Mike Sheridan is a man whose childhood ambition to play professional football ultimately lead to an obsession with nutrition and fitness, resulting in Mike becoming a nutrition and fitness expert as an adult. In Eat Meat & Stop Jogging, Mike uncovers everything that’s wrong with fat loss and exercise advice. Inspired by his personal practice and research, Mike discusses the flaws in today's recommendations to get fit, and shows the negative affect on our health and body composition they have.
As far as how the book is written, it is done quite well. Even though Mike uses many of the complex names of the different nutrients that our body both needs and doesn't need, he writes in a language that is easy for the average person to follow; as someone who is not familiar with nutrition and how certain nutrients affect the body, I was able to follow along with relative ease. It was also nice to see Mike make good use of studies and graphs without over-relying on them.
The only real problem with this book is when Mike attempts to explain the origin of why our bodies require certain nutrients in order to operate at maximum efficiency, and he does so by appealing to the evolutionary worldview, which says such things as the Earth and universe are billions of years old, and that man used to be a bunch of primitive hunter-gatherers thousands upon thousands of years ago. As a Young Earth Creationist in my apologetics line of work, I challenge both assertions. Having read the book, I don't think Mike is intentionally trying to deceive people into believing false evolutionary ideas; he seems like a man who espouses evolutionary ideas in regards to nutrition because that is what was taught to him in school. What it does though is create an interesting contradiction in his book: he does a great job describing the design of the human body in terms of which nutrients and exercises allow the human body to operate at it's maximum efficiency and what reduces it's maximum capacity on hand, and then he appeals to a worldview that denies such design on the other.
Conflict of worldviews aside, Eating Meat & Stop Jogging is a highly readable, highly informational book that will help the average joe understand why traditional diets aren't working for them, which in turn helps them make some informed decisions when trying to construct a diet that helps them lose weight without doing long-term harm to their body. If you're into diet and food books, then Eat Meat & Stop Jogging is a book for you.
Final Grade: B+
