It Starts With Food: Discover the Whole30 and Change Your Life in Unexpected Ways

BOOKS AND MOVIES A Mindful Carnivore, Tovar Cerulli Big River, documentary film Eating Animals, Jonathan Safran Foer Fat Head, documentary film Food, Inc., Karl Weber Food, Inc., documentary film Food Rules, Michael Pollan In Defense of Food, Michael Pollan Inflammation Syndrome, Jack Challem King Corn, documentary film Perfect Health Diet, Paul an

There is not a single health-promoting substance present in grains that you can’t also get from vegetables and fruit.

In the absence of enough conclusive science, what else can we rely on? Observation, experience, and clinically based evidence.

Stress affects the activation of reward pathways and impairs your attempts to control your eating habits. Did you catch that?

Create each meal around your protein source.

You cannot “out-exercise” poor food choices and the resulting hormonal disruption.

potential food shortage—leptin levels are low. The relative absence of leptin’s message tells the brain, “I don’t have enough body fat!” Your brain then tells you to eat more and move less, which serves to change your behavior until your body fat is within a safer range. You become hungrier (and probably eat more), your metabolism slows down (thank