A Book in Review: The Origin Diet

The Origin Diet by: Elizabeth Somer M.A., R.D.
Nonfiction, diet, cooking 287 pages
Book Count: 37

I got this book as the premise sounded good, things evolve slowly, and it is well documented that early farming societies were less healthy then the hunter gatherers before them. But the diet really doesn't follow the premise. Mainly she talks about why eating like a caveman is good, but the diet covers all of the major "it" diets in nutrition. 1st, it is fine with a vegetarian diet for this plan,(hunting anyone?). 2nd, it is a low fat diet. You only eat chicken, fish and wild game on this diet, because wild game doesn't contain saturated fat! It of course does. It contains less then farmed animals, but it contains less fat over all, the percent of saturated fat to total fat is about the same as any other animal. 3rd, it uses milk, which is fine for people that aren't lactose intolerant as if you aren't intolerant to lactose your body has evolved to take milk. That's why they people who can drink milk are from parts of the world that have used milk the longest. But, you only use fat-free milk, which cavemen would never have. 4th, it is crazy about soy. Soy milk is used whenever she can. Sure, some cavemen could have ate soy, but they couldn't make the types of soy in this diet; soy milk, tofu, soy sauce, etc. Also, it includes information that is incorrect on other things, which as you know makes me questions any information that I don't already know is correct.