The Farmhouse Diet: A commonsense no-nonsense approach to eating healthy and healthy living. Eat the way our grandparents and great-grandparents ate. Sometimes the old ways are the best ways.

All-in-all readers will take a journey through history before obesity was a health crisis and examine the science in what kept our grandparents and great-grandparents healthy and trim. Readers will also be relieved to know that no food groups are banned rather it focuses on a plan that is nutrient dense that will help benefit your overall health so that you can not only look better but you will feel better too. -Jodi Valdez RDN LD [The Farmhouse Diet] lays out background information on why people from a few generations past were not plagued with obesity why obesity is a problem in our current society and how there is really no science behind the diet recommendations that many authoritative bodies have published. This is a diet in which the key is moderation exercise and the avoidance of foods that are of poor nutritional value. The diet phases are laid out in an easy-to-follow format with many tips to help successfully comply with each step . . . It ends with advice on how to redirect the reader back into healthy action should they find themselves laxing on their efforts and favoring unhealthy habits. -Chris McNair D.O.