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Your right I no longer see it as a diet but a lifestyle. I can't see myself going back to how I was.
Your right I no longer see it as a diet but a lifestyle. I can't see myself going back to how I was.
Hmmmm, I've always been wary of the Paleo diet for a couple of reasons; firstly while I know it works (because several acquaintances have adopted it and lost weight and swear by it) I think it undoubtedly deprives the body of a large number of vital minerals and vitamins and other nutrients which if you're losing weight and attempting to get fit are pretty essential. The lack of readily available calcium is just one example. Also it seems to be the lipid-haters carb-free diet if you see what I mean, and the body both needs fats and in fact in most cases (except where a genetic propensity to the contrary exists) is relatively good at regulating the intake of them.
The Paleo diet works because you get PLENTY of fats... both nuts and meat are dense sources of fats...so it is not lipid deficient.
Because fat intake is what triggers satiety, diets with significant meat are easier to stay on without feeling severe hunger.
Indeed, carb rich diets lead to obesity specifically because they lack the cues that cause us to stop eating.
As to vitamin deficiency... it is nearly impossible to live in a western nation and not get enough vitamins and minerals. So much of the food is enriched, and, frankly, a single multivitamin will provide you with more minerals and vitamins than your body can actually absorb. ( US waste water has enough vitamins in it to qualify as a supplement. )
The fact is that humanity evolved with this diet... and that the recent additions of cultivated grains forming the bulk of our intake is hard on the human physiology.
reflux is an epidemic in the west and is predominantly caused by Wheat.
if you have it, cut out wheat entirely, take one course of prilosec, and chances are you will never have it again.
Further... many genotypes are evolved for even lower levels of carbs... notably, Native Americans, Polynesians and others who never adopted cereal crops. These populations tend very severely toward fat because their physiologies simply have not had the thousands of years of adaptation that other cultures had in pursuing agriculture.
And yet in almost all instances the diet itself recommends only lean meat and low lipid bearing foods. And there's nothing "Paleo" about eating nuts all day long all seasons of the year.
Nobody claimed that... as omnivores we can eat anything... the problem comes in the fact that carbs have come to dominate our intake, wheras, our hunter gatherer ancestors, for millions of years, had a fairly modest intake of carbs...The problem is that in fact humans are designed to eat carbohydrates, and claims to the contrary are false.
not all populations produce amylase in the same degree or even form as those harking from Persia, Egypt, China and Europe. It is a fact that people eating mostly carbs can keep eating well past the point of adequate calories.However we absolutely need complex carbohydrates in abundance in our diets, and this from vegetables and fruits including grains. The very fact that we have evolved a specific enzyme, Amylase, to help us digest grains and similar forms of carbohydrate bearing foods is testament to this fact.
Though of course this is demonstrably false. The rates of vitamin deficiency in children in developed world countries are in fact increasing as their parents increasingly allow highly processed carbs, inferior meat and protein bearing foods, and junk food and sweets to predominate in their children's diets.
this is absolute quackery... zero evidence to support such a notion.It's now believed that it's next to worthless to take vitamin supplements, and that the body simply does not absorb them unless they are contained in what the body recognises as digestible food.
nonsense.So it's basically impossible to artificially supplement a vitamin deficient diet, the only way to resolve the deficiency is to start eating the appropriate vitamin bearing foods in larger amounts.
This simply isn't true, the so called "Paleo" diet bares only a passing similarity to the actual diet humanity evolved with. Claims like yours made on behalf of the Paleo diet have been completely scotched by evolutionary biologists.
You're ignorance is astounding. You ARE eating a Roman diet. Heavy on wheat. yeasts. and imported foods.Claiming that the Paleo-diet is the same diet that humanity evolved with is the same as me deciding to eat more larks tongues and exclude tomatoes and potatoes from my diet and then claim I was eating a "Roman" diet.
You are not making any sense.What proves that the so called Paleo-diet is in fact not much like the actual diet of our pre-agricultural ancestors at all is that if you genuinely were eating the diet of those hunter gatherers you would be living on only the bare minimum required by the human body for survival to any age by which you might reasonably be expected to have reproduced.
Mine was an argument, not an assertion. It is Your response that is an assertion, and fails to present an argument....This is a completely unscientific assertion.
I HAD GIRD. My Doctor told me that ALL evidence shows that the primary cause of GIRD is wheat.
Wheat is in everything. Wheat is delicious. Very hard to eliminate from your diet...
And I didn't really believe my doctor, either... until I spent time in China... where wheat is almost non-existant in the diet.
And guess what? Even tho, in china, I drank lots more alcohol and coffee ( two other suspects in GIRD) my GIRD disappeared within a week.
Oops.Mr. Atio, I think you mean GERD, gastrointestinal reflux disease.
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And the difference between gaining 10 pounds in a year, or not, is ONE pat of butter per day.
That is, if you are off in eating more calories than you burn by only one pat of butter a day... you will gain 10 pounds in a year.
I'm a little dubious about following the paleo diet strictly, as I don't see any problem in eating some of the foods that are technically off the list ....
The people I have heard on the Paleo diet all drink milk, eat yogurt, or drink/eat kaffir or similar products, Hilaire. They might not be following it at its strictest. But yeah this basically works because it's a diet that eliminates basically all the bad shit we eat (processed food and simple carbs) and replace it with good stuff (fruits, vegetables, meat, and nuts).