Book review: Deep Nutrition

“Natural fat consumption: down. Processed fat consumption: up. Heart disease up—way up. Forget for a moment what the experts are saying and ask yourself what these trends suggest to your inner statistician.”

A very detailed and easy-to-understand explanation for how our diets affect us on a cellular level. Dr. Cate Shanahan provides one of the best explanation I’ve found for how many modern foods are not simply causing us to gain weight but are literally creating disease within our cells. She explains the connection of diet to gene health and details how poor diet choices can literally affect future generations!

Shanahan argues passionately for traditional food, embodied in her Four Pillars of traditional cuisine - Meat on the Bone, Organ Meats, Fermented/Sprouted Foods, Fresh, Uncooked Ingredients (very specific ones!) Our fast-paced, convenience food society has largely eliminated all of these foods, and not only do many of us not consume them daily… we often don’t consume them at all!

Shanahan is equally passionate about the dangers of vegetable oils and sugar, presenting enough evidence to keep her readers off them forever.

It presents much of what Dr. Price presented in Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, but in a more applicable and easy to understand format. Even seasoned “nutrition-buffs” will likely gain a new appreciation and understanding of these traditional foods after reading Deep Nutrition!

I love the idea of our inner statistician! Deep Nutrition is our body’s innate know-how of how to do great things with nature’s nutrients over the war generated by their elimination. Eat good, feel good; eat great, feel great!