--- title: "1 Like Fruit Quotes By Gary Taubes" description: "1 Like Fruit quotes by Gary Taubes. Plus more from Gary Taubes and more Like Fruit sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c89/gary-taubes-11659_fruit_how-can-seemingly-unprocessed-foods-like_928987.jpg" --- > [“How can seemingly unprocessed foods like fruit be sub-optimal for our health? While our Paleolithic ancestors may have eaten copious fruit, it would have been a sporadic part of their diet, and almost assuredly not the juicy, sweet fruit that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-taubes/how-can-seemingly-unprocessed-foods-like-fruit-be-sub-optimal-for-our/) [Gary Taubes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-taubes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c89/gary-taubes-11659_fruit_how-can-seemingly-unprocessed-foods-like_928987.jpg) ## More by Gary Taubes > [“Canned breakfast juices had first appeared during Prohibition, motivated by grape growers who could no longer sell their products as wine, and by orange…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-taubes/canned-breakfast-juices-had-first-appeared-during-prohibition/) [Gary Taubes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-taubes/) > [“The bottom line is something that’s been known (and mostly ignored) for over forty years. The one thing we absolutely have to do if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-taubes/the-bottom-line-is-something-that-s-been-known-and-mostly-ignored-for/) [Gary Taubes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-taubes/) > [“The most important and most easily measured would be waist circumference. But other factors include small, dense LDL (or a high apoB or LDL…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-taubes/the-most-important-and-most-easily-measured-would-be-waist/) [Gary Taubes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-taubes/) > [“It may be easier to believe that we remain lean because we're virtuous and we get fat because we're not, but the evidence simply…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-taubes/it-may-be-easier-to-believe-that-we-remain-lean-because-we-re/) [Gary Taubes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-taubes/) > [“By 1952, the University of Minnesota nutritionist Ancel Keys was arguing that high blood levels of cholesterol caused heart disease, and that it was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-taubes/by-1952-the-university-of-minnesota-nutritionist-ancel-keys-was/) [Gary Taubes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-taubes/) > [The point to keep in mind is that you don't lose fat because you cut calories; you lose fat because you cut out the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-taubes/the-point-to-keep-in-mind-is-that-you-don-t-lose-fat-because-you-cut/) [Gary Taubes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-taubes/) > [The simplest way to look at all these associations, between obesity, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, cancer, and Alzheimer's (not to mention…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-taubes/the-simplest-way-to-look-at-all-these-associations-between-obesity/) [Gary Taubes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-taubes/) > [“In particular, raising blood sugar will increase the production of what are known technically as reactive oxygen species and advanced glycation end-products, both of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-taubes/in-particular-raising-blood-sugar-will-increase-the-production-of/) [Gary Taubes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-taubes/) > [“In Type 1 diabetes, the cause is a lack of insulin. The result is an inability to use glucose for fuel and to retain…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-taubes/in-type-1-diabetes-the-cause-is-a-lack-of-insulin-the-result-is-an/) [Gary Taubes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-taubes/) > [“The point to keep in mind is that you don’t lose fat because you cut calories; you lose fat because you cut out the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-taubes/the-point-to-keep-in-mind-is-that-you-don-t-lose-fat-because-you-cut-2/) [Gary Taubes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-taubes/) > [We don't get fat because we overeat; we overeat because we're getting fat.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-taubes/we-don-t-get-fat-because-we-overeat-we-overeat-because-we-re-getting/) [Gary Taubes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-taubes/) > [“Those who ran the most tended to weigh the least, but all these runners tended to get fatter with each passing year, even those…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-taubes/those-who-ran-the-most-tended-to-weigh-the-least-but-all-these/) [Gary Taubes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-taubes/) > [“The “remarkable sodium and water retaining effect of concentrated carbohydrate food,” as the University of Wisconsin endocrinologist Edward Gordon called it, was then explained…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-taubes/the-remarkable-sodium-and-water-retaining-effect-of-concentrated/) [Gary Taubes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-taubes/) > [“Does being “thin” ensure optimal “health”? No. It’s now well accepted that many lean individuals have the condition known as metabolic syndrome, which is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-taubes/does-being-thin-ensure-optimal-health-no-it-s-now-well-accepted-that/) [Gary Taubes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-taubes/) > [There is a theory that creativity arises when individuals are out of sync with their environment. To put it simply, people who fit in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-taubes/there-is-a-theory-that-creativity-arises-when-individuals-are-out-of/) [Gary Taubes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-taubes/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/like-fruit/gary-taubes/#itemlist", "name": "1 Like Fruit Quotes By Gary Taubes", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“How can seemingly unprocessed foods like fruit be sub-optimal for our health? While our Paleolithic ancestors may have eaten copious fruit, it would have been a sporadic part of their diet, and almost assuredly not the juicy, sweet fruit that we find today in supermarkets. In nature, fruit is seasonal and relatively hard to come by. Not something to be consumed daily in great quantities. 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