Best paleo diet books according to redditors
We found 20 Reddit comments discussing the best paleo diet books. We ranked the 8 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
We found 20 Reddit comments discussing the best paleo diet books. We ranked the 8 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
Good start.
https://www.amazon.com/Primal-Prescription-Surviving-Sick-Sinkhole/dp/1939563097
But essentially the cost of complying with regulations drives the cost up.
Regulations make the services artificially scarce, driving the price up.
The subsidies encourage high prices since the consumer never bears that burden.
You've probably taken a prescription drug. Also probably a generic prescription. It takes close to a decade to bring a drug to market the first time. Then once the 17+ year patent is up, the entire process of screening and testing the drug must be done again. Multiple rounds of clinical trials. Duplicating the multiple rounds of clinical trials and still dwarfing the number of people actively taking the exact same drug everyday. Then you get a generic version. So 25 years maybe? From the time a drug is discovered until it's affordable? And the original company isn't charging a premium just to be evil. They have to fund the years of clinical trials for 100 other drugs that don't make it and for the next lifesaving drug they can produce.
A decrease in regulation could help ease this cost.
Let's say your church has a number of doctors who want to open a small hospital. They get funding from the church members and get ready to open. Oops they haven't received a certificate of need. The other hospitals and clinics in the area don't think they need another hospital and this you cannot open and cannot provide low cost healthcare. Who has more power to influence these bureaucrats, the small hospital or a large region hospital company?
> What would be the subject of your next book? I'm reading Choice right now and I think it's wonderful.
Thanks! I am working on a book with the other members of the Nelson Nash Institute that summarizes the content of our seminar. So it's a combination of Austrian macroeconomics and the mechanics of IBC.
(If you don't know what this means, check out:
https://lara-murphy.com/ )
> 2.) How would you respond to the question in this post?:
> I've been listening to a lot of contra Krugman and the Tom Woods show which often argues in favor of free trade. One argument that Bob Murphy often uses against protectionism is that it is silly to argue that if China or anyone else gave us a bunch of free stuff that it would hurt us, and by the same measure, them selling us a bunch of stuff for very cheap doesn't hurt us either. However, in Poverty Inc, a libertarian documentary that rails against the way Foreign Aid currently works, makes a compelling case to show that all the free stuff our governments and charities flood third world countries with (clothing, food, etc) is actually keeping these countries from becoming economically advanced by limiting the ability of local farming, textile, and even technology industries to develop and grow the economy. So which is it? Does free stuff hurt an economy, or not?
That's a great point, and I had the same doubts when I saw that documentary. I explicitly pointed out the apparent contradictions here:
http://consultingbyrpm.com/blog/2016/08/misguided-charity-and-standard-free-market-arguments.html
There were a lot of things documented in that video that definitely hurt the alleged beneficiaries (like "aid" to dictators that merely propped up their regimes), and I'm sure that massive and irregular dumps of medical supplies could be better timed to not have a flood/drought rhythm, but when push comes to shove, I don't think sending free goods to Africa makes Africans poorer.
> 3.) How would you respond to this common progressive argument: "Single payer/universal healthcare works in other countries, so why shouldn't the U.S. do it?"
My book on US health care / health insurance is here:
https://www.amazon.com/Primal-Prescription-Surviving-Sick-Sinkhole/dp/1939563097
We actually were going to devote a whole chapter to international comparisons, but the manuscript was already way too long.
I'm sorry that I don't have a really great answer for you. I don't know enough of the specifics to be able to confidently say, "Ah yes, the deal in Sweden is such and such, and when we think of New Zealand, keep in mind blah blah blah..."
However, the standard comparisons that say, "The US spends the most per capital on health care and has only a mediocre outcome," definitely leaves a lot of stuff out. For one thing, we sure as heck don't have laissez-faire in the medical sector. If they got rid of FDA and state-based medical licensure, you'd see prices plummet without a huge change in quality.
For another thing, there is definitely anecdotal evidence that these other countries have long queues for standard procedures. There are lots of stories of Canadians coming to US to get hip replacement etc. So if Canada seems to be OK, it's partly because the Canadians can avoid the failures of their own system by crossing the border.
Well actually our health care isn't 100% privatized, we haven't had fully private healthcare since the 1700's. With requirements to open hospitals such as "certificates of need" it actually creates a monopoly on healthcare in different areas. Government regulation has artificially driven up the price of healthcare. The privatization of healthcare is a discussion no one has the exact answer to especially in the developed world.
If you are interested in reading up on the topic a book I recommend is: The Primal Prescription
It may take a more libertarian view than most would but it is insightful none the less.
