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Deep Nutrition: Why Your Genes Need Traditional Food

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Publisher : Flatiron Books; 1st edition (January 3, 2017)


Language : English


Hardcover : 512 pages


ISBN-10 : 1250113822


ISBN-13 : 25


Item Weight : 1.7 pounds


Dimensions : 6.42 x 1.65 x 9.56 inches


Best Sellers Rank: #26,457 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #369 in Nutrition (Books) #409 in Other Diet Books


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    • This book is awesome, even though the recipes are very heavy in ...
This book is awesome, even though the recipes are very heavy in animal products and I have hot eaten red meat in over 40 years. I am a MD and have practiced medicine for over 48 years. Her science is exceptionally profound and adds to all of my prior reading. I have read over 300 books in the last three years, all pertaining to this subject. If I had to pick one book this would be it. I can make my own recipes, without all the meat, which is not good. Her description of the cascading free radical damage to the unprotected brain and eyes is of particularly great significance and usefulness in understanding the explosive incidence of dementia in the US population. I cannot express how much I appreciate her work. I am 86 years old, in good health and work every day, including as the caregiver for my wife for the last 8 years. So I know a little about maintaining good health ad sanity in the face of adversity. Godspeed to all who tread here. Robert L Youngblood MD. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2017 by Nan
    • An an absolute must read for all!!!
This is a most fascinating book and I have reads scores of books on nutrition. Dr. Shanahan makes so many great points that are NEVER discussed or even known by 99.9999% of MDs. I should know as I am an MD. Nutrition is blown off by the medical establishment and medical schools as being totally irrelevant to health. Nothing is further from the truth. I agree with the doctor on almost everything but since I have been on a ketogenic diet for years and actually feel and look younger than I did 10 years ago, I think the upper limit of carbohydrate intake should be no more than 50 gms/day. The doctor addresses so many issues in this book. An amazing discussion on the spacing of children and a mother's nutrition is right on. She states that having kids in rapid succession is deleterious to the looks, brains, and health of the subsequent child. No obstetrician or family medicine doctor will ever tell you this since they are oblivious and do not know this. Of course there are exceptions to any rule but in general I believe this is true. I have pondered this idea regarding my own family and birth order. She also points out how "normal" levels of cholesterol and LDL are constantly lowered by the medical system in order to benefit big pharma and get as many people as possible on statins. Anyone who has really studied cholesterol/LDL knows this is not the culprit of cardiovascular disease but carbohydrate consumption that leads to hyperinsulinemia and then to insulin resistance which causes many diseases. This is an amazing and very interesting book! If everyone practiced the teachings in this book miraculous improvement in health would be obtained. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on January 15, 2018 by DH22
    • Shocking contemporary expression of scientific racism & eugenics
Review Image by Jed S. Bickman
Review Image by Jed S. Bickman
Review Image by Jed S. Bickman
Review Image by Jed S. Bickman
Review Image by Jed S. Bickman
Review Image by Jed S. Bickman
Review Image by Jed S. Bickman
Other reviews have mentioned the author's disturbing ideas of "beauty" and genetics, but not enough of the other reviews properly place this book in the historical context it belongs in: the tradition of scientific racism and progressive eugenics. The idea that some people are genetically superior -- and that this superiority is measurable in the proportions of the face and skull -- of course dates back to the days when it was used to justify slavery. However, in the 20th century, these ideas resurfaced in the medical community. The Eugenics movement was incredibly popular amongst elite progressives. I highly recommend two books about this: "Fatal Invention" by Dorothy Roberts, and, a book that's a much larger history of psychiatry in America, "Administrations of Lunacy" by Mab Segrest. You will learn that ideas such as those that Shanahan promotes inspired the Nazi movement in Europe -- yes, the Nazis got their ideas from American racism. Although Shanahan uses nonwhite examples of beauty, her logic that the standard American diet, if accepted broadly, would directly be used against poorer and working-class people who eat that diet and don't necessarily have the money or time to shop organic whole foods; and you can be sure that in this country, that is mobilized against Black and brown people. There are those who forgive Shanahan because her ideal "beautiful person" phenotype isn't exclusively, or even primarily, caucasian. She holds up Halle Barry as an example, and extols the beauty of "indigenous tribes." Students of intellectual history will recognize the troupe of the "Noble Savage" that was hugely in vogue during the massacres of native Americans; although the noble savage notion seems to be a positive stereotype -- a compliment -- it creates a very destructive and false dichotomy between "civilized" peoples and non-civilized; even if civilization is seen to be a corrupting influence, it falsely ignores the civilization that cultures developed before they were massacred by white people. This became subsumed into the fetishization for traditional rural life that was a key tenant of Nazism; racists often fetishize an edenic, pre-civilized state of purity that has been corrupted. Quotes from Shanahan: "In the early twentieth century, Westerners were tantalized by the possibility that superhuman races lived just beyond the boundaries off the map." (Of course, she would argue, that tantalization had nothing to do with the impulse to colonize and dominate places.) The photos of graphics from the book just scream "Phrenology" to me, and if they don't to you, you maybe aren't as familiar with the history of scientific racism as you should be. If you think I'm being oversensitive or PC or something, here are things that she says that should piss you off, if you happen to be in these categories: -She also posits that younger siblings are basically always uglier than first-borns. I don't need to point out that this isn't a very nice thing to say. She talks about how parents can create the "perfect baby" -- as if all babies aren't perfect! They're babies -She says about women's bodies, "The hourglass represents normal female sexual development, while the banana [A term she made up to describe less curvy women] develops when sex-hormone receptivity is blunted." No evidence, just an assertion. I know that many women and female-identified people would object to the idea that since their body doesn't fit a certain shape, they are abnormally sexually developed. Body shaming at its worst! -And here's my least favorite, since my son is autistic: She claims that autism is a result of the mother's diet. Honestly this pissed me off so much I couldn't see the page straight. I strongly object to the idea that first of all that autism is a disease and therefore autistic people have something wrong with them that makes them less -- less something-- than neurotypical people. And then blaming autism on the parents for eating *vegetable oil* is just crazy, unfounded, and mean. It is utterly baseless. She invents a made-up syndrome called "De Novo Gene Mutation Syndrome" to "explain" autism. She couches it in so much scientific language that any casual reader would assume that she's reporting established scientific fact, instead of a crazy fringe theory. Look, you may not have a problem with any of this, but if so, I don't really want to know you. I'm not going to debate people in the comments. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2020 by Jed S. Bickman
    • Only for the blind
I’m sorry but this book has so many places in which it contradicts itself and some observations border on the completely ridiculous. Given her qualifications I was hoping for more. I should stopped where she said the most beautiful people are the most successful. But I read ten pages more. Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg , Angela Merkel, And so many more are more admired for their brains than their looks. I left Stephen Hawking for the last. Seriously flawed book. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on September 23, 2018 by Benji
    • A Shallow, Disappointing Read
I was expecting to learn new and useful information on how to improve my health through understanding epigenetics. I couldn’t even get past the first thirty pages because of the author’s shallow, Eurocentric and utterly basic ideas of beauty and success. Her own obvious obsession with conventional ‘beauty’ stands in for genetic facts. It read like an Us Weekly article. I have returned my book and I do not recommend anyone who thinks critically get this book. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on April 16, 2019 by Kayonne

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