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The Jungle Effect: A Doctor Discovers the Healthiest Diets from Around the World--Why They Work and How to Bring Them Home | 
 enlarge | Author: Daphne Miller
Publisher: Collins Living
Category: Book
List Price: $22.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 5229
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 384
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 5.7 x 1.4
ISBN: 0061535656
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.2
EAN: 9780061535659
ASIN: 0061535656
Publication Date: May 1, 2008
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Pizza, pasta, hamburgers, sushi, tacos, and french fries . . . whether our ancestors were born in Madrid, Malaysia, or Mexico, chances are our daily food choices come from all around the globe. Unfortunately, we have taken some of the worst aspects of our varied ancestral menus to turn healthy cuisine into not-so-healthy junk food. Where did we go wrong? Why is it that non-Western immigrants are so much more susceptible to diabetes and other diet-related chronic diseases than white Americans? How is it possible that relatively poor native populations in Mexico and Africa have such low levels of the chronic diseases that plague the United States? What is the secret behind the extremely low rate of clinical depression in Iceland—a country where dreary weather is the norm? The Jungle Effect has the life-changing answers to these important questions, and many more. Dr. Daphne Miller undertook a worldwide quest to find diets that are both delicious and healthy. Written in a style reminiscent of Michael Pollan and Barbara Kingsolver, this book is filled with inspiring stories from Dr. Miller's patients, quirky travel adventures, interviews with world-renowned food experts, delicious (yet authentic) indigenous recipes, and valuable diet secrets that will stick with you for a lifetime. Whether it's the heart-healthy Cretan diet, with its reliance on olive oil and fresh vegetables; the antidepression Icelandic diet and its extremely high levels of Omega 3s; the age-defying Okinawa diet and its emphasis on vegetables and fish; or the other diets explored herein, everyone who reads this book will come away with the secrets of a longer, healthier life and the recipes necessary to put those secrets into effect.
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Outstanding ! August 13, 2008
I really don't know what else to say without spending too much time writing a review. Just read it. If you don't you will never know will you? Unless you already know it all. What wonderful synergy contained in this book... Thank you Doctor Miller!
Everyone Should Have a Copy of This Book July 15, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I just loved this book, too, and probably will never read another diet book again. "The Jungle Effect" is really not a diet book - it's the Occam's razor of human dietary habits, the way our ancestors have always eaten for survival. Working only a block away from Dr. Miller's office, I've been tempted to walk down there to get the book autographed and buy ten more for my family and friends. I probably won't do that, but I definitely will do my best to promote it to people I know. I've already started making changes in my husband's and my diet and it's been a joyous, life-enhancing and elegant experience.
By comparing the sort of meals that Americans are used to eating to, say, an African meal, Dr. Miller conveys an eye-opening epiphany. It should come as no surprise that the fiber content in African meals actually prevents the development of colon cancer. It's not a big mystery, but we're always looking for complicated schemes and sophisticated medical breakthroughs for answers, when the solution is pretty darn obvious and really pretty simple.
I think that readers will also enjoy the travel diary experience as Dr. Miller wends her way not only through remote highlands in Mexico, but the wilds of Walmart in the Central Valley. She really wants to help everyone find a solution, regardless of their status or income and to be able to do it with any and all available resources. What a wonderful book. What great medicine.
What You Eat Can Help What You Are! July 11, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The old cliche is true - Dr. Miller has been my personal doctor for years and proved it to me. Her approach helped my health and well-being tremendously and is so logical and common sense - it's a shame that more doctors don't use nutrition as the first line of defense and offense for good health.
I expected it to be an interesting resource with some good recipes - but it is a highly readable and inspiring book. Worth owning and living by!!
Life Changing Information July 3, 2008
I heard an interview on the radio & was really impressed with Dr Miller. Her book delivers. The book is understandable & really makes the reader think. This book is life changing. The recipes are delicious. After living low fat for a long time the recipes are so flavorful and satisfying. Hope Dr Miller has another book coming out!
Finally, common sense in the diet arena! June 30, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
If you are interested in food, you need to read this book. It takes a no nonsense approach to diet, and studies why eating a wide variety of foods that haven't been touched by processing of any kind is really the logical way to go when making food choices. Miller's approach is very well balanced, well researched, and chock full of interesting facts. You won't be disappointed!
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