The Pleasure Trap Audiobook By Douglas J. Lisle PhD, Alan Goldhamer DC, John McDougal MD - foreword cover art

The Pleasure Trap

Mastering the Hidden Force That Undermines Health and Happiness

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The Pleasure Trap

By: Douglas J. Lisle PhD, Alan Goldhamer DC, John McDougal MD - foreword
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The authors offer unique insights into the factors that make us susceptible to dietary and lifestyle excesses and present ways to restore the biological processes designed by nature to keep us running at maximum efficiency and vitality. Foreword by John McDougal, M.D.

©2003 Douglas J. Lisle, Alan Goldhamer (P)2018 Douglas J. Lisle, Alan Goldhamer Hygiene & Healthy Living Nutrition Healthy Diet Health
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I liked the book overall and I think it’s an important and interesting question to examine but I noticed a lot of environmental determinism and misuse of cultural ecology theories and just generally outdated/out of touch with theories and research in the human environment relationship and our collective human history and evolution. Recommend the book but caution to take the interpretations and evidence they use with a grain of salt as these authors are using anthropological and arch theory and research but are clearly not in touch or experts in these core debates and intellectual history.

Nice message, misuse/outdated anthropological theory and research

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Did not like this book…. Too technical; not sure what the point was except water fasting. Leans heavily toward evolution, not creation. Chef AJ did a great job with narration, but would not recommend.

Overly complicated

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This book had some good information but was very repetitive. The analogies were juvenile and ridiculously long. That coupled with the narrator sounding as if she were reading a children’s book made this a difficult listen.

Repetitive

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