Yes, Virginia, you can butter your carrots. A farmer’s daughter tells the truth about cream, eggs, fish, chicken, chocolate—even lard. Everyone loves real food, but they’re afraid butter and eggs will give them a heart attack—thus the culinary abomination known as the egg-white omelet. Tossing out the yolk, it turns out, isn’t smart.
Real Food reveals why traditional foods are actually healthy: not only egg yolks, but also cream, butter, grass-fed beef, wild salmon, roast chicken skin, and more.
Nina Planck grew up on a vegetable farm in Virginia and learned to eat right from her no-nonsense parents: lots of fresh fruits and vegetables, along with beef, bacon, fish, dairy, and eggs. Later, she wondered: was the farmhouse diet deadly, as the cardiologists say? Happily for people who love food, the answer is no.
In lively, personal chapters on produce, dairy, meat, fish, chocolate, and other real foods, N...
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A Great Book, 2008-07-02
As an avid foodie, I've read a lot of books on cooking, nutrition and sustainability. This book is well written and reminds us that humans have been eating certain foods for thousands of years. Those foods are probably not to blame for the influx of diet related diseases. However, I would caution people not to go overboard on the fat. I agree 100% that animal fat can be good for us; as can dairy fat. For weight reasons however, most people should probably watch their daily consumption in my opinion. I highly recommend this book; it finally got me to relax about eating things that our culture deems bad
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Skepticism No More, 2008-06-10
I must admit, I am naturally rather skeptical, especially of books like Nina Planck's, where in the intro she unabashedly admits that she eats bacon, the skin of a roasted chicken, cream and other "unhealthy" foods while remaining rather thin. When she follows this up by emphasizing that she was fat and unhappy as a vegetarian, I only continued reading out of morbid fascination. By the second chapter, I found that Planck had a really good point because the book is more about how chemical-laden foods are bad for you. Her research is well documented and researched, and she makes a number of excellent points that are in keeping with current research on heart disease and the dangers of trans-fats and high fructose corn syrup. I found this book to be extremely helpful in the way I now approach food. I'd recommend it to anyone who wants to escape from pre-packaged nonsense at the grocery store and get back to basics with food.
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Incredible Life Changing Book, 2008-04-18
If you care about what you feed your body and the humane treatment of animals then this book is a must. Nina Planck gives us an easy to read and understand history of farming and contrasts how farming was supposed to work with what industrialized farming has done to our food supply, our bodies and farm animals. Planck so clearly demostrates why people have become obese, depressed,tired and unhealthy-it's because we're filling our bodies with fake,chemical laden processed foods. If we ate what we were supposed to eat-what traditional people have always eaten-like grass feed beef, real, whole milk, real cheese, real butter, chicken that was allowed to roam and eat what it is supposed to eat, etc...,real food raised and treated with respect, then we would all be healthier and happier and the world would be a cleaner, better place for all life forms. Planck's words are so true and so clear and scientifically proven. After reading her book I feel like I have had a lesson in anthropology, agriculture, history, psychology and nutrition all in one. There are many great books out there on the subject of real food, but this is my favorite. I'm a better, healthier person from reading this book. I highly recommend it. The more of us out there who are enlightened on real food and traditional farming the better off we'll all be. If you read one book on the subject, let this be the one. I highly recommend it. Thank you Nina Planck for writing such a gem. You've made this world a better place.
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Profound, yet so darn simple, 2008-04-11
A fun read, provokes major reflection into what you believe are the good, healthy, nutritional choices... and how influential commercialism is on our diets for the benefit of profit, not better health.
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What do we have to lose??, 2008-01-20
This book is a most read for anyone who is wanting more out of life. The way most American's eat right now is not doing any of us any favors, I think even the vegetarians or the vegans with a chip on their shoulders after reading this book can agree on that. Nina Planck has opened my eyes to all the wonderful foods available to me right here in my hometown. In this busy world where both parents work long hours, this book has given me the extra energy to make the time to feed my family more proper fuel. Her evidence is compelling and I for one have a renewed hope that my families health will only improve in the future by making some subtle, yet critical changes to how we think about food today.
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