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SHOW NOTES

• Travelling opened his eyes to other ideas around food and the culture around foods
• There is a lot of tradition around food that people in the US are not aware of
• Fast food and institutions changed the traditions in the Western world
• Our ancestors had the right instincts around food, our grandparents never ate like we do now
• It just takes a little bit of common sense to realize why our current nutrition climate is flawed
• quote from Nina Teicholz \\u201cbut like lost languages, lost skills, and lost songs, it takes only a few generations to forget\\u201d
• We live in this world where things are supposed to be getting better and improving yet we have so many problems
• Abel\\u2019s technology detox went as long as 8 months
• If you believe in fasting than you should believe in taking breaks from technology
• We should be eating seasonally
• How he turned to a minimalist lifestyle, sold all his belongings, and travelled around with his wife
• His \\u201cWild Diet\\u201d is based on eating whole foods, primarily seasonal vegetables and meat
• Most of your energy will come from fat if you are eating an ancestral diet
• You can abuse anything that starts out as healthy, so eat seasonally
• The American diet has extremely low diversity, ancestrally we had a lot of diversity in the diet
• Eating intuitively
• On a day to day basis he incorporates fasting, he started with 16/8 but now he prefers to eat only one meal a day which comes naturally for him
• He breaks his fast with some raw vegetables and bone broth, and for dinner he will have a home-made meal
• Eating out all the time likely leads to eating poor quality food
• He packs his own food when he travels
• When you prepare your own food, you know what\\u2019s in it, you have confidence in it and you won\\u2019t be blindsided by foods that set off cravings for days
• It\\u2019s important to recognize your \\u201ctrigger foods\\u201d
• Are the foods you are eating making you hungrier or satiating? This is a good compass and very telling of if you are eating the right foods
• The words \\u201cpaleo\\u201d and \\u201cketo\\u201d are misleading people to think these are health foods when they are still hyper-palatable processed foods
• If he wants to celebrate with food he will make a healthier alternative
• He was featured on the TV show: ABC TV called Diet Wars, a fitness and weight loss competition where trainers/coaches compete to get their clients to lose weight
• His client lost 82 pounds and has kept the weight off after a few years
• During the Biggest Loser, everyone regained all their weight or more, it\\u2019s not healthy to lose weight extremely quickly or in unhealthy ways there are ways to do it healthy
• His strategy was to eat whole foods, embracting fat, and utilizing intermittent fasting
• Nutrition is blown out of proportion in the media with names like vegan, paleo, and keto, everyone is looking for the new next diet but the truths lie in these simple principles and there\\u2019s no one diet fits all
• His show was almost 10 years ago and he still believes in the same principles
• Where to find Abel James:
• www.fatburningman.com for health and food related content
• www.abeljames.com for music related content

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