Nourishing Diets

How Paleo, Ancestral and Traditional Peoples Really Ate

By: Sally Fallon Morell

Narrated by: Dara Rosenberg

Sally Fallon Morell, bestselling author of Nourishing Traditions, debunks diet myths to explore what our ancestors from around the globe really ate—and what we can learn from them to be healthy, fit, and better nourished today.

The Paleo craze has taken over the world. It asks curious dieters to look back to their ancestors' eating habits to discover a "new" way to eat that shuns grains, most dairy, and processed foods. But, while diet books with Paleo in the title sell well—are they correct? Were Paleolithic and ancestral diets really grain-free, low-carb, and based on all lean meat?

In Nourishing Diets ,Sally Fallon Morell explores the diets of our primitive ancestors from around the world—from Australian Aborigines and pre-industrialized Europeans to the inhabitants of "Blue Zones" where a high percentage of the populations live to 100 years or more.

In looking to the recipes and foods of the past, Fallon Morell points readers to what they should actually be eating—the key principles of traditional diets from across cultures—and offers recipes to help translate these ideas to the modern home cook.

We have lost so much! But using these principles, we can regain our ancestral knowledge, and our health back!

I have been following Sally Fallon for a couple of decades now and I keep learning from her. I follow much of her nutritional principles personally, and in my Naturopathic practice. It still amazes me how so many cultures used every part of the animal - even parts we find disgusting- like eyeballs! I have Long believed in the theory "like treats like" and cultures who may or may not have known about that theory, practice it - like eating heart when you have heart issues. I have amazing stories from my practice verifying the truthfulness of eating this way.

Must Read

I consider this a must read along with the nourishing traditions cook book! Very informative and interesting.

...more precious than gold.

This thorough examination of healthy diets cuts through all the misinformation we are surrounded with and gives you a true way to reach optimum health.

Great Insightful Information

The discription of what different people groups eat was fascinating.
There are foods I will change in my diet because of this book.
Thank you!

An eye opener, and no mistake!

The author critiques current diet fads and mass-market assumptions with a well researched document of eating habits in ancient and modern cultures. Special attention is paid to places that seem to support modern hypotheses about low-fat and plant-based foods. The author essays a (successful, imho) proof of a contrary view: traditional, healthy diets require fat and animal-based foods.