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It’s hard to go anywhere in the nutritional blogosphere without happening across that ubiquitous Michael Pollan quote being bandied about: “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” I like Pollan, and I mostly agree with said quote (though I’d add, at the very least, “and plenty of animals”). It made me think that perhaps the Primal community would be well served with a reservoir of instant quips. So on the heels of last week’s related post (fantastic Grokkus, by the way) I threw these together. Use them to quickly explain the Primal stance to friends and family. Live by them and thrive.
Eat food. Only when hungry. Mostly plants and animals.
Our genes prefer us to be lean, fit, strong and happy. Let them have their way.
The world is your gym. Try to go every day. Guest passes are free.
Make your long, slow workouts longer and slower and your hard, fast workouts harder and faster.
The weird looks mean you’re doing something right.
Eat food a hunter-gatherer would recognize.
If it’s only been available to mankind for less than a hundred years, don’t eat it.
Living to eat doesn’t necessary preclude eating to live.
Eat when you’re hungry (or not) and drink when you’re thirsty.
You can lead Grok to water, but you can’t make him drink (unless he’s thirsty).
Results speak louder than words.
Eat things with a lifespan.
Facts are often no match for Conventional Wisdom, which is why they need our support more than ever.
What would Grok do?
Animal fat makes everything better.
Don’t underestimate the importance of sleep.
Lift heavy things. Not too often. Mostly compound movements.
Do pull-ups whenever possible. Any ledge, pole, or tree branch will do.
When your only tool is a sledgehammer, the whole world looks like a used tire.
Contrary to popular belief, the sun is not the enemy.
Life may not be fair, but it sure is fun. Adapt or get dropped.
Adaptation to the diet that’s killing us might happen eventually, but don’t be a guinea pig for natural selection. Thrive and prosper in this lifetime.
Diets are hard work, but eating the foods we’re adapted to eat is a true pleasure.
When looking at a study, always ask, “What kind of fats?”, “Were carbs taken into account?”, and “Who funded it?”
Only eat food that you could make yourself at home with minimal equipment. Butter can be churned and sausages can be ground, but can you make a Twinkie?
If you can’t pronounce the ingredient list, it’s not worth putting into your body.
Why subject oneself to watered down foot binding? Go barefoot.
Here are a few irreverent Worker Bee additions to round things out:
They say grains are healthy. Kind of like they used to say Crisco was healthy. And cocaine.
Go Primal. Because diets aren’t worth dying for.
You wouldn’t fly in a rocket built by a chef, so why would you eat food built by scientists?
You ever see a bunch of kids going nuts at a playground? It’s like that.
Some people claim the Primal diet is elitist. They’re right.
I thought about trying Vegan, but cannibalism is outlawed.
Go Primal: It’s not a diet, it’s a frickin’ lifestyle.
When it comes to running, it’s not length that matters, but how hard it is.
What do you think? Got any more?
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Eat foods your ancestors might have eaten. Minus the grains. Play like your children. Only harder sometimes.
“Live Primal, your genes will fit better.”
Primal eating: the one truly conservative approach to your diet.
Real people eat real food
Dietary fat doesn’t make you fat.
Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny- start thinking Primal.
You have teeth and a digestive system like a carnivore for a reason. Eat meat.
Primal: tuning out conventional wisdom and tuning in to your body and your soul.
Chase it, kill it, lift it, eat it, welcome to my primal life.
I read this one to the tune of Daft Punk’s “Technologic.”
Go Primal: Think outside [the highly processed foods] box.
When shopping with the seedlings, “Not caveman approved!”
Eat meat. Not too lean. Mostly red.
Love it!
Eat animals and not food that’s mascot is an animal (i.e. cereals.
Paleo IS preventative medicine.
1. If we were meant to be fat it wouldn’t hurt so much or look so bad.
2. If man’s most primal instinct is to live then living primaly kind of says it all, doesn’t it?
You can’t outrun a bad diet. Eat Primal.
Mark’s Daily Apple: The new Web of Life.
Just kill it and grill it.
Great!!
If you had to make your food from scratch, could you make anything you currently eat with out a PHD in chemistry?
you can eat your non-fat soy latte, fat boy, I am jackin steel and grillin ribeyes. I’ll clean my clothes on this washboard.
get primal: hunt & gather at your farmer’s market.
If it could bite you when it was alive, EAT IT!
Live Primal: It’s like being a Stranger in a Strange Land, only better.
So easy a caveman could do it!
Go Primal. It’s so easy the cavemen DID do it.
Getting primo by going primal.
