welcome to the primal show with today's guest chef Pete Evans all the way in Australia very glad that you're on the primal show you have been basically all over the news lately I really wanted to have you on the show kind of discuss what's going on down in Australia as well as what's going what what's going on with the Paleo diet specifically in Australia because there's been so it's been under I think major attack and I wanted you have you on the show to let everybody know what's going on down there and I also wanted to have you on to discuss all the different books are putting out because I'm a big fan of yours you know I like the component that you're putting out there of eating healthy and mixing that with Fitness because I think it's definitely a lot of people are missing the boat when it you know comes to combining both of them so you know welcome to the show thank you for having me thank you tell us a little bit about let's start off with your books you've released two or three I think this year kind of focusing on the family and paleo everyday and it's called the paleo chef you have three different books out right now tell us a little bit about what they're about and you know what you're you know what yeah just tell us what they're all about sure I love writing cookbooks oh this is probably by 12 or 13th of dunno for last 10 or 12 years as a chef it's it's something that I am very proud of to be able to share recipes that people can put into their cooking repertoire and this is this is what we're trying to do basically I've been cooking professionally for over 25 years and cooked over a million meals with these two hands yes so what we try to do is chefs and what I understand our job to do if you're a celebrity chef or a chef that puts out books is first know your market first and foremost you know you look at many cookbooks that are around and some aimed at chefs you know some of the three Michelin star chefs and and as a home cook you just like wow that's a beautiful coffee table book that there's no though possible they are probably ever gonna try to replicate that into my home cooking and I learned a long time ago that for me what I wanted to do was educate people and how to cook beautiful home-cooked food that isn't scary that is accessible that is just absolutely delicious and that they can gain confidence in the kitchen learning how to combine flavors together how to use really simple cooking techniques and and really start exploring the globe for spices herbs and and really making beautiful flavor combinations I mean and that's that that's my job and that's what gets me up in the water every day with a smile on my face and you've done a great job of that I mean I didn't mention that you have literally cooked for some of the top people all around the world I think Oprah I read about and many others I mean that's quite an accomplishment and it is such a great feeling to cook and and to not only cook but also to promote optimal health while you're cooking you know and that that's really what the Paleo diet is all about optimal health I think in consuming foods that are you know inflammation free I like to call it so yeah so sure and and that's where my focus for the last four years my part of the color Robinson introduced me to the paleo lifestyle basically she was reading noreagaaa goddesses book which I still think is probably the best on on the topic of primal and paleo lifestyle which is called primal body primal mind and I read that I was like wow this this actually makes a bit of sense let's let's test this out ourselves and and the results were remarkable and I thought and I looked at what was out there on the market as far as paleo cookbooks and I realized there was no real I guess professional chef that had delved into this market indulged into this lifestyle and I thought that this this has the potential of of redefining my career and it took me a year before we basically came out and said paleo because I've been working for a long time I've been in TV and media and I was like if I come out as the paleo chef they will be back there so I knew they'd be backlash I didn't know that there'd be this much sure but it was I was compelled to do it I thought you know what it's it's no point keeping it a secret anyone really wants to shout it from the rooftops and tell their friends and family because so many people are benefiting from this as you know and people watching this show know and I'm gonna quite a unique position especially in Australia to have a large I guess profile over here that we can release a cookbook or spread some messages and some information through our social media sites or websites or magazine interviews or newspaper interviews or radio interviews that will get people thinking and then hopefully it'll get them researching and studying and and really trying to try to delve to the bottom and and and and understand why this works and and potentially why there's such a backlash against it you know I mean I totally know what you mean I mean there's really no better feeling than to spread the word of paleo into mainstream society and I do that personally by putting out products that have paleo all over them because I'm proud about our products in seeing our paleo bread was on dr. oz last year was like one of the best things that I could have ever asked for and then seeing our we have this new coconut flakes cereal on the shelf next to Cheerios it's kind of like it's such a huge accomplishment like for myself personally because we're really helping to change the way