Wild Dieting, Fat Fasting, Scary Rice, The Worst Thing To Do When You Get Sick & How To Drop 25 Pounds In A Month.

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Ben Greenfield

Education, Fitness, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 2 May 2015

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Abel James, AKA "The Fat Burning Man", joins me today to share some juicy gems from his new book "The Wild Diet: Get Back to Your Roots, Burn Fat, and Drop Up to 20 Pounds in 40 Days".

Abel is a speaker, entertainer, and consultant, and he has presented keynotes for the Federal Government, lectured at Ivy League universities, and advised Fortune 500 companies including Microsoft, Danaher, and Lockheed Martin. Also a musician and songwriter, Abel studied at the Royal College of Music and has toured internationally, jammed with country superstars, and won several awards for vocal performance. As you can probably guess by the title, we go all over the place on this one, and you'll discover: -How “fat-fasting” works... -The best piece of fitness advice Abel has ever gotten... -Most people think rice is a pretty safe starch, but Abel disagrees and explains why... -What you can learn from of Pottenger’s cats... -One trick to drop 25lbs in a month... -How the wild diet for pets work (and the shocking ingredients in "healthy" pet food)... -The absolute worst thing to do when you get sick... -The mysterious contents of Abel’s Adventure Pack...

Resources we discuss in this episode: -Eat That Frog book

Do you have questions, comments or feedback about The Wild Diet and the variety of topics we chat about on today's show? Leave your thoughts at BenGreenfieldFitness.com!

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0:00.0	in this episode of the Ben Greenfield Fitness Podcast.
0:02.6	When you go outside of America, you meet these people who eat and live in a completely different way.
0:07.2	They kind of have a lot of things figured out that Americans don't work and forgotten.
0:12.2	One thing that I saw when I was coming into the health field is that there was so much like
0:15.9	misery and still then. You have to be torturing yourself. If you want to be lean and
0:19.5	help, you need to be super restrictive. You need to exercise yourself more than you've ever wanted to.
0:24.9	And that's a drag.
0:26.9	Basically, the idea behind this is wake up in the morning. Before you even have time to think
0:30.4	about breading it, do that thing, you get out of the way and you use it getting done as momentum
0:35.0	into the rest of it. You know, 90% plus of beef that we get in the U.S. is from factory farms,
0:41.0	which is straight out of a horror movie. You know, these animals don't even get to move their
0:44.0	legs. And so that's starting to happen to us.
0:47.2	Welcome to the Ben Greenfield Fitness Podcast. We provide you with everything you need to know for
0:53.6	total performance, fat loss, recovery, digestion, sleep, brain and hormone optimization.
1:00.3	So whether you're an Iron Man triathlete or you just want to shed a few pounds, get ready for
1:05.5	non-monubumilk cutting edge content from BenGreenfieldFitness.com.
1:23.8	Hey folks, it's Ben Greenfield and I'm here today with my friend Abel James. And I actually
1:39.6	haven't talked to Abel in a while. Abel kind of dropped off the face of the map and occasionally,
1:45.2	I'd see him pop up on Facebook and some remote area of the world, Thailand or Peru or anywhere else
1:52.8	on the globe. It was kind of like, where's Waldo? And I know Abel was off doing some writing and
1:59.8	some personal adventures. And I know that he had some some pretty major occurrences happen in
2:07.0	his life that I know he'll love to share with you on this episode. But one of the things we're
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