see, the allowance of fruits on this diet was too great a temptation and I overdid it there. Longtime dieters may be familiar with the term "trigger", which is anything that causes your cravings to resurface. Some people like me have carb triggers so sensitive that even fruits can activate them. So, reluctantly I concluded that I would have to replace the Neanderthin diet with a low-carb diet that forbid me to have any fruit, at least during the weight loss phase. When I am finished and at my goal weight, however, I will return to the Neanderthin diet to maintain my excellent health, as I can't imagine a life entirely without strawberries, peaches and melons! I should note here that the authors Audette and Gilchrist do not advocate this diet as an aid to weight loss per se, but for reversing health problems and improving overall fitness. They theorize that diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, obesity and many other curses of civilization are the byproducts of an immune system response to unnatural foods like grains: they show how you can trace the origins and progression of these conditions from the time grains and other technology-dependant foods were introduced into a culture. Examples in our European culture point to the Industrial Revolution as the biggest health problem of our history, when steam powered mills made refined white flours and sugars commonly available and cheap to the masses. Until then heart disease and diabetes (just to pick two examples) were so rare as to be unheard of; now they are epidemic in the USA, which by the way consumes more refined flour and sugar per person than any nation in the world. Audette's theories and explanations make perfect sense to me, a non-scientist. They may partly explain why other low-carb diets are successful for weight loss. I can also see the sense in removing refined and processed foods from my diet, along with all the chemicals and trans fats that come with them. It's just too bad that a hunter-gatherer diet has a built in flaw, namely that the diet food industry can't cash in on it (remember, no artificial sweeteners or processed foods), and therefore it won't get the kind of publicity that diets like Atkins and Protein Power have had. Hopefully, the good word of mouth from satisfied dieters will spread and eventually get Audette nd Gilchrist the acclaim they deserve for helping so many people get back their health and quality of life.
-Andrea, aka Merribelle
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Summary: Worth It
Review: The author briefly details the history of wheat and grains. He reminds the reader that many of the foods we eat are so new and so toxic that the human body was not meant to digest them. He must be right, because the moment I stopped eating wheat, my asthma symptoms diminished the tendency to get the flu decreased. This diet is the least complicated of all the ones out there now. For those who prefer simple guidelines over complicated measuring (he has list of permanent no-no's) this book is good.
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