people eat and we're doing it by giving them foods or recipes in your case and a message that's really simple for them to understand but we're giving them foods that can help them transition from a mainstream way of eating to a paleo one and we're doing it we're making it easy for people and I think that's the biggest fear it's like paleo isn't easy or oh my gosh I have cook all the time when there's really things that every grocery store you know in the world that you can easily be paleo and you just need to know the guidelines and and I think people really get you know caught up and is this is just too difficult I can't do it you know what what about when I travel you know and and giving people you know tips and tricks for when they travel or you know showing them how to you know make paleo food choices when they're eating out it's it's just because it kind of the light clicks on for them it's like oh my gosh I can do this you know and not only can I do it I can make this a way of life for me you know and I don't know about yourself but once you explain it and the basics of it it's like okay you can't have cheese but you can have more avocado and you know bacon on occasion and you can have all the fresh fish and you know small amount of berries and nuts and you know you can't have beans okay but you can have delicious you know organic grass-fed steak you know it's like okay which one do you want beans or or steak you know it's it's the trade-off is it's it's very easy what do you what do you think about that well everything comes down to a choice each and every time you decide to put the next mouthful of food either onto your fork or between a chopsticks or onto your spoon or a new class and it all it all comes down to a choice and I think that's it's just it's a wonderful time I mean 2015 I mean paleo has hit the mainstream and there's a plethora of books that are there in the top 10 best sellers in the United States in Australia my books with the number one sellers now what that says to me is that people are embracing this lifestyle there's a hunger for so this information people are buying these books for their friends and family to say hey listen this is what it's about you know because generally the media has has a very
distorted view of what paleo is is always a picture of a caveman and slabs and slanted slabs of meat and the old Paleolithic man died at the age of 25 or 30 you know the same old same old crap yes in every time and never do they really talk about what it actually is now my definition of it which is the same of many others it's it's about embracing the foods that our bodies have evolved to weed and basically removing any foods that that may cause inflammation and each and every generation we're finding that we're reacting to these these food groups that were once touted as healthy not in a great way anymore and I don't really bang the drum too much like you shouldn't be eating this or you've got to be eating this all I do is is take the information that I've like yourself worked with some of the best minds in the world from cardiologists and neurologists to science writers to medical doctors to whoever they are and they're all basically saying the same thing they're speaking the same language my job as a chef is to take that information and put it into exciting recipes for people to try at home I am NOT the expert I am an expert as Burger Chef which is why I'm very confident that I can release cookbooks on this subject or get up on stage and and show people how to cook this food and also then bring in the scientists or the doctors or the nutritionists or the dietitians that can talk about the science behind it I mean I've studied at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition and become a qualified health coach but first and foremost I'm a chef and teaching people beautiful recipes is is basically by purpose and what I enjoy doing yeah and one one area though of confusion I find with a lot of the Paleo books out there and this this isn't really so much within any of your books but I find that they're just over inundated with too much sugar and what happens is these you know they're like paleo cookies and brownies but they're putting all this sugar that does need to be in there and once again paleo really should be an anti information diet and when you're adding sugar in there all of a sudden you're getting inflammation back into a diet and there wasn't this overabundance of honey and maple syrup and we think about the caveman it was probably long long periods in between the time he could gorge on honey but it was this it was a very long time in between these you know basically binge feedings on on honey or maple syrup or anything out there I find that it's kind of a disservice and I see why the media can sometimes really harp on Palio's because people some people aren't getting the results they need with paleo because it's not being given to them with it's been given to them with all the sugar sure and what I can talk about with it with what you're saying there is that everyone comes to this at a different point in their life everyone's journey to paleo so to speak will will be very very different you know some people it might take them two to three years to transition all the way through and you will find that potentially some recipe books that do have the honey's or the maple syrups or the date so those things is the thing that actually gets these people from one lifestyle to the other and it might take them three years to get there you still by putting the bliss