The Jungle Effect: Healthiest Diets from Around the World--Why They Work and How to Make Them Work for You
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| Rating | : | 4.22 (795 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0060886234 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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Daphne Miller, M.D., is a practicing physician, author, and professor of family medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. A contributing columnist to the Washington Post as well as other newspapers and magazines, Miller holds a medical degree from Harvard University and an undergraduate degree from Brown University. She lives and
Many of her overarching tips will sound familiar (eat fresh foods, eat more fish, avoid refined sugar, watch the salt, etc.), but a handful of suggestions, such as eating fermented foods and using mushrooms to fight cancer, should come as news. From Publishers Weekly Family physician Miller had seen countless cases of chronic illness and weight gain, but it wasn't until she saw a patient recently returned from Brazil that a light bulb went off in her head: the patient had noticed marked improvement after just a few weeks in her father's native village. She then embarked on a world tour to find out why. All rights reserved. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. As she travels through Copper Can
Miller's patients, quirky travel adventures, interviews with world-renowned food experts, delicious (yet authentic) indigenous recipes, and valuable diet secrets that will stick with you for a lifetime.. The Jungle Effect is filled with inspiring stories from Dr. Why do the relatively poor native populations in Mexico and Africa have such low levels of the chronic diseases that plague the United States? Why is the rate of seasonal affective disorder in Iceland—a country where dreary weather is the norm—so low? Why is it that older women in Okinawa have such low breast cancer rates that it is not considered cost-effective for them to get screeni
The Jungle Effect Stephen Balbach `The Jungle Effect` is what Dr. Miller noticed when her San Francisco practice patients went on a "native diet". Unlike typical Western diets, which caused her patients health problems, when they switched to native diets - traditional foods from native cultures - their health improved, often dramatically. To learn more about native diets, Dr. Miller visited places such as Iceland, Nigeria, Crete, the Amazon, Okinawa to discover what they are doing right. Thousands of years of human trial and error, according to Dr. Miller, have selected for the best diets for human health and longevi. Finally Making Sense of Eating I am pretty pleased with this book overalland highly recommend it. It's a narrative of native diets as they relate to the physician's patients. However, there are some quibbles I have with the book.Most people don't really understand what their chief health risks are - so it would have been nice to show overall risk assessment as part of the equation - i.e. most people in the U.S. will die from heart disease. So perhaps that ailment should have gotten more attention. For instance, breast cancer, albeit important, is responsible for Finally Making Sense of Eating P. Strayer I am pretty pleased with this book overalland highly recommend it. It's a narrative of native diets as they relate to the physician's patients. However, there are some quibbles I have with the book.Most people don't really understand what their chief health risks are - so it would have been nice to show overall risk assessment as part of the equation - i.e. most people in the U.S. will die from heart disease. So perhaps that ailment should have gotten more attention. For instance, breast cancer, albeit important, is responsible for 40,000 deaths per year. On the other hand, diabetes . 0,000 deaths per year. On the other hand, diabetes . emma sandford said Five Stars. a life changing paradigm