Paleo Diet Info

[WillBrink]

This is a good vid to watch for those confused about the facts on supposed "Paleo" diets. Her main "lessons" toward the end are spot on and she does a great job of picking apart some of the realities of our modern diets (good and bad) vs supposed Paleo diets people think they are following which are based more on marketing than fact.

I have some issues with her comments regarding human physiology (she's an archaeologist, not a human physiologist and it shows in some spots) and thought it was going to turn into a pro vegetarian lecture (It didn't) but her essential take home lessons and info on the fact Paleo eating is more marketing and fad than fact, is good info:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMOjV...ature=youtu.be

[theblackknight]

Keep your silly facts out of my edgy belief system.

How am I gonna fill my next X-fit level 1/ paleo diet seminar?

[Ty_B]

This could cause a level 4 butthurt emergency.

People have changed their entire lives for the paleo/primal diets. The good news is it clears the way for my new chimpanzee diet book. That's where you eat ants off a stick and ticks that you pick off your friends.

[NeoNeanderthal]

The idea of eating a diet more in-line with how we have eaten for thousands of years is a good one.

The "Paleo Diet" is kind of silly because you are still getting all your food in a supermarket! This is obviously something our ancestors did NOT do, so your already setting yourself up for failure. People who are on this paleo diet aren't even eating wild food... (thats all our paleo ancestors ate!) Trying to eat primitively while utilizing a supermarket is going full retard.

So before you even get into how the "paleo diet" tells you not to eat grains or legumes ext (which primitive people did) we can see that this fad diet is a off based. It is silly to argue about the details of a diet, which starts off with a flawed premise.

Now I truly believe that the CLOSER you can get to the diet that we have evolved eating, the better off you are. But, the first step is honestly evaluating how paleo people ate.

If anyone is truly interested check out this video by my wild food mentor Arthur Haines. Its only 10 minutes long

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmmUlgckXF4

He lives almost exclusively off wild food and yet is still critical of the paleo diet fad.

[WillBrink]

This could cause a level 4 butthurt emergency.

People have changed their entire lives for the paleo/primal diets. The good news is it clears the way for my new chimpanzee diet book. That's where you eat ants off a stick and ticks that you pick off your friends.

Yes well, when ever you build an industry around a thing, the actual facts tend to get lost in the shuffle somewhere sadly. the term "Paleo Diet" is marketing nonsense at the end of the day. What she concludes at the end of her talk dead on and what's been recommended by those who understand human nutrition and physiology and not just not trying to make $$$ off people: eat fresh foods when possible, eat a diversity of foods, eat whole foods.

That pretty much sums up her advice for those who want the cliff notes, and it's 100% correct.*

* = for most people most of the time with possible medical exceptions and or specific applications & populations.

[NeoNeanderthal]

eat fresh foods when possible, eat a diversity of foods, eat whole foods.

That pretty much sums up her advice for those who want the cliff notes, and it's 100% correct.*

And by WHOLE FOODS, you mean food that is not highly processed. (I find people don't know exactly what a whole food is).

[WillBrink]

He lives almost exclusively off wild food and yet is still critical of the paleo diet fad.

That's good for him, but the fact is, human society wold not exist without modern techniques used and wondering around the hills of ME for plants not going to feed people. I suspect you didn't watch the vid I posted, but if gathering food from the hills and such makes you happy, all good to me. It's not a realistic way to feed people however.

[WillBrink]

And by WHOLE FOODS, you mean food that is not highly processed. (I find people don't know exactly what a whole food is).

Watch vid posted....

[NeoNeanderthal]

Watched the entire video and enjoyed it. I agree with what she said (except that wild carrots are not bitter). I did not mean that YOU did not know what a whole food was, or that you were wrong in any way. Just that a lot of people say "whole foods" with out realizing that most of the people they are talking to don't know what that means. It is a term i used to use a lot before i realized that just because i knew what i meant didnt mean that everyone else did. If the person you are talking to knows what it means then chances are your already preaching to the choir.

Of course if all 7 billion people went feral, our ecology could no longer support that. I am not arguing that every human being should eat only wild food. But wild food is a great resource for your health if you live in an area where you have access to it. I am not talking about foraging for fiddleheads here. Deer, elk, small game, seafood, and freshwater fish are easy for many people to harvest and are in fact overpopulated in some areas.

Eating diverse, fresh and unprocessed food is 100x better than the average human diet, no argument there. I am only saying that eating a diverse, fresh, unprocessed diet rich in wild meat and vegetables is 101x better than the average human diet. :-)

[BrigandTwoFour]

I don't have time to watch the whole thing at the moment, but I'll get to it later today.

That said, I'm a pretty good follower of the whole paleo/primal/ancestral thing.

What she concludes at the end of her talk dead on and what's been recommended by those who understand human nutrition and physiology and not just not trying to make $$$ off people: eat fresh foods when possible, eat a diversity of foods, eat whole foods.

This is pretty much exactly what I think it's all about, anyway. Sure, there are a few people who take it to the extreme and cut out things like coffee, wine, and other more modern things, but that's not everyone.

Personally, I find that I feel and perform much better when I eat little to no grain based products. My wife and I buy almost all of our produce from the local farmers market, or we grow it ourselves on our patio sustenance garden, and we try and get meat that was raised and processed as cleanly as possible (grass fed, no steroids, etc).

We look at it as trying to eat foods that are as close as possible to the source, without going to phases of processing in a factory to preserve or fortify.

Adding to that, when you get deeper into the paleo thing, it's more than just a diet. It becomes a lifestyle involving lots of low intensity exercise (walking, casual cycling, etc), better sleep patterns, social activities (in the real world, not facebook), and keeping stress as low as possible. It's about better health, not just losing fat.

Following paleo or not, I believe this is a good healthy lifestyle that has paid dividends for us. Does it really matter how we arrived at it?