PRAISE FOR THE WARRIOR DIET by Ori Hofmekler

Foreword

By Udo Erasmus

author of Fats That Heal, Fats That Kill

The Warrior Diet is an unusual book. It is a book without measurements, but with feeling. A book that encourages you to break rules to find passion. A book not written by academics who anal–yze everything, but by someone who trusts life and questions stupidity, and encourages you to do the same. This alone is reason to read The Warrior Diet.

Something in you already knows a lot about how you should live. Find, and listen to, and trust that instinct, author Ori Hofmekler tells you.

Experts have a nasty tendency to make what’s natural and simple more complicated. They make their living by collecting rent on the insecurity they create by undermining your common sense. To do that, they snow you with big words.

In that regard, lucky for you, Ori is not an expert. He encourages you to live by an inner wisdom born of 3.5 billion years of development of creatures made from food and for activity—survival, reproduction, discovery, and joy.

You are endowed with a genetic program that knows how to build a healthy body. Do not poison that program with toxic synthetic man-made molecules that have never been present in nature. Provide it with the building blocks it needs to build that body. How do you do that?

Without getting technical, Ori encourages you to get there through interesting information, through tasty recipes for health, through exercise, through lifestyle, through ways of thinking, and through calling the sleeping warrior within you to awake.

Some of my favorite topics:

Ori’s description of the daily sympathetic-parasympathetic rhythm: light food during the day, when energy goes to external pursuits; the big meal in the evening, relaxed with friends, when the day’s work is done.

I love the simple logic of it, and it works in practice. Do big meals during the day make you feel lazy? Do light food during waking hours keep you from getting tired while you need alertness for work? Does eating when you’re hungry make food taste better? While you read, ask yourself such questions.

The Warrior Instinct. Whatever you call it, this instinct within us is more reliable than thousands of half-baked rules imposed by half-alive, double blind theoreticians. Rules serve the need to control, but most are out of line with your need for freedom to discover the truths of your own life.

Your life is a warrior’s path. Whether it is to hunt for food, protect your family, village, or country, or to conquer lies and establish truth, the full life has always been a warrior’s life.

The warrior’s life involves goals. It has commitment. There is passion. It is heart-felt. It is conscious. You use your creativity. You question, and you build.

A warrior’s life gives expression to the basic, in-built striving to get better. Its confidence comes, not from memorizing, but from doing, observing, examining, arguing, learning, and improving. It is not 9-5, but goes an extra mile or an extra hour, inspired to accomplish goals because they are worthwhile.

Romanticism: it is much more than a way to get other people to satisfy your sexual urges. It includes that, but also all that you do with passion and care for life.

Rare in books about foods, there is wisdom in the pages of The Warrior Diet. Technicians write most food books, and Ori knows the techniques, but he shows you a possibility—a platform for living your life as well.

Ori’s style is easygoing. His sense of history is interesting. His psychology is common sense. His stories are simple and flow. He is flexible, and learns from all his activities. He does not judge.

Ori talks about food, about ambience, about activity (exercise), about friendship, about lifestyle, about romanticism, and provides great recipes.

The Warrior Diet is a book that talks to all of you—the whole person hidden inside. Read the book, think about what he says, try it, find out how it works for you, argue with him if you want, and discover more of who you are.