What is paleo, or the caveman diet and how do you do it?
Let's strip it back down to basics, pull up a chair and remind you.
Also known as a stone age diet, a paleolithic, evolutionary
or dna diet, the pitch is simple: its about eating as our ancestors ate before
the great agricultural revolution some 10,000 years ago and thus no wheat,
grains, legumes, sugar or vegetable oils, that is: no processed food!
Meals are based around meat, fish, saturated fat (from
animals, avocados, nuts etc), green leafy vegetables, nuts, eggs, seeds and
some low-sugar fruit mostly berries.
Meals are tasty because we eat fat: fat is not the enemy, fat is our
friend just as it has been across hundreds of thousands of years of ancestral
health. And by fat we mean good
saturated fat not man-made monstrosities like vegetable, sunflower and canola oil, hydrogenated fats or
margarine.
Why no grains or processed food? Because these products are making us
fat. Period. Why are they making us fat? Because we cannot digest them. We simply cannot
metabolise them. Our genetic blueprint
has not evolved to process this food and the consequence is severely impacting
our health. Evolution is a slow process
our dietary habits have revolutionised exponentially and while we have not
changed genetically our diets are radically different and so is our body shape, health and general
wellbeing. Can you see the link?
And it's not just us is it. See here the newspaper headlines and read this shocking
article: in the UK, doctors are medicating babies in the womb for obesity or
read this article "Junk food gives you the blues" and begin to
understand the link between so called "junk food and our mental
health". Every day scientists are
making new discoveries but even if you don't understand the science and have no
interest in the why, you must hanker for a solution?
Many of us get to the point where we are simply overwhelmed
by our fat. And give up. Can you see it in your life? Did you give up too? We are not helped by the endless round of fad
diets that tell us we can have our cake and eat it: weight watchers, slimming
world, Atkins, lighter life - it's not true.
But it does keep you coming back for more when you fall off the wagon
and overeat. Got you over a barrel see -
no wonder we give up faced with such extraordinary odds against us, we simply
don't know any different.
What we require then is an approach, a gentle but radical
approach that works: not a diet, not a manifesto: paleo works Think of paleo as a life long journey of
continual renewal with you in control.
That's the difference. Cut out
the junk food and you are more than half way home.
Keep it simple, keep it real, your food that is! Start changing things up, integrating saturated fat into your diet (butter on your veg, fry meat in coconut oil, eat
bacon with the fat on, enjoy tallow, dripping and lard as our forefathers
did). Keep away from processed food: and
always remember that the worst combination..that is the combination most likely
to put your fat on is sugar and fat (think buns, pies, buttery pastry, white
bread, eclairs, cakes, batter mix, cookies) always remember that and you won't
go far wrong.
So, this diet and lifestyle approach is simply based on
common sense.
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GAPS diet is essentially a form of Paleo, with protocols for healing and sealing the digestive tract. Paleo is a great way to focus your dietary choices, removing the processed foods and finding good sources of pastured and organics options. Our ancestors didn't have to worry about how their food was being raised as we now do. If the soil the plant grows in or animal grazes upon is lacking in nutrients, the end product will be lacking as well. For sources of nutrient dense foods find your local Weston A. Price chapter www.westonaprice.org The Northwest Cook County site is http://chapters.westonaprice.org/nwcookcounty/
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I love this new information but I wish you would get a better background. I struggle to read what's on this site!
Hi Loki, point taken and we're working on it! Katie
Sorry Katie, I think your page did not load properly when I viewed this article and it had your background image behind the font. Since visiting your blog, it has had the white background for the font which is fine to read. Thanks.
all for no grain...
*anna
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