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| Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats | 
 enlarge | Author: Sally Fallon
Publisher: NewTrends Publishing, Inc.
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  328 reviews
Sales Rank: 568
Media: Paperback
Edition: Revised and Updated 2nd
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 688
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.7
Dimensions (in): 10 x 7.5 x 1.5
ISBN: 0967089735
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5
EAN: 9780967089737
ASIN: 0967089735
Publication Date: October 1, 1999
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 Everyone who eats should read this book!! April 20, 1999
17 out of 18 found this review helpful
This book is without doubt the best book I have ever read regarding healthful eating. I always wondered why my body had trouble digesting certain foods, particularly beans, lentils, and grains for example. For me, the soaking, fermenting and sprouting are the keys. When foods are not prepared optimally, digestion can be difficult; not to mention the poor assimilation of nutrients. This book is extremely educational and I recommend that everyone read it, practice it, and have a copy in the kitchen for daily reference. Thank you Sally. (Price Pottenger may have a few copies available).
Great recipes .. interesting information that surprises! September 20, 1998
20 out of 21 found this review helpful
The fact that our ancestors only ever ate grain that was either fermented or sprouted was enough of a revelation to me to make it the sole reason I am glad I bought this book. I've subsequently experimented with fermenting my morning muesli and it IS GREAT ... truly ... not fizzy or weird tasting, not what you'd think at all. The idea behind this fermenting ... grains are very hard to digest and starting the digestive break-down process ahead of time by fermenting the grain allows your body's digestive powers to make full nutritional use of the grain ( well ... once you eventually do convince yourself to take the first mouthful that is!). This book presents many opposite opinions from currently held dietary advice with some very convincing evidence to back it up. As a sobering 'other side to the dietary argument' with the addition of having great recipes from around the world and loads of related little bits of information alongside the recipes, I think this is a great buy and a great gift for a friend.
The best source of nutritional information available. March 27, 1998
11 out of 13 found this review helpful
I've spent the last three years pouring over every source of nutritional information I
could find in an attempt to answer the question, "What should I eat in order to be as
healthy as possible and to live as long as possible?" This book finally answers that
question with conviction! Do yourself and those you love a big favor and buy it.
Nourishing Traditions is a monument. March 26, 1998
104 out of 108 found this review helpful
Sally Fallon's book is large in size and in its implications, valiantly sweeping away all the fog and ignorance that is endemic in the field of nutrition today. The book, focussing as it does on traditional (pre-modern) food selection and preparation, is revolutionary in all its common sense, prompting the reader to nod and say, "Yes, that's really true." It seems increasingly baffling to me that, amidst the daily deluge of ideas criss-crossing the landscape of the nutrition frontier, very few people acknowledge the contribution of 50,000 years of human history in the creation and maintenance of health. Well, Sally Fallon does. This book takes the reader to the highest ground yet. I particularly appreciated the excerpts from other books and journals, which are included liberally in sidebars throughout the book. It is a lot like reading several books in one, such is the cumulative scope of Nourishing Traditions. Of course, the recipes, all 700 of them, are fabulous. The book also has an excellent resource section to aid the reader in applying the principles laid out in the text. Finally, one comment on the book's subtitle, "The Cookbook That Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats": This book does not tip-toe around the issues. The introduction, besides revealing many frightening (and rarely realized) facts about the state of current nutrition, also issues a call to action for people to release themselves from the collective trance perpetuated through advertising, through the common rationale that "we eat pretty well already," and even through many of the currently popular trends today, including veganism. Prepare to be educated. Prepare to do some weeding. This is a big, bright, shout-from-the-rooftops cookbook that should be required reading for anyone who has the slightest doubt about what they eat. And for those, more likely, who have no doubts.
Nutritional owners manual for everyone. March 26, 1998
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
The best book to filter the media/corporate self serving research hype that is passed out as nutrition science today. Helps you get back to the basics. A must read.
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