The paleo manifesto
by Durant, John · first published 2013
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Combining science, culture, anthropology, and philosophy, explains how to stay healthy and live with purpose in the modern world by returning to the way humanity's hunter-gatherer ancestors ate, moved, and lived in the wild.
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…you than "vegetable" (industrial seed) oils because of their high (especially omega-6) polyunsaturated fat content. Two books I would really recommend are "Perfect Health Diet" by the Jaminets and "The Paleo Manifesto" by John Durant. "The Paleo Manifesto" is a 30,000ft view of health from an ancestral perspective. The "Perfect Health Diet" delves into the chemistry of metabolism and is very interesting in it's own…
on “Ask HN: What are you doing to improve your health?” ↗…Hackers and Painters - One of the most insightful, subversive, and surprising texts out there. C Interfaces and Implementations - Great examples of good API design and how to build clean modular code. The Paleo Manifesto - Explains how the origin of religion was probably as a set of models for coping with the transition from hunting/gathering to civilized agriculture. The part of the book where he points out that the…
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