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The Primal Blueprint: Reprogram your genes for effortless weight loss, vibrant health, and boundless energy |  | Author: Mark Sisson
Publisher: Primal Nutrition, Inc.
Category: Book
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Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1ST
Pages: 283
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Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 7 x 1.1
ISBN: 0982207700
Dewey Decimal Number: 613
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The Primal Blueprint gives you the power to flip the switches that control your weight, health, energy levels and, ultimately, your destiny of a long, healthy, happy life. Combining modern genetic science with the immutable principles of human evolution, Health and fitness expert Mark Sisson presents a revolutionary, easy-to-follow program based on ten Primal Blueprint behavior laws that unlock the secret to weight control, health and longevity. Learn about the one concept that will guarantee lifelong weight control, no matter who you are, how much extra weight you carry, or what your family genes are like. Learn the reasons you crave sugars and sweets, and easy steps to eliminate those cravings forever. Naturally control your appetite and blood sugar levels so well that you will sometimes have to remind yourself to eat! Burn your stored body fat as a ready source of energy 24 hours a day. Discover how popular low-fat, grain-based diets can trigger illness, insidious lifelong weight gain and devastating diseases. Learn how a high-fat diet can help you lose weight and why it is actually healthy. Reject gimmicks like regimented meal times, portion control, strict caloric ratios, and food point scores. Instead, eat Primal foods and be totally satisfied at every meal. Discover a complete strategy of eating, exercising and living that is fun and comes naturally, even for the unmotivated types! Achieve incredible fitness breakthroughs in a fraction of the time (and with a fraction of the suffering!) compared to conventional fitness programs. Reduce your risk of developing conditions like arthritis, diabetes, heart disease and cancer. Do all this and more by learning about the precise foods, exercises and other natural behaviors that turn some health-promoting genes on and other health-destroying genes off.
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Ten laws for improving health and happiness June 15, 2009
Joanne www.openmindrequired.com (Pennsylvania)
29 out of 29 found this review helpful
Our human DNA is the same as that of our hunter/gatherer ancestors who enjoyed good health and vitality before the agricultural revolution occurred 10,000 years ago. However, though agriculture has allowed us to dominate the globe, our brains and bodies have gotten smaller and we have seen a decline in health. The industrial revolution, with its fast food and fast life full of excesses, has all but pushed us over the edge.
A great many of us suffer from obesity and chronic diseases that affect our quality of life. This book provides ten diet and lifestyle laws that will help reverse these diseases so that we can enjoy a vital life into our later years. The laws include what we should eat, what we shouldn't eat, advice on exercise and movement and the importance of sunbathing, sleep and play.
The low-carb, paleolithic diet includes meat, vegetables, fruit, nuts and seeds, and it avoids grains, legumes, processed foods and unhealthy fats. Sisson's "primal" diet departs from the other paleolithic authors by embracing saturated fats, dietary cholesterol, and dairy. And while the diet is low-carb (owing primarily to the avoidance of grains), Sisson encourages consumption of vegetables and fruits, which supply much-needed nutrition.
Sisson encourages us to rethink our priorities and writes: "Let me reiterate my distaste for a perfectionist mentality toward diet, physical appearance, lifestyle change, and even school, career, and competitive athletics. Respecting the broad definition of health and the legacy of a simple lifestyle that our ancestors lived, we need to reject the measuring and judging forces of society and pursue fun and peace of mind in conjunction with health and fitness goals."
Those of us who have lived in the competitive fast lane and found it wanting will nod our heads in agreement with many of Sisson's sentiments.
This is not a short-term, weight-loss diet book but a book for those wanting to make life-long, healthy dietary changes, lose weight, reverse chronic disease, and develop a fun but productive exercise regime.
Here are a few other books on the paleo diet and the saturated fat/cholesterol debate that might be of interest:
The Paleo Diet: Lose Weight and Get Healthy by Eating the Food You Were Designed to Eat and NeanderThin: Eat Like a Caveman to Achieve a Lean, Strong, Healthy Body. (These author recommend reduced saturated fat consumption.)
