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The Evolution Diet: What and How We Were Designed to Eat

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"The first thing that dieters lose is their sense of humor." Part One of The Evolution Diet starts off with some humorous quotes like all of the parts or chapters in the book. Morse seems to have wanted to make his informative and enlightening book entertaining also. It worked! But besides staying amused at the anecdotes and jokes, I learned a great deal about how my body works and why I feel tense or tired at certain times of the day, or why I can't sleep some nights. It all goes back to my diet and the fact that I haven't been eating "what or how I was designed to eat."

If you are over the gimmick diet books that exclude half of natural food, or you want to add some variety into your diet while you try to lose weight, this thing works. It's a plan for eating that you can stick with and enjoy for the rest of your life, not just 5 weeks before you're over it.

It works like this: you eat certain types of food at certain times. Snack on LoS Hi-Fi (read the book) throughout the day, eat high-energy foods during exercise, and fill yourself with high-protein after exercise and before sleep. Morse goes into how this helps you attain perfect health including ideal weight and so much more.

Other good books about health are the "Good To Eat" and "Our Kind" by Marvin Haris. To our collective health!

The most amateurish book I have ever read on health and diet. I really got the impression the author had done a little reading on these ideas and then decided to write his own book. Here's a sample of the writing style - on the topic of the Islets of Langerhans (the structures in the pancreas that produce insulin) he says "Instead of picking on these little guys because of the funny name, you should know that these guys produce... insulin". As for his diet, it's either well-known information (don't eat excessive sugar), or is stated without adequate justification (like eating complex carbohydrates in the day and protein at night). I'm not saying it's incorrect, I'm saying it needs justification and discussion. And as for the diet itself, with a title like the Evolution Diet, you might wonder why it contains amongst other things Cheerios, popcorn, Triscuit crackers, and diet root beer.

This book definitely helped me to lose weight. It recommends eating most of your healthy carbs in the morning and eating a light amount of carbs throughout the day followed by a lot of protien for dinner. Prior to reading this book I actually followed a reverse eating pattern and now I know why I couldn't lose weight. Not sure how entertaining you might find it as a read but at least for me, following the tips worked.

This was a pretty amateurish book, IMO. I'm not an expert, but the timing of when you should eat various things seems dubious at best. Hunter/gatherers ate what was at hand. If they killed a large animal in the morning, I doubt they waited til evening to eat it.

But what made this book the most amateurish was the extremely poor English usage. It seems like at least every page had an extra "it" where it didn't belong, or lacked "the" where there should have been one. I think this was caused by a failure to proofread. I cannot take any writer seriously who publishes a book with this many errors. After about 1/3 of the way through, I just scanned the rest of the book, having lost interest.

Yes the information is interesting but unfortunately not practical in the slightest. I would have imagined a diet called 'the evolution diet' would be based around fruits, veg and meat. This diet however calls for buttered toast and orange juice for breakfast followed by 9 hours of broccoli and banana or Triscuit crackers and carrots. A chicken wrap or burrito for dinner is hardly what 'natural' man (or the 'Hunter Gatherer') was eating in Central Africa!. I wouldn't be wasting your money on this one - borrow from the library for a laugh because it seems like that's what the author is doing all the way to the bank - while eating his danish, bagel and orange juice might I add(pg 70).

I was wondering what foods humans evolved eating and if it would be sensible to eat predominately those foods nowadays, so I bought _The Evolution Diet_. It has nothing to do with any of that. I expected it to discuss evolution and early human diets, and why certain foods are more suitable for humans than others. It doesn't. I expected it to make scientifically supported claims about diet and nutrition. It doesn't. When it does cite a source, it's often an article in _Redbook_, not a peer reviewed one from the likes of _Nature_. The book is high-school-term-paper-grade fluff surrounding a weight loss plan. And here's what the book advises: eat very little, exercise on most days, and only eat protein after you exercise.

I learned a lot- not just about the diet but about how my body works in general. I concentrate on breathing more and with that and appropriating my diet for certain activities and times of the day (this books is big on when to eat, not just what to eat), I've lost 10 pounds already and I just got the book. It feels really good!

I don't usually write reviews...but I want to write a review on this to possibly save someone from buying this book that is mislead. I'm very interested in paleolithic nutrition and what is considered our "natural" diet. Our bodies haven't changed dramatically in the last couple thousand years, so when we eat the best food, the food our body was designed to eat, and designed to digest we have the best health. Morse's "The Evolution Diet," basically advocates a typical USDA Pyramid diet...I don't find this very "natural." Morse advocates eating triscuits in his meal plan...I don't remember ever seeing a triscuit tree...the way I look at it if you could kill it or pick it you can eat it and still call it natural.

I'm not saying the book doesn't have some good ideas, but if you're looking for a truly natural diet, check out "The Paleo Diet," or "Neanderthin." I lost quite a bit of weight under those principles...I lost 10 pounds just the first week. I was hoping for more meal ideas with Morse's book, but that is not what I got...

This is a very complicated diet, too complicated. The history part is of some value. A better choice is Neander-Thin by Ray V. Audette which is working for me.

This book seems to have been written as a vanity publishing venture--as if a young man with leisure was told by his friends : "You sure know a lot about diets, you should write a book." I read the book thinking it would be related to Loren Cordain's "Paleo Diet"-given the title-but the author seems to not know about the Paleo diet, which is the REAL evolutionary diet book. Don't waste your time on this book.