Comments on: How to Tell Friends About the Primal Lifestyle

By: meatman

meatman — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:55:32 +0000

Actually I found India not to be all that tough to manage. I had the cooked vegetables at the table.
A family friend took us to an all-veg place and I got by fine on the veggies and stuff.
not ideal and I definitely confuse people when I refuse roti or rice…but not too bad.

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By: luyi

luyi — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 05:54:57 +0000

one of the things i find challenging is to convince my mum(she’s high on CW,and we are asians so theres the rice issue and i’ve to put up with faux soy vegetarian food); and to convince (esp ladies) that it’s not a diet and i’m not dieting.

oh i feel injustified that women(esp. from fellow females) get the flak for wanting to be healthy, and not for the looks.

and i think your picture do get the point across, and us, being role model are the best testimonials.

thanks Mark! =)

By: Anand Srivastava

Anand Srivastava — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 05:46:27 +0000

I was thinking that “The Biggest Loser” contest was the prime place to show this. If a contestant were to adopt the primal lifestyle for the contest and then win it. It would be the best publicity that can be obtained.

It is becoming very frustrating for me. The problem is that most of the people are either completely vegetarian or mostly vegetarian. Even if they do understand what I am saying they will not take up a predominately meat diet. It is just not part of the culture.

The situation starts with my wife. She is a vegetarian. She hates the look of meat. She comes from a very strict vegetarian background.

Anyway, it should be easier in countries other than India (with our mostly vegetarian population).

By: marci

marci — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:15:05 +0000

Mark-
As I’ve mentioned, I attended classes at the Institute for Intergrative Nutrition (now just called Integrative Nutrition) back in ‘05-06. You should be one of their speakers! Contact Joshua Rosenthal at founder@integrativenutrition.com
IN reaches alot of people…and the graduate’s duty as a health consulor is to teach clients about benefits of eating cleanly– there may be many converts to the PB!

By: Reverie

Reverie — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 04:58:47 +0000

Love the idea. I do think the first paragraph is misleading that we can eat whatever we want whenever we want. I probably would not read any further thinking it might be yet another gimmick.

Would love to leave the flyers at clinics, work, fund raisers for breast cancer, MS, diabetes, etc.

My 23-yo niece just moved in and I am very slowly bringing her into the Primal way. She loves the food I prepare. But she still equates ‘healthy’ with low fat. It has been hard to turn that around. Same with the rest of my family, actually. They still think wheat is healthy.

By: grandma

grandma — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:11:02 +0000

vin, you summed up kinda where I am at with this whole thing. Eat healthy, clean, non-processed food. 100 years ago or 10,000 years ago lets just have real food. People get that as a life style choice. People also get no-grain as a Diet (as in low-carb) but they don’t get it as a life style. What people just don’t fathom on any level is animal fat. It’s just too hard to swallow for people. So when they say I’m going to die, I just say C’est La Vie.

By: Miriam

Miriam — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:59:09 +0000

Thanks Mark, I actually had a friend of a friend ask me to send her your link the other day as she and her husband are primal without even knowing it! The pdf will definitely be distributed to family and friends.

By: Kane

Kane — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:53:02 +0000

Hey Mark, I just finsished the book… And loved it! And this post couldnt come at a better time because I just lent it to my dad. My dad is (sadly) a vegetarian and very set in his dietry ways through years of reading yoga scriptures. He was very active untill about two years ago (teaching martial arts and yoga) and then he turned 50 and stopped being active and started downing the cakes. After showing him your picture (both) on the book cover (especially the beach shot) he went “ooohhh, how old is this guy”. When he found out you are older and in remarkably better shape he was immediatley inspired. So I think the way to do it would be have some more pictures of you floating around! It worked for my dad! Great job on the book, and thanks for the life changing insights!

-Kane