Nothing is poison. Everything is poison.
the fattiest foods that I see walking around are the idiots eating lowfat foods.
Free me from my shackles and just give me some animal meat! I want the blood running down my face!
I just took my vitamin D. It was a day at the beach.
Turn up that Ted Nugent, I’ve got some deadifts to do and a rack of lamb to devour!
“Live Primal: fit, healthy people are harder to kill and generally more useful”
Go Grok, throw rock.
I don’t watch tv. I’d rather live than watch someone else do it.
Canned foods are great for tenderizing meat!
Whole wheat pasta? That’s like a mild hangover. A better version of crap.
I get my dinner with sharp sticks. They don’t fit in my wallet.
If you don’t scream when you squat, you aint liftin squat!
We are primed to be Primal.
Genes, what a wonderful way to express oneself.
chase, catch, eat, relax, repeat
Fat: it’s what’s for dinner
No grains, no sugar, and sprint to the heavy plate of bacon.
I eat, naturally.
Cardio is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
I’ve never met a meat I wouldn’t eat.
Pour some sugar off me
in the name of Grok
Primal: Cuz’ our sex life is better than yours.
Primal: It’s what Grok would do.
Primal living – where ‘Uncrustables’ are untouchable.
I work in an office 9 to 5. The rest of the time, I play in the whole world.
the world is your oyster; eat it then play in it.
I hope my son looks up to his parents and thinks “I want to be like Grok when I grow up”.
1. Primal living – Evolutionary, my dear Watson.
2. Go Primal – Darwin would.
3. Primal living – Eye of the mammoth …Yum.
4. Primal living – Evolution in motion.
5. Primal living – Respect your ancestors.
6. Primal living – Sex, bugs and rocks to roll!
It’s a nice idea, since he was a very intelligent man. But actually, I doubt he did. He was massively overweight and afflicted with a number of ailments. I think he blamed it all on a tropical disease he caught while voyaging on the Beagle. He tried all sorts of remedies – there’s a hip bath he used to use for sitz baths at Down House.
Obesity inducing tropical diseases eh… Haha, who else but Darwin
All sprints and no play make Grok a dull boy.
Grok was a cereal killer.
Primal: Grok’d and Loaded!
“You wouldn’t fly in a rocket built by a chef, so why would you eat food built by scientists?” –This is by far my favorite
Primal living: it does everybody good!
If the majority of Americans would eat it… DON’T!!!
If your ancestors wouldn’t recognize it as food, why should you?
MEAT…it’s what’s for dinner!
Man didn’t evolve legs to press a gas pedal.
Primal Blueprint – Think outside the bun
Rx: eat; lift; move; play; sleep
Frequency: daily
Refills: unlimited
Signed: Dr. Grok
If God didn’t make it, don’t eat it.
Run, walk, play, sleep its only natural.
Ed….you beat me to it..honest
Where’s the fun in eating it if I can’t kill it with a spear first?
Primal living, because 1 billion overweight people in the world CAN be wrong
Eat primal. Live primal. Keep living.
Act like Tarzan, train like Jane, live a long life like Jack LaLane.
Nice! (it’s “LaLanne”, btw)
Look to the past to write your own future–live primal.
If it has to be labeled as food, then it isn’t food.
Being Primal: ‘cuz who doesn’t want to eat steak and sleep more often?
1) The fountain of youth most likely contains meat. Weird, but true story.
2) Tomorrow will be the most beautiful day of Raymond K. Hessel’s life. His breakfast will taste better than any meal you and I have ever tasted. Because it’s Primal.
3) The city is a jungle. Conquer it. Get Primal.
Grains: the staff of obesity.
If you couldn’t make it in a farm kitchen from plant and animal parts, it’s not food.
This is my personal definition of where the “processed food” boundary is located and is only a slight restatement of one of the quips above.
Truth.
Play outside daily
Re-Evolve. The Primal Blueprint.
To avoid fat on one’s gut, keep it on one’s plate.
oh, good one.
Primal. I’m lovin it.
Do you speak Primal?
Primal. Because every step of the way brings you closer to Paradise.
If man created it, don’t eat it!
1. Find vital verity through primal prosperity.
2. Take off your boots and get back to your roots.
3. Live first; the rest will follow.
I love sedentary, grain-eating people. They’re so much easier to hunt.
Eat animals. Add some plants. Not the starches.
There is no “junk food”. There is food and there is junk.
Walk a mile in Grok’s shoes….barefoot
Stop killing wheat; eat more meat.
I like this one!
Ha ha! Me too!
