Haven't we learned anything?

Any additional comments?

The author is correct: We have been sold a bill of goods about nutrition in the last half century. It's becoming more and more clear that the low fat/high carb diet we were told was healthy for us might not be the ideal diet, and may have significant unintended consequences--obesity, diabetes, heart disease. Scientists and health authorities took their hypotheses and made us subjects in a huge non-controlled experiment.

Rather than take from this mistake a humility in approaching health and diet issues, the author uses this error to promote her ideas about nutrition and "ancestral diets". Maybe these ideas are right. Maybe they are wrong. The science isn't there yet, and it may take decades before we know for sure. Nutrition science is hard. It's easy to cherry pick the literature to find support for a lot of different theories. The fact that people made errors in the past doesn't justify supporting other inadequately supported hypotheses.

Read Gary Taubes' books for a more balanced, critical appraisal of the state of nutrition science.

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Grade A Book!

Would you listen to Eat the Yolks again? Why?

Definitely will read more than once because so much fantastic information and research. It's a book you want to absorb all the content and put it into practice.

What did you like best about this story?

I love all the research and statistics. I love the breakdown of all the nutrients. I loved the humor mixed in to keep it entertaining as you learn things. Can you tell I loved it all!

What does Liz Wolfe bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

With Liz reading it she was able to modulate her voice to pertinent areas. For example, you could tell by her inflection when she was sarcastic, or hear the laughter in her tone when saying something humorous, and even hear her sing! Since she wrote it she knew how it should sound to someone listening. Excellent as an audio version and makes me want a hard copy also so I can highlight areas!

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Definitely, I couldn't get enough!

Any additional comments?

This is a book with so much meat to it!  Yes, pun intended!  You'll find sooo much information but expressed where you want more and more. This isn't your boring school text, it's filled with Wolfe's awesome humor mixed in!  Having listened to Liz on the Balanced Bites podcast I knew this would be a Grade A book!  It's a book I will read again and again!

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Excellent

Narrated very well. I've listened to Eat the Yolks
3 times. Each time I pickup something I missed from the previous time. Am learning a new way to feed my body.

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Mostly good, some soapbox times though.

About 70% of the material presented was neutral (diet independent) and based on solid information, 20% seemed to be repeated throughout the book, maybe to add a few more pages, 10% was purely soapbox material... promoting the Paleo way.

Overall, it is a good book, though I liked "The Fat Switch" better, and offered basically the same materialbut backed with more scientific facts.

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Exceptional

This is the best in depth lesson on nutrition and the history of our food I have ever read! Thank you Liz, I will never DIET again!

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Good But Nothing New

Would you try another book from Liz Wolfe and/or Liz Wolfe?

Perhaps. I did not feel the author brought much new to the conversation. There are a lot of books that do a better job of covering fast food/agra business and also better books that cover Paleo. This is worthwhile but, not a great book.

How would you have changed the story to make it more enjoyable?

It was a bit snarky and I felt that she borrowed a lot of material that is already out there in spades within the ancestral diet community

Did the narration match the pace of the story?

It was a bit snarky

Did Eat the Yolks inspire you to do anything?

There wasn't a lot of new information in this book. It was a re-hash of information that is commonly known in the ancestral diet community

Any additional comments?

This is more of a call to action than it is a scientific journey and that is ok. But, if you are already into low carb/high fat or ancestral you will find this redundant. Again, it is more of call to action than anything else.

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Fantastic Book, Some Audio Issues

I'm absolutely sold on the idea of a paleo diet and this book has definitely changed my life in that way. I've been guessing so much with my food choices but now I have some guidelines that I can slowly work towards in my daily life to achieve the health I desire. I was in my car hearing some deep bass and wondering if someone was next to me playing music, then later on realized I was hearing it again. Not sure if it was a fan in the recording room but there's extremely loud sub bass under whole sections of this recording that was pretty distracting. Made the voice sound robotic from the compression caused by the bass. Performance was great and I'm a huge fan of this book other than that! Thanks a lot for the knowledge, I'm getting my mom into it also. Peace out!

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What a sense of humor!

This book is perfect for those of us just getting started on our whole food journey. Liz Wolfe gives you lots of great facts and science that anyone can understand while leaving you in stitches from her witty sense of humor. A fantastic listen!

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Liz is great!

Super info and super presentation! Very enjoyable way to hear the truth... Who is better than Liz to read this book?

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Get past the hype!

The hardest part of this book was getting past what I thought was good to me. Big business and Government does what is good for itself, not the average consumer. This book has inspired my family and I to make the changes and not eat in the "Paleo Diet" instead we are making it a lifestyle change for health and our family. I highly recommend this book to anyone that is open minded and willing to challenge their preconceived beliefs. Time to go do it!

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