Research Catalog

Title

The paleo manifesto : ancient wisdom for lifelong health / John Durant with contributions by Michael Malice.

Author

Durant, John,

Publication

New York : Harmony Books, [2013]

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Malice, Michael,
• Malice, Michael.

Description

359 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

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.

Subject

• Diet
• Health Behavior
• Health Promotion
• Health behavior > History
• High-protein diet
• Life Style
• Nature and civilization
• Prehistoric peoples > Health and hygiene

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-337) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Becoming the caveman -- 1. Origins -- Know thy species (animal age) -- Rise and fall (Paleolithic Age) -- Moses the microbiologist (agricultural age) -- Homo invictus (industrial age) -- Biohackers (information age) -- 2. Here and now -- Food : the conventional wisdom -- Food : principles for a healthy diet -- Fasting -- Movement -- Bipedialism : stand, walk, run -- Thermoregulation -- Sunrise, sunset -- 3. Visions -- Hunter -- Gatherer -- Conclusion: Habitats, old and new.

ISBN

• 9780307889171 (hbk.)
• 0307889173 (hbk.)
• 9780307889195 (ebk.) (canceled/invalid)
• 030788919X (ebk.) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2013017890

OCLC

843010490

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library