Primal: We Love Animals Too
Primals Have More Fun
Primals Have Better Sex
Primal: Because Vegans Died Out
Eat Fat to Eat Fat
Primal Body, Modern Mind
“Primal: Because Vegans Died Out”
love that one!
Let your inner beast out…and don’t forget to grunt once in a while.
Put
Rabbit
In
Mouth
And
Laugh
The USDA Food Pyramid: the ultimate weapon of mass construction.
How many toes does a caveman have? FiveFingers.
G.R.O.K.
Gastronomy Rediscovered On Knowledge
a spoon full of sugar makes your life expectancy go down.
“Primal Eating: The end of our health care problems”
Play like an animal. Play with an animal.
If you want REAL meat, you must leave the cave, kill it, drag it home and eat it!
Hunt it, chase it, kill it, eat it
Because cavemen didn’t go to Weight Watchers or belong to gyms.
Avoid 3rd world proteins (beans, wheat, etc) and eat REAL meat for a truly healthy body.
Play…Eat…Sleep…Repeat
Be a momma’s boy. Eat and act exactly how Mother Nature intended.
Stop devolving, start evolving!
Imagine life when Old McDonald had a farm and not a fast food chain.
Work hard, eat hard, play hard, rest hard…be a happy Grok!
Primals do it naturally.
Primal Living: So easy a cave man can do it!
I like this one.
Because we didn’t evolve from sedentary vegetarians.
Be kind to your genes, eat living things.
The Primal Lifestyle is true healthcare reform.
Grain Free – Thats Me
Adam and Eve did it, so can you! Live Primal!
Think of the best coffee high you’ve had – it’s like that, only all day long and no jitters!
Slow and steady, rarely race;
Eat food that once had roots or face;
Move heavy things, sleep lots each night;
The Primal LIFE, “It just feels RIGHT!”
ooh! I like this one!
“Don’t just talk the talk. Walk with Grok! Go Primal”
Eat less, Move more, lift heavy things
Eat Meat… The west wasn’t won on salad.
We’re not smarter than nature.
We can’t create better, more suitable food.
We can’t create better training programs.
Nature shaped us, evolved us and we should trust it, not ignore it.
Eat like you need your wisdom teeth.
Plastic wrappers and Disney characters are Nature’s way of saying “Do Not Eat”.
Primal living: because Twinkies don’t grow on trees.
Play all day. Sleep all night. Eat good food. Work out. It’s fun to be a caveman.
The Flintstones would approve of what Mark Sisson is doing! Ya Ba Da Ba Doo!
Cereal killer (‘nuff said).
(Couldn’t resist one more: Jack Sprat would eat no fat…and then he died a short, agonizing life.)
Oops! Didn’t mean to copy yours. Sorry!
Celebrate your heritage: enjoy a primal life.
Longlife food is made to sit on shelves not to nourish.
Why would you want sugar in your pate?
Your life is not in the hands of doctors or pharmaceutical companies, your choices do matter!
Eat food that spoils.
Things go better with Grok….true health reform since the beginning of time!
Make civil the mind, make savage the body!
Get back to basics: Go Primal.
Grok Say: Fat good Carbs BAD!
Sugar is the devil.
To borrow the quote from Crossfit and others:
Eat lean meats and vegetables, nuts and seeds, some fruit, little starch and no sugar.
Why go Primal? Because it is simply the most modern technology available for achieving optimum Health & Fitness…
…and it is fun…and it makes you look good and feel good…and your wife looks good and feels good too
…and it helps you know what REAL food is supposed to look like and taste like…and it makes your friends think you are crazy…but smart…and…most of all…it is dumb ass simple…any more questions?
I don’t have anything pithy other than: just try it. Try it for the 21 days they say it takes to form a habit. If you’re not convinced after those 21 days, then it’s only 21 days out of your life (5% of a year!) that you couldn’t eat grains, potatoes and processed sugars. On the other hand, when you look at the world (and yourself) differently after only 21 days, that’s pretty awesome!
Primal: a get well quick scheme
Is this heaven? No, its the Primal Blueprint!
Play, its what’s before dinner.
“Is this heaven? No, its the Primal Blueprint!”
To me – it’s a killer one
Going Primal = primal passion!!!
If it didn’t walk, swim, fly, or grow from the ground, it’s not food.
Go Primal: Release your inner Grok.
Go Primal: Release the healthy Grok within.
I used to think that the elliptical machine was a great machine to stay in shape. That was before I found that it was more effective to lift this heavy object a few times and then throw it off a cliff.
Live Primal: Make the mirror your friend.
Health Food Tip: Get back to Bacon!