balls or the the cookies or this but at least they're making wiser choices to get to where they want to go whereas some people like instance for me I could do it cold turkey you know I never really had a sweet tooth so I wouldn't be too critical of of that because I would rather someone take three to four to five years to get to the place that they need to by doing it gradually and still incorporating the foods that gives them that pleasure if that's what they need to do for their journey oh I couldn't agree with you more but I'm going to disagree on the fact that giving them foods with sugar is a sticking point for me because we have great ingredients as you know like organic stevia leaf monk fruit we have maple sugar we have these like coconut nectar and coconut sugar things that are very low glycemic that can keep the inflammation level down yet they're choosing honey and maple syrup which is a better choice than refined white sugar but it's still sugar and what happens is I find that these recipe books are being given to like family members right and they go off eating paleo and they start gaining weight or you look at the Paleo author themselves and this is this isn't new by any means but you look at the Paleo theater themselves and they're heavy and it's like they're not and the vegans are bagging on these other paleo authors and one of the reasons I wanted to have you on the show is because you practice what you preach and I find that that to be so important not only in food in consuming the proper amounts of food the proper calories but also in working out you know - yeah but you live a very active lifestyle and to be honest with you I'm just tired of vegans beaten up with honest you know you got guys like durianrider and and all these different nutritionists who are picking on us for being paleo and living a lifestyle that leads to optimal health and these nutritionists you look at physically the way they look and they're not practicing what they preach they're not living a healthy lifestyle and they're consuming grains are full of inflammation I mean and it's just sad and it's it's it doesn't need to be that way all we're trying to do is give people a way of eating that doesn't promote inflammation and to that point I herniated my l5 s1 disk okay and I did it moving a bag of green back in like 2010 which is kind of ironic if you think about it this I run the julienne bakery and we started off as a traditional bakery and thus bakeries handed off to me and before we went grain free I was literally moving this bag of grain kind of to the side and hernia in my back and I started looking for ways to guess what get rid of the inflammation and I ended up you know looking I ended up finding it with paleo basically you know I don't take any Advil I take any you know drugs I am completely pain-free I've completely recovered and not only that I lost almost 35 pounds so and you know I'm in the best shape of my life my goal was always to have a six-pack and and with paleo I've been able to achieve that I mean I'm sure you've seen the results I mean you know firsthand actually the results can you talk a little bit about some of your you know your followers and the results that you've seen sure let's step back a second as well I mean what you're talking about the vegans or the nutritionists and stuff you know what don't even worry about it that's my advice you know focus on the positives and look the negatives we've got a we've designed a 10-week program with noreagaaa garrison my fitness coach Luke Lyons is a beautiful man as well and in our 10-week program we don't have any paleo treats or paleo cookies or hardly any fruit except for the for the good quality fat ones like avocados and olives or the low sugar ones cucumbers zucchinis tomatoes for instance and in that 10-week program we teach people that you know for Ted weeks we want to get your body into the the best place so we can reduce your information and we have seen I mean with tens of thousands of people that are doing that the this program all around the world and then the post program and it's it's remarkable the changes and I share a story each and every day from somebody that's adopted the paleo lifestyle whether it's our program or whether they've read a book had just adopted it and it's astounding that the changes that people go through it's some are small and some are quite large and I've never ever said that it'll cure anything but what I will say is it has the potential to improve your health and we have thousands of on thousands of
on thousands of emails and success stories coming through over the last few months of people that as saying it's improved in type 2 diabetes autoimmune issues that behavioral issues in their children you name it say that it is helping them you know and and I find that fascinating and and you know it's it's powerful and it's what I love about it the most is it's getting people back into the kitchen to cook real food I mean we saw Jamie Oliver do this around the world by getting people to to try to ditch the fast food and get back into the kitchen to cook now where I see paleo is the next step you know it's the next step in the evolution of beautiful cookie because now they're cooking for health before they were cooking for flavor and taste but now you know we can still include the flavor and the taste but now we can start educating people about how food can be medicine or a form of medicine absolutely and as I say to people as well as paleo is is wonderful but it's one part of the package you can eat all