Eat the Yolks Quotes

“Mother Nature’s no dingbat. She didn’t package the good stuff with bad stuff so she could watch us struggle for thousands of years until the invention of Egg Beaters.”
― Liz Wolfe, Eat the Yolks

“we’ve been obsessed with calories for so long that we’ve forgotten what’s supposed to come with our calories: nutrients.”
― Liz Wolfe, Eat the Yolks

“The only thing more infuriating than finding out that we’ve been lied to is finding out that we’ve been eating those lies for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, day in and day out, for decades.”
― Liz Wolfe, Eat the Yolks

“Since leptin is what gives us a feeling of satiety when we’re full, our hunger can become excessive and relentless, just as it can when we restrict food. Fatigue can become debilitating. Weight loss becomes impossible and weight gain inevitable. It’s all about the hormones. Hormones, not lack of willpower, drive hunger and overeating in response to dieting and food restriction.”
― Liz Wolfe, Eat the Yolks

“The calories in natural, unprocessed, real foods are more than just calories. They’re full of more magic than a Disney Princess convention.”
― Liz Wolfe, Eat the Yolks

“I promise, making great choices is far simpler than you might think. In fact, it’s elegantly simple: Carbohydrates from whole fruits and vegetables (not their premade juices or syrups or crystals, which are just processed versions of the real thing) are the only carb sources we need to be healthy.”
― Liz Wolfe, Eat the Yolks

“Here’s the truth: Everything we’ve been told about carbs—where they come from and which ones are healthy—is wrong. Wrong like a denim tuxedo.”
― Liz Wolfe, Eat the Yolks

“We’ve lost sight of what we really need to be healthy and happy: real, nutrient-dense food. The kind of food that balances the body and the mind. The kind of food that has been nourishing humans for thousands of years. We don’t need more dogma or another diet plan. We need nutrition.”
― Liz Wolfe, Eat the Yolks

“Cholesterol in food, as we’ll discuss, has very little bearing on blood cholesterol. The two are entirely different things.”
― Liz Wolfe, Eat the Yolks

“The diet industry wants us to think about counting calories rather than establishing a baseline of health by nourishing our bodies. They act as if our problems are the result of too many calories when most of us are actually suffering from a nourishment deficiency. A box of industrial crap that promises a low-calorie path to health or weight loss (and most diet systems and prepackaged meals fit that bill) provides nothing but a carnival show—all smoke and mirrors. This is the business of sales, not the business of health, and it leaves us the same or worse off than it found us.”
― Liz Wolfe, Eat the Yolks

“Human breast milk is high in cholesterol because babies need plenty of it to develop healthy brains and sharp eyesight. In fact, breast milk even contains a special enzyme ensuring that babies absorb as much cholesterol as possible.”
― Liz Wolfe, Eat the Yolks

“This means that we’re exposed to damaging UVA rays without the benefit of sunburn to tell us when we’ve had enough. Whether we’re sitting indoors near a window, in a car with the sun streaming through the windshield, or on a beach slathered in SPF 35, we’re soaking up excessive amounts of UVA. So is sunscreen protecting us at all? Not really, although there’s a time and a place for certain other types of sun protection, as we’ll discuss.”
― Liz Wolfe, Eat the Yolks

“We blame the sun for skin cancer, but it’s not that simple. If it were, our years of slathering sunscreen and avoiding the sun would have resulted in a decrease in skin cancer diagnoses. But since sun protection factor (SPF) sunscreens received FDA approval in the 1970s, the incidence of melanoma in children has risen nearly 3 percent per year—throughout the 1970s and 1980s, the incidence of melanoma in the United States increased faster than that of any other cancer. Since the 1960s, rates of skin cancer in lighter-skinned populations—those at highest risk for skin cancer—have continued to increase by between 5 and 8 percent every single year. First-time melanoma diagnoses overall have tripled over the past thirty-five years, and just between 2000 and 2013 there was a nearly 2 percent increase each year.”
― Liz Wolfe, Eat the Yolks

“We’re an instant-gratification society, and if something doesn’t immediately decimate us like a wooden stake in a vampire’s cold, dead heart, we generally assume we’re okay.”
― Liz Wolfe, Eat the Yolks

“Despite what the commercial of a happy, skinny woman walking through a field with a bowl of whole-grain cereal at sunrise would like you to believe, industrial crops aren’t good for you, for animals, or for the Earth.”
― Liz Wolfe, Eat the Yolks

“Backyard chickens mean eggs, meat, broth, and compost, all for the small price of keeping these birds safe and well fed with nutrition as simple as the bugs from your yard.”
― Liz Wolfe, Eat the Yolks

“When our bodies don’t have the nutrients they need—the nutrients from fats—for basic tasks like cellular repair, hormonal function or even damage control, they let us know: Appetite increases, and we’re driven to eat more as our bodies seek nutrients from anything, at any cost. That’s why diets don’t work, especially low-fat diets; they often restrict nourishment along with calories.”
― Liz Wolfe, Eat the Yolks

“When we eat more cholesterol, the body produces less,” says nutritionist and physician Natasha Campbell-McBride. “When we eat less cholesterol, the body produces more.” Why eat cholesterol-rich foods, then, if the body will produce it anyway? Because it eases the body’s burden and is associated with improved cognitive function, and because, in many individuals, cholesterol synthesis is inadequate for all the body’s needs.”
― Liz Wolfe, Eat the Yolks

“We often confuse “thin” with “healthy” and “healthy diet” with “intervention diet,” but losing weight on any given diet doesn’t make that diet—or the person losing weight—healthier in the long term.”
― Liz Wolfe, Eat the Yolks

“Paleo is not a diet. It’s not a fad. It’s not a rigid set of rules to follow. It’s not a sound bite. It’s an exploration of history, nutrition, the human diet, and, most important, our health.”
― Liz Wolfe, Eat the Yolks

“Oils from corn, soy, cotton, and canola crops are extracted through a chemical-filled, high-heat process, followed by a process of deodorization and further refinement to remove odor and impurities. The process of getting soy oil from soy, for example, requires solvent extraction, degumming, bleaching, and deodorization, followed by”
― Liz Wolfe, Eat the Yolks

“Cells are made of fats and cholesterol. Unfortunately, we can’t change that, and replacing fats in the diet with more “whole grain” won’t build healthier “whole-grain” cells. Fats and cholesterol are the building blocks for life.”
― Liz Wolfe, Eat the Yolks

“Damn the man. Save the bacon drippings. If you’ve been staying away from natural fat and choking down highly processed substitutes for the real thing, I’ve got some amazing news: Natural, unrefined fat is perfectly healthy. Especially fat from properly raised animals. So make yourself a latte, pour in the cream, and enjoy your three-egg omelet with all the yolks. Your body, your skin, and your brain will thank you.”
― Liz Wolfe, Eat the Yolks