Amazon link:
https://www.amazon.com/Primal-Prescription-Surviving-Sick-Sinkhole/dp/1939563097/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1493728989&sr=8-1&keywords=primal+prescription
For anybody looking to read more on this topic and get a free market perspective of how the government has been screwing healthcare up for decades and what to do about it, you won't find a better book than The Primal Prescription by Bob Murphy and Doug McGuff, an ER doctor.
I have a book by Sarah Ballantyne. She’s the founder of the diet. The book is called the Paleo Approach: Reverse Autoimmunity Disease. It’s designed to help all autoimmune diseases, and the book gives you the science behind the diet and what to eat and avoid.
https://www.amazon.com/Paleo-Approach-Reverse-Autoimmune-Disease-ebook/dp/B00I44JHTE/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?keywords=paleo+aip&qid=1558054697&s=gateway&sr=8-3
She has another book that has a lot of recipes, but I don’t have the time or patience to cook a full meal for my family and a separate one for myself, so I basically just do meat and veggies with some fruit (berries or an orange) for dessert.
My breakfast usually consists of sausage, Tiger nuts, and some dried fruit.
Mid morning snack is a coconut milk shake with added mct oil, collagen protein, and cinnamon.
Lunch is a salad (romaine and spinach with diced carrots, cucumber, onion, turkey, and bacon) with a homemade dressing (extra virgin olive oil, Apple cider vinegar, garlic, lemon juice, ginger, oregano), celery and slices of cucumber and carrots with honey (some people have issues with carrots FYI even though they’re allowed on the diet).
I snack on pork rinds or toasted coconut chips in the afternoon.
Bananas and sweet potatoes are allowed starches but my symptoms were flaring more when I was eating them, so I stopped based on that and how starches are generally not great for AS.
After 1-6 months (when you’re symptoms are better - if they’re better) you can try to reintroduce foods one at a time to see how you react. She does state that some people with high inflammation may take over a year to get back to an acceptable level of inflammation. She also recommends avoiding NSAIDs as much as possible because they aren’t great for your stomach lining, but somethings you need to take one.
Supplements I take are:
Fish oil
L-glutamine
Turmeric
Boswelia
Ginger
Probiotic
Calcium/vitamin D
Multi vitamin with a lot of B vitamins for my fatigue
Turmeric and ginger are slow acting anti inflammatory. They eventually build up enough to act like a daily NSAIDS without the side effects. Boswelia after a month or two builds up enough to act like a mild TNF blocker apparently. Only been on them for a month, but all the above seems to help quite a bit. I’m not on any DMARDS or biologics yet.
Get this book Practical Paleo: A Customized Approach to Health and a Whole-Foods Lifestyle. It's a great way to learn about the diet and has meal plans laid out for you.
If you guys want to read a really good book about why our medical care is so messed up, readgoodp://www.amazon.com/Primal-Prescription-Surviving-Sick-Sinkhole/dp/1939563097/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1457047297&sr=8-1&keywords=Primal+prescription
Without abolishing the AMA (turning it into an accreditation instead of a license) and abolishing the FDA (can also keep as an accreditation), prices of health care will still be insanely high. The reason health care is so expensive is because the AMA artificially restricts supply and the FDA makes the cost of bringing treatments to the market insanely high. If the pharmaceutical industries are forced to compete with overseas companies with the FDA intact they will never be able to being new medications to the market due to the inability to recoup the costs of FDA approval. THAT cannot be solved without aboloshing the FDA. Simply opening the market will really damage drug development and that is why these things never get enacted.
The other things mentioned will only have minor reductions in costs and expanding the tax deduction will be a huge increase in federal spending.
Still gold ideas though unfortunately they are missing the source of the problem so cannot completely cure this beast.
From your questions, I think practical paleo is your best starting point. It's a cookbook more than a book on the paleo lifestyle, but it still has a fair amount of information on healthy foods, sustainable farming, etc... It has some really good recipes as well and 30 day meal plans for most of the paleo protocols (AIP, FODMAPS, Diabetes, weight loss, etc...). I don't remember if it has a whole 30 meal plan though.
Oh, TV died long ago :-) ... but home internet, yeah, that can die or at least go on a drastic diet. I don't spend hours there, but more than the bare minimum some nights.
I'm taking Paleo Fitness as my guide for the next phase. Part of what I like about it is exactly that the routines are mostly not long slogs but can be broken up and worked into the day.
Look man, their's absolutely no way that the government can out-perform the free market (which the US does not have regarding the health care). It's simply impossible because the government lacks the information to allocate resources where they are most needed, as Hayek said, information is diffused in the economy and no central planner can possibly know it all. Countries with socialized health care, as I already noted, inevitably suffer from rationing, in Canada people flee to the US thanks to the long wait lines to get an appointment or do surgery, in Sweden people go to private health insurance for the same reason. In Europe, countries with socialized health care have considerably longer waiting lines than the ones with freer markets in health care.(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro_health_consumer_index)
There's even cases when people call an ambulance for an emergency but they never show up.
