NeanderThin: Eat Like a Caveman to Achieve a Lean, Strong, Healthy Body (Mass Market Paperback)

by Ray Audette (Author), Troy Gilchrist (Author), Raymond V. Audette (Author), Michael R. Eades (Author)
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"I recommend NeanderThin to anyone interested in losing weight, lowering blood pressure and serum cholesterol, controlling diabetes, and improving overall health and fitness." --from the Foreward by Michael R. Eades, M.D., coauthor of Protein Power

"The definitive book on eating!...Excellent." --A reader from California

"Outstanding...I got the book, lost weight, gained health, and passed the word on to friends." --A reader from Michigan
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"I recommend NeanderThin to anyone interested in losing weight, lowering blood pressure and serum cholesterol, controlling diabetes, and improving overall health and fitness." --from the Foreward by Michael R. Eades, M.D., coauthor of Protein Power

"The definitive book on eating!...Excellent." --A reader from California

"Outstanding...I got the book, lost weight, gained health, and passed the word on to friends." --A reader from Michigan

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Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks; 1st edition (December 15, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312975910
• ISBN-13: 978-0312975913
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.2 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (52 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #165,612 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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101 of 101 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Neanderthin Diet: the Big Picture, November 23, 1999

By	Bob Hodgen (St. Petersburg, FL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: NeanderThin: Eat Like a Caveman to Achieve a Lean, Strong, Healthy Body (Hardcover)

I became interested in the Paleolithic Diet after starting Atkins. I lost weight quickly and easily by cutting carbohydrates. There really was something to this low-carb stuff!

I began reading other diet books like Protein Power and scoured the Internet. There were a lot of online references to something called the Paleolithic Diet. One book was mentioned time and time again, Neanderthin, by Ray Audette.

I got ahold of the new edition and became a convert. The book tells that while our diet has changed since the advent of agriculture, our genes have not had time to adapt. We still have the old hunter-gatherer DNA. The grains, refined sugars and carbohydrates in our diet today are making us sick. Our bodies can't handle this new stuff.

The book tells you what foods to eat and what to avoid. Well written with an extensive bibliography.

Very highly recommended. The book has changed my life.

Bob Hodgen

72 of 73 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What's Old is New, and Works!, April 10, 2000

By	John W. Scott (Beaumont, TX) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: NeanderThin: Eat Like a Caveman to Achieve a Lean, Strong, Healthy Body (Hardcover)

After seeing Ray Audette on 48 Hours I stepped on the scale and found myself at 180 lbs., 5 lbs. more than I had ever weighed. At 43 I was looking my age and felt it. The Neanderthin approach appealed to me. It made good, logical sense. I got the book and started on January 20th. My weight has steadily gone down yet I have not gone hungry nor felt deprived. The amazing side effect is that my energy level has gone through the roof. I have been on hyperdrive, feeling great and just plain happier with life! After ten weeks on this diet I have lost 13 lbs and now am just 2 lbs. over my college weight. At this rate I will be back to my high school weight in another ten weeks. I feel good enough to get back to pumping iron to help things along. Since my wife was doing the cooking she has been on it too and has lost 15 lbs. This is a plan I can and will stick with. It's so easy! The results are so good I can't imagine going back to my old eating habits. I just don't want many of the foods I subsisted on before. I would urge anyone to get this book and give it a try. Looking better and feeling better are a great way to go through life.

90 of 93 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars lost weight and feel great, December 24, 1999

By	Mary Holford "moira44" (San Jose, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: NeanderThin: Eat Like a Caveman to Achieve a Lean, Strong, Healthy Body (Hardcover)

I lost a lot of weight using the Neanderthin diet plan. But it is also a plan for life. I will stay on this diet forever. I feel so much better. My arthritis is gone, as a result of being on this diet. I had arthritis so bad I could hardly walk, it was even painful to stand...now the pain is gone.

This book does a good job explaining why certain foods are paleo, and why others are not. This was very helpful to me. I now get very sick if I eat "foreign proteins" like gluten and dairy. This book has also helped my son who was severely injured by childhood immunizations. The book has helped me to put him on a diet that avoids foreign proteins and stresses on the immune system. My son is making great gains and recovering.

This book would help almost anyone with an auto immune disease to recover and to get healthy again. I have lost weight and feel better. I highly recommend this book.