Did you know that Loren Cordain has trademarked the term “The Paleo Diet”? When I first heard that, I thought it was a big deal. The Paleo Diet Defined is my concise definition of the core paleo diet and the many variations of it. Life Expectancy in the Paleolithic by Ron. ![]() ![]() Paleo diet basics: 1. Do’s and Don’t’s. Paleo isn’t about eating what we can tolerate. Sure, some people can put up with grains, legumes, dairy, and other . Paleo is about eating only the amazingly healthy and delicious stuff! Eat plenty of meat, including beef, lamb, poultry, pork, organ meat, fish and seafood. Meat is the most valuable source of complete protein and eating enough protein and fat will provide the basis for your fat loss. Wild caught salmon is in the top 5 superfoods and should always be on your shopping list. Eat many eggs, especially egg yolks. Don’t worry about the saturated fat myth, we will explain that later. ![]() Eggs are especially important for paleo- vegetarians who want to gain muscle and lose fat. Eat lots of vegetables, in a wide variety. Here’s just a few: broccoli, cauliflower, bell peppers, brussel sprouts, carrots, bok choi, tomatoes, cucumbers, watercress, spinach, kale, yellow squash, zucchini, beets, turnips, parsnips. Broccoli and spinach are in the top 5 superfoods and should always be on your shopping list. Eat healthy fats, such as animal fat (lard, tallow, bacon fat), ghee, olive oil for salads, coconut oil for cooking. Avocados, macadamias, almonds, hazelnuts and cashews are also amazing sources of healthy fats. Stick to quality meat when making decisions in your grocery aisle, . Animal fat itself can be very healthy. However, most toxins in animal products concentrate in the fatty portion of the meat. So make your choice depending on the quality of the meat you have access to: if you have access to 1. If you only have access to industrially grown conventional meat, go for the leanest cut possible. Eat moderate amounts of fruit, with focus on berries (blueberries, blackberries, strawberries). Blueberries are one of the top 5 superfoods and should be always on your shopping list. The Paleo Diet Beginner's Guide>>> So, are you ready to overhaul your diet? We talked to Mark Sisson, author of The Primal Blueprint, and PaleoPlan.com’s nutrition. The easiest way to start living Paleo. Achieve optimal health on the Paleo diet with weekly meal plans and shopping lists, hundreds of delicious recipes, and super. Follwing a Paleo diet doesn't encourage you to think or experiment to find what works for you. Following a Paleo template does. Go easy on starchy vegetables. If your goal is fat loss, you should strictly limit starchy vegetables such as sweet potatoes. Grains are source of systemic inflammation and other problems connected with carb over- consumption. Eliminate all grains from your diet: barley, wheat, corn, oats, rice, you- name- it. Avoid all forms of added sugar, not just table sugar. That includes maple syrup, Splenda or Stevia. Watch out for too much fructose from fruits as well. If you are trying to lose fat, limit fruits to just one or two servings a day, or replace altogether with non- starchy vegetables. ![]() Although scientific evidence against legumes is a lot less harsh than grains, most people feel the best when limiting their legumes to the occasional consumption of green beans and occasionally sugar snap peas. Avoid vegetable and seed oils. I know this can be difficult if you like dining out in restaurants, but for home cooking—replace all seed oils with lard, ghee or coconut oil. Avoid most dairy products. Although occasional consumption of full fat dairy products, such as unsweetened whip cream or Greek yogurt, won’t necessarily hurt you (that is, if you aren’t lactose intolerant), it’s very important that you avoid all low fat and processed forms of dairy, such as skim milk or low fat yogurt. What are the next steps? Look through the Learn the Paleo Basics section and decide whether Paleo is for you. Join the 5 week program. Look for the link on top of this page. Look for this link on top of this page. Seems so many people are closed minded & want their way to be the only way, that attitude has not done us any favours to date. Some thoughts: Reading all these posts I notice that many talk about eating this or that, pros & cons, but don’t mention how these foods are produced or grown. Unless you grow your own or buy from organic sources you can trust, you don’t know what is in your food. Many are selected strains (often with reduced nutrition) modified to look perfect because consumers won’t buy a blemished apple or a misshapen tomato that won’t look fresh for long on the supermarket shelves. Many contain high levels of pesticide/herbicide residue as well, so eating those could be triggers for health issues & not the food itself? This site has interesting stats for normal v’s organic produce http: //www. Having all fruits & vegetables available all year isn’t a natural way to eat if you want to eat in a . Apples & pears ripen in Autumn as do most berries, so eating them all year isn’t what ancient people did. Add to that the strains of fruits & vegetables available in ancient times were less sweet & smaller than modern cultivars, which means less sugar in the fruits/veg consumed. So one apple today may well be the equivalent of 4 apples in ancient times? I think there is something that is being missed by all the promoters of eating styles, the benefits of eating live food straight from the plant or animal. We have a small farm in a reasonably unpolluted part of rural Australia & we grow our own organic fruits & vegetables. I have experienced often a . Maybe our ancient ancestors were benefitting from optimal nutrients that helped ward of illness because they were often eating truly fresh . Lots of walking probably combined with short bursts of running, either to catch animals to eat or to avoid being eaten. We often walk a short distance to our fridge to eat our aged foods, even I only have to walk about 1. It seems the benefits from this type of exercise are now becoming better understood & why HIT – interval training is showing more health benefits than aerobic exercise at a steady pace does. In addition if you imagine yourself as a hunter gatherer, during the Winter