Go Primal cause living in moderation is just living in mediocrity
True satisfaction
If it had a face and a mother, eat it.
Live Primal: light a torch in a world of nutritional darkness.
Lift heavy. Run fast. Eat. Sleep
Meats, veggies, nuts, and seeds. It is that simple.
You are what you eat, and I’m an animal.
Primal is an excuse to take a spear “grocery shopping”
Eat and move like a caveman…just not Fred Flinstone.
PRIMAL CHALLENGE = HELP ALLERGIC MAN
Get healthy with “The Human Diet”, designed specifically for everyday human beings, just like you!
Know what you’re eating: Learn to cook.
Chuck Norris was looking for a nickname awesome enough to capture his awesome awesomeness. None was to his liking, until Mark came up with “Grok”.
1) Evolve yourself: Live like a caveman
2) Does your lifestyle suit your genetic blueprint?
3) Think like a scientist, eat like a hunter-gatherer, play like a child: 100% primal
4) I’m a natural-born caveman
5) It’s a primal thing (you wouldn’t understand)
What would caveman eat?
Primal Living: Happy, not S.A.D.!
Real food doesn’t come with a nutritional label.
If you can’t tell what part of the plant or animal it came from by looking at it – don’t eat it.
Where’s the beef?
Meat: it’s not just a dessert!
Wait for it …
No, on second thought, chase it, catch it, skin it, eat it!
MEAT AND VEGGIES!
The only thing better than bacon.. is bacon
I know nothing burps better than bacon
If eating fat makes you fat, then eating brains will make me the smartest bastard ever!
Calories make you fat… 8 Cokes (776 calories) is much better than 1 cup almonds (817 calories). Not to mention the murderous fat!
“When looking at a study, always ask, “What kind of fats?”, “Were carbs taken into account?”, and “Who funded it?””
I like that one, on a similar note, I use these on false veg-research:
Was the meat commercially raised?
What was the feed soy or corn?
Was the milk pasteurized?
“Natural selection? Be the fittest to survive, go Primal! Even Darwin would approve it.”
Actually I would like to remove the last sentence and keep it as follows:
“Natural Selection? Be the fittest to survive, go Primal!”
To disagree with three-fourths of the conventional wisdom regarding diet and exercise is one of the first requisites of sanity.
MEN AND WOMEN ON THE PRIMAL DIET LOOK BETTER, PERFORM BETTER AND…..TASTE BETTER!
Primal Living: Millions Served since B.C.E.
Real Women eat meat!
Adopt a Primal lifestyle
Ribeye is the new ricecake!
The more animal fat I eat, the more fat melts off of me.
Science has taken a terrible detour: stop following scientists and start following your primal instincts!
“Ribeye is the new ricecake.”
Love it! (and stealing it, er, adding it to my repetoire)
A Lallaneism
“If man makes it, don’t eat it”
Save the whales, lose the blubber, Go Primal.
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1.) When it comes to food, Grok loved to use his organ meat.
2.) [Insert MDA or PB] – Embrace simplicity
Shoes are like wearing casts on your feet. Free them and run like a child, barefoot.
If god didnt want me to eat meat he wouldn’t make it taste so good.
Why eat junk from a lab when nature provides all the meat, veggies, and nuts anyone could want?
Primal: Taking the ‘die’ out of ‘diet’.
PRIMAL = Persistently Resist Ingesting Mom’s Awesome Lasagna.
Don’t explain why primal foods are better, take your shirt off.
Eat, Play, Love
Just go barefoot.
Sick? Go primal.
Grok this way.
Let people know everyday that you are going to Grok their world!
My favorite that I heard from Mark:
First, you make your habits. Then, your habits make you.
FAST workouts will make you FASTer, intermitent FASTing will make you FASTER…
… FAST food will make you SLOWER!
*Fast isn’t always best*
1) Frankenfoods….. the perfect way to get a HORRORble body!
2) Good for you food – so pure, a caveman would eat it.
Friends don’t let friends eat junk food. Go Primal!
Primal: The blueprint for a better you.
Eating Primal will give you a body like leonidas, a wit like House M.D, and an intestine so clean you could digest a baseball bat and keep comin back for more…
That’s funny!:)
know primal blueprint, know healthy living
no primal blueprint, no healthy living
I hunt, I gather. Therefore I am.
I hunt and I gather. Therefore I am.
Run fast, lift heavy, die happy.
Today’s primal workout: mace to the food pyramid.
haha nice
If you can’t make it, don’t eat it.
P.E.T.A., Primals Eating Tasty Animals.
