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When your interest is initially piqued by a new diet or cookbook, it is only natural to want to discover a bit more about the history of the topicwhere it came from, why it currently exists, and where it may be going. Sometimes we can get up to speed more rapidly on a topic by starting in the present and going backward in time or, sometimes, vice versa. When it comes to The Paleo Diet concept, I not only have the luxury of being able to personally travel backward in time to its very beginnings, but I am able to move forward in time to appreciate its current worldwide impact.

For me, The Paleo Diet concept began on a crisp Colorado fall day in 1987 when I read a scientific paper by Dr. S. Boyd Eaton called Paleolithic nutrition: a consideration of its nature and current implications, published two years earlier in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine. This scientific article represented nothing less than the defining moment in my career, which set me off on a 30-year quest into what would become my lifes work. My ensuing scientific and popular writings over the intervening years (www.thepaleodiet.com) have helped to define a worldwide concept now known as The Paleo Diet, a term I coined with my first book in 2002 and that was later revised in 2010.

So for those of you who are just starting to wrap your heads around The Paleo Diet, lets fast forward to 20132014 and take a look at just how well-known Paleo has become to the general public. On a recent Dr. Oz show devoted entirely to diets, the good doctor introduced the broadcast by saying that the number-one Google search of all diets in 2013 was for The Paleo Diet. This show came only a few months after a previous broadcast in which Dr. Oz featured me and my first book, The Paleo Diet, which had become a New York Times best seller and had been translated into more than 20 languages worldwide.

As you may expect, the global Paleo Diet movement has spawned an explosion of copycat books over the past several years. Look no further than amazon.com to literally see the hundreds of diets and cookbooks that manage to shoehorn the word Paleo into their titles.

In a way, all of these books are a good thing because they tend to get more and more people involved in a lifetime way of eating that may improve health and well-being while reducing the risk for chronic diseases. The downside of this situation is that many authors are poorly informed and frequently provide misleading information about food, recipes, and meals that are not Paleo by any stretch of the imagination. Accordingly, one of my primary goals in writing The Real Paleo DietCookbook is to correct this glut of misinformation and give you the best and most scientifically accurate facts about which foods, ingredients, and recipes should be included in your Paleo Diet. But even more important, with The Real Paleo DietCookbook, you will become privy to an incredible cornucopia of enticing and delectable foods and recipes designed and fully tested by a top-notch group of chefs and cooks.