The Jungle Effect: A Doctor Discovers the Healthiest Diets from Around the World–Why They Work and How to Bring Them Home
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Pizza, pasta, hamburgers, sushi, tacos, and french fries . . . whether our ancestors were born in Madrid, Malaysia, or Mexico, chances are our daily food choices come from all around the globe. Unfortunately, we have taken some of the worst aspects of our varied ancestral menus to turn healthy cuisine into not-so-healthy junk food. Where did we go wrong? Why is it that non-Western immigrants are so much more susceptible to diabetes and other diet-related chronic diseases than white Americans? How is it possible that relatively poor native populations in Mexico and Africa have such low levels of the chronic diseases that plague the United States? What is the secret behind the extremely low rate of clinical depression in Iceland—a country where dreary weather is the norm? The Jungle Effect has the life-changing answers to these important questions, and many more. Dr. Daphne Miller undertook a worldwide quest to find diets that are both delicious and h… More >>
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This is the sort of book that uses a paragraph where a sentence will do. Are you interested in the doctor’s patients, whether real, or imaginary? Will it make any difference to you where she travels, or the appearance of those who proffer her advice? Do you really need a half-dozen different appendices? Then read the book. Do you want a few recipes, and some nutritional commentary which seems to be accurate? Then skim it. I wish I had: I believe that the the nutrition is probably correct, I believe that the science behind it was gathered correctly (although I can’t attest to it, as I did little more than skim the bibliography) and I think that some of the recipes would be quite satisfying (although others present dishes that are bland and uninteresting). follow them, exercise, and you may feel better, and be healthier. Or not! No guarantees, but I will guarantee that you have better things to do than read this book word for word.
I really don’t know what else to say without spending too much time writing a review. Just read it. If you don’t you will never know will you? Unless you already know it all. What wonderful synergy contained in this book… Thank you Doctor Miller!
Physician Daphne Miller captivated my interest during a radio interview with our local NPR/KQED Forum host Michael Krasny.
You can listen online or download the Mp3 at this link:
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Fortunately, our library branch had the book on the shelf when I checked later that day. Great reading. Great information. Great entertainment. Dr. Miller’s inspiring storytelling could coax even the most reluctant junk-food addicts into changing their attitudes.
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follow-up — Too bad Amazon deleted the link to KQED’s Forum show. The interview with Dr. Miller is an excellent introduction to the book. You can go to kqed.org and search the archives for Daphne Miller.
I absolutely loved this book. It has so much great and interesting information and it inspired me to start thinking about my food in an entirely different way. It made me get excited about my food choices and eating for better health. I also love all the recipes. They are so unique and different. I would 100 percent recommend this book if you are interested in finally being excited about the food you eat and the wonderful impact it can have on your health and wellbeing!
Leans a bit in the Weston Price direction. We don’t actually hear what the people with ‘the happiest diet’ in the world DO die of. Ditto for the rest of the indigenous groups and their respective disease ‘cool’ spot.
‘Healthy at 100′, by John Robbins is great, as well, charting qualities of societies’ diets and lifestyle, where people, regularly, are productive and active while we drool, or join the dust…