It’s OK to be different and look good naked!
Real cheese may come from happy cows, and happy cows may come from California…But forget the cheese, eat the happy cow!
I never saved anything for the swim back.
Feeling down? Well sprint up to the top!
I have a great gym membership. It’s in my town, your town and there are even affiliate gyms when traveling. The name of this gym is Earth and we all own a lifetime membership.
I don’t actually agree with this, but I can’t help passing along this memorable quote from Jack LaLanne:
“If it tastes good, spit it out!”
People say that eating well is too expensive, but spend money on cars, toys, vacations. The perspective needs to change – what is more important than good health, and what good are all of the “things” if you’re not healthy enough to use them?
Being committed to put good food into your body is the most important investment you can make.
If you don’t know…now, you know!
studies show that Primal works…just look at our bodies.
Don’t be afraid of fat- it is your friend.
Grock your life
Eat living foods
Love to live the primal life
Pasta to die for.
Eat, sleep, move, think. Live.
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Grokify & simplify!
Happiness is having large and fluffy
primal LDL.
Go against the grains…. Go Primal!!!
If God didn’t want us to eat animals he wouldn’t have made them out of meat.
Primal. It does a body good.
Walk the Grok. Talk the Grok.
If Grok would, eat more!
If it’s green, fat, and moving, eat more!
Save your health, eat an animal!
I’m a lean, mean, primal machine!
1. Eat primal, Help keep America looking good!
2. How many bites does it take to get to the center of a ribeye?
3. If we were meant to be vegan, why can’t we eat grass?
4. Grubs, the original white meat!
5. “If man made it, I don’t eat it” Jack Lalanne
Me eat bear! Wakka Wakka!
Awww… Poor Fozzie!
Don’t live life with the “It’s better than nothing” attitude. Strive to be far superior than “better than nothing”.
“Only eat food that you could make yourself at home with minimal equipment. Butter can be churned and sausages can be ground, but can you make a Twinkie?”
You can make a twinkie http://www.elanaspantry.com/gluten-free-twinkies/
Lean, fast, explosive, alive. That’s Primal. That’s you.
Stay True To Your Heritage: Go Primal
Learn, love, and eat with primal intention.
Eat fat! Live long!
Be a 100% free-range, organic, and wild animal. Go Primal.
Grok: Shopping the perimeter at a grocery store near you.
(you know, cause all the processed crap is in the aisles)
Went foraging with Grok and all I got was this stupid t-shirt. Time to fast!
Prevent Disease… Live primal and live long!
high tech tomatoes,mysterious milk,super squash…are we supposed 2 eat this stuff…or is it going 2 eat us???
Obesity..there is a cure. Live Primal
Humans are omnivore animals that think. So: act, eat, play, and rest like animals. Think like humans.
Get primal or die trying!
We went out of the cave, but the caveman is still inside us.
Go Primal – 2,000 generations of ancestors can’t be wrong.
Or how about
My ancestors didn’t claw their way to the top of the food chain so I could eat Twinkies
Go Primal – It’s Sublime… -al
meat is sweet, veggies won’t make you heavy but sugar is for goobers
or maybe:
run fast, eat colorful and live well
“I thought about trying Vegan, but cannibalism is outlawed.”….haha this one was good!!
Discover a life beyond macronutrient obsession – The Primal Blueprint
Taylor made for you, by them – The Primal Blueprint
Lifestyles, like fine wines, are better the older they date.
The Primal Blueprint, 2.5 million years of R&D inside.
Primal eating vs. S.A.D = 2.5 million years of common sense vs. 100 years of science
It comes down to this: 2.5 million years of trial and error, or a 100 years of sponsored research.
Marks Daily Apple, re-simplifying life.
“you have to feed your roots to grow. eat like your ancestors.”
this is fun!
Primal food doesn’t make your teeth hurt.
Ignore your diet, and YOU will go away.
Eat fat and prosper.
The Primal lifestyle – keeping people lean and fit since prehistory.
I’m not “grain finished” and neither is my food!
Be a Lion in this land of Lambs.
Designed by Nature
Primal Blueprint: Keeping humans at the top of the food chain, one Grok at a time.
I’d rather trust a cow than a chemist.
Your mind knows it. Your body wants it. Why fight it? Give in to your needs.
The shelf life is the same in your body as it is in the store.
Bacon is meat candy.
Embrace your inner Grok.
Primal Eating:
“If you can’t kill it or gather it in under an hour, you shouldn’t be eating it.”
Grok out, live well, live primal.
Valuable thoughts and advices. I read your topic with great interest.