The Great Cholesterol Con
Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health (Vintage)
WOW !!!! June 15, 2009
Gil Maroko
25 out of 26 found this review helpful
I stumbled upon the Mark Sisson blog MarksDailyApple.com several months ago and enjoy his daily postings tremendously. Sisson definitely has a fresh and bold look at many health and fitness notions. I ordered the long awaited book and was immediately impressed with the material and the presentation. The book is extremely thorough, yet clear and easy to read. The case Sisson makes for modifying your diet and exercise program is compelling and I have initiated immediate changes with great results. I have more energy and less fatigue eating primal foods and following the primal exercise recommendations. While Sisson is a hard core athlete and incredibly fit specimen for age 55, his style is very casual and welcoming to people of all health and fitness levels. I'm tired of the hard core fitness celebrity approach. Sisson walks his talk but he's not in your face about it. One of the most interesting topics in the book is the "80% Rule" where Sisson explains that you don't have to stress and worry about being perfect and by all means can enjoy your life with some indulgences and times where you are not exactly "primal". I can almost guarantee that anyone interested in health and fitness (and tired of all the gimmicks and hype out there) will enjoy this book and benefit greatly from the simple lifestyle changes recommended.
Primal Low-Carb Nutrition Made Cool By Mark Sisson! May 22, 2009
Livin' La Vida Low-Carb Man (Spartanburg, SC)
37 out of 41 found this review helpful
One of the leading voices of what is commonly known as "primal nutrition" or the low-carb Paleo way of eating in American today is Mark Sisson. A former triathlete who has committed his life to helping people learn the truth about diet and exercise, Sisson has built up quite a following at his uber-popular "Mark's Daily Apple" blog.
After years of researching the "blueprint" for living healthier than you ever thought possible, he came up with some great basic laws for doing it right: eat lots of plants and animals, avoid poisonous things, move frequently at a slow pace, lift heavy things, sprint once in a while, get adequate sleep, play, get adequate sunlight, avoid stupid mistakes, and use your brain.
Addressing some rather controversial health issues like the carbohydrate/insulin connection to obesity and disease, the cholesterol/heart health scam and the idiocy of statin drugs, why inflammation is the real culprit in heart disease and how taking omega-3 fatty acids can help cure it, and how ketone bodies are the "fourth fuel," just to name a few.
Lots of testimonials, helpful tips, and recipes fill up the pages of one of the most well-written books on healthy low-carb living in a long time! Kudos Mark!
A Doctor's Perspective June 23, 2009
Walter Kearns (USA)
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
The breakthrough book, "The Primal Blueprint", is a new and complete approach to intelligent health maintenance. It is a study in physiology, suitable as suggested reading in any medical school. It could save your life. The presentation is unique and attractive. There is an abundance of common sense from an experienced source. Sisson outlines ten laws to live by. These cover the demands of nutrition, exercise, race training, weight management, and family life. His approach to nutrition is different and he boldly challenges official medical beliefs. He disputes the role of dietary saturated fat in causation of arteriosclerosis, the role of cholesterol in promotion of heart disease, and the costly over-promotion of expensive, potentially toxic statin drugs. He criticizes our massive overeating of refined carbohydrates and urges avoidance of grains, cereals, bread and sugar. There is specific recommendation for "primal" food including more natural healthy fats and meats, fruits, veggies, and nuts. This fare parallels the food of paleo or ancient man ("primal".) The nutrition breakthrough rests on sound principles of avoidance of excess insulin states, and encouragement of fat metabolism for energy. The book answers the needs of athletes, fitness buffs, the overweight population, and all intelligent health seekers. Walter M. Kearns, M.D.
Better than first-rate June 27, 2009
Alonzo (Kansas City, MO USA)
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
Superbly organized and presented eating and fitness tips from a Low-Carb / Primal / Paleo point of view -- work with what evolution equipped us to want and to do, don't work against it.
Full of startling info and surprising advice, much of which goes against today's conventional wisdom. Help yourself to loads of good fats; don't drag yourself down by overdoing the cardio; be active but take a goodly number of days off; enjoy those egg yolks. Screw the usual Food Pyramid.
I'm living pretty Primal myself these days and it's working for me.
Sisson's a very likable and enthusiastic coach, and the book is a fun and fast read in a very popular mode. I can't emphasize enough, though, what miracles of research and information-processing the book represents. It could be the only Paleo-Primal book you'll ever need to read.
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