It Starts with Food by Melissa & Dallas Hartwig advocates for a Whole30 diet, encouraging readers to cut out sugar, carbs, dairy, beans, and alcohol, focusing instead on meats, nuts, and vegetables. The book emphasizes the benefits of this diet, such as increased energy, better sleep, and weight loss, and challenges readers to try it for 30 days to experience the positive effects.
It Starts with Food by Melissa & Dallas Hartwig is a comprehensive guide to the Whole30 diet, which promotes eating like our caveman ancestors by focusing on meats, nuts, and vegetables while cutting out sugar, carbs, dairy, beans, and alcohol. The book provides scientific research to back up its claims and challenges readers to try the diet for 30 days. The first few days are about cleansing the system, and over the following weeks, the body adapts to the diet, leading to increased energy, better sleep, and weight loss. The authors argue that this diet can help regulate hormones, reduce cholesterol, and improve overall health. They also emphasize that eating fat is not the problem; the issue is eating fat along with carbs and sugars, which prevents the body from burning fat efficiently.
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The first few days are all about cleansing your system, while in the last couple weeks your body gets used to the diet and you’re able to see all the positive effects that come from eating like a caveman.
Sugar can be broken down by the body and used for energy more easily than fat. If there’s sugar in your system your body will break that down, meaning your body is not breaking down fat.
The Hartwigs also advocate cutting out dairy, beans, alcohol, and everything else that isn’t ‘meat, vegetables, nuts, and maybe a little fruit’.