months especially in areas of Winter snow, it’s probably fair to say many hunter gatherers in the Northern Hemisphere were living almost solely on animal protein/fat, plus some carbs from plant roots or vegetables that last (like pumpkins) during Winter. They would have probably been in ketosis much of the time, burning off the fats laid down in the previous months of abundance when they burned glucose as the fuel source. The body can switch between fuel sources & doing so is probably more in keeping with the natural available food cycles of ancient times? Birds don’t lay eggs in Winter, but eggs would be commonly available & probably easier to get in Spring as would meat due to young animals being born who are easy prey. Birds are on every continent (even the Arctic/Antarctic) so it seems logical eggs would form part of any ancient diet? Then in Summer you get abundant vegetables & some fruits like melons before you move on to Autumn & get more fruit again to fatten up for the hard Winter ahead, the cycle continues. Consider even a basic like water- if it’s from BPA plastic bottles you may be consuming more than you think, is it filled with fluoride for your ? We drink & bathe in rain water from our own tanks, easy for anyone to do nowadays with the new thin under eaves water ranks available (filter for toxins though if you live in suburbia or a city). Milk was available for some ancient peoples like the horse owning nomads mentioned & also for the Bedouin for whom camel milk has been a staple for thousands of years, but it differs in many ways from cows milk. Here in Australia they promote a cows milk called A2, this is a milk from cows that only produce a milk with a certain type of protein which is claimed to be better for digestion. It is said this is the type of milk ancient cattle produced, but we humans have selectively bred for cattle that also or exclusively produce the A1 type protein which they claim causes gut issues. If this is correct – then maybe the whole dairy debate needs to be reconsidered?? The mainstream dairy industry doesn’t agree – but they have a business to protect so we need to consider all views & try things ourselves to see if it makes a difference. This blog post give a good explanation of how it all works http: //www. Is there something similar in the UK or USA? If so, it may be worth a try for those with milk intolerance? We know wheat isn’t the same as ancient wheat so the issues with modern dairy for some, may be due to similar human tampering for commercial gains? Some other additional diet items like honey would be irregular for some, but more easily obtained for native Australian aboriginals for example, as the Australian native bee is stingless. It all depends where in the world you live, ancient Britains wouldn’t be eating watermelon or tomatoes, & Pacific islanders would not be eating beef or rabbit, but eggs, birds, fish & coconuts etc. Most islander people were shown just like the Maori mentioned to be in optimal health on a diet rich in natural foods, & high in good fats, especially coconut based. But after the introduction of the Western diet these people have developed all the same issues as those in on western diets. In our modern world Americans have problems finding grass fed beef or dairy, but In Australia grain fed is rare with grass fed being normal. So what may be considered a bad food in one place could be a good one in another. I find the attitude of defining a paleo diet as being any set thing rather ridiculous & Chris your approach makes common sense. My husband & I are both middle aged & would by most standards be considered a healthy weigh, fairly trim. We have been slowly over several years refining our already reasonably . I have mostly removed grains from my diet, eat some dairy, eggs, grass fed meat, Australian grown salmon from Tasmania’s clean waters, home grown fruit/veg were possible or organic. Recently started eating Konjac vegetable . I made sure it came from a clean source, not from Japan whose recent nuclear issues are cause for concern for food production. I don’t know what the perfect diet for me is yet but I just keep researching & mostly eliminating foods that are obviously not healthy for my body (vegetable oils, grains), eating in moderation some that are natural but not wise to consume a lot of (honey for example), & the base of my intake comes from protein, good fats (olive, coconut oil, some animal fats), vegetables, a variety of tree nuts & a small amount of fruit. I still indulge in dark chocolate occasionally & homemade cakes/sweets made without grains a little, but considering that is the only sugar I get in my diet (I drink water, no juice or soft drinks (soda) ), then it’s a very small intake that I’m willing to live with. I tried some of the Stevia/mixes promoted by some in the world of keto diets for example but believe this upset my stomach (cramps), so just use honey or very small amounts of sugar now & again. I have to live in this world, not the Paleolthic era, & we are still evolving to some degree so we may not be 1. Paleo times. I don’t for example eliminate wheat 1. I have heard of people becoming extremely reactive to it if they have not had any at all for some time. I don’t what to have some severe reaction eating out at a restaurant for example because they used flour to thicken a sauce! I would point out I never had any major issues with gluten, so for me this works. I’m a realist not a zealot, overall lifestyle balance is more important to me & I find it odd that some will be extreme in eliminating every bit of . The true or Ceylon Cinnamon (Cinnamomum verum or Cinnamomum zeylanicum) has little of this toxin & has the health properties people take cinnamon for, yet how many consume cinnamon & don’t even know what type it is? The cinnamon available in most supermarket spice racks is Cassia – basically if it doesn’t state the type it’s Cassia. Ask questions & do your own research is my approach. But it is worth knowing what you are actually eating, the amount of hidden sugars, omega 6 oils, misleading ingredients, chemicals & wheat hidden in even basic foods never ceases to astound me. My overall point being that don’t get so consumed by which food group on some .
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