Ancient Eats de Michael Fenster

Ancient Eats: Age-Old Wisdom for Modern Health

Michael Fenster

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 ian 2016

The Egyptians, the Greeks, the Mayans, the Vikings and others; what made them great? How did they do it? No individual, certainly no civilization, can ascend to the rarefied air of art, philosophy, science, engineering and combat that withstand the test of time without the proper fuel. Dr. Mike, physician, chef and America s foremost culinary interventionalist takes you on a journey through time to learn the secrets entombed in the cuisines of the world greatest civilizations. Secrets to rescue you from the disabilities and diseases of modern civilization brought about by The Modern Western Diet."

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Ancient Eats is simply an extraordinary journey of time and taste. Dr. Mike, physician, chef and America s foremost culinary interventionalist takes you on an incredible expedition into the bowels of some of the world s greatest civilizations and empires. No single person, and certainly no society, can achieve their full potential while suffering from disability and disease. Recent scientific evidence continues to reinforce the nutritive strength of these ancient cuisines. But then, even more so than now, food and the act of dining were much more than subsistence nourishment. Then, as now, people craved taste and sought out flavor and spice; for the experience of the repast and fellowship nurtured the soul in celebration and sustained it through dark times. It was a cuisine for both body and soul that propelled achievement in art, engineering, philosophy, science and combat that still leaves us in wonderment today. Today, we exist in arguably the most technologically advanced and complex social structure the world has ever seen; but we have not gotten here without paying a price. Today we find ourselves beset with the Modern Western Diet. It is a dead diet; foodstuffs artificially preserved, over processed, pre-prepared and prepackaged. It is overly energy dense and nutritionally bereft. Through discordance and displacement it delivers us unto the disabilities and diseases of modern civilization; fraught with imbalance and inflammation. Accumulating modern scientific evidence continually points us backwards in time for the answers to such a dietary dilemma. What did the ancients eat? How did they prepare it? Where did they source their foods? Why did it sustain them? Now for the first time anywhere, Ancient Eats explores the food that fueled the great civilizations and empires and how those insights provide a window into where we have lost our way. Ancient Eats is a descent into the belly of the beast that will forever alter your culinary perceptions."

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Michael S. Fenster, MD, FACC, FSCA&I, PEMBA; known to friends and fans simply as "Dr. Mike," is America's culinary interventionalist. He is a board-certified interventional cardiologist and professional chef. He currently holds faculty cross appointments at The University of Montana College of Health Professions and Biomedical Sciences as well as The Missoula College Culinary Arts Program of the Department of Business Technology. In addition to his clinical practice, he hosts a weekly national radio show, Code Delicious with Dr. Mike on RadioMD with podcasts available there, iheart radio, and iTunes. He currently serves the national spokesperson for the Food as Therapy program for those suffering from neuroendocrine tumors (NET). He has appeared as an expert guest on many national radio and television programs; including The Doctors, and Fox National News, where he serves as a national contributor. He has taught and explored the relationship between food and health through international workshops, seminars, lectures and cooking demonstrations. He currently writes a regular column for Psychology Today and has authored several books; Eating Well; Living Better: A Grassroots Gourmet Guide to Good Health and Great Food (Littlefield and Roman, 2012) and The Fallacy of The Calorie: Why The Modern Western Diet is Killing Us and How to Stop It (Koehler Books, 2014). Ancient Eats: Age-old wisdom for modern health (Volume I: The Greeks and Vikings) is his latest endeavor. He spends his free time between wandering the beautiful Montana mountains and the Florida Gulf; where he passively pursues his dream of a simple, pirate's life. He can be found on Twitter @WCWD, Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/whatscookingwithdoc and at www.cardiochef.com. He can be reached at info@cardiochef.com.