Health Secrets of the Stone Age: What We Can Learn from Deep in Prehistory to Become Leaner, Livelier, and Longer-Lived, 2nd Edition

Goscienski MD, Philip J.

ISBN 10: 0975910205 / ISBN 13: 9780975910207

Published by Better Life Pub, 2005

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• Title: Health Secrets of the Stone Age: What We Can Learn from Deep in Prehistory to Become Leaner, Livelier, and Longer-Lived, 2nd Edition
• Publisher: Better Life Pub
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0975910205
• ISBN 13: 9780975910207
• Binding: paperback
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: New
• Weight: 17 ounces

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Synopsis

Health Secrets of the Stone Age draws on ancient body wisdom and recent medical research to explain why we get diseases that were rare until early in the last century, why dieting is genetically determined not to work and why the youngest generation is facing a decline in life expectancy.

Hundreds of thousands of years ago human body chemistry evolved to match an environment that changed extremely slowly. In only a few generations we have made enormous changes in that environment and our bodies have not been able to keep up with those changes. The result is an array of chronic diseases and the twin epidemics of obesity and diabetes that threaten the financial stability of our healthcare system.

Fossil evidence makes it clear that Stone Agers were tall and strong, and those few that evaded life's perils for a half-century or more had no evidence of osteoporosis. Present day hunter-gatherers, who live the same lifestyle and who follow the same subsistence pattern, enter the sixth or seventh decade of life with no obesity, no hypertension, no coronary artery disease and no diabetes.

It isn't necessary to revert to a primitive lifestyle in order to maintain or to lose weight and to avoid the so-called age-related diseases. Health Secrets of the Stone Age gives guidelines for a healthy lifestyle that are not difficult, dull or demanding. Strange foods, challenging recipes and expensive potions have no place in this simple, sensible approach to a long, vigorous life.

About the Author

Philip J. Goscienski, M.D. is a pediatric infectious diseases specialist with a 45-year career in clinical and academic medicine. Dr. Goscienski attained the rank of Captain in the United States Navy Medical Corps and was Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the University of California at San Diego School of Medicine until his retirement from full-time practice in 1996. He continues to teach medical students on a volunteer basis in the Department of Community and Family Medicine. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Pediatrics and a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

In addition to several medical textbook chapters and journal articles, Dr. Goscienski has written for the Saturday Evening Post, Currents, the newsletter of the American Heart Association and numerous other publications.

The American Red Cross and the American Heart Association have certified Dr. Goscienski as a CPR instructor. He is the medical director of a Public Access Defibrillation program in Oceanside, California where he resides with his wife, Patricia. He has five children and six grandchildren.