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The Paleo Manifesto: Ancient Wisdom for Lifelong Health QUOTES

The Paleo Manifesto: Ancient Wisdom for Lifelong Health QUOTES

1 " 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. "

― , The Paleo Manifesto: Ancient Wisdom for Lifelong Health

2 " 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. "

― , The Paleo Manifesto: Ancient Wisdom for Lifelong Health

3 " George Carlin: “The planet will be here for a long, long, LONG time after we’re gone, and it will heal itself, it will cleanse itself, ’cause that’s what it does. It’s a self-correcting system. The air and the water will recover, the Earth will be renewed, and if it’s true that plastic is not degradable, well, the planet will simply incorporate plastic into a new paradigm: the Earth plus plastic. The Earth doesn’t share our prejudice towards plastic. Plastic came out of the Earth. The Earth probably sees plastic as just another one of its children. Could be the only reason the Earth allowed us to be spawned from it in the first place. It wanted plastic for itself. Didn’t know how to make it. Needed us. Could be the answer to our age-old egocentric philosophical question, ‘Why are we here?’ Plastic … assholes. "

― , The Paleo Manifesto: Ancient Wisdom for Lifelong Health

4 " wild animals in captivity and humans in civilization share an important quality: we are both examples of species living outside their natural habitats. "

― , The Paleo Manifesto: Ancient Wisdom for Lifelong Health

5 " Fermentation is right up there with cooking as one of the most powerful methods to transform food. "

― , The Paleo Manifesto: Ancient Wisdom for Lifelong Health

6 " Avoid sunscreen! Regular sun exposure reduces risk of melanoma. "

― , The Paleo Manifesto: Ancient Wisdom for Lifelong Health

7 " This approach was typical of the Industrial Age: inadvertently removing something essential for human health, discovering it was essential for human health—and then developing an industrial method to add it back in. "

― , The Paleo Manifesto: Ancient Wisdom for Lifelong Health

8 " the very people who clamor the loudest about animal suffering won’t actually pay for meat that has been ethically slaughtered. "

― , The Paleo Manifesto: Ancient Wisdom for Lifelong Health

9 " In 2012 a landmark German study found that vegetarians are considerably more likely to have mental disorders than people who eat meat. "

― , The Paleo Manifesto: Ancient Wisdom for Lifelong Health

10 " In the middle of the breakup I had an epiphany: If I got fewer than eight hours of sleep, it felt like my world was coming to an end. But on the days when I got more than eight hours of sleep (and exercised), I was able to put it all behind me. It blew my mind that my entire outlook on a relationship could be so noticeably influenced by my bedtime. "

― , The Paleo Manifesto: Ancient Wisdom for Lifelong Health

11 " vegetarianism perpetuates (or even exacerbates) mental disorders. "

― , The Paleo Manifesto: Ancient Wisdom for Lifelong Health

12 " The demands of standing, walking, and running have literally shaped the entire human body from head to toe. "

― , The Paleo Manifesto: Ancient Wisdom for Lifelong Health

13 " our society seems to have become ever more risk-averse, full of helicopter parents who try to shield their children from all risks—which is impossible—rather than purposefully exposing them to reasonable risks. "

― , The Paleo Manifesto: Ancient Wisdom for Lifelong Health

14 " if getting a good night’s rest is sufficiently important for high priority missions in outer space, it should also be important for all of us here on Earth. "

― , The Paleo Manifesto: Ancient Wisdom for Lifelong Health

15 " When animal rights activists or moral philosophers try to draw moral judgments about wild animal populations, they often suffer from a bad case of “Bambi Ethics” or “Bambi Environmentalism.” They apply human morals to nature in a superficial way, without considering the actual ethical or environmental consequences of their actions. "

― , The Paleo Manifesto: Ancient Wisdom for Lifelong Health

16 " Believe it or not, countless generations of children finished their supper before the advent of Kraft Mac & Cheese and ice-cream sandwiches. "

― , The Paleo Manifesto: Ancient Wisdom for Lifelong Health

17 " What we do to many factory farm animals is dishonorable in the same way that carelessly wounding an animal while hunting is dishonorable. "

― , The Paleo Manifesto: Ancient Wisdom for Lifelong Health

18 " the most ethical option is not to stop hunting animals, but to re-enter the food chain and replace the predators that we displaced. To be good stewards of such ecosystems, we have an ethical obligation to become surrogate predators. "

― , The Paleo Manifesto: Ancient Wisdom for Lifelong Health

19 " There’s actually a straightforward solution to invasive species: Eat ’em! "

― , The Paleo Manifesto: Ancient Wisdom for Lifelong Health

20 " running an entire marathon burns only about 2,600 calories, the equivalent of a day’s worth of food. Even worse, body fat is a remarkably good way to store energy: a pound of body fat contains roughly 4,000 calories. That means losing a mere ten pounds is the caloric equivalent of running 13.5 marathons. "

― , The Paleo Manifesto: Ancient Wisdom for Lifelong Health