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Hey folks, it's Ben Greenfield here and if you're listening to this podcast when it comes

out, you may know that just last week over at Ben Greenfield Fitness.com, I released

an article called 21 steps to optimizing your diet and 11 foods you need to stop eating

now.

And the entire article was influenced by a book that I've recently read called Deep Nutrition.

Now the subtitle of Deep Nutrition is Why Your Genes Need Traditional Food.

It was written by a physician, Dr. Kate Shanahan, and Dr. Shanahan goes into a ton of extremely

interesting and useful and practical nutrition information in this book.

It covers from the Messiah to the ancient Egyptian to the Japanese and the French, kind

of how we can base our diet using the foundation of some of the healthiest components of all

these other diets.

But it does so in this really scientific way, using a lot of research and physiology and

research and genetics.

And you'd think that all of this just has to do with like health or longevity.

But what I like is she actually gets into things like how we can use these concepts

to enhance our beauty, like the length of our limbs and the shape of our eyes.

And even what we're going to talk about today, that is fat loss and the way that your

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