the paleo food in the world but if you're at a you know relationship that's not working for you or you're at a job that isn't fulfilling or rewarding or you're not doing it eat any movement exercises or you're not taking time out to do things that that nourish you very holistically then you may still suffer disease or information or unrest you know so I always say paleo is as from a dietary point of view of this it's the first step in potentially opening up a big up yourself to some massive change and usually when people change the way they eat they have the renewed energy they have a written you'd focus or a renewed passion for life to then be able to achieve or chase down the dreams that they once thought were possible probably impossible because they didn't have the energy to do it and that's what excites me about this whole movement is all of a sudden you might have people going back to school you know they might be in their 50s or 60s and they're like you know what I'm ready to go back to the universe and study the thing because I've got the energy to do it yeah well I want to start create writing music called painting or whatever it may be you know that's what excites me and I think we're with we're in the midst of a fantastic movement I couldn't agree more I mean personally I when I was consuming gluten and grains I would have it my energy level I would actually feel like I would want him to fall asleep right after my my lunch you know I'd have a sandwich and I literally feel like I wanted to pass out and I had been that way all throughout school I had kind of cloudy brain fog and come to find out it was all related to gluten now I'm not a silly AK but I am Lea intolerant once I started doing an elimination diet by removing the things that were not paleo out of my diet all of a sudden that brain fog went away my energy level came back I had energy all day I felt like working out and the fat dropped off easily and I wasn't gorging myself on too much fat or you know going I was following a low sugar low carb approach but I was still moderating my calories and I had tremendous success and the energy was sustained all day I didn't have these spikes and and I'm probably some a lot of that had to do with also my blood sugar levels were a lot more consistent because I wasn't spiking my blood sugar with grains so tell us a little bit about what the nutritionists are saying down in Australia because I know there has been a little bit of controversy you know and obviously people attacking you and I love to kind of hear what they're saying because I think it's interesting because I mean it's also being said here in you know in the United States but what's happening down there in Australia it's a same old same old it's it's it's media creating a sensational headline story yeah once you know how it works it you don't even worry about it it's because you understand why why it's happening as far as people like different organizations coming out to to slam this I mean you only have to read books like today smokers just by third period you only have to peel back the cover us a little bit to understand exactly why the backlash is happening and at the end of the day I'm an easy target for for a lot of people to take a swipe at because I am a chef I'm not a I don't have a PhD I'm not a having baby University for four to six years to get some letters after my name but you know and that's fine the more the media and the attacks happen there more that this is pushing it out into the mainstream so I am I am happy that this is happening and each and every time it does it I sort of have a bit of a bit of a chuckle going you guys are actually making this their the catalyst for this they're the catalyst to get it into mainstream and they're doing the work that I couldn't possibly do by myself so I also understand that they're coming from a place of fear which is completely understandable because Morrible research is coming out and you do it every day there's there's a new study that that backs up what Loren Kinane has talked about one more good good Galvez has talked about what Bob wolf has taught me about what dr. Amy Byers what I'm after here but is talking about Gary Todd's all of these people and I could list off hundreds of these these these beautiful people from around the world the trading people that usually this is a form of a form of one of their tools for creating life-changing change yeah in people they know this works and well they have the results the back Ed's here you know I always loved Tom Dorrance wisdom of crowds talk and if you haven't seen it I think fascinating and I encourage everyone to watch it goes for 40 minutes and he talks about the anointed and he talks about how the wisdom of crowds and with social media these days that if you want to get some information and actually get the truth and it's not that hard to find yeah so I'm happy to be the punching bag at the moment or for this movement some people might say that I'm giving paleo about now but and I never I never engaged with the negativity to really I might just point out a few of their inaccurate accuracies and maybe poke a little bit just to stir the pot just the analogy that I have is and I taught this to my kids is I'll teach them how to serve and I was stationed to jump off the rocks into the ocean when the waves are coming in and when I was doing that with my kids the first time I did it their first instinct when the wave was coming was to turn around and run and and and I said he can never do that and I said what you need to