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Nutritional Grail: Ancestral Wisdom, Breakthrough Science, and the Dawning Nutritional Renaissance
How did 2.3 billion people become overweight? How did heart disease, cancer, and other degenerative diseases become the leading causes of death worldwide? Our ancestors, especially our distant, Paleolithic ancestors, before the advent of agricultural, enjoyed remarkably robust health. What went wrong?
During the twentieth century—the Dark Ages of nutrition—flawed nutritional theories gained widespread acceptance, prompting radical departures from traditional foods and time-honored food processing techniques. Sugar consumption skyrocketed; proinflammatory vegetable oils replaced nourishing animal fats; processed foods became commonplace.
In this groundbreaking book, Christopher Clark explores the social and economic forces enabling these changes while thoroughly and lucidly explaining modern scientific perspectives on fat metabolism, cholesterol, fructose metabolism, gluten, detoxification, and many other important nutritional subjects.
Nutritional Grail offers life-transforming knowledge regarding what to eat, why to eat it, and how to prepare it—including 100 simple, delicious recipes. Like the original twelfth-century grail story, this knowledge comes through asking questions, serving others, and serving one’s higher Self.
While laying out a comprehensive strategy for effortless weight loss, improved digestion, and increased energy, Clark convincingly suggests a nutritional renaissance, propelled by science and guided by the wisdom of our ancestors, is finally dawning.
During the twentieth century—the Dark Ages of nutrition—flawed nutritional theories gained widespread acceptance, prompting radical departures from traditional foods and time-honored food processing techniques. Sugar consumption skyrocketed; proinflammatory vegetable oils replaced nourishing animal fats; processed foods became commonplace.
In this groundbreaking book, Christopher Clark explores the social and economic forces enabling these changes while thoroughly and lucidly explaining modern scientific perspectives on fat metabolism, cholesterol, fructose metabolism, gluten, detoxification, and many other important nutritional subjects.
Nutritional Grail offers life-transforming knowledge regarding what to eat, why to eat it, and how to prepare it—including 100 simple, delicious recipes. Like the original twelfth-century grail story, this knowledge comes through asking questions, serving others, and serving one’s higher Self.
While laying out a comprehensive strategy for effortless weight loss, improved digestion, and increased energy, Clark convincingly suggests a nutritional renaissance, propelled by science and guided by the wisdom of our ancestors, is finally dawning.
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295 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 21, 2014
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January 6, 2019
The science was solid. It was well-researched and made presentable. It was just all over the place. There was no coherent thread to follow through the book, it just kept doubling back on itself and hurling more facts at you.
Yeah, the facts are useful, but you're only gonna be able to assimilate one out of every five because of the chaos of the presentation and the lack of context.
At least he included recipes.
Yeah, the facts are useful, but you're only gonna be able to assimilate one out of every five because of the chaos of the presentation and the lack of context.
At least he included recipes.
January 22, 2024
This is a good in-depth book which has curated a lot of beneficial health promoting information which otherwise would require one to read multiple books to get the same information...
Really good, especially for a newbie who may be new to this info (which am not) but I felt it read more like a continuous reference book going a million miles a minute with a barrage of info and references vs other books similar to this which I preferred that flowed better - but it certainly is probably worthy of a higher rating than I gave it because it has a ton of useful and valid info - just not my style of read or book structure which makes it hard to retain info - maybe treat it as a continuous reference guide to keep coming back to vs enjoyable read...
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Really good, especially for a newbie who may be new to this info (which am not) but I felt it read more like a continuous reference book going a million miles a minute with a barrage of info and references vs other books similar to this which I preferred that flowed better - but it certainly is probably worthy of a higher rating than I gave it because it has a ton of useful and valid info - just not my style of read or book structure which makes it hard to retain info - maybe treat it as a continuous reference guide to keep coming back to vs enjoyable read...
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If you found this review helpful - I’d like to invite you to discover more on our blog. Where the community share some of our most important insights to level up each others knowledge 💡- from experience in studying books like this, training programs, podcasts and much more - visit the blog link above to find out more.
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May 1, 2014
This is not an easy book to summarize. It is chock full of myth, science, socio-political and historical references, with a little prophecy thrown in for good measure. But Mr. Clark conveys the information via “plain English.” He notes: “Throughout this book, you will find over 500 citations from peer-reviewed, scientific journals and other highly credible sources.” But he has made the information accessible to the non-scientist. If you are tired of getting questionable advice from celebrities and self-styled fitness coaches, this thoughtful, painstakingly researched book is worth a close read.
The author advocates returning to a pre-industrial era diet and he provides many reasons, both scientific and practical, why he does so. The book is augmented with a number of charts to help the reader sort through and apply the information. A two-week sample menu and generous amount of recipes are included to get you started. I was pleased to see a very thorough index making the information easy to access.
Bottomline: If you have concerns for your and your family’s health, this is a book worth investigating. (review copy)
The author advocates returning to a pre-industrial era diet and he provides many reasons, both scientific and practical, why he does so. The book is augmented with a number of charts to help the reader sort through and apply the information. A two-week sample menu and generous amount of recipes are included to get you started. I was pleased to see a very thorough index making the information easy to access.
Bottomline: If you have concerns for your and your family’s health, this is a book worth investigating. (review copy)
February 22, 2014
I received a copy from storycartel.com in exchange for a review.
This book is informative and thorough. I learned more about the effects of food, and a lot of information was eye-opening. I appreciate the author's recommendation of cookware, utensils, and filters. The recipes at the end was helpful and made me think about what I was eating.
I liked when the author stated he was not pushing any diet program. When he made recommendations, he stated that we need to choose what was right to us. He included the advantages and disadvantages to help someone make decisions.
The author provided tons of information, and at some points reading the information became dry - but it was valuable information.
This book is informative and thorough. I learned more about the effects of food, and a lot of information was eye-opening. I appreciate the author's recommendation of cookware, utensils, and filters. The recipes at the end was helpful and made me think about what I was eating.
I liked when the author stated he was not pushing any diet program. When he made recommendations, he stated that we need to choose what was right to us. He included the advantages and disadvantages to help someone make decisions.
The author provided tons of information, and at some points reading the information became dry - but it was valuable information.
December 31, 2014
Great book to read with a highlighter in hand. I know this will be on my reference shelf as I move forward in my nutrition journey. Great pumpkin pie recipe that made our Thanksgiving table.
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