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 enlarge | Author: Ori Hofmekler
Publisher: Blue Snake Books
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Pages: 312
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 0.8
ISBN: 1583942009
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.25
EAN: 9781583942000
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Publication Date: December 4, 2007
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 A natural way to eat February 8, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
After reading over 60 books on diet and healthy eating I was delighted to find a new way to eat that not only fit into what I previously had learned but added a way to balance fasting and eating my fill. The author covers all the needed dynamics of eating, covering insulin response and how the body works to store fat and burn calories. He shows the importance of eating whole foods and limiting your consumption of damaging foods like trans fats and refined carbs.
The diet is patterned after the eating habits of ancient warriors of Rome and Greece. He recommends eating very light during the day focusing on only fruits, vegatables, and light protein (eggs, whey protein, maybe a few raw nuts in the late afternoon). Then for dinner eat what you need to fill you up, and then stop eating for the night. It is recommended to eat mainly whole foods during this meal but it is very flexible. The beauty of this way of eating is that with an early dinner and a late light breakfast you give your body time to detoxify with out the endless flow of food into your digestive system. Also you will notice more energy during the day with no heavy breakfast or lunch weighing you down. The end of the book gives a great exercise regimen if you are interested in building a lean, strong body through short workouts that train you to resist fatigue but does not take you to complete muscle failure.
Ironically years ago after losing 50 pounds on the zone diet I naturally reverted to eating very similiar to this type of diet as maintenance and kept off my weight. I really enjoyed eating this way, it can be used for life.
 A Different Take On Eating February 6, 2008
5 out of 10 found this review helpful
'The Warrior Diet: Switch on Your Biological Powerhouse For High Energy, Explosive Strength, and a Leaner, Harder Body' is a different king of "dieting" book (I find it hard to even use the word diet here), instead it's a book that teaches you a different way to eat and live your life. The weight-loss industry makes billions a year and is one of the biggest money-makers in the world. There's all sorts of promises of how to lose weight, but the simple way to lost weight is to eat less, eat smarter, and exercise (it really IS that simple folks). What this book does it focus on how past cultures (warrior) used to eat in the past and see why they were lean and mean for the most part. What you learn from this book is that people in the past (men & women) were so busy during the day that they didn't have TIME (they REALLY didn't have time) to eat and eat and eat. The women hunted for the food while the women did the household chores and raised the young children. At the end of the day the families ate a large meal together, and POOF! look they didn't gain much weight and were leaner all together.
It's an interesting point of view but to be honest I think it's unrealistic for most people. Yes these are all truths but this isn't how society is any more in industrial countries. We don't have to hunt for food all day long and we are surrounded by food all day long that it's hard to resist (unrealistic?). Eating a large meal right before dinner might give you energy to have a better sex life but then it sits in your gut all night while you sleep. For the true warrior of the past this was fine because you weren't going to eat much for another 24 hours and had to live live like a python getting large meals when possible, providing plenty of nutrients for all the physical labor the following day.
I think this book is positive and is great from a historical perspective, but for everyday people I don't think it's very realistic or feasible. Times have changed and the "Warrior Diet" simply isn't the ways things are in the world for educated people. Having said all that, I don't think the book is bad, I just think it's another angle to help some people (key word: SOME) lose the pounds but for most it probably won't be that effective.
Try if you must but I feel that other books will provide better long term results than the ones listed here.
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 One step away from the hunter-gatherer diet January 22, 2008
13 out of 15 found this review helpful
Many years ago when I was a young man I followed a diet similar to the one recommended here by Ori Hofmekler. It wasn't something that I planned or followed with any kind of rigor. I just more or less fell into it. I would get up in the morning and have coffee and toast with peanut butter and preserves or honey. (Of course Hofmekler's "warrior diet" does not recommend bread during the "undereating" phase.) I would then go most of the rest of the day without eating anything. In the evening I would reward myself with a huge meal. Sometimes I didn't eat that meal until sometime after midnight.
I was never hungry during the undereating phase. As anyone who has ever fasted can tell you, when you have eaten nothing for a while and are burning fat, you experience no hunger. You are serene. I also maintained the same weight for many years following this habit of only eating one large meal a day.
