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The Hominid Diet
Fruit, Sex and Swimming
- Author: Benjamin Mee
- Category: Non-fiction Diet / Cooking Lifestyle
- Publisher: HarperCollins
- Length: 70,000 words
About The Hominid Diet
THE HOMINID DIET is a miracle weight loss program. You are guaranteed to lose weight almost immediately, you can eat whatever you like, from pretty well every food group – including chocolate – and you will not be hungry. It will transform your life even beyond the wilder promises of the faddiest fads. It offers a quick, permanent fix of such stunning simplicity, and mindboggling effectiveness, that you will wonder why nobody has thought of it before.
The Hominid diet is about eating only what we evolved to eat, which means pretty well everything you eat now, apart from the processed carbs. Because processed carbohydrates were never meant to be in our bodies. It messes with our system. It is not part of our natural diet. If we were zoo animals, we wouldn’t be allowed them. Soon after you cut them out, you will feel sharper, more alert, less lethargic, and less hungry all the time. The food you’re eating will taste much, much better, and you’ll begin craving fruit and vegetables. You’ll also find that you actually want to exercise more.
But this diet is not just about eating. It’s about living properly, in the way that our ancestors did. It’s about understanding that we evolved to be brilliant swimmers, to use our hands, to learn, and to be around nature. Finally, you will find yourself leaner, more energetic, and more like the true animal that you are. Readers will pick up this book to discover the secrets of the perfect diet, but as the pounds start falling away, they will find themselves reading on to discover a whole new way of life.
About the Author
Benjamin Mee, a former bricklayer and decorator, returned to education in his early twenties in order to investigate animal intelligence. Ben studied psychology at UCL and wrote his dissertation on dolphin intelligence, after which his first article appeared in the Independent, while he was a student on the MSc in Science Journalism at Imperial College.
As the world preferred articles on health and DIY, Ben subsequently made his living as a contributing editor to Men’s Health magazine on the former subject, and as a Guardian columnist on the latter, until commissioned by Penguin to write a book on the Evolution of Humour in Man and Animals. It was whilst living in France and writing this book that the Dartmoor Zoological Park came up for sale…
Ben currently divides his time between running the busy zoo and raising his two children, Ella and Milo.