The 4-Hour Body - An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman - Timothy Ferriss
traveled the world throughout the 1930s recording the health and whole-food diets of isolated
indigenous populations. Using meticulous notes and hundreds of photographs, he then
compared each group with members of the same populations who had moved into cities and
adopted industrialized diets. Through hundreds of settlements in 14 countries, from the remote
villages of Lötschental, Switzerland, to the Jalou tribes of Kenya, from the American Indians to
the Aborigines, he documented a diverse range of traditional diets.
Some contained almost no plants, while others contained a plethora; some ate nearly all food
cooked, whereas others preferred all foods, even animal meats, raw. Despite these di erences,
there were a few commonalities among the diets of the groups with the least incidence of
disease. Three types of food are of particular interest in our libido discussion:
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