Fat-Burning Man Quotes

“Grains are a starvation food – they provide cheap calories without the vital nutrients of meats, fruits, and vegetables.”
― Abel James, Fat-Burning Man: Intro to the Paleo Diet

“burning fat is simple and straightforward if you eat the foods we were built to eat and get off the couch every once in a while? There is hope.”
― Abel James, Fat-Burning Man: Intro to the Paleo Diet

“In addition to ravaging your gut, grains rapidly elevate your blood sugar and cause your body to store fat, rather than burn it. How do you fatten a cow? Feed it grains. How do you fatten a human? Feed it grains.”
― Abel James, Fat-Burning Man: Intro to the Paleo Diet

“To put it bluntly, our bodies are not well adapted to digest grains, and there is no physiological need to consume them.”
― Abel James, Fat-Burning Man: Intro to the Paleo Diet

“If you can’t pronounce an ingredient (or five) on the label, you probably shouldn’t eat it.”
― Abel James, Fat-Burning Man: Intro to the Paleo Diet

“grains rapidly elevate your blood sugar and cause your body to store fat, rather than burn it. How do you fatten a cow? Feed it grains. How do you fatten a human? Feed it grains.”
― Abel James, Fat-Burning Man: Intro to the Paleo Diet

“One hundred years from now, medical doctors, scientists, nutritionists, and the general public will be puzzled and astounded by how few of us were able to grasp the obvious – high-carb, low-fat diets simply do not work long-term.”
― Abel James, Fat-Burning Man: Intro to the Paleo Diet

“Modern food manufacturers have overwhelmed grocery store shelves with foods that are nutrient poor, rotten, spoiled, dead, old, and contaminated with antibiotics, chemicals, and growth hormones.  Refining has also brought us spectacularly cheap, pervasive, and fattening ingredients: namely white flour, white sugar, high fructose corn syrup, and industrial seed oils.”
― Abel James, Fat-Burning Man: Intro to the Paleo Diet

“sprinting is for winners. Don’t just exercise, exercise like you’re being chased by a saber-toothed tiger.”
― Abel James, Fat-Burning Man: Intro to the Paleo Diet

“How do you fatten a cow? Feed it grains. How do you fatten a human? Feed it grains.”
― Abel James, Fat-Burning Man: Intro to the Paleo Diet

“here is the issue: while you may know that food is readily available and you’ll eat again in a few short hours, your body does not.”
― Abel James, Fat-Burning Man: Intro to the Paleo Diet

“you would have to eat three pounds of carrots for the sugar equivalent of one bottle of Coke.”
― Abel James, Fat-Burning Man: Intro to the Paleo Diet