Finally, I'm done with this discussion, if you want to believe in Sweden's pink unicorn socialist utopia, go on. But if you you wanna know what actually happens there do some research.
https://mises.org/library/market-taking-over-sweden%E2%80%99s-health-care
http://www.iedm.org/files/sweden.pdf
http://www.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303603904579491971221879580
https://www.amazon.com/Primal-Prescription-Surviving-Sick-Sinkhole/dp/B016R08MEW/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNtyV0CXfzU
https://www.amazon.com/Primal-Prescription-Doug-McGuff-ebook/dp/B011AA2LZA
https://www.amazon.com/Priceless-Healthcare-Independent-Studies-Political-ebook/dp/B008B946EI/
https://www.amazon.com/Mutual-Aid-Welfare-State-Fraternal/dp/0807848417
The Primal Prescription
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B011AA2LZA/
You know what ? I was in the same situation from my childhood to 3 years and a half ago. I didn't know what food I should eat in order to have an optimal health, because of contradictory information.
Then I discovered personal development. 6 months later, from an excellent personal development website I have been used to, I discovered the first specialized independent nutrition website I met on the Internet.
Wow. When I think about this today, finding this website was amazing for my first real seeking about relevant information on food. I still consider it as the best natural health website on the French web.
Now it has done a complete video (1 hour) on "Who can be trusted in nutrition ? Analysis of several information sources". Maybe you should watch it with the Youtube automatic subtitles, if they're not too bad : http://www.naturacoach.com/blog-nutrition/qui-croire-pour-donner-des-conseils-en-nutrition/
My mind is now crystal clear about diet. I know all the traps on which we may fall, I know how to recognize bad to average content from good and great one, no matter the source : health professionals, food industry and it's lobbies, scientific studies, medias, national recommendations, friends and family, Internet, books...
In a nutshell, I understood why Oscar Wilde wrote : "Everything popular is wrong."
I'll recommend you to try to find such websites in your country, if you're lucky enough you may find them :) Otherwise there is probably many good websites in English, but I've not sought them for now. I give you 3 of my best Internet sources (all in French, sorry) :
The second one has 7 lessons for beginners, there is a very nice chance you appreciate them as they are for me the MUST READ in order to go in a right direction : https://translate.google.fr/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=fr&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nutriting.com%2Fcomprendre-la-nutrition%2Fla-nutrition-en-7-lecons%2F&edit-text=
With Google Translate this may be readable for you ^^
You already have a better diet than most people in industrialized countries, congratulations ;) About magnesium, well, I don't think you can have enough of it by beans and fruits. There is a way to quantify your inputs : you can write down all that you have eaten and drunk (water isn't important) for 3 days (with quantities) and put it here : https://cronometer.com/
Then you will have a report of the 3 days average for each nutriment.
Here is an example for one day : http://pix.toile-libre.org/upload/original/1450844554.png ; http://pix.toile-libre.org/upload/original/1450844608.png ; http://pix.toile-libre.org/upload/original/1450844675.png
When you select an item in the list, the breakdown is shown for this item, like for the whole day :) If you want to go, just ask me for the settings for the micronutriments, as the recommended ones are based on national FDA recommendations, which aren't the best source.
From the book Paléo Nutrition : http://www.amazon.fr/Pal%C3%A9o-Nutrition-Julien-Venesson/dp/2365490832
As for magnesium, you must know that the more calcium you eat, the less magnesium is absorbed by your intestine (1). In order to have enough magnesium, you have to increase your inputs to at least 420 mg/day, and decrease your inputs of calcium to a maximum of 550 mg/day, as 520 mg are recommended by the WHO (2). Dairy products are too rich in calcium for keeping inputs under that maximum (this is actually one of their numerous drawbacks), so I suggest you to remove them or at least keep one portion per day of a high-quality, organic, goat or ewe product. You can replace them with organic eggs and oleaginous fruits for example (almonds, hazelnuts, walnuts...). This is one simple action you can take now :)
For magnesium, buckwheat is a great choice (230 mg per 100 g dry, can be taken in large quantities, no known nutritional drawbacks (unlike almost all grains), a lot of advantages).
(1) University of Maryland. Medical Center. Complementary and Alternative Medicine Guide.
(2) "Vitamin and mineral requirements in human nutrition", Second Edition, 2004. World Health Organization, Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations. Page 68.
It is disappointing that he did not respond to his, however, I believe he did not want to answer because the response would have been quite long and he wanted to answer as many people as possible.
