Hunter-Gatherer - How to live wild in the modern world

Ancestral health survey

John — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 19:47:47 +0000

Professor Hamilton Stapell is conducting a survey of the ancestral health movement. I filled it out -- short (2-3 min.) and anonymous. Let's help him get good data by participating.

The perfect gift: Perfect Health Diet

John — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 17:42:20 +0000

Bears don't interrupt their hibernation unless there's an important reason, and neither do I. I'm crawling out of my den to make one recommendation.

Buy Perfect Health Diet by Paul and Shou-Ching Jaminet.

Here's my review: This is the single best book on diet I've ever read.

Paul Jaminet is one of the most original, insightful voices in health today, and let's support him when it counts.

Here's how:

Buy the book.
Even if you already own a copy, PHD makes a great holiday gift.
If you've already read it and liked it, leave an Amazon review.

Follow Paul on twitter and find terrific free material at PerfectHealthDiet.com.

Okay, time to hibernate again -- dreaming about wild salmon, berries, and drizzling honey on sexy lady bears.

MEAT EATER: Steve Rinella book release on Oct. 2nd

John — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 18:47:30 +0000

We've got an awesome event coming up: Steve Rinella, TV host and hunter, will be talking to Paleo NYC about his new book, Meat Eater. It's on Tuesday, October 2nd at 7pm. Admission is simply buying a copy of the book. You can get more details and RSVP here.

Steve will talk about his new book for 20 or so minutes, then we'll open it up to Q&A on anything from hunting for beginners, how to cook squirrel, ethical meat-eating, and more. Don't miss it.

Here is Rinella responding to a vegan at a recent event.

BOOKD: Born to Run

John — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 22:19:01 +0000

BOOKD is a cool new web show -- sort of a curated and condensed book club. Here's their first feature, Born to Run, featuring Dan Lieberman, Chris McDougall, and yours truly. It's well done.

NPR Morning Edition: We Evolved to Eat Meat

John — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 13:36:51 +0000

Interviewed on NPR Morning Edition, here's an excerpt from the write-up:

But Durant says it's a meat-based diet that was fundamental to early human development.

My colleague Chris Joyce has reported on how a meat-based diet helped make us smarter.

And paleoanthropologist John Hawks at the University of Wisonsin, Madison agrees. "We definitely evolved to eat meat."

"When we look at the fossils of early homo (sapien) we see this immediate increase in the size of the body and also increase in the size of the brain," Hawks explains.

Here's the story with the full 7-minute audio.

You can almost hear the cognitive dissonance: NPR's audience tends to believe in evolution, yet is also full of people ideologically set against meat. Solution? Make me sound like a meat-crazed carnivore who is only healthy despite eating meat. I'll post some additional commentary a bit later.

Anyhow, it was a fun piece and many thanks to NPR.