Thoughts on The 6 Week Cure for the Middle-Aged Middle
Posted on 21. Sep, 2009 by Anthony 'Dream' Johnson in Nutrition, Reviews
Tim Ferriss recently released a controversial blog post about saturated fat- an excerpt from The 6 Week Cure for the Middle-Aged Middle, actually.
I had heard about the book previously through a Yahoo group I subscribe to, but hadn’t taken the time to read any previews until Tim’s post.
After reading the blog, I considered buying the book- seemed worth checking out at least.
Then one of the authors (Michael Eades) jumped in on the 400+ comments on Tim’s blog- and things got really interesting. He added a ton of value and content to the discussion.
That added to my excitement- and combined with Drew Baye’s recommendation to pick it up, I just said the hell with it and ordered it off Amazon.
Of course, being curious as I am, I checked out his blog as well- which turned out to be fairly popular.
The verdict?
His blog totally kicks ass. Period.
Not long after, the book showed up from Amazon. Within a few days time, I was done. And, here we are…
I initially planned to do a full review on the book (and even told one of the authors I would via Twitter), but after reading it, I have decided to only do a short “thoughts” post on it.
Why?
I believe the book wasn’t written for someone like me (would have never guessed by the title right?)- and hence, a full review from me wouldn’t be fair.
It would be like a girl attending The 21 Convention, and then complaining about the majority of the content not pertaining to her. My response would be “no kidding”…it’s a men’s success convention.
Despite that, some of the information was interesting to me- in particular the discussion of visceral fat and a few evolutionary points that countered the conventional wisdom of why certain body types are “sexy”.
The conventional wisdom being that certain physical attributes being labeled as attractive, are just products of mass advertising. T6WC counters and says that this is not true, that mainstream media simply reflects our likes and dislikes, which originate from evolution.
I also got the tip to add vanilla extract to my shakes (which I will be blogging about next). Umm, wow. Simple as it is, it really adds a lot of flavor to them =). Yum.
But beyond the mentioned topics of interest, there wasn’t too much in this book that I actually liked. If I was middle aged, approaching middle age, and/or not already informed about his dietary recommendations, it may have been a different story.
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The book seemed to lack “value”, or perhaps better put, it felt compromised after reading his blog- which is pure awesomeness.
It has some major support behind it to, obviously including Tim Ferriss, but also Anthony Robbins. It’s great to see influential guys like this promoting a book that for the most part, “gets it right”.
Still, the book just didn’t pack the punch I expected- which come to think of it may have had something to do with his wife being the co-author. Hard to say though as I am not super familiar with their work, or her blog.
With all that said, I encourage you to pick it up yourself and form your own opinion- especially if you are considerably older than 21 years old. Michael Eades also has a few other books worth checking out- namely The Slow Burn Fitness Revolution .
On the plus side, I’m going to give this book as a gift to my mother. I’m fairly certain she’ll enjoy it- and hopefully put it’s recommendations into action.
-Anthony
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