Paleo Diet – 5 Things You Didn’t Know About Paleo
Curious about paleo diet? Here are 5 things you didn’t know about the paleo diet and how it can help you live better.
Let’s chat about the paleo diet.
Are you curious about paleo diet?
Here are 5 things you didn’t know about the paleo diet and how it can help you live a healthier life.
Around the world there are thousands of people who rejoiced at the sound of the paleo diet.
After all, how could you not like eating copious amounts of meats and vegetables?
If you’re feeling frumpy or grumpy, try to eat Paleo. It’s a way of eating that is sometimes referred to as the “Caveman Diet”. Chelan Simmons
Here’s the thing – paleo is not a diet per se.
It is about eating real foods that do not harm your body.
It’s about maximizing your potential by eating what you were meant to eat. I
It’s about feeling amazing inside and looking better on the outside.
The paleo diet is a “diet” that structures everything you would eat around the food that would have been eaten by early humans – in the paleolithic era (aka. caveman times).
The idea is to eat only foods that would have been available at hunter-gatherer times, way before the age of modern farming.
This means all the food you eat is sourced naturally, and generally does not contain any preservatives or processing – no candy, no modern breads, and nothing that is created chemically.
You may think that that does not leave you with very many foods to choose from, but, truthfully, this is how it should be.
Eating a Paleolithic diet is not about historical re-enactment; it is about mimicking the effect of such a diet on the metabolism with foods available at the supermarket.
There was no one diet eaten throughout the entire Paleolithic, nor is there a single diet eaten by contemporary hunter-gatherers. Hunter-gatherer diets can vary substantially depending on the geography, season, and culture.
Even so, the commonalities among hunter-gatherer diets provide useful parameters for a healthy modern diet.” ― John Durant
Modern food has left us sick, slow, and unhealthy.
It’s true.
A large portions of the foods you find at the supermarket – all that processed rubbish – is causing us harm.
Could it be that moving back to a more rudimentary diet (like the Paleo way) might be the solution for your fatigue, muscle building goals, and even weight loss?
Consider these details of the Paleo Diet:
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1 – You can eat some grains.
The idea that early humans did not eat grains is actually incorrect.
Archaeologists have found both corn and wheat in various forms dating back 10,000 years ago.
The difficulty arises when modern forms of processed breads have high amounts of sugar and low amounts of fiber.
- Technically, you could eat some corn, ancient grains, and even amaranth on a paleo diet.
- Note that fiber is always your savior when eating a carbohydrate rich diet, but it should be noted that, in many cases, breads and other grains are not recommended on a paleo diet – although early humans may have eaten them.
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2 – Vegetables come in copious amounts.
The paleo diet isn’t just about eating a plethora of meat and nuts.
The basic foundation of the diet is based on eating high amounts of fruit and vegetables – which would have been a staple in early human diets.
- Hunters have been given the praise in Hollywood movies, yet early civilizations survived from the gathering community.
- Without plenty of fruit and vegetables in your diet you will not only lack carbohydrates for energy, but you may also have internal failures due to excessive protein consumption.
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3 – Eggs are a protein best.
Although many meats will provide a wide spectrum of amino acids, they were not as readily available for early humans.
Eggs, on the other hand, have a very good spectrum of amino acids and a high absorption rate.
- Many paleo users turn away from eggs and use meat as the first form of protein – yet eggs should be considered as the first option (along with fish).
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4 – No dairy.
One of the hardest aspects of the diet for most people to stick to is the lack of dairy or milk products.
Simply put, animal agriculture was not available for early humans, and milk is not essential in any respect past the age of 3-4 years old.
- In fact, most people lose the ability to create lactase (a milk-metabolizing enzyme) and therefore cannot properly digest milk in our adult years anyway.
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5 – No salt.
This is perhaps the most important aspect of the diet that many people seem to avoid.
Salt and many other preservatives were in no way a part of early human diets.
It was not until the time of the Roman empire that salt became a widespread application into human diets.
- Salt can lead to hypertension, lack of energy, and even increase your risk for heart disease and cancer – our two leading killers.
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Is Paleo Right for You?
Perhaps you don’t need to make a huge change to your diet, but restricting the amount of sugar, salt, and other processed foods will help accelerate your weight loss and strengthen your overall health.
The paleo diet is a clean and natural alternative to our unhealthy modern diet.
One of the good things about the paleo diet is that it automatically cleans a lot of crap out of your diet. Chris Mohr
Following the paleo diet has become much easier with the news that the earliest known winery was in a cave.
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Last point – you just need to avoid the FAKE FOOD!
Our bodies are not meant to deal with fake food. Tim Ryan
Maybe we should stop asking why real food is so expensive and start asking why processed food is so cheap.
Fake food – I mean those patented substances chemically flavored and mechanically bulked out to kill the appetite and deceive the gut – is unnatural, almost immoral, a bane to good eating and good cooking. Julia Child
You are what you eat, so don’t be fast, cheap, easy or fake.
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