Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
This is my full interview with Mark Sisson, health and fitness expert and author of the newly updated book, The Primal Blueprint.
Q: Tell me what the ?Primal Blueprint? is in a nutshell?
Mark Sisson: For over 200,000 years, homo sapiens were hunter-gatherers living in ?the wild,? eating plants and animals. For the last 9,900 years, our ancestors lived on unprocessed, whole foods, with few modern comforts. It?s only in the last 100 years that we?ve started eating industrialized, processed food and living sedentary lives. So, we?ve got 200,000 years of eating animals and plants versus 10,000 years eating grains versus 100 years eating mutated grains, refined sugar and vegetable oils.
The Primal Blueprint is a lifestyle whose tenets are informed by biological evolution, traditional wisdom, and modern science to form a healthy, sustainable, enjoyable way of being. It?s a way to eat, move, sleep, and simply exist with our ancient genes in this modern world - taking advantage of modern science and drawing upon lessons of our evolutionary background.
Q: You talk in your book about one being a ?sugar-burning? or a ?fat-burning? person. What does that mean?
http://www.diabetesstories.com/stories_blog/an-alternative-way-of-eatin.html
Q: Tell me what the ?Primal Blueprint? is in a nutshell?
Mark Sisson: For over 200,000 years, homo sapiens were hunter-gatherers living in ?the wild,? eating plants and animals. For the last 9,900 years, our ancestors lived on unprocessed, whole foods, with few modern comforts. It?s only in the last 100 years that we?ve started eating industrialized, processed food and living sedentary lives. So, we?ve got 200,000 years of eating animals and plants versus 10,000 years eating grains versus 100 years eating mutated grains, refined sugar and vegetable oils.
The Primal Blueprint is a lifestyle whose tenets are informed by biological evolution, traditional wisdom, and modern science to form a healthy, sustainable, enjoyable way of being. It?s a way to eat, move, sleep, and simply exist with our ancient genes in this modern world - taking advantage of modern science and drawing upon lessons of our evolutionary background.
Q: You talk in your book about one being a ?sugar-burning? or a ?fat-burning? person. What does that mean?
http://www.diabetesstories.com/stories_blog/an-alternative-way-of-eatin.html