Paleo diet or ‘caveman’ diet gains traction despite controversies
From the New York Daily News:
Could Paleolithic man hold the key to today’s nutrition problems?
A growing number of adherents to the so-called “caveman” diet contend that a return to the hunter-gatherer foods of the Stone Age — heavy on meats, devoid of most grains — could alleviate problems like obesity, type 2 diabetes and many coronary problems.
The Paleo diet movement is backed by some academics and fitness gurus and has gained some praise in medical research in the US and elsewhere even though it goes against recommendations of most mainstream nutritionists and government guidelines.
Loren Cordain, a professor of health and exercise science at Colorado State University, said he believes millions in the United States and elsewhere are following the Paleo diet movement, based on sales of books such as his own and Internet trends.
“It was an obscure idea 10 years ago and in the last two to three years it has become known worldwide,” Cordain, one the leading academics backing the Paleo diet, told AFP.
“There are at least a half-dozen books on the best seller list that are promoting this,” he added.
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Rock Out With Your Grok Out
My Paleo Diet Experience: Fighting the Restaurant Menu
From BlogCritics.org:
As a former fatso, almost all of the meals I ate came from a restaurant. It didn’t matter if the restaurant was fast food or fine dining, I probably ate there. There is no doubt that eating like this was a major contributor to my weight gain. During week four of my Paleo Diet experiment, I had family stay with me and we were going to be making plenty of day trips. This meant that I would be eating most of my meals in restaurants. I was very concerned that I was going to have trouble following Paleo Diet principles.
Through the first three weeks of my experiment, I was able to be Paleo Diet compliant by spending one hour each week menu planning for lunch and dinner. Unfortunately, family being family, I wasn’t able to plan any activities let alone a menu until my guests arrived. I felt that I was setting myself up for failure. Having to eat several restaurant meals was going to make it hard enough to follow Paleo principles. The lack of menu planning was going to make it that much harder.
Once I accepted my fate that I had limited control over where I was going to eat, I decided that I would control what I ate. I would simply put the Paleo principles into action when ordering and all would be good. In reality, this was a little tougher than I thought.
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Paleo Cereal
Paleo Cereal
After a great game of tennis yesterday, I went back to my friend’s house were he proceeded to demolish a bowl of cereal. As I watched this take place, it occured to me that I haven’t had a bowl of cereal in probably six months at least. Maybe it’s because it was hot and that bowl filled with cold milk looked delicious; or maybe I was just yearning for days gone by when I could kill a box of Fruit Loops in one day. Whatever it was, my mission for today was to create a bowl of paleo cereal.
The ingredients:
- Raw pecans
- Organic blueberries
- Organic strawberries
- Almond milk
- Cinnamon
Is it 100% paleo? Well you can probably argue about the almond milk; but it’s pretty damn close.
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Sitting Kills
Great infographic demonstrating the effects sitting has on our lives. From MedicalCodingandBilling.org:
Via: Medical Billing And Coding
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Caveman diet draws grunts from nutritionists
Paleo grilling
Agree or disagree?
From the Chicago Tribune:
Would adopting the diet our caveman ancestors supposedly ate allow modern-day Americans live longer, healthier lives?
Proponents of the Paleo diet (for Paleolithic) say that meals packed with fresh fruits and vegetables and heavy doses of lean (preferably wild) meat, fish and seafood will “swiftly improve your disease symptoms” if you have high blood pressure, high cholesterol, Type 2 diabetes or cardiovascular disease.
Not allowed are dairy, grains and legumes (beans, peas and lentils) because these were a late entry to the human palate, appearing about 12,000 years ago, and aren’t foods to which we’re “genetically adapted.”
While the diet has fans — the recently released “Paleo Diet Cookbook” is fourth in a series of books written or co-written by Dr. Loren Cordain, a Colorado State University professor — dietitians argue that eliminating entire food groups is a mistake.
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Paleo Granola from Paleo People
Paleo People Granola
A new entry in the portable paleo-friendly snack category is the wonderful lineup of granola-like treats offered by Paleo People. Made from a base of paleo-friendly fare like nuts, seeds and fruit, Paleo People’s granola snacks are a great way to stay paleo on the go.
