Building blocks Quote by Liz Wolfe

“When we eat more cholesterol, the body produces less,” says nutritionist and physician Natasha Campbell-McBride. “When we eat less cholesterol, the body produces more.”…

— Liz Wolfe

“We often confuse “thin” with “healthy” and “healthy diet” with “intervention diet,” but losing weight on any given diet doesn’t make that diet—or the…

— Liz Wolfe

“The calories in natural, unprocessed, real foods are more than just calories. They’re full of more magic than a Disney Princess convention.”

— Liz Wolfe

“Paleo is not a diet. It’s not a fad. It’s not a rigid set of rules to follow. It’s not a sound bite. It’s…

— Liz Wolfe

“We’re an instant-gratification society, and if something doesn’t immediately decimate us like a wooden stake in a vampire’s cold, dead heart, we generally assume…

— Liz Wolfe

“Damn the man. Save the bacon drippings. If you’ve been staying away from natural fat and choking down highly processed substitutes for the real…

— Liz Wolfe

“Human breast milk is high in cholesterol because babies need plenty of it to develop healthy brains and sharp eyesight. In fact, breast milk…

— Liz Wolfe

“We blame the sun for skin cancer, but it’s not that simple. If it were, our years of slathering sunscreen and avoiding the sun…

— Liz Wolfe

“Since leptin is what gives us a feeling of satiety when we’re full, our hunger can become excessive and relentless, just as it can…

— Liz Wolfe

“When our bodies don’t have the nutrients they need—the nutrients from fats—for basic tasks like cellular repair, hormonal function or even damage control, they…

— Liz Wolfe

“Backyard chickens mean eggs, meat, broth, and compost, all for the small price of keeping these birds safe and well fed with nutrition as…

— Liz Wolfe

“The only thing more infuriating than finding out that we’ve been lied to is finding out that we’ve been eating those lies for breakfast,…

— Liz Wolfe