Paleo Diet
Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2012 6:58 pm
Does anyone on the site do the paleo diet? A lot of what the diet says makes sense. Paleo diet follows a simple rule: do not eat anything that our ancestors did not evolve to eat/evolve eating. The theory of evolution contends that species evolve by compounding traits contributing to survival. In short: our bodies are adapted to eat certain foods over time based on the diet we followed for hundreds of thousands of years.
The agricultural revolution brought about a change in both the diet and lifestyle of humans. Instead of the hunter-gatherer lifestyle (constantly on the move, running, jumping, carrying, pulling, climbing, foraging, hunting, etc.) we began to process grains (wheat, rice, others) develop tools and travel less.
The problem is that the human body has not evolved over the short period of time since the agricultural revolution to evolve to this change in diet. Paleo dietitians contend that eating bread, dairy, grains, and sugar, has led humans to develop diseases less commonly found in previous generations. Among these are higher incidents of cancer, heart disease, obesity, diabetes, etc.
Met a guy hiking over the weekend who is 45 years old and has been on the paleo diet for 2.5 years. The guy looked mid 30s and attributed it all to the diet. Has more energy now than he did in his 30s and says he has not been sick beginning what he called the paleo lifestyle.
"We call this diet the paleo diet because it includes the food that was available to us for most of our evolution during the paleolithic era, starting about 2.5 millions of years ago. The idea is that our genes and physiology evolved through the process of natural selection and are most adapted to be nourished with the food that we evolved around. That includes the whole spectrum of animal food (beef, fish, shellfish, poultry, pork, lamb, bison, …) including their fat and organs as well as eggs, vegetables and limited amounts of fruits and nuts.
On the opposite side, some of the foods that we started eating in large quantity since the beginning of the agricultural revolution about 10,000 years ago are completely alien to our genes and metabolism and wreak havoc in our body, often causing what we call the metabolic syndrome or diseases of civilization. That includes obesity, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, auto-immune diseases, osteoporosis, Alzheimer’s and a host of other conditions that were unknown to our ancestors while plaguing us today.
Some of the worst offenders in today’s diet are what’s actually recommended by governments and nutritionists because bad science and economic agendas have demonized things like saturated fat, cholesterol and red meat over the last decades. What we should really be eliminating in our diet are grain products, excess sugar, vegetable oils, legumes and dairy, some of which are at the very basis of the US food pyramid."
http://paleodietlifestyle.com/
Going to try paleo diet for 30 days after Easter
The agricultural revolution brought about a change in both the diet and lifestyle of humans. Instead of the hunter-gatherer lifestyle (constantly on the move, running, jumping, carrying, pulling, climbing, foraging, hunting, etc.) we began to process grains (wheat, rice, others) develop tools and travel less.
The problem is that the human body has not evolved over the short period of time since the agricultural revolution to evolve to this change in diet. Paleo dietitians contend that eating bread, dairy, grains, and sugar, has led humans to develop diseases less commonly found in previous generations. Among these are higher incidents of cancer, heart disease, obesity, diabetes, etc.
Met a guy hiking over the weekend who is 45 years old and has been on the paleo diet for 2.5 years. The guy looked mid 30s and attributed it all to the diet. Has more energy now than he did in his 30s and says he has not been sick beginning what he called the paleo lifestyle.
"We call this diet the paleo diet because it includes the food that was available to us for most of our evolution during the paleolithic era, starting about 2.5 millions of years ago. The idea is that our genes and physiology evolved through the process of natural selection and are most adapted to be nourished with the food that we evolved around. That includes the whole spectrum of animal food (beef, fish, shellfish, poultry, pork, lamb, bison, …) including their fat and organs as well as eggs, vegetables and limited amounts of fruits and nuts.
On the opposite side, some of the foods that we started eating in large quantity since the beginning of the agricultural revolution about 10,000 years ago are completely alien to our genes and metabolism and wreak havoc in our body, often causing what we call the metabolic syndrome or diseases of civilization. That includes obesity, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, auto-immune diseases, osteoporosis, Alzheimer’s and a host of other conditions that were unknown to our ancestors while plaguing us today.
Some of the worst offenders in today’s diet are what’s actually recommended by governments and nutritionists because bad science and economic agendas have demonized things like saturated fat, cholesterol and red meat over the last decades. What we should really be eliminating in our diet are grain products, excess sugar, vegetable oils, legumes and dairy, some of which are at the very basis of the US food pyramid."
http://paleodietlifestyle.com/
Going to try paleo diet for 30 days after Easter