Evolution Rx: A Practical Guide to Harnessing Our Innate Capacity for Health and Healing
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A revolutionary-yet simple and practical-guide to staying fit and healthy based on evolutionary medicine.
Countless books and nutrition experts have advised modern readers to adopt the best of the “cave-man diet” that avoids processed foods and refined carbohydrates. But how and what people eat is only the beginning of what the study of human evolution can teach us about overall health and well-being. Based on the latest research in the burgeoning field of evolutionary medicine, Evolution Rx provides readers with not only an understanding of the underlying science of this discipline but with a practical means to making nutritional and lifestyle changes that address a wide range of topics from exercise and injury prevention to allergies, heart health, cancer, Alzheimer’s, and more:
• Why eating more fat, not less, can fuel weight loss
• Why human bodies can’t register fullness when eating carbohydrates-and what to do about it
Evolution Rx: A Practical Guide to Harnessing Our Innate Capacity for Health and Healing
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I’m amazed that Dr. Meller is even licensed to practice medicine. I fully support healthy dialogue, and unconventional ideas, but the medical advice he gives is nothing short of horrible. What Dr. Meller does is to blatantly spread misinformation and pass downright dangerous ideas as sound medical advice. In his single-handed crusade against scientific consensus and common sense, Dr. Meller argues that eating pesticide laden foods is no different than eating organic foods, that exercising is not helpful in fighting obesity, and that we need much less water than what the medical community advises. His book is littered with this kind of “advice”. Do yourself (and the world) a favor and don’t buy this book.
While I cheer the doctor’s common sense views on taking care of your health, there’s few areas that I found myself shaking my head over opinions expressed in areas that he wasn’t all that familiar with.
One segment of the health craze I can comment on is yoga. I’ve been a serious student for more than 20 years. Unfortunately, yoga in general is roundly poo-pooed here. It’s true that ancient yoga was practiced as preparation for meditation, but that’s a very limited view. If the good doctor had done his research, he would have found a handful of recent studies that have shown yoga offering positive benefits for bad backs, carpel tunnel syndrome and autoimmune conditions.
Given his take on most alternative therapies, the doc can come off as another medical professional who is uncomfortable with the idea of them or threatened enough by them to dismiss them outright.
Overall, it’s a quick, interesting read, but there are more than a few suggestions offered here that should be taken with a grain of sea salt.
As a preface let me say that some of the most enjoyable hours I have spent reading recently have been spent reading this book. I doled it out to myself in order not to finish it too fast.
As my next thought:
iconoclast: /n./
1. One who attacks and seeks to overthrow traditional or popular
ideas or institutions.
2. One who destroys sacred religious images.
I feel like a whole layer of dirt and grime have been scraped off of my conceptual windshield. I literally feel stronger after having read the book. While I didn’t realize it, and just assumed I wasn’t affected by it, I too live in the mainstream world of continual messages about how fragile my health is, and how much it depends on drugs to maintain it. And now, after reading this book I feel like a kid again before I had been polluted by all of those messages – when a little bit of dirt never hurt anybody.
Living outside of the United States I am a bit insulated from the constant bombardment from drug ads etc, but after reading this I realize just how sucked into the whole precarious health issue I had become – and again, I just had assumed it didn’t affect me.
For me the bottom line takeaway from Evolution Rx is that each of us comes from a very, very, long line of survivors, and we are well adapted to thrive without huge amounts of outside intervention.
This is a great book filled with insightful information. A definite MUST READ!
Jonathan L.
New Jersey
In this modern world of fads and quick fixes, finely a real doctor provides a logical approach to staying healthy. And, the book costs less than a bottle of vitamin pills!