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Article # : 14852 

Section : BOOK WORLD
Issue Date : 10 / 1988  2,302 Words
Author : Ashley Montagu
Ashley Montagu is the author of The Nature of Human Aggression (1976) and editor of Man and Aggression (1973), Learning Non- Aggression (1978), Sociobiology Examined (1980), Science and Creationism (1985), and many other books.

       THE PALEOLITHIC PRESCRIPTION
       A Program of Diet and Exercise
       and a Design for Living
       S. Boyd Eaton, Marjorie Shostak, and Melvin Konner
       New York: Harper & Row, 1988
       306 pp., $17.95
       
       CHOLESTEROL & CHILDREN
       A Parent's Guide to Giving
       Children a Future Free of Heart Disease
       Robert E. Kowalski
       New York: Harper & Row, 1988
       302 pp., $ 16.95
       
        It is a remarkable fact that urbanized man, since the second industrial revolution (the first was the discovery of fire), namely the invention of agriculture and the domestication of plant and animal foods some eleven thousand years ago, has been doing everything in his power to kill himself. He eats the wrong foods, lives in the wrong kinds of dwellings--containing the temple in which he performs his ritual ablutions by washing away those healthy secretions from his magnificently endowed skin--and carries out in a most unphysiological manner those eliminations that he dares not name (he should be squatting instead of sitting on a horizontal toilet seat). He eats the wrong food in the wrong proportions and quantities, all too often prepared in a manner that reduces its value as food and contributes to his ill health in the form of diseases and disorder that were unknown to his prehistoric ancestors. His life is for the most part ... (1995 of 13565 Characters)
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