Live primal

Here are some simple primal tidbits for how to Live Primal!

• Follow your instincts and the footsteps of your ancestors. They were stronger and probably smarter!
• Food is fuel, not comfort or social acceptance.
• Fitness is fun, not a torturous duty or something that only happens once a month. Go play!
• Eat foods nature created, not processed garbage sold in manufactured bags and boxes.
• Meat is not bad. It has kept our species alive for thousands of years.
• The more green and leafy the vegetable, the better.
• You do not have to be an expert cook. Anyone can learn how to prepare the best fuelfor optimal health. Heck, cavewomen only had fire!
• Forage in your garden, local farmer markets or individual produce sellers, or just the perimeters of the grocery stores.
• Try the Live Primal way for even just one week. There will be a huge difference in the way you feel, think, and even look.
• Do you Live Primal? Share your experiences on this site and encourage others to get back to the basics, too!

Fuels

"Basically: if our ancestors could pick it from a bush or catch it with a spear, you can eat it. The rule is that a food is healthy, if you could have eaten it in its raw state." -Ben Balzer

"Your genes, which control every function of your body, are essentially the same as those of your early ancestors. Feed these genes well, and they do their job – keeping your healthy. Give these genes nutrients that are unfamiliar or in the wrong ratios, and they go awry – aging faster, malfunctioning, and leading to disease." -Jack Challem

"[I]n modern times we have abandoned local artisanal processing in favor of factory and industrial processing, which actually destroys the nutrients in food rather than increasing them, and makes our food more difficult to digest rather than more digestible. Furthermore, industrial processing depends upon products that have a negative impact on our health, such as sugar, white flour, processed and hydrogenated oils, additives, synthetic vitamins and an extrusion processing of grains." -Sally Fallon

"Most of life is really much simpler than modern medicine and science would like to have you believe. You can have a tremendous impact on how your genes express themselves, simply by providing your cells the right environments. All you need is a basic understanding of how your body works and a simple philosophical roadmap you can use to find answers to just about any questions of health and fitness." -Mark Sisson

Fitness

"You run…because there's something in you that wants to get out there, in the middle of nowhere, and think about something. It's a way of freeing yourself, getting back to what I really believe people are supposed to be doing instead of relying so much on a bunch of material crap that only makes us weaker. We are built to run, to cover great distance, for survival sake." -Marshall Ulrich

"Running is my anchor. It's not what I do, but it's what makes everything else I do okay." -Benjamin Cheever