I do have resources that you can look up for your answer as to what would the free market do concerning healthcare.
First, pretty much any articles on mises.org about healthcare will help explain the free market approach: https://mises.org/search/site/healthcare
I highly recommend Primal Prescription by Robert Murphy. You can get a peek into his coauthor's mind in this podcast: http://tomwoods.com/podcast/ep-541-just-how-much-has-government-screwed-up-health-care-an-er-doctor-explains-and-tells-us-how-to-fix-it/
I also recommend listening to any, if not all, of Tom Woods' podcasts on healthcare. He has a book about Bernie Sanders, and Chapter 7 is about healthcare and capitalism: http://tomwoods.com/d/bernie.pdf
I understand that this is a long list of resources, but you seem to be more deep into the discussion than the average joe.
For the shortest response to your post: https://www.facebook.com/WeAreCapitalists/posts/232060390298844
if youd like a book that explains why health care cost is so high in the us, check out this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Primal-Prescription-Surviving-Sick-Sinkhole/dp/1939563097?ie=UTF8&keywords=primal%20prescription&qid=1464463538&ref_=sr_1_1&sr=8-1
spoiler alert: its government intervention
All answers you need:
http://www.amazon.com/Primal-Prescription-Surviving-Sick-Sinkhole/dp/1939563097
Stay healthy.
Regulation is always justified with a very broad brush, because from a high level it always sounds good. To expose the problems with it, you have to drill down into the details and examine very specific effects.
The good news is you can start absolutely anywhere. I have yet to run into an example of regulation that didn't create worse problems than it set out to solve.
Take, for example, the VW emissions scandal. Eric Peters explains in a Tom Woods interview how it was caused by overregulation. He also has a gazillion blog posts on auto overregulation generally and VW specifically.
Or take the housing market. Sowell does a great job of showing how regulations pile up, layer after layer, trying to patch the problems caused by the previous round of regulaton.
Or take pharmaceuticals.
Or take childcare.
Or take healthcare.
Or take food waste.
Or take fisheries management.
Or take toilets.
Pick any regulation, and google the libertarian take on it. You'll find the case against it.
Can I live under the one he promised at the ratifying conventions and the states agreed to? The one that would never ever ever be used to justify universal healthcare. Again you simply say general welfare and commerce clause. Literally 4 words, 4 words justify totally control over Americans and state sovereignty. You are insane. I am not saying that lightly.
You are trying to rewrite history.
Need an economist. Bob Murphy.
The Primal Prescription: Surviving The "Sick Care" Sinkhole https://www.amazon.com/dp/1939563097/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_aD5rDbVTHQEZD
Again Hamilton wanted a national government. He lost, the federal government was established. Then he spent his life dismantling the federal government. Lincoln came along and continued his work.
Now we have what we have.
Get tested for food allergies. From what I heard a common allergy can be gluten. I have ADHD and when I eat gluten definitely notice an affect to my concentration, Remember with especially with gluten i hear it is 70% a false negative meaning that you may be allergic but most of the time the test shows that you are not. The best way to do this is doing an elimination diet. but if you want to test do the stool antigen test which is suppose to be the most accurate. There is a book on amazon you might want to follow its called The Auto Immune Protocal It tells you about the elimination diet. I know it sucks, I love sugar, bread and carbs, but I've been strictly ketogenic paleo for 5 months. I have never been so thin and tone, not to mention the symptoms of my ADHD are practically non existent. It hard though, because you literally have like 10 food items you can eat. Oh and also don't have a "cheat day" because these cheat days can set you back several weeks. If you have a gluten allergy and you have cheat day once a week... If you are allergic to a certain protein say...gluten, well if you have cheat meal the effect of ingesting gluten can last weeks. Oh I am not a doctor btw, my experiences are probably anecdotal. Remember though... doctors don't receive extensive nutritional training when they are studying medicine, so I recommend going to a Naturopathic Nutritionist, preferably a paleo one since they tend to be big on food allergies.
>Can you point me to a health economist that shares your views?
https://www.amazon.com/Primal-Prescription-Surviving-Sick-Sinkhole/dp/1939563097. Bob Murphy would be one.
> Can you point me to a developed country whose health system resembles your vision?
It doesn't exist, though some folks in America operate on a system I like. Check out the Surgery Center of Oklahoma - no insurance, prices right on the website for all kinds of procedures.
>If fixing healthcare is as obvious as you've described, there should be a chorus of health economists singing its praises.
Not likely. Just like there is ample evidence of the business cycle and it's government causes, with Hayek even winning a nobel prize for it in 1974, yet the mainstream today is full of traditional Keynesians who think the Fed saves our asses. From an incentive point of view, free market solutions are not popular with large businesses or politicians, so they don't get the time they'd deserve.