What is particularly nice about the products is the variety of available flavors. Flavors include:
- Apple Crisp
- Banana Nut Crunch
- Cacao Nut
- Cappuccino Crunch
From an aesthetic point, Paleo People has done a great job with their packaging, using bright easily distinguishable colors for each flavor. If I have one criticism of the granola, it would be that the protein content –roughly 3 grams per serving– could be a little higher. That aside, all the flavors are really good. It is hard to pick a favorite from the four, but with a spear to my head, I would probably pick the Cappuccino Crunch.
As we all know it can be tough to find something paleo-friendly during the day when you are away from home. Paleo People’s granola packs are super easy to throw in your bag and take with you anywhere. Also, as mentioned on the Paleo People website, the granola is very versatile. I’ve had it as part of my workout protein shakes, with some greek yogurt and on its own.
So if you’re looking for a convenient paleo-friendly snack take a look at Paleo People’s granola. Best of all, if you can’t decide which flavor your want, get the variety pack.
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Meet The Cavemen Dieters
From ABC News:
By JOHN BERMAN and SARAH HODDMarch 2, 2011
You don’t have to carry a club or wear a bearskin to live like a caveman. To keep fit, a number of people have adopted the “Paleo” lifestyle — eating and exercising like our ancestors from the Paleolithic era.
Art De Vany, 73, is often called the “grandfather” of the Paleo movement. For De Vany, a workout includes pulling his Range Rover in his driveway.
He compared it to “hauling heavy bison out of a pit.”
“If you think about it, you’re using every single muscle in your body. You’re not going to hurt yourself by overdoing repetitions,” he said. “It’s easy for me.”
De Vany, the author of “The New Evolution Diet,” also eats like a caveman by consuming meat, seafood, vegetables and fruit, but no grains or processed food. He adopted the caveman or Paleo diet some 30 years ago in an effort to improve the health of his family.
The human species during the Paleolithic age, he said, “was probably the epitome of the expression of the human genotype. (They had) large, powerful brains — they gave us all that we have in our world.”
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The Caveman Diet
From The Baltimore Sun:
In remote caves in Europe and Asia, drawings depict ancient battles, cavemen hunting beasts long disappeared from the earth. Anthropologists for years have studied these pictures and the lives of our hairy, thick-skulled ancestors.
But now another group, fitness buffs, is paying closer attention to the caveman. Why?
He wasn’t fat.
What was his secret? Why are 100 million Americans overweight today when the Neanderthals and Cro-Magnons who preceded us were so lean and ripped? They looked like, as Snooki would say, “gorilla juiceheads.”
The devotees of the Paleo Diet believe it’s the way they ate.
“The essential principle is we spent 19 million years evolving to eat a hunter-gatherer lifestyle, and 10,000 years ago we had the agricultural revolution,” says Lurene Grenier, 28, of Severna Park, who has been eating the Paleo diet for two years. “The upside of that revolution is it helped build up society. The downside is it made us very sick.”
Thus, the Paleo diet is an attempt for humans to “eat the way we did before the agricultural revolution,” says Grenier, who works as a security researcher and trains clients at a Glen Burnie gym, Crossfit BWI.
That means no grains, no dairy and, above all, no sugar. Or, in other words: no Joe Squared pizza, Starbucks’ macchiatos or Sugarbakers’ red velvet cake.
“It’s basically the opposite of the government’s food pyramid,” Grenier says.
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Primal Diet More Satisfying Than Mediterranean Diet
From The Epoch Times:
For many of us, this time of year brings with it generally greater opportunity to eat more than is necessary. While I do not particularly believe in sacrifice or deprivation, I do think it’s useful to be aware of strategies that can be used to prevent over-consumption of food and drink with ease and, importantly, without hunger.
One approach that tends to reap dividends is focusing on eating a diet that sates the appetite most effectively.
For a given number of calories, not all types of food sate the appetite to the same extent. While many factors can play a part, two factors that are particularly important are the protein content of food and its glycemic index (the speed and extent to which it disrupts blood sugar levels).
Generally speaking, protein is the most sating element of the diet, and lower GI foods are more sating than those of higher GI.
One type of diet that fulfills these criteria is a Paleolithic or primal diet, essentially a hunter-gatherer diet based on foods eaten prior to the introduction of relatively novel foods, including grains and dairy products. Such a diet would include meat, fish, eggs, nuts, seeds, fruits, and vegetables.
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