do is plant your feet firmly stand your ground and the wave will come and then it will retreat and then you take another step forward and another wave will come and you you you stand stand firm and confident and and finally they do jump off and you of the ocean if you catch the waves and and I have the same philosophy when it comes to anything negative you know I'm not gonna run away and I'm also know quite a fight but I was very happy to stand my ground because we know this works and then it'll disappear like at the moment it's it's dissipated for a while just keep moving forward keep sharing success story after success story or recipe after recipe and there'll be another wave it has to come and then you just stand tall and hopefully and I guess the proof is in the pudding after our program is selling like hotcakes cookbooks are selling like hotcakes we're getting emails from thousands and thousands of people and they're sharing the success stories do you know how many people I've heard that this worked for apart from the the general detoxing phase over the two to four weeks where they say they might film Norma's yes or they might get a little bit lightheaded or they might feel get a cold or some sort of symptoms come up during that detox phase which we which we talke
d about through through the education process anywhere but the amount of people that I've asked or for anybody that this hasn't worked for if they've done it for six to twelve months and they've done it 100% yeah no I believe it I I think you're right though I think you're right you know to bring up the fear factor because these people that are going against you are basically afraid that what they've been teaching for years is wrong and if it's wrong guess what that means that they're probably going to go out of business then people are going to start looking to them for advice or they're going to convert over and start helping people properly but the smart ones are switching over and and the it is society to see but it but I've got a friend who's a GP medical doctor here in Australia he's been using this for fifteen years as one of his tools with conventional medicine to help treat his patients and he's busy because people are sending their friends and their families to see this man I've got dieticians that are registered in Australia under their organisation is attacking but they're standing up and say you know what we're using this because we're actually getting results we're getting better results faster results more sustainable results from the people that we're treating using this as one of our tools and I always say paleo is just one one tool that people could use to increase their health or improve their health and it's it's a it's a wonderful time because this is business melting pot and and there's a massive change happening and it's super excited it's super exciting so you're actually so you're about three years older than me so 441 looks like I'm 38 and looks like we're both family men how many kids do you have to Go's girls okay yeah I have a three-year-old baby girl has your has your motivation changed since you've got kids cuz I know mine has like just I want to I want to spread the good news about paleo like everywhere basically you know and I am I Drive for helping people reach their their goal has never been more than you know and I'm doing it through food just like yourself but has never been more since I've had a child can you talk to us a little bit about that because I see you released a family food book which I'm sure you know the motivations after own family but talk to us a little bit about how maybe your drive has changed and maybe any philosophy changes or sure my oldest daughter was born with a tumor when she was first I have a border she had an operation when she was two weeks old had it removed and her systems been compromised the disease is my second daughter poppy a year and half later it she seems to have a stronger Constitution a stronger immune system and we've had with both girls tested and and very have issues with dairy and also gluten which got us really fascinated about this this this paleo movement and and by adopting this into their lives both of them are thriving especially our firstborn chili is a surname and it keeps us keeps us moving forward and and my passion is to choke itself in the coming generations and we know that more and more children are being born with learning difficulties allergies or and more issues and and I don't think it's normal the rate of the escalation of these is not normal so what what can we do to to to give these kids the best possible chance of reclaiming their health if at all possible and I noticed that every single basically family or a children's cookbook on the market especially in this country is usually sugar filled Derryfield white flour field you know it's it's it's basically it's disgusting it really is you could say that and it's an easy sell because that's what they think children need or want to eat it's disgusting because of what that foods doing to them you know we're bombarding kids at such a young age I mean my daughter's favorite thing you know she loves little pancakes you know she was like you know I want pancakes so I started making you know little pancakes out of you know almond flour coconut flour and egg whites and you know throw a little stevia in there BAM you know you have pancakes and they're fluffy and they're just like the ones that are in the store made by Kellogg's or whoever you know and it's just unfortunate and you know you talked