Primal Nutrition by Schmid, Ron -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Image Title Page Dedication Epigraph Acknowledgments Table of Contents Foreword by Sally Fallon Morell Foreword by Nora Gedgaudas, C.N.S., C.N.T. Preface: Healing, Health, and Wholeness Introduction: Primal Diets, Weston Price, and Healing

THE CURATIVE POWER OF NATURE REBUILDING YOUR BIRTHRIGHT OF GOOD HEALTH NATUROPATHIC MEDICINE AND THE “CAVE MAN DIET” THE ESSENCE OF HEALING EMOTIONAL, PHYSICAL, AND SPIRITUAL HEALTH

Part 1: An Ancestry of Primal Nutrition

Chapter 2: Dr. Weston Price and His Studies of Traditional Societies

DR. PRICE’S UNIQUE FINDINGS EUROPE (1931) NORTH AMERICA (1933) THE TROPICS AFRICA (1935) AUSTRALIA, THE TORRES STRAIT ISLANDS, AND NEW ZEALAND (1936) SOUTH AMERICA CONCLUSIONS OF THE MEDICAL COMMUNITY PERTAINING TO DIET AND DISEASE

Chapter 3: Protective Characteristics of Primal Nutrition

COMMON FEATURES OF NATIVE GROUPS STUDIED FAT-SOLUBLE NUTRIENTS IN FOODS OF ANIMAL ORIGIN MINERALS RAW-FOOD PROTEINS AND ENZYMES PROTECTIVE NUTRIENTS AND HIGH-QUALITY FOODS

Chapter 4: The Long-Lived People of Vilcabamba, Hunza, and Georgian Russia

Chapter 5: The Benefits of Raw Food as Determined by Dr. Francis M. Pottenger, Jr.

THE WORK OF DR. FRANCIS POTTENGER, JR. THE WORK OF DR. ROBERT MCCARRISON PARALLELS BETWEEN POTTENGER’S AND PRICE’S WORK THE NEED FOR A UNIFIED BIOLOGICAL THEORY THE BENEFITS OF RAW FOODS RAW FOODS AND THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SAFETY, PERSONAL TASTE AND CONVENTIONS

Chapter 6: The Unique Nutrients of Seafood

Part 2: Diet and Disease

Chapter 7: Guidance on the Path to Good Health

CRITERIA FOR SELECTING A PHYSICIAN THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE MEDICAL HISTORY AND THE PHYSICAL EXAM THE IMPORTANCE OF SETTING GOALS A REVIEW OF SEVERAL WELL-KNOWN DIETS

Chapter 8: Creating a Primal Diet for Health and Longevity

PHYSICAL SYMPTOMS OF NUTRITIONAL IMBALANCE BASIC FOOD GROUPS THE PRIMAL PRINCIPLES CONSIDERATIONS OF PROPORTION, FLEXIBILITY, AND HABITUATION NUTRITION DURING PREGNANCY

Chapter 9: Dietary Considerations for Specific Conditions

COLDS, FLU, MONONUCLEOSIS ACUTE ILLNESSES IN INFANTS ALLERGIES CHRONIC FATIGUE AND THYROID PROBLEMS ARTHRITIS AND BACK PROBLEMS HEART AND CIRCULATORY DISORDERS CANCER GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES HYPOGLYCEMIA, DIABETES, AND WEIGHT PROBLEMS HEADACHES ANXIETY, EMOTIONAL DISTURBANCES, AND MENTAL ILLNESS CANDIDIASIS SKIN PROBLEMS OTHER CONDITIONS

Part 3: Primal versus Modern Foods

Chapter 10: Meat, Fowl, and Eggs

THE CONVENTIONAL PRODUCTION OF MEAT AN ALTERNATIVE EXISTS PASTURED, NATURALLY RAISED MEAT, FOWL, AND EGGS

Chapter 11: Fresh and Saltwater Seafood and the Environment

WATER POLLUTION GUIDELINES FOR PURCHASING SEAFOOD

Chapter 12: Milk and Milk Products

MILK’S ROLE IN MANKIND’S EVOLUTION TODAY’S PROCESSED DAIRY PRODUCTS RAW DAIRY FOODS

Chapter 13: Vegetables, Whole-Grain Foods, Fruits, Nuts, and Seeds

CHEMICAL VERSUS ORGANIC FARMING USING INDIGENOUS FOODS VEGETABLES WHOLE-GRAIN FOODS FRUIT, NUTS, AND SEEDS

Chapter 14: Extras: Oils, Condiments, Seasonings, Beverages, and Refined Products

MANUFACTURING METHODS OF THE OILS WE EAT TYPES OF OILS AND GUIDELINES REGARDING THEIR USE HONEY AND OTHER SWEETENERS HERBS AND SEASONINGS BEVERAGES REFINED FLOUR AND SUGAR

Chapter 15: Special Foods and Food Supplements

SOURCES AND FORMS OF VITAMINS SOURCES AND FORMS OF MINERALS USP NUTRIENTS AND “FOOD VITAMINS” POTENCY, PURITY, AND ADDITIVES NUTRIENTS PRESENT IN ANCESTRAL DIETS SPECIAL FOODS LIVING BETTER AND LONGER

Epilogue: Toward a Philosophy of Natural Living Appendix 1: The All-Meat Diet of Arctic Adventurer Vilhjalmur Stefansson

VILHJALMUR STEFANSSON’S 1928 EXPERIMENT

Appendix 2: An In-Depth Look at Seafood Selection

SALTWATER FISH SHELLFISH FRESHWATER FISH OTHER FISHY CONCERNS

Appendix 3: Understanding Laboratory Tests

COMPLETE BLOOD COUNT URINALYSIS ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE (ESR) BLOOD-CHEMISTRY TESTS THYROID-HORMONE TESTING

Appendix 4: Movement, Games, and Sports

WALKING AND RUNNING HOW SPORTS CAN HELP YOU SPORTS, FITNESS, AND RECOVERY FROM INJURIES GREATNESS IN LIFE AND IN SPORT

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