The Paleo Diet is based upon
eating healthy, contemporary foods from the food groups our hunter-gatherer
ancestors would have thrived on during the Paleolithic era, about 10,000 years
ago and beyond. The Paleo Diet include foods such as fresh meats, preferably
grass-produced or free-ranging beef, lamb, pork, poultry, and game meat, fish, fresh
fruits, vegetables, seafood, seeds, nuts, and salubrious oils including avocado,
coconut, flaxseed, macadamia, olive, and walnut. Dairy products, cereal grains,
legumes, refined sugars and processed foods, on the other hand, were not part
of our ancestral diet.
Research studies demonstrate that
hunter-gatherers typically were free from the chronic illnesses and diseases
that are widespread in today’s populations, including:
- Obesity
- Gout
- Type 2 diabetes
- Cardiovascular disease (heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, congestive heart failure, atherosclerosis)
- Autoimmune diseases (multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, etc.)
- Cancer
- Osteoporosis
- Acne
- Myopia (nearsightedness), macular degeneration, glaucoma
- Varicose veins, hemorrhoids, diverticulosis, gastric reflux
What to Eat on the Paleo Diet?
The Paleo Diet consists much more
detail on the foods you should and shouldn’t eat, so here is a basic scheme of
what to eat on The Paleo Diet:
EAT:
- Eggs
- Fresh fruits and veggies
- Grass-produced meats
- Fish/seafood
- Nuts and seeds
- Healthy oils (avocado, coconut, olive, flaxseed, macadamia, walnut)
DON’T EAT:
- Cereal grains
- Dairy
- Legumes (including peanuts)
- Potatoes
- Processed foods
- Refined sugar
- Refined vegetable oils
- Salt
The Paleo Diet is an effort to
eat like we used to back in the day… way, way back during our ancestral era. If a caveman couldn’t eat it, neither can
you.
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