EAT LIKE A HUMAN

Our relationship to food is filled with confusion and insecurity. Vegan or carnivore? Vegetarian or gluten-free? Keto or Mediterranean? Fasting or Paleo? Every day we hear about a new ingredient that is good or bad, a new diet that promises us everything. Our conversations are filled with a dizzying array of approaches to and perspectives on our relationship to food. But the truth is that none of those labels matter. The secret to becoming healthier, losing weight, living a pain-free and energetic life, and healing the planet has nothing to do with counting calories, reducing portion sizes, or feeling deprived the key is re-learning to eat like a human.

This means finding food that is as nutrient?dense as possible, and preparing that food using methods that release those nutrients and make them bioavailable to our bodies, which is exactly what allowed our ancestors, millions of years ago, to not only live, but thrive. In Eat Like a Human, archeologist and primitive technologist Dr. Bill Schindler draws on a lifetime of research and cutting?edge science to explain how nutrient density and bioavailability are the cornerstones of a healthy diet. He shows readers how to live like modern "hunter?gatherers" by using the same strategies our ancestors used to make their food as safe, nutritious, and bioavailable possible, rather than succumbing to today's socially and economically driven norms.

With each chapter dedicated to a specific food group, in?depth explanations of different foods and cooking technologies, and concrete takeaways (including 35+ recipes) on how to incorporate this information into your modern life, Eat Like a Human will permanently change the way you think about food, and help you live a happier, healthier, and more vital life.

On book structure and editorial plans, it's worth noting that the chapters will be organized from most common to most extreme food (so bugs will go at the end!). The author will also be including more recipes than featured in the proposal, so the book will have 5-10 recipes at the end of each chapter, 35+ overall. The book will include line drawings, most likely as chapter openers, throughout, and then a 16-page black-and-white insert of Bill on his adventures.

Dr. Bill Schindler is an internationally known prehistoric and experimental archaeologist and primitive technologist who teaches anthropology at Washington College in Maryland, where he founded and directs the Eastern Shore Food Lab, an innovative teaching and learning space dedicated to reconnecting people with their food and traditional and ancient food ways. His work is currently the focus of Wired magazine's YouTube series, "Basic Instincts," and he co-starred in the National Geographic Channel series "The Great Human Race," which aired in 2016 in 171 countries. Dr. Schindler has also been featured on CNN, National Public Radio, RTE (Ireland's national network), BBC Mundo, and BBC Persia, among other outlets. His work has appeared in the Washington Post, The Atlantic, The Baltimore Sun, The Times of London, The Times South Africa, The Irish Times, The Daily Mirror (London), and The Japan Times, in addition to other foreign language publications around the world. He is recognized internationally and has delivered keynote addresses, organized symposiums, and led panels and workshops around the world, including FRUTO 2020 in Sao Paolo, Brazil; and the international food conference, Food On The Edge, in Galway, Ireland; he was a visiting professor at University College Dublin in 2017-2018.