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What is the Paleo Diet?
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Summary: The paleo diet is a low carb diet based on our knowledge of foods eaten by humans in the paleolithic era. Without knowledge of modern day agriculture techniques, the paleo diet consists mostly of animals, roots, vegetables, fruits and nuts.
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What is the Paleo Diet?
What is the paleo diet (paleolithic diet)? The paleo diet is also popularly referred to as the caveman diet, Stone Age diet and hunter-gatherer diet. The paleo diet is a modern nutritional plan based on the presumed ancient diet of wild plants and animals that humans consumed during the Paleolithic era. The paleo diet was consumed during a period of about 2.5 million years duration that ended around 10,000 years ago with the development of agriculture.
The paleo diet, referring to the actual ancestral human diet is centered on commonly available modern foods, consisting mainly of fish, grass-fed pasture raised meats, vegetables, fruit, roots, and nuts, and excludes grains, legumes, dairy products, salt, refined sugar, and processed oils.
The paleo diet is a low carb diet (25% carbs) and can also be compared to other low carb diets such as The Atkins Diet (5-10% carbs), Mediterranean diet (50% carbs), South Beach Diet (5-10% carbs) and The Zone Diet (40% carbs). They all have slightly differing approaches.
Loren Cordain, a proponent of a low-carbohydrate paleo diet, pointed out that "five studies, four since 2007, have experimentally tested contemporary versions of ancestral human diets and have found them to be superior to Mediterranean diets, diabetic diets and typical western diets in regards to weight loss, cardiovascular disease risk factors and risk factors for type 2 diabetes."
The facts are that any low carb diet can be effective not only for weight loss, heart disease and diabetes, but also for pure human health and the avoidance of chronic health conditions.
Low carb diets like the paleo diet succeed because they reduce/remove pro-inflammatory foods like grains, rice, potatoes, bad oils and sugar. These foods are not necessarily pro-inflammatory in everyone and at each stage of life, but could become pro-inflammatory under certain circumstances.
The paleo diet proposing the removal/elimination of high sugar, high glycemic index, high carbohydrate foods can hurt no one and can be beneficial to everyone when done correctly.
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