Abel James > 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

“When eaten the right way, according to the laws of nature, food is medicine.”
― Abel James, The Wild Diet: Get Back to Your Roots, Burn Fat, and Drop Up to 20 Pounds in 40 Days

“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

“Across cultures, musical scales typically have five to seven pitches per octave, remaining within the range of the capacity of working memory.[37]   These limitations are probably not isolated to music, but could rather be indications of general features of auditory perception and analysis or working memory.”
― Abel James, The Musical Brain: The Evolution of Music, Language, and the Brain

“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

“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

“There’s a movement afoot. Can you feel it? It’s a monumental shift back to fresh, old-fashioned, real food.”
― Abel James, The Wild Diet: Get Back to Your Roots, Burn Fat, and Drop Up to 20 Pounds in 40 Days

“The healthiest foods are often the simplest ones, so aim for the fewest ingredients possible.”
― Abel James, The Wild Diet: Get Back to Your Roots, Burn Fat, and Drop Up to 20 Pounds in 40 Days

“We are surrounded by food, but we’re nutritionally starving.”
― Abel James, The Wild Diet: Get Back to Your Roots, Burn Fat, and Drop Up to 20 Pounds in 40 Days

“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

“You aren’t what you eat, you’re what you absorb and assimilate.”
― Abel James, The Wild Diet: Get Back to Your Roots, Burn Fat, and Drop Up to 20 Pounds in 40 Days

“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

“Music is everywhere; it pumps through earbuds, elevators, commercials, arenas, and it’s even beamed out to space.  But – despite its rampant abundance in human experience, history, and culture – music has no clear adaptive function.”
― Abel James, The Musical Brain: The Evolution of Music, Language, and the Brain

“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

“bodies are incredibly complicated, intelligent, and self-regulating systems that want to be healthy.”
― Abel James, The Wild Diet: Get Back to Your Roots, Burn Fat, and Drop Up to 20 Pounds in 40 Days

“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

“When it comes to taste and nutrition, nothing beats fresh, high-quality food.”
― Abel James, The Wild Diet: Get Back to Your Roots, Burn Fat, and Drop Up to 20 Pounds in 40 Days

“Taking the extra effort to understand where your food comes from may be uncomfortable when you realize that some of it isn’t as healthy as you once might have believed, but it’s one of the most rewarding things you can ever do for your health and well-being.”
― Abel James, The Wild Diet: Get Back to Your Roots, Burn Fat, and Drop Up to 20 Pounds in 40 Days

“Combine the following four categories of ingredients to taste: Green vegetable (use one or more): kale, spinach, bok choy, collard greens, cabbage greens, Swiss chard, beet greens, sprouts, cucumber, broccoli, celery, avocado Liquid (use one): water, tea, almond milk, coconut milk, coconut water, raw milk, kefir. Add ice if you like your smoothie chilled. Fruit (use one or more, fresh or frozen): strawberries, blueberries, bananas, apples, cherries, coconut, carrots, beets (top and root), lemon, gingerroot, pumpkin, tomatoes Add-ins: protein powder (with no added sugar), flax meal (for omega-3s), cinnamon (regulates blood sugar), stevia, spirulina, chlorella, hulled hemp seeds, chia seeds soaked in water, olive oil, powdered vitamin C”
― Abel James, The Wild Diet: Get Back to Your Roots, Burn Fat, and Drop Up to 20 Pounds in 40 Days

“Eat plenty of whole and naturally edible foods; and be skeptical of manipulated, processed, and invented food products.”
― Abel James, The Wild Diet: Get Back to Your Roots, Burn Fat, and Drop Up to 20 Pounds in 40 Days

“High-fructose corn syrup is one of the most perniciously fattening substances on the planet.”
― Abel James, The Wild Diet: Get Back to Your Roots, Burn Fat, and Drop Up to 20 Pounds in 40 Days

“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

“Vote with your dollar and demand high-quality food.”
― Abel James, The Wild Diet: Get Back to Your Roots, Burn Fat, and Drop Up to 20 Pounds in 40 Days

“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

“Your brain knows when you eat real food. Processed food makes you crave more, so you buy more. Real food fills you up.”
― Abel James, The Wild Diet: Get Back to Your Roots, Burn Fat, and Drop Up to 20 Pounds in 40 Days

“While most nutritionists argue that we eat too much, I argue that we simply eat too often.”
― Abel James, The Wild Diet: Get Back to Your Roots, Burn Fat, and Drop Up to 20 Pounds in 40 Days

“In the United States, Big Food doesn’t even have to tell you which foods contain this genetically altered corn on the label or whether it was used to feed the animals you’re eating. No wonder Europe won’t import our food. Even China, the country known for feeding poultry feces to its farmed fish, banned our meat and much of our processed food. We can do better.”
― Abel James, The Wild Diet: Get Back to Your Roots, Burn Fat, and Drop Up to 20 Pounds in 40 Days

“If I didn’t have music, I’d be certifiably insane.” And I stand by it.”
― Abel James, The Musical Brain: The Evolution of Music, Language, and the Brain

“The key is to feed yourself nutrient-dense foods that satiate your hunger.”
― Abel James, The Wild Diet: Get Back to Your Roots, Burn Fat, and Drop Up to 20 Pounds in 40 Days

“Your body needs to be constantly challenged in order to become stronger and leaner.”
― Abel James, The Wild Diet: Get Back to Your Roots, Burn Fat, and Drop Up to 20 Pounds in 40 Days