Eat Like the Animals: What Nature Teaches Us About the Science of Healthy Eating

Our evolutionary ancestors once possessed the ability to intuit what food their bodies needed, in what proportions, and ate the right things in the proper amounts—effortlessly balanced. When and why did we lose this ability, and how can we get it back? David Raubenheimer and Stephen Simpson answer these questions in a compelling narrative, based upon five “eureka” moments they experienced in the course of their groundbreaking research. The book shares their colorful scientific journey—from the foothills of Cape Town, to the deserts of Australia—culminating in a unifying theory of nutrition that has profound implications for our current epidemic of metabolic diseases and obesity. The authors ultimately offer useful prescriptions to understand the unwanted side effects of fad diets, gain control over one’s food environment, and see that delicious and healthy are integral parts of proper eating.

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Eat Like the Animals: What Nature Teaches Us About the Science of Healthy Eating

Our evolutionary ancestors once possessed the ability to intuit what food their bodies needed, in what proportions, and ate the right things in the proper amounts—effortlessly balanced. When and why did we lose this ability, and how can we get it back? David Raubenheimer and Stephen Simpson answer these questions in a compelling narrative, based upon five “eureka” moments they experienced in the course of their groundbreaking research. The book shares their colorful scientific journey—from the foothills of Cape Town, to the deserts of Australia—culminating in a unifying theory of nutrition that has profound implications for our current epidemic of metabolic diseases and obesity. The authors ultimately offer useful prescriptions to understand the unwanted side effects of fad diets, gain control over one’s food environment, and see that delicious and healthy are integral parts of proper eating.

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Eat Like the Animals: What Nature Teaches Us About the Science of Healthy Eating

Eat Like the Animals: What Nature Teaches Us About the Science of Healthy Eating

Eat Like the Animals: What Nature Teaches Us About the Science of Healthy Eating

Eat Like the Animals: What Nature Teaches Us About the Science of Healthy Eating

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Our evolutionary ancestors once possessed the ability to intuit what food their bodies needed, in what proportions, and ate the right things in the proper amounts—effortlessly balanced. When and why did we lose this ability, and how can we get it back? David Raubenheimer and Stephen Simpson answer these questions in a compelling narrative, based upon five “eureka” moments they experienced in the course of their groundbreaking research. The book shares their colorful scientific journey—from the foothills of Cape Town, to the deserts of Australia—culminating in a unifying theory of nutrition that has profound implications for our current epidemic of metabolic diseases and obesity. The authors ultimately offer useful prescriptions to understand the unwanted side effects of fad diets, gain control over one’s food environment, and see that delicious and healthy are integral parts of proper eating.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781094145693
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publication date: 04/07/2020
Edition description: Unabridged
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 6.70(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

David Raubenheimer, PhD, is the Leonard P. Ullman Professor of Nutritional Ecology in the School of Life and Environmental Sciences, and Nutrition Theme Leader in the Charles Perkins Center at the University of Sydney. He lectures extensively at universities and conferences around the world. He is the co-author with Stephen J. Simpson of The Nature of Nutrition: A Unifying Framework from Animal Adaptation to Human Obesity.


Stephen J. Simpson, PhD, is academic director of the Charles Perkins Center and professor in the School of Life and Environmental Sciences at the University of Sydney. He is the recipient of the numerous awards, a Fellow of the Royal Society of London, and a Companion of the Order of Australia. He has appeared on National Geographic, Animal Planet, and the history channels in the United Kingdom and also as the presenter of a four-part documentary series for ABC TV, “Great Southern Land.”

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