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Disclaimer: I am not an MD
Val wrote:
>I went to Amazon.com and read the reveiws of Neanderthin b/c I'm trying to
>decide if I want to buy it. There were 13 reviews. 12 were 5 stars, and 1
>was 2 stars. Has anyone read the 2 star review? I'm not sure what to
>think about it.
I hve read the review. I had had similar questions when I read the book,
so I contacted Ray Audette via e-mail so that he could earn his royalty. I
respect Ray wholeheartedly - but he is not a biochemist. (There, the
secret is out :-)
Ray's contention is that normal glucose levels are maintained in the
absense of carbohydrates. This is true, but he did not quite have the
biochemistry mechanism correct. A very good book that explains the whole
blood glucose/carbohydrate/fatty acid/ketone mechanism is The Ketogenic
Diet: A Complete Guide for the Dieter and Practitioner, by Lyle McDonald.
You might want to give that a read.
As for Neanderthin. Yes, Ray did prove he was not a biochemist. But this
does not change the validity of the paleo approach to eating. The whole
idea of using real ingrediants for ingrediants is so simple, logical and
profound that I have no doubt that Ray will be persecuted by the mainstream
dietary "authorities" for the rest of his life.
James at Penn State
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