a little bit about the rise and these birth defects and all the health issues that people are having and I really think it's because a majority of it is we have a prescription drug problem that's out of control we have GMOs being saturated all throughout the market I know it's a little bit better in Europe and I don't know how it is in in Australia but I mean it's it's extremely bad here and we you know as a company Julian bakery we do so much sourcing to make sure everything we do is GMO free and I just I feel like it's one of the most important things we can do other than obviously following following like a paleo guidelines of how to eat but tell us a little bit about how GMOs worked over in Australia and is it a real problem well let me rewind a little bit because the children think is so important and that's why we released a book last year called family food it was to put out a paleo inspired book that didn't seem like it was paleo you know what I tried to do was it was reinvent or paleo if I all the family favorites you know from from from toddlers all the way through to teenage years the whole family happy and what was brilliant I mean the most popular recipe and there is butter chicken where we don't use batter we use coconut oil and there's about eight eight or nine different spice is it there or not and I actually contemplated should I put this recipe in in the book or should I take it out because has it got too many spices in there and it's the most popular book and I get photos sent to me from from parents of their two year olds at three year old saying they love the butter chicken and we serve it with cauliflower I said you just see this picture of the kids all the food over their face and the empty bowl and then we took it a step further than we've just released a baby and toddler book called Bobby yum yum and I co-wrote that with two beautiful beautiful dear friends of mine Helen pattern and Charlotte car Helen pattern is a naturopath and she's been working for 15 years in clinic as part of the mine foundation and mine Foundation is is an association on for-profit that is committed to helping families with children with behavioral issues and learning difficulties maybe HD autism dyslexia you name it and it's a brilliant organization and we've taken all the most the concepts from this and put it into the book and also Charlotte care who's who's the co-author and it created by the young yeah she talks about her journey with her own son willow that experienced issues as a youngster and how she used food as one form of medicine to help your little child a little boy reclaim these health and it's a remarkable story so we've we've put that out there as a as a nearly like a handbook or a guide for for parents when they've stopped breastfeeding or when they're going on to solids we always promote breast breast milk is best for as long as possible yeah that but we noticed that there's there's very few books out of the market for for babies and toddlers after weaning that aren't filled with cereals aren't filled with dairy and filled with sugar ease substances and we're very proud of the book and it's available online through iBooks all around the world in 51 different territories and we're releasing it in print later this year which is which is stoked as far as GMOs go we're pretty much like the rest of the world we've had a major law case happening in in Western Australia with a with a farmer that's neighbouring with the GMO I mean similar stuff that's happe
ning in the USA and I don't need to repeat what's going on yeah obviously these companies have a lot of money and we just we've seen one sample the dr. oz as well Andy's a dear friend of ours as well and I think people just need to be aware and I think with correct labeling I think then people can make the the choices that they need to make and I know there's a lot of people that they're flying the flag and and really trying to get correct labeling happening all around the world for GMOs and I think if that can happen then at least people can make an informed decision on whether they want to again it all comes down to choice whether they want to include those type of foods in their diet or whether they'd like to eliminate them completely I know which way I see it oh it's just scary because so many they so-called health companies are now inserting what seemed like you know good ingredients like you know you think corn fiber sounds healthy right well what's the corn derived from is a GMO corn you know and there's so many of these unknown factors out there that you know if simple labeling could could resolve it all and it's so sad and it could be so easily fixed because you're right I mean let people choose you know why hide it and at the end of the day it's really just to save a buck because GMO ingredients are much cheaper than the real food ingredients you know grown properly secret cigarettes are always going to be available and itself it's it's a choice if they don't want to do that no Angie you know as we go it's it's there I don't think we'll Redick ate it so let's just make sure that they're labeled properly and then people can make informed decisions and people are going to the farmers markets or organic stores or places like Whole Foods where they can hopefully have the right information then certain people will shop there other people choose I don't I don't have this data anybody's throat I think I think the key is education you know I don't always eat paleo because I travel nine months of the year and I cannot always get