Living Paleo For Dummies Quotes

“Eggs are just about the perfect food. They’re filled with vitamins and minerals, including choline and biotin. Biotin helps your body turn the foods you eat into energy, and choline helps move cholesterol through your bloodstream. They’re both an excellent source of fatty acids and sulfur-containing proteins, which make the walls around your cells healthy. Many people have eliminated eggs from their shopping list because of worries about high cholesterol and heart disease, and the egg yolk, in particular, has been demonized for the natural cholesterol it contains. But the yolk is the prize of the egg. It’s loaded with healthy omega-3 fatty acids and nutrients. The cholesterol fuss is based on the assumption that if you eat cholesterol, you raise your blood levels of cholesterol. But that’s simply not true. In”
― Melissa Joulwan, Living Paleo For Dummies

“The media has told you for decades that the key to a leaner body is a low-fat diet and that saturated fats are the cause of heart disease. Both of those assertions are wrong. Fat, including saturated fat, is essential to your health and, as it turns out, to building a lean, strong body. To access the fat stored in your body for energy, you need to consume fat in your meals, so your body can then burn stored fat for energy. Dietary fat is also crucial in helping your body absorb fat-soluble vitamins, such as vitamins A, S, E, and K. And”
― Melissa Joulwan, Living Paleo For Dummies

“Ingredients 1 cup whole pecans 18 pitted dates 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract 4 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder Garnishes: coarse sea salt, unsweetened shredded coconut, very finely chopped pecans (optional) Directions”
― Melissa Joulwan, Living Paleo For Dummies