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