Nora Gedgaudas - Primal Fat Burner: Live Longer

Praise for Primal Fat Burner

Gedgaudas deftly describes the link between what we eat and what we become. Millions of years of human evolution made us omnivores with well-muscled bodies and extraordinary minds that could not have developed without a diet rich in fat, including saturated fat! Read this book and youll understand why much-maligned animal fat is so important to your health and why it is critical that it come from animals grazing on healthy land (and not confined to feedlots). I cannot recommend this book highly enough.

Allan Savory, The Savory Institute

Primal Fat Burner is always engaging and flawlessly referenced. For everyone who is interested in the science and practicality of prolonging the health span, this book is a must-read.

Dan Murphy, DC, Professor, Life Chiropractic College West

This unique book provides a much-needed big picture, addresses the state of humankind, the errant direction we have all taken, the dark influence of global corporations, and most important, how we can regain our power and embrace a truly healthy, sustainable future. Nora makes the case to focus on what we all share: a common biological design, and a need for a food economy that restores local, natural systems. In this way, we can take back what was once ours, and what is fundamentally our primal birthright.

Helena Norberg-Hodge, author of Ancient Futures

Gedgaudass nutritional knowledge is about a decade ahead of 99 percent of U.S. physicians, who are taught virtually zilch about healthful eating in medical school. Counterintuitive though it sounds, increasing your fat intake will promote weight loss. The real nutritional villain is sugar (a fact kept hidden from us by the sugar industry!). The low-carb, high-fat diet in Primal Fat Burner actually protects people from obesity and heart disease. When it comes to making the overweight and chronically ill American healthy again, Primal Fat Burner is destined to be a real game changer.

David Edelberg, MD, author of The Triple Whammy Cure

Noras recommended primal fat-burning diet is different from other ketogenic diets and low-carb, high-protein diets. For those who are serious about their health, have tried it all and have still not attained optimal health and their ideal body weight, transitioning to her primal fat-burning diet will not only get you there, but with no sugar/carb cravings AND feeling great along the way. Well-written, easy to read and follow, Primal Fat Burner has great recipes and resources.

Joan Grinzi, Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation

Primal Fat Burner has a wealth of new information and science showing the power of a ketogenic diet in addressing many health issues including obesity, diabetes, heart disease, neurological diseases, and cancer. Nora writes with passion, enthusiasm, and a warm sense of humor as she takes you on a life-changing, easy-to-implement journey to take control of your health by putting fat front and center! Should be read far and wide.

Vicki Poulter, Director, Nourishing Australia and international advisory board of Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation

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Challenging Sugars Top-Dog Status, and Why Fat Doesnt Make You Fat

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Dedicated to the pioneering work and memories of Mary Enig, PhD, George F. Cahill Jr., MD, and George V. Mann, MD, without whose courage, integrity, and important research we would all still be stumbling in the dark.

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This publication contains the opinions and ideas of its author. It is intended to provide helpful and informative material on the subjects addressed in the publication. It is sold with the understanding that the author and publisher are not engaged in rendering medical, health, or any other kind of personal professional services in the book. The reader should consult his or her medical, health, or other competent professional before adopting any of the suggestions in this book or drawing inferences from it.

The author and publisher specifically disclaim all responsibility for any liability, loss, or risk, personal or otherwise, which is incurred as a consequence, directly or indirectly, of the use and application of any of the contents of this book.

Please note that while all readers should consult their doctor before implementing any of the suggestions in this book, the following is of particular importance for discussion with your doctor:

If you are taking medication to control your blood sugar or blood pressure, your dosage requirements may change rapidly if you significantly restrict your carbohydrate intake.

The diet outlined in Primal Fat Burner stresses the consumption of only moderate levels of protein and is not a high protein diet, for anyone who has serious kidney disease, any increase in dietary protein can potentially be a problem.

Note, however, that the dietary approach in this book also has the potential to benefit those with kidney-related issues.1

If you have gallbladder attacks or gallstones, you should exercise extreme caution when increasing dietary fat.

Anyone who has a serious illness such as unstable cardiovascular disease, cancer, or liver disease needs to exercise reasonable caution if making dietary changes.

If you are pregnant or lactating, you should not overly restrict protein (or fat) intake. Babies, young children, and teens have much more demanding nutrient and caloric needs and should not have their protein or fat intake overly restricted. There is no established dietary requirement for carbohydrates (sugar or starch), but when pregnant you should use caution in changing your existing dietother than eliminating junk foods.

We all have a sweet tooth. It is as basic to our constitution as thirst. And for more than 99 percent of the time we have walked this bountiful planet, our sweet tooth has served us well and helped us to survive. The surge of insulin brought on by our deep desire for sugar flips biochemical switches that cause the human body to make and store body fat. And body fat, throughout the entire history of our species, has served as a supremely concentrated source of survival calories, allowing us to continue the tasks of hunting and gathering during times of food scarcity.

But times have changed. Coming upon a source of sugar, like a tree full of ripe fruit, is no longer a rare event that triggers life-sustaining fat deposition. For most people, sugar consumption, in all of its various forms, is a biochemical event culminating in the creation of fat tissue 365 days a year. A mechanism that graced us with survivability for millennia now threatens the functionality of every organ system in the body.

Dr. Robert Lustig, in his highly informative book Fat Chance , points out that of the six hundred thousand food items for sale in the United States, 80 percent are laced with added sugar. Data suggests that close to 70 percent of adult Americans are overweight or actually obese. And a powerful catchphrase that has supported the sales of these sugar-enriched products has often centered on their reduced levels of fat, as if that were somehow a health attribute.