grass-fed and wild court and organic but I make the best possible choices with what is what is available but I don't I never beat myself up and talking to you go oh my god you know but I don't want to live in that world either and III don't think people people probably should either but but I think if you have if your foundation is correct and you you're aware and you understand and then 90 95 percent of the time you make the best possible choices that you can I think that you you will hopefully a healthier lifestyle and somebody that just eats whatever they want to without any thought that goes into it well really it's about choices you know because at the end of the day if people are properly educated they can make choices or paleo and make them easily because I don't know about you but now that I'm armed with all this information it's so easy for me you know I mean I could be not that I eat at Subway or in in any of these places but if I had to go to suddenly guess what they have a salad and they have chicken and they have some you know you could probably choose a you know oil and vinegar dressing you know if you had to so I think it's it's sad when people go it's too hard to go clearly because it's not you know it's just it's really about being properly educated and that's what I love about what you're doing so your new movements kind of called the Paleo way and that's what you're doing with Luke who focuses probably more on the fitness and you're doing more of the food which i think is awesome because it's so needed the naturopath I talked to talked to you about before we've also got Trevor Hindi he was a ex seven-time world champion I am man who talks about mind body spirit connection and again what I was talking about before it's a package you know we've got this we got the food or the diet we've also got the movement we've got the science with Norah we've got the I guess the spiritual journey which we have with Trevor and and we've got the natural path or the natural therapist with just heaven and we've also got wonderful Indian from from people all around the world we've got shopping lists and meal plans and exercise routines and and it's a beautiful program and and where we keep evolving it we were just about to release an autoimmune protocol version of it classic gapps version of it as well we're constantly trying to that whether you've got to alex is in america got around the world which makes cooking apparently easier but we're always trying to try to keep evolving this program and keep it really budget friendly for people to be able to adopt because we know that if one person adopts this lifestyle they're going to tell five five or ten of their friends and maybe one or two of them try it out in the next year and then this is a grassroots movement and I understand how how how the ripple effect is going to have and I've always said I believe in 10 to 20 years time this will be considered normal and it will it has to be because the science is going to be irrefutable and I dare say within 5 to 10 years if our government dietary organizations do not adapt to the current research then there will be class-action lawsuits and once that starts happening we're going to see a quite a dramatic shifting there quite amount of dramatic adoption of this and it'll be considered normal III have no doubt about it and and and the thing that we need to talk about with paleo as well which which often gets put aside and the way that we promote paleo and I'll define it for anyone wants to understand what we're promoting you know it's a small amount of well sourced meat you know palm of your hand it's an abundance of beautiful above the ground vegetables preferably it's including some familiar vegetables hopefully daily into your into your diet for good gut bacteria it's about having some bone broth hopefully daily maybe a cup of it again through the gut health and it's about including really good quality facts into your diet whether that's from land or sea animals or from plant plant base and that's it's basically a mint just eliminating any foods that can cause inflammation and as we know the biggest the biggest triggers for people is dairy grains legumes and of course refined sugars and that's it in a nutshell and it doesn't have to be any more difficult to to explain that and because we know how important the gut health is and it's all about repairing our guts so that we can absorb the minerals properly so that so that we so that it's doing its proper job so that the pathways are all working as they bid - it's simple really simple oh I agree I mean I think it really all I mean it starts with proper gut health and by eliminating these inflammatory foods that's your debt starts to be less inflamed and guess what your stomach starts to shrink because there's less inflammation you start in taking more fiber from vegetables you start being cleaned out a little bit more and once again your stomach keeps shrinking you know it's it's just it becomes so easy at a certain point to kind of maintain your ideal weight with the Paleo diet because of the foods are consuming and I think you know it's it's something to be said to really stay away from the diets that are endorsing an overabundance of too much fat which leads to too many calories which can lead to weight gain it's really about moderation you know and not over overdoing any one thing you know and and not too many carbs not too much sugar not too much fat but just eating a well-balanced Paleo diet I mean for me I always explain paleo as no gluten no no grains no dairy and no legumes and that includes like soy and peanuts no no beans if you're gonna have potatoes have modern lamb of sweet potatoes and you know just keep the sugar to e
