Can Sugar Be Good For You? The First Diet Book Review Part 2

the first diet book review part 2

In our last article, Before The Paleo Diet: The First Diet Book Review Part 1, we discussed the following:

  • Why some nutritional ideas are wrong.
  • Why some oils can be deteriorating to good health
  • Why the Paleo Diet could’ve made our brains smaller

In part 2, we’ll be covering these ideas:

  • Why sugar is essential (and necessary for optimal health).
  • The oft-neglected amino acids (protein you’re probably missing out on).
  • Why nutrition isn’t everything.
  • Dietary limitations

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What We Ate Before The Paleo Diet: The First Diet Book Review Part 1

If you knew the most advanced nutrition secrets, what would you do with them? How would your life change? Would you be able to feel good, sleep well, train better and live longer?

I can’t answer those questions for you, but I want you to think about how you’d live differently if you knew you were giving yourself the best food at every opportunity, instead of succumbing to the ease of fast food, eating out, or throwing a boxed meal into the microwave.

Or what if you didn’t have to worry about whether or not a food was good or bad for you? How much would that free up your food worries?

A friend of mine sent me a message last year (2015) and said he was working on a book called The First Diet. While I don’t know this guy outside of the internet and lots of instant messaging, I consider him a friend. He’s very intelligent and one of the most critical of thinkers I’ve ever met.

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JC Deen is a nationally published fitness coach and writer from Nashville, TN. Currently living in the blistering Northeast. Follow me on X/Twitter