Melody Murray's Books

I picked this up because I've been following a serious weightlifting regime for about a year, and minding my calories semi-obsessively for about as long, but I've got 20 extra pounds clinging to me like grim death.So this book seemed targeted directly at me, and I read it with interest. I am always up for a field trip to the outskirts of accepted wisdom. Taubes, who appears to have impressive scientific credentials, here offers a pretty compelling rejection of the calories in/calories out method of weight control, in favor of a diet closer to what early hominids enjoyed. The Clan of the Cave Bear diet, if you will. I'm not entirely convinced by all his points, but it's worth further investigation. I was impressed by his evolutionary bent. His elaboration on some studies done on ground squirrels, who add half again their normal weight in fat each fall- even if they are on severely limited rations made me think, "Oh, right. Of course, otherwise one bad summer would have wiped out all the ground squirrels forever." His forays into the chemical reactions happening in my very own fat cells were educational. There's, ahem, a lot of food for thought here. I wish I liked meat better, then I'd be more willing to try this. It's well worth reading, if you have any interest at all in the subject. Though I'm not recommending it for Lisa V. ;-)