Who invented the low-carb diets? Was Dr. Atkins in 1972? Dr. Wilder and Peterman in 1920? Or William Banting in 1863?

Not at all! Low-carb diets has been the basic nuutrition principle of the human kind for as long as two millions years.

Current evidence suggests that human ancestors who evolved in the african paleo-continent and then spread across the planet in waves of migration, based their ability to migrate in different regions of the world on their ability to survive prolonged periods of intermittent fasting and to adapt to hunting and gathering less carb-rich fare.

Only in most recent times the low-fat message has been pushed in the popular media and in universities. After three decades of this nutritional experiment the prevalence of diabetes, obesity and metabolic syndrome has grown dramatically.

At the same time that science is increasingly defining the variability in our individual responses to diet and exercise nutrition policy makers insists on preaching a one-size-fit-all message that match the metabolic fingerprint of less than half the population.

I wrote this book – first of two titles in a series I wrote about facts and fiction on nutrition – to dissect our current national beliefs on high-carb/low-fat diet, to find track their evolution and to evaluate the research behind them.

Although ther’s no diet nor recipes in this book (it only contains up-to-date principles on best nutrition practices) “Pane al Pane e Vino al Vino” Manuale di Ri(e)oluzione Alimentare hit the list this week in Italy and it is currently the most popular self-help book on food and nutrition on the bookshelves.

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