Why you need to eat the yolks with Liz Wolfe

Published: March 6, 2014, 3 p.m.

Liz Wolfe of Realfoodliz.com talks to Leigh and Wendy about her new book, Eat the Yolks, a hilarious take on eating real food that bashes many health myths pervading our food culture. She is also cohosts one of the top ten health podcasts on iTunes and one of my favorites, the Balanced Bites Podcast.\xa0 Transcript Click here to view the full transcript for #48 Why you need to eat the yolks with Liz Wolfe. About Liz Wolfe Liz Wolfe, of Realfoodliz.com,\xa0is a Real Food lover, an amateur homesteader, a natural skincare enthusiast, and a published author. Most importantly, she's got goats.\xa0Liz is a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner (NTP) certified by the Nutritional Therapy Association. She co-hosts the top-rated\xa0Balanced Bites podcast. She has a regular column in\xa0Paleo Magazine. She wrote the\xa0Skintervention Guide, based around her experiences healing longstanding skin issues. She's a city gal who went from CrossFit n\u2019 Paleo to Farm Fit n\u2019 homesteading. After spending 4 years in New Jersey, Liz, the\xa0Husband and\xa0the Pooch moved \u201cback home\u201d to a 15-acre homestead in the midwest. They\u2019ve got goats,\xa0chickens, guinea fowl,\xa0stray puppies, and lots of\xa0crazy wildlife, and\xa0soon, 2 hogs. She and her husband are\xa0trying to be more sustainable and less stressed, and we\u2019re working on producing as much of their own Real Food as possible. Her New Book! Worry about cholesterol. Avoid red meat. Eat whole grains. Could it all be a lie? We live in an era of health hype and nutrition propaganda, and we\u2019re suffering for it. Decades of avoiding egg yolks, choosing margarine over butter, and replacing the real foods of our ancestors with low-fat, processed, packaged substitutes have left us with an obesity epidemic, ever-rising rates of chronic disease, and, above all, total confusion about what to eat and why.This is a tragedy of misinformation, food industry shenanigans, and cheap calories disguised as health food. It turns out that everything we\u2019ve been told about how to eat is wrong. Fat and cholesterol are harmful to your health? Nope\u2014they are crucial to your health. \u201cWhole grains\u201d are health food? Not even close. Counting calories is the way to lose weight? Not gonna work\u2014nutrients are what matter. Nutrition can come from a box, bag, or capsule? Don\u2019t count on it! In Eat the Yolks, Liz Wolfe debunks all these myths and more, revealing what\u2019s behind the lies and bringing the truth about fat, cholesterol, protein, and carbs to light. You\u2019ll be amazed at the tall tales we\u2019ve been told in the name of \u201chealthy eating.\u201d With wit and grace, Wolfe makes a compelling argument for a diet based on Paleo foods. She takes us back to the foods of our ancestors, combining the lessons of history with those of modern science to uncover why real, whole food\u2014the kind humans ate for thousands of years before modern nutrition dogma led us astray\u2014holds the key to amazing health and happy taste buds. In Eat the Yolks, Liz Wolfe doesn\u2019t just make a case for eating the whole egg. She uncovers the shocking lies we\u2019ve been told about fat, cholesterol, protein, carbs, and calories and brings us the truth about which foods are healthy\u2014and which foods are really harming us. You\u2019ll learn truths like: fat and cholesterol are crucial, not harmful . . . and why - \u201cwhole grains\u201d are processed foods . . . and what to eat instead\xa0. . .counting calories is a waste of energy and what we actually should be tracking. . . all animal products are not created equal and which ones we truly need\xa0. . .\xa0nutrition doesn\u2019t come in a box, bag, or capsule . . . and why there\u2019s no substitute for real food! Her Old Book Countless people around the world struggle with skin and body issues of all kinds:\xa0acne, eczema, psoriasis, scarring, weak hair and nails, and \u2013 most importantly \u2013 frustration with commercial products filled with unnecessary, harsh chemicals.\xa0Not to mention the confusing territory of dealing with cellulite, anti-aging strategies, intimate care,

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