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On Sat, 2 Aug 2003 10:02 Chuck Burns wrote:

>As to Boyd Eaton's book "Paleolithic
>Prescription", I recently acquired it ... in light of
>what we now know it seems so politically correct.

It appears that both Eaton and Cordain, by going with major publishers who
were targeting a homogeneous 'diet' market, were forced to compromise to
get their books published.  For Cordain, you need to go to his published
papers or his website to get his own views

http://www.thepaleodiet.com/

Even then, Cordain's focus appears to me to be more towards treatment of
modern pathologies within the Western allopathic model than in creating
optimum health.

>I have found that Walter Voegtlin's "The Stone
>Age Diet", published in 1975, is a much better
>book and has much information of value to today.
>... I couldn't put Voegtlin's book down

I'll look out for it.  I'd like to add it to the list's FAQ, but would
prefer to have read it myself first, or to have a couple of opinions on it
before I did so; has any other subscriber read Voegtlin's book and can
recommend it?

>It may be a quirk in my personality but I find
>that continuing to educate myself about Paleo
>and Ev Fit make it easier for me to maintain
>discipline as far as eating and exercise go.

I sure find that, too.  I guess it's my hobby and I have to be careful not
to bore people with my hobby as others bore people with theirs - wine,
sport, model trains, pop TV culture or whatever!

>I'm always looking for additional things to
>read along these lines.  Any further suggestions
>would be most welcome.
>
>Chuck

The FAQ for this site lists some more reading.

http://www.evfit.com/faq.htm

The three stand-out items for me are:

(1)  Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Weston Price (1939)

http://www.westonaprice.org/book_reviews/nutrition_physical.html

This, like the Boyden paper, is a milestone and makes no concessions at
all to political correctness in the sense we use that term today.  (It
gets quirky toward the end, but the ethnographic content is unforgettable).

(2)  TBK Fitness Program (2003)

http://www.tbkfitness.org/

This is a privately-published synthesis of diet and exercise with a strong
grounding in Evolutionary Fitness.  Not as overtly 'Paleo' as Ray
Audette's Neanderthin, but more practicable, if less inspirational.

(3)  Coming Home to the Pleistocene by Paul Shepard (1998)

http://home.earthlink.net/~frshepard/index.html

This is a relatively demanding book and, possibly, is easier to come to
grips with if you have read one of Daniel Quinn's Ishmael series.  Both of
these ignore the nutritional and exercise aspects of life in the
Pleistocene and focus on the pre-historic worldview.

Not in the top three, but worth mentioning as it contains the only major
new idea in human evolution for many years, is Michael Boulter's
Extinction: Evolution and the End of Man (Fourth Estate, 2002).

Keith

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