{"product_id":"the-jungle-effect-healthiest-diets-from-around-the-world-why-they-work-and-how-to-make-them-work-for-you-9780060886233","title":"The Jungle Effect: Healthiest Diets from Around the World--Why They Work and How to Make Them Work for You","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhy do the relatively poor native populations in Mexico and Africa have such low levels of the chronic diseases that plague the United States? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy is the rate of seasonal affective disorder in Iceland--a country where dreary weather is the norm--so low? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy is it that older women in Okinawa have such low breast cancer rates that it is not considered cost-effective for them to get screening mammograms?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Jungle Effect\u003c\/em\u003e has the life-changing answers to these important questions, and many more.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhether it's the heart-healthy Cretan diet, with its reliance on olive oil and fresh vegetables, the antidepressive Icelandic diet and its extremely high levels of omega-3s, the age-defying Okinawa diet and its emphasis on vegetables and fish, or the other diets explored herein, everyone who reads this book will come away with the secrets of a longer, healthier life and the recipes necessary to put those secrets into action. \u003cem\u003eThe Jungle Effect\u003c\/em\u003e is filled with inspiring stories from Dr. Miller's patients, quirky travel adventures, interviews with world-renowned food experts, delicious (yet authentic) indigenous recipes, and valuable diet secrets that will stick with you for a lifetime. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMiller, Daphne:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eDaphne Miller, M.D., is a practicing physician, author, and professor of family medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. For the past decade, her writing and teaching has explored the frontier between biomedicine and the natural world. Her widely acclaimed first book, \u003cem\u003eThe Jungle Effect\u003c\/em\u003e, chronicles her nutrition adventures as she travels to traditional communities around the globe. A contributing columnist to the \u003cem\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/em\u003e as well as other newspapers and magazines, Miller holds a medical degree from Harvard University and an undergraduate degree from Brown University. She lives and gardens in Berkeley, California.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"William Morrow \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50513723425042,"sku":"9780060886233","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a90a6e3e-ada4-478b-9a09-6c26b7171138.jpg?v=1730965823","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-jungle-effect-healthiest-diets-from-around-the-world-why-they-work-and-how-to-make-them-work-for-you-9780060886233","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}