nrollment you know minimum and you're gonna have awesome success one site that I always use I really don't usually endorse sites but a little secret that I have is the site called nutrition data itself com it's a really neat site and you can look up corn or beans or any ingredient that is known to man on this site and it actually tells you the glycemic load the inflammation factors how good that ingredient is for weight loss and it's a great tool for people to affirm what we're saying is true because the ingredients that we use in the Paleo diet are not inflammatory and this once again proves it by showing you the actual nutritional the macros of each and every single ingredient and it's just such a useful tool especially when you're trying to lose weight by knowing what ingredients to to consume and is this one more one piece of evidence and what I'd like to say is always work with a healthy health professional that understands how the body works because what you tapped on there as well as some people with autoimmune issues they need to take another couple of steps they might need to take out night chains we might need to take out nuts we might need to take out eggs from their diet see if any of these are causing inflammation as well which you know these can cause information a lot of pimples so it's it's a journey for people to work out and for them to heal their gaps first and foremost and then potentially reintroduce some of these foods and make that may have caused issues or leaving out all together yeah I mean I I think that there's different templates you know where you have a paleo autoimmune protocol template I think you have paleo template for weight loss I think that there is even a template which I hear is being called pekin which is for paleo vegans that's being introduced and I I would say that is okay believe it or not if you do not feel like you know harming animals is something that's right for you because we both know that the Paleo diet is the best way to eat but although it could just be a life choice where you feel like hey you know what I don't want to hurt any living you know animal and and and I think it's okay to include these sort of people's but to give it its own name you know to not try to to change or alter what paleo is but to just give it its own a my kind of like this whole pekin thing I it's kind of it's kind of fascinating to me it's kind of incorporating what vegans believe in and also following a paleo template because then you really have something for everyone you know because we make all these you know paleo products all the time and all the vegans are like hey what about me you know I still want to eat this way I want to have it in that time from the nation diet but you don't have any products for me I'm like alright well these are the proc products that you can have and we actually started labeling our paleo products paleo and vegan on the front because you know we don't want to exclude anybody and we you know we totally you know understand that you know a Leo isn't for everyone well I think I mean anyone that's vegan or paleo or vegetarian whatever it may be definitely has the same the same philosophy or all or similar philosophies where we want a healthier population we want a healthier planet and we want better treatment of animals and we can all agree on that for sure and then it comes down to the potentially religious beliefs or philosophical beliefs and everyone means entitled to their own opinion and belief system and I never have a becomes the other a personal choice and if that makes you happy then go for it and work out what works best for you and what you're happy with and we have a beautiful life to live on this planet and it's all about connection and education and evolution and and it's been an honor to work with you today yeah it's been a great talking with you everybody can find you at the paleo wacom and I really love what you're doing definitely practicing what you're preaching and thank you so much for spending this time with us it's been great thank you so much all right .
Video Description:
Episode #44 Guest Celebrity Chef Pete Evans interviewed by show host Heath Squier. Pete Evans is Captivating in this 50 min interviewh Pete provides an in depth information about Paleo and how he has cooked for celebrities around the world teaching them how to achieve optimal health through Paleo. Pete Evans discusses all about recent controversial subjects happening in Australian news. Pete also talks about the launch of his new company The Paleo Way and how people around the world rid themselves of inflammation and extra weight.
Pete Evans shares his secrets to making Paleo easy and how it provides ongoing energy for your body throughout the day. Pete Evans shares his concerns of how many recipe books over saturate their recipes with too much sugar causing people to gain weight. Pete’s approach to Paleo is one of proper diet, exercise and mental health.
Hear how Pete Evan started it all and how he runs a business called “The Paleo Way” which offer detailed plans to help turn around peoples health from weight loss to auto immune issues: http://www.thepaleoway.com We also talk about the controversial subjects of how many in the nutritional field and new media have attached Pete Evans for offering healthy recipes for kids.
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