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G**N
Great starting point for beginners
This is a great starting point for those interested in living more primally - cutting out grains and sugars, moving naturally, and realigning your activities to more closely match the ways in which we evolved to live. I've been working towards becoming more primal for over a year now, and feel enormously better with each stride I take towards following this program more completely. And this book is a simple, inspiring, straight-to-the-point guide showing you exactly what steps to take to feel better fast.This would be good if you're new to the primal way of life and want to reinforce some of the things you're learning, or get a good overview of it all in one place. I also loved the 21-day guide at the end that shows you how to implement all of the changes for a 21-day transformation. It's about 50 pages at the end of the book and is helpful if you're actually hoping to have a solid plan for making a huge change in less than one month.This book covers similar information to what is found in The Primal Blueprint, just in a totally different style - much more "how-to" than "why-to". Mark tries in this book to summarize the action points and get you energized to DO this stuff. You know better what you'll find most helpful to start with - the in-depth descriptions of the reasoning behind this lifestyle in The Primal Blueprint, or just the "jump right in" details of how to get started that are in this book. There's a lot of overlap between the books, and I'd guess that anyone who has lived primally for more than six months only needs one of the two. I love the stories in The Primal Blueprint, but the photos and diagrams in this 21-Day book are great for that initial getting-on-track phase, so I'm torn as to which is better.The one quibble I have with this new book is a tiny one. The author uses terms like PUFA and CAFO a lot, and forgets to periodically remind us what those terms stand for. He must have introduced the terms in the front of the book and not returned to them. I know what they mean since I've been primal a while, but always forget exactly what they stand for. Hopefully he can fix that little oversight in future editions. (You can always go to Marks Daily Apple, his very active blog, to get refreshed on any terminology he uses.)This book, and The Primal Blueprint, both (probably intentionally) lack much inspiration about what to actually cook once he's cleared your cabinets of junk. Only so many salads and omelets one can eat. If you're new to this and are going to commit to a 21-day transformation, definitely get his Quick and Easy Primal cookbook at the same time, since it has a ton of delicious food that you can make fast, so this whole primal thing will seem do-able. On the flip side, I would avoid his first cookbook until you've completed the 21 day transformation, as it has absolutely marvelous recipes for things like primal pancakes and muffins, that you honestly shouldn't be eating much of during the first few weeks anyway (contain natural sugars and are high-calorie). The Quick and Easy cookbook has more of the type of food you will be eating everyday.Overall, this is a colorful, easy-to-browse book that will be of great benefit to anyone getting started on the primal path.
L**S
This book is great for what it is
This book is great for what it is. What it is is a 21 day jump start for people new to primal living who want a plan to follow. Yes, it's a shorter version of The Primal Blueprint.Everyone has different life circumstances - beach/no beach, 14 hours of daylight or 2 hours of daylight. The point is this gives you best case scenarios and you have to adapt based on how bad you want optimal health.With this book I have been able to introduce primal blueprint principles to my friends and family. They aren't going to read the longer versions. But there is enough material here to change anyone's life for the better. It's not everything but it's enough. It is what it is.Regarding the book, it's in an engaging magazine layout with lots of color, pictures and heavy semi-gloss pages. The margins are color coded so it's easy to flip through it and know where you are. It's a visually pleasant book to read and easy to reference over and over.It's simply organized - 8 principles and 5 action items. But you can read that as you work through the 21 day plan. The whole book is summarized on two pages early in the book and each principle is summarized in more detail later.If you know much about primal or paleo living then this will probably only be helpful to you as a way to organize your thoughts when you talk to others about it. You'll already know almost everything here already. This book is really written toward a complete newbie audience who just needs a step by step plan to change their life.My only criticism is that half of the 21 day plan pages are "journal" pages you're supposed to fill out. I dislike writing in books like this and so it's just filler to make the book heavier. I would have preferred that taken out and made available as a digital download for those who want it. But that's really a minor point. It's right there on the cover that that's included so it's not a surprise. And it keeps you from seeing more than one plan day at a time so I appreciate that.It's unfortunate that people are giving it 3 or 4 stars because it wasn't written to their unique personal circumstances. That wasn't the point. It's a great resource and accomplishes its purpose to its intended audience.
A**R
Life Changing, Highly Reccomended. FIVE STARS but could only give 4.. Sorry
Im a novice, started asking myself questions about how the absolutely ridiculous method of how a calorie calculated. Which led to a basic understanding that we are all scrwed with what is being pushed at us in terms of what we should be eating.So, I ended up on marksdailyapple.com liked what I saw and bought this book.Its Good Book and that is undeniable and I have gotten 2 more as gifts for people like me that need it and that I care about.Paleo is a new way of thinking for me and Mark does a great great job of explaining why we are sugar burners and how to become fat burners. I just hope he is right.The book was just a bit long and actually the 21 day journal and instructions at the end to me, was pretty useless. I wish each day had each meal laid out for me. I get the theory that you eat when your hungry and what you want to with basic rules. It just would have been nice for the first 21 days to be told exactly what to eat.Anyways - Sorry for the 4 star review Mark but it is what it is. And Thank You
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