Paleo Diet Quotes

“If in doubt, keep quiet. Play safe, talk less, and observe.”
― Alison Golden, The Modern No-Nonsense Guide to Paleo: Develop Your Skills to Lose Weight, Gain Energy and Take Back Your Health

“Even though a strict reading of a Paleolithic diet would include cannibalism, it is a practice that I have to discourage. Modern people have a much higher ratio of omega-6 to omega-3 fatty acids due to their grain-based diets; carry a wide variety of chronic infections; have destroyed their liver with excessive consumption of alcohol and fructose; and contain many environmental toxins. That said, if one were to incorporate cannibalism into ‘eating paleo,’ it would be healthiest to eat people who strictly adhered to the guidelines in this book.”
― John Durant, The Paleo Manifesto: Ancient Wisdom for Lifelong Health

“Charred, blackened, and cooked, the morsel was brought to the mouth and chewed, contemplated, and swallowed with relish. There was no sauce or seasoning and no consideration for aesthetics or art. Yet the combination of meat and fire yielded something revolutionary. Cooked meat made man happy.”
― Tony Federico, Paleo Grilling: A Modern Caveman's Guide to Cooking with Fire

“Eating a Paleolithic diet is not about historical re-enactment; it is about mimicking the effect of such a diet on the metabolism with foods available at the supermarket. There was no one diet eaten throughout the entire Paleolithic, nor is there a single diet eaten by contemporary hunter-gatherers. Hunter-gatherer diets can vary substantially depending on the geography, season, and culture. Even so, the commonalities among hunter-gatherer diets provide useful parameters for a healthy modern diet.”
― John Durant, The Paleo Manifesto: Ancient Wisdom for Lifelong Health

“Research from Baton and Konner in 1985 and Cordain et al. in 2000 estimated that about 65 per cent of the diets of pre-agricultural Palaeolithic humans may still have come from plants – far more than only your recommended five fruit and veg a day, I would say. Interestingly, anatomically modern humans are believed to have more copies of the starch-digesting genes than the Neanderthals and the Denisovans (another extinct species or subspecies of archaic human that ranged across Asia during the Lower and Middle palaeolithic), suggesting that the ability to digest starch has been a continuous driver through human evolution as much as walking upright, having big brains and articulate speech - perhaps being a baker may be the oldest profession after all.”
― Jordi Casamitjana, Ethical Vegan: A Personal and Political Journey to Change the World

“Your Primal efforts must be fun, energising and easy to maintain at all times, otherwise, you are destined to fail.”
― Mark Sisson, The Primal Blueprint 21-Day Total Body Transformation: A complete, step-by-step, gene reprogramming action plan

“Regardless of your starting point, past failures or bad luck with familial genes, you can turn things around quickly – starting with your next mail and next workout. Your genes expect you to be lean, strong, energetic and healthy.”
― Mark Sisson, The Primal Blueprint 21-Day Total Body Transformation: A complete, step-by-step, gene reprogramming action plan

“Our ancestors, who were able to survive and reproduce under unimaginably harsh environmental circumstances, refined and perfected the human genetic recipe.”
― Mark Sisson, The Primal Blueprint 21-Day Total Body Transformation: A complete, step-by-step, gene reprogramming action plan

“Our genes still expect us to eat a higher fat diet; they still see agricultural foods (and modern foods such as sugar), as poisonous; they still see lack of sunlight and exercise as problematic. We haven't genetically adapted to modern life because there is no selection pressure in the civilised world.”
― Mark Sisson, The Primal Blueprint 21-Day Total Body Transformation: A complete, step-by-step, gene reprogramming action plan

“Your original 'factory setting' is to be an efficient fat-burning beast!”
― Mark Sisson, The Primal Blueprint 21-Day Total Body Transformation: A complete, step-by-step, gene reprogramming action plan

“Our ancestors went for days without anything to eat, and carbohydrates were extremely scarce for two million years. The truth is, fat is the preferred fuel for human metabolism.”
― Mark Sisson, The Primal Blueprint 21-Day Total Body Transformation: A complete, step-by-step, gene reprogramming action plan

“Exercise stimulates an increase in appetite and calorie consumption such that it results in a draw when it comes to weight management.”
― Mark Sisson, The Primal Blueprint 21-Day Total Body Transformation: A complete, step-by-step, gene reprogramming action plan

“Eating cholesterol and bad fat will contribute to heart disease if and only if you bathe them in a massive lifelong overdose of insulin and glucose.”
― Mark Sisson, The Primal Blueprint 21-Day Total Body Transformation: A complete, step-by-step, gene reprogramming action plan

“Oily, cold-water fish from remote, pollution-free waters (anchovies, herring, mackerel, salmon, sardines) are some of the most nutrient-rich foods on the planet: no other food comes close to their omega-3 levels.”
― Mark Sisson, The Primal Blueprint 21-Day Total Body Transformation: A complete, step-by-step, gene reprogramming action plan

“Adjust your mentality to make veggies a centrepiece of your meals and snacks. Get comfortable with occasionally consuming larger quantities than typical Western diet traditions call for.”
― Mark Sisson, The Primal Blueprint 21-Day Total Body Transformation: A complete, step-by-step, gene reprogramming action plan

“Instead, choose decaf for your second cup of the day, engage in good sleeping habits, moderate insulin production in your diet, exercise Primally and boost energy naturally with cold water plunges, deep breathing sequences, napping or quick exercise breaks after long periods of inactivity.”
― Mark Sisson, The Primal Blueprint 21-Day Total Body Transformation: A complete, step-by-step, gene reprogramming action plan

“Agricultural oil production is, and always has been, about industry. It was never about health.”
― Liz Wolfe NTP

“The paleo diet uses a distorted view of ancient history to argue that a diet of 50 to 80 percent animal products is the most life span enhancing. (This recommendation is double to triple the average animal product consumption in America today.) Early humans ate many different types of diets in various parts of the world, but what they ate here or there is not even the relevant question. It is how long they lived, and how long present humans will live (in good health) with various diet styles that is more relevant. The answer to this question is clear as the preponderance of evidence is overwhelming today.”
― Joel Fuhrman, The End of Diabetes: The Eat to Live Plan to Prevent and Reverse Diabetes

“Herman Pontzer, an evolutionary anthropologist at Duke, studies health among hunter-gatherer societies whose lifestyles are similar to those of our ancestors. He found that they generally exhibit excellent health in spite of following a wide range of diets. It doesn't matter if they get 80% of their calories from carbohydrates, or from animal fat, or from nuts and berries - almost all eat more fiber than the average American, but that is about the only difference. (This takes the wind out of the paleo diet.) Interestingly, they don't shun sugar, consuming it in the form of honey. Notably they don't have access to processed foods of or deep-fried foods.”
― Daniel J. Levitin, The Changing Mind: A Neuroscientist's Guide to Ageing Well