Orthomolecular Diet: The Paleolithic Paradigm [Hardcover]

Richard L. Heinrich (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1, 2006

Orthomolecular Diet is a report, an exacting analysis of the conclusions of many researchers. The contents of thirty books are woven into a pattern of fitness and healthy diet. The shibboleths of eating, starch, fat, and cholesterol are explained from many viewpoints. The central conclusion is the superiority of the Zone Diet of Barry Sears. It is proven by pre-history. Harvard epidemiology approves its food selections, and it is eye-opening to learn the true "Paleolithic diet" and how the Zone Diet of Barry Sears fulfills it. Diet is half the equation. The other half is fitness. Learn the research on stress and the meshing of aerobics. Fit and fat is healthier than thin and out of shape. Richard Heinrich recounts his long quest to fit his broad, stocky, mesomorphic body into diet patterns set up by slender ectomorphs who became diet experts partially because they were able to withstand grain diets. They felt good while eating high glycemic foods (starch) in excessive proportion, culminating in the 1992 Pyramid that created the fattest society since the Egyptians four millennia ago. Mr. Heinrich has lived and has experienced every diet of the past sixty years, starting with the Grapefruit Diet in 1943 and too many calorie-counting, failed diets to mention. Along the way he learned fitness, which permits this writing at age 80.

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About the Author

Richard L. Heinrich, at 80, knows science and the scientific approach. He accomplished his first diet in 1943 to gain acceptance into Naval Engineering Officer Training, became an Ensign at 20, and a teacher of thermodynamics at 21. After stints at Douglas Aircraft (even a junior assignment on the X-2, now hanging in the Smithsonian) and as a project engineer at Oscar Mayer, he commenced businesses in sales, engineering, and manufacturing bridge cranes. He and his wife of 59 years have four sons. He struggled lifelong with his paleolithic genes, studying and annotating each new diet and fitness guru, concluding a pantheon of heroes vital to his life, which were presented to his four sons. He's walked the walk, now he talks the talk.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 212 pages
• Publisher: Blue Dolphin Publishing; 1 edition (August 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1577332016
• ISBN-13: 978-1577332015
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.9 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,757,965 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Helpful, September 15, 2007

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Rita J. Lynch "student" (San Diego, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Orthomolecular Diet: The Paleolithic Paradigm (Hardcover)

This book is a review of diets...particularly the Zone Diet which I was interested in anyway...good reading