Many of the health problems of today are the direct result of what we do-and do not-eat.
Why the PALEO Diet? The Paleo Diet is the one and only diet that ideally fits our genetic makeup. This diet is built into our genes.
By restoring the food types that we are genetically programed to eat, we can not only lose weight, but also restore our health well-being.
Why not the Paleo Diet? Just look around! More Americans are overweight than aren't: 63% of all American men over age 25, and 55% of women over age 25 are either overweight or obese. The leading cause of death in the U.S. - responsible for 41% of all deaths, or 1 of every 2.4 deaths - is hearth and blood vessel diseas. 50 million Americans have high blood pressure; 40 million have high cholesterol levels, and 10 million have type 2 diabetes.
The Typical American Diet: The USDA Food Pyramid encourages you to eat 6 to 11 servings of grains everyday. This is the very same diet that has produced a nation in which 63% of all Americans over age 25 and 55% of women over age 25 to be either overweight or obese.
Because the average American diet consists of refined cereal grains and sugars, it increases the blood sugar and insulin levels in many people. If insulin remains constantly elevated, it causes a condition known as "hyperinsulinemia," which increases the risk of type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, high choloesterol, obesity, and harmful changes in blood chemistry.
Since refined cereals and sugars are not part of the Paleo diet - this means that your dietary insulin level will be naturally low and you will automatically reduce your risk of the diseases mentioned above.
So lets's get started. Here are some ground rules...
The ground rules of the Paleo Diet:
1. All lean meats, fish, and seafood you can eat
2. All the fruits and nonstarchy vegetables you can eat
3. No cereals
4. No legumes
5. No dairy products
6. No processed food
The entry above is from the book "The Paleo Diet" by Loren Cordain, Ph.D.
Monday, January 4, 2010
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Thanks Allen, I'm in. I'm reading a book by Michael Pollan - In Defense of Food. The premise of the book is eat food, not too much, mostly plants.
ReplyDeleteAn interesting point was made in the book. Thanks to McDonalds, ADM and Con Agra, eating a shitty diet of refined carbs is alot cheaper than eating real food. This is shown by how much time and money we spend fueling our bodies. Americans spend 9.9 percent of their income on food, the Italians spend 14.9 percent, the French 14.9 percent and the Spanish 17.1 percent.
Gathering and preparing food used to be the heart of everyday life. Americans spend less than an our per day preparing and enjoying food. Cost and time will be the hardest things to overcome in shifting to a Paleo diet.
Good Stuff, Tim! I'll have to pick up that book that you're reading. It's amazing that Americans spend such a small percentage of our income on good food. We are a society that's always "on the go", and the number of meals with any nutritional value is very hard to find when we're constanly rushing from one place to the next. I'm guilty of that too!
ReplyDeletePaleo is definetely the way to go!!!
Thanks for your input, Tim.