If looked at closely it can be seen that the essence of the warrior diet is mini-fasts and the avoidance of carbohydrates, especially the processed kind. Hofmekler is not entirely rigorous in that recommendation however, allowing one to eat fresh fruits and vegetables or even some protein during the undereating or fasting phase. Notice that this diet is similar to some of the low-carbs diets currently fashionable. Note also that mini-fasting results in a period of time in which the digestive system is given a rest. With no food in the system, the body is forced to burn fat. Fat burns clean, relatively speaking, as Hofmekler explains. This is quite a change from the days when we were taught that fat was the culprit. Today we know that concentrated, processed carbohydrates and such things as corn syrup are what is making America fat and frankly sick.
In essence the warrior diet is a return to the natural diet of humans as it was (per force) practiced in the Pleistocene prior to the rise of agriculture. When one looks at such a diet, which included, small animals, insects, roots, tubers, fruits, vegetables, and the occasional large animal, it is easy to see that it was almost impossible to get fat or at any rate stay fat for any length of time. The two main foods that are making Westerners fat are readily available carbohydrates and an abundance of fats and oils. In the prehistory there were oats and wheat and barley and such, but the seeds were relatively small and to make a meal required a lot of hand processing. I have experimented with some of the natural foods found here in California, acorns, black walnuts, pine nuts, wild oats, wild grapes; and the striking thing I have discovered is just how much time and energy it requires to process these foods. Using hand tools and existing on these foods along with fish and whatever meat I could get, I could never get fat.
So what Hofmekler is recommending is a return to such a way of living. Since the foods for us are readily available with little processing, the time that would have been spent in hand processing should now be spent in fasting (which was the case in the prehistory).
There is an incredible amount of detail in this book as Hofmekler compares his diet to other diets, as he incorporates workouts, food preparation and recipes, and gets specific about all kinds of foods; but the hard kernel of truth here, in my opinion, is simply this: eat less, eat less often, exercise, and avoid denatured foods. Note that "eat less often" implies mini-fasts. Perhaps the biggest mistake we make is to eat from habit, to eat when we are not really hungry. If we always waited until we were ravenous before eating we would both enjoy the food more and be healthier.
I also like the idea of seeing oneself as something other than a couch potato, indoctrinated by corporate interests to a life of relative passivity and constant consumption. So the metaphor of "The Warrior Diet" is welcome in a marketing sense and more appealing (and sexier!) than what I think is more accurate, which is "A Hunter-Gatherer Diet." One of the reasons that Hofmekler uses the term "warrior" is to suggest in a somewhat subliminal way one of his prescriptions, that is to avoid what he considers estrogen-promoting foods such as "processed soy products...conventional produce, meats, poultry, and pork" and other foods. (See e.g., page 154, or better yet his previous book "The Anti-Estrogenic Diet" for the full story.)
By the way, I still practice a one square meal a day diet, although I must confess that I snack a little too much in-between! Hofmekler's book (incidentally in its second edition, which suggests its value) has come along just in time to inspire me to return to a more rigorous practice. This morning as I write this, 15 hours have passed since I ate anything. I am not the slightest bit hungry and this is after walking an hour in the rain and doing some chores. However I will enjoy my coffee and homemade bread soon.
The way eating is supposed to be January 17, 2008
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
I have a friend who is a well-known bodybuilder of the "Golden Era" and he uses this Warrior Diet with great success. He's a real proponent of it.
I found the book enlightening. Eat more at night? In all my years I've never heard that. I've been taught to eat most of my food during the day and very little at night. Only now is the fitness community learning that eating at night is a good thing. That's discussed in the book.
There are chapters on warrior meals and recipes, sex drive, potency and animal magnetism. There is also a chapter on personalizing the diet for women. (I'm sorry the author didn't realize from the beginning that women are warriors too!)
I think you'll find this a very enlightening book and highly recommend it.
A Fantastic Return to Instinctual Eating January 3, 2008
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
While I do understand that not everyone will enjoy this diet, or even benefit from it, in my life it has altered my health and energy dramatically. I have tried eating the "clean" bodybuilders diet for the last 2 years to put on size. I have done my cardio, intervals and slow paced mileage. I don't care about that anymore. I want to feel alive, primal, loving, and in tune. And for me this diet is a cornerstone of that lifestyle. I have never felt the need to write a review of a book, this is my first, and it deserves to be read at the least.
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