The Paleo Diet

[Hitch]

Any of you folks try this diet? Opinions?

Basically, this diet is simple. If the cavemen didn't eat it 10,000 years ago, don't eat it now. You can eat meat, fish, poultry, eggs, any and all fruits and vegetables, and nuts, such as almonds and cashews. You can not eat any grains, any refined sugars, no dairy (this will be tough).

The Good:

-Eat as much as you like, no BS calorie counting.
-You can barbeque each night if you like, heck barbeque at each meal.
-Bacon at every meal is OK.
-eggs for breakfast every day (do this anyway).
-Grocery shopping should be a breeze.

The Bad:

-No Beer.
-Will be hard to follow this diet while out for dinner with friends.
-No milk or cheeses....no more cheese omelets.
-Good bye burritos, unless you can substitute lettuce for a real tortilla, and skip the rice/beans and just have meat and salsa.

[madfranks]

I will say this. I didn't use the Paleo diet, but I did use the Primal Blueprint and lost over 30 lbs eating according to it's rules. #1 Primal Rule: eat plants and animals.

[Shami-Amourae]

I do the Weston A. Price diet, which is similar to the paleo, but allows more things to be eaten. Milk/Cheese is considered very healthy. Salt is okay. Beer is fine since pretty much everything fermented is considered healthy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3ehzZ3yNyw

[Hitch]

I do the Weston A. Price diet, which is similar to the paleo, but allows more things to be eaten. Milk/Cheese is considered very healthy. Salt is okay. Beer is fine since pretty much everything fermented is considered healthy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3ehzZ3yNyw

Shami, I'm about halfway through this video and it's very good. The part about the perfect teeth is amazing.

I'm 4 days in on the paleo diet now. Something really stange and unexpected is happening.

I think my testosterone levels must be off the charts. I have more energy than I've had for years. I feel like I can conquer the world, all my senses, even eyesight seem sharp. I cut out something in my diet my body didn't like.

[JohnQPublic]

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[Kali]

The Paleo Diet is a bunch of BS.

Dairy is good stuff. The land of milk and honey as in the Bible (let goats milk be your food it says)....good stuff.

Today's dairy is contaminated. So is almost everything else.

People die today eating fruit or veggies. Google it.

Fish is full of toxins, metals.

It all comes down to eating real food.

Even though EVERYTHING is contaminated, if you find the best quality food and eat real food in its natural form you will live longer and feel better.

Nuts, hell yeah. Canned nuts processed with processed salt and MSG, hell no.

Beans, yummmm...beans in a can or restaurant, full of salt, processed, basically junk food.

Eggs, a hundred different ways they're good, todays eggs, what the F did that chicken eat? That's what ur eating.

Fruit? Why is it so big and pretty in the grocery store while my own tree produces a small ugly one? Chemicals? WTF?

Almonds? Its the law here in the USA that all almonds be pasteurized. Almonds being sent out of the USA, no.

Just the tip of the iceberg.

So, find yourselves real food and eat it.

This is my diet.

[BrewTech]

Any of you folks try this diet? Opinions?

Basically, this diet is simple. If the cavemen didn't eat it 10,000 years ago, don't eat it now.
The Bad:

-No Beer.


Here's what you do:

Instead of using 10,000 years as your timeline, use 8,000.

Now you can have beer!

You're welcome.

[Shami-Amourae]

We've been fermenting foods for thousands of years. I wouldn't be shocked if we've been doing it for 10s of thousands of years.

[Hitch]

Here's what you do:

Instead of using 10,000 years as your timeline, use 8,000.

Now you can have beer!

You're welcome.

Thanks brewtech. I like the way you think.

I agree this diet is hardcore. From a logical standpoint, I don't know why dairy is banned. You can eat the cow, but just not the milk from the cow. Or grains being banned. You can eat fruits and berries you pick, or lettuce...but you can't eat corn which you pick as well, and grown from the earth.

What's interesting is that you never have that feeling of being full. Just satisfied. Also, everything tastes much more vivid. I've been munching on raspberries and swear they are the best tasting treat in the world.

[steyr_m]

I went on the Paleo diet 2-3 years ago. 30 pounds just melted off and the bonus is that I never went hungry. Don't regret it one bit...

[Shami-Amourae]

Thanks brewtech. I like the way you think.

I agree this diet is hardcore. From a logical standpoint, I don't know why dairy is banned. You can eat the cow, but just not the milk from the cow. Or grains being banned. You can eat fruits and berries you pick, or lettuce...but you can't eat corn which you pick as well, and grown from the earth.

What's interesting is that you never have that feeling of being full. Just satisfied. Also, everything tastes much more vivid. I've been munching on raspberries and swear they are the best tasting treat in the world.

Grains and legumes are fine in the Weston A. Price diet as long as you ferment and/or sprout them before hand. The key is to remove the phytic acid:
http://www.westonaprice.org/food-features/living-with-phytic-acid

Ancient cultures used to do this, but we don't anymore since of the invention of pasteurization. Fermentation helps release vitamins and nutrients locked away in food like cooking does. When you combine the two you can get a lot more nutrition out of your food than ever before. Pasteurization has a place, but it's completely overused and has people fearing bacteria, when they should understand theirs friendly and bad bacteria. You want to kill the bad and keep the good. Fermentation does that. Pasteurization also kills off enzymes. If you know anything about "modern" medicine, also known as allopathic medicine, the goal is to use poisons to kill off enzymes. This is one of the key frauds in our system. The establishment wants you sick and depleted so they kill enzymes off at every level when it comes to their "medicine" and their "food".

[PatColo]

I'm only at the learning more about this stage. One nudge was this Radio 3Fourteen interview (1 hour, it's discussed in the 2nd half somewhere):
Matthew Buckley - How Monsanto is Destroying the Brains and Health of Everyone (http://www.redicecreations.com/radio3fourteen/2014/R314-141224.php)

But I also notice this in the archive of Kevin Barrett's radio show:

EXCLUSIVE BROADCAST:
“Paleo-man” John Durant with the most up-to-date diet and lifestyle advice
(http://noliesradio.org/archives/86160)
(http://noliesradio.org/archives/86160) (http://noliesradio.org/archives/86160)http://noliesradio.org/images/the-paleo-manifesto-john-durant-interview.jpg (http://noliesradio.org/archives/86160)



John Durant’s The Paleo Manifesto is not just another diet and lifestyle book. It blends history, archeology, philosophy and good old do-it-yourself experimentation – and emerges with both general and specific prescriptions for better living through following the wisdom of ancient ancestors.



*Why should you use a stand-up desk rather than sitting in an office chair?
*Why should you go very easy on sugar, grains and dairy – and get at least half of your calories from fat?
*Why should you swim in cold water, and sit in a sauna, as often as you can?
*Why did the dietary and lifestyle prescriptions of the Bible (and even more so the Qur’an) make sense for our ancestors – and in many cases for us even today?
*Why is fasting so good for you?
*How can electric lights be bad for you?

must listen via the player console embedded at: http://noliesradio.org/archives/86160