Paleo

weisegirl1119

I have heard this talked about a few times, can someone fill me in as to what it is please

RonSwanson66

Depends on which cult member you ask.

MrsSamB

Google it. Do research on your own.

blessings,
sam

weisegirl1119

Depends on which cult member you ask.

That bad uh?

AlyRoseNYC

There is a thread on this topic on the first page. You can check that out. Or you can do aquick search of the forums. I believe there is a book that has the details of the whole diet if you really want to know about it in depth.

Jomalone2

I don't know for sure but I've heard that in a nutshell it is "if it doesn't come straight from the earth or an animal, don't eat it" but I might be wrong.

godsoon

I see Paleo as "eating better" Suposedely you should eat like your ancestor to be in PAleo, but how are we going to know what our ancestors ate? If you eat meat, fisdh eggs and a lot of vegetable you are pretty much paleo. SOme allow starchy tubers others not. some add fruits some no so is pretty much eating REAL FOOD (avoid all processed foods and grains)

PaveGurl

Short version: nothing processed or that would require farming/ harvesting it - it's sometimes called the caveman diet, based on the idea that it follows the hunter/ gatherer food models. Wild game, very little dairy, locally sourced vegetables, in season fruits, and so on.

Bumdrahp

http://www.fitbomb.com/p/why-i-eat-paleo.html


thought this may be better than " go look it up on google"

HeaderAutumn

No packaged food. Meat, berries, fruit, nuts, some veggies. Whatever you picture a caveman eating. I mean they didn't have farms or flour mills, so you get the drift.

josanta

It is fantastic in my opinion. I read "The Paleo Diet - Lose Weight and get Healthy by Eating the Foods you were Designed to Eat" by Loren Cordain. It is so much information about how our body cannot process properly certain foods like grains, fatty meats, dairy, certain nuts, and processed junk. The book also gives tons of recipes, and food plans. The diet consists of eating lean meat, vegetables, and fruit. You get to eat as much of those as you need to feel full. It is really a life style change, not just a diet. This definitely is not a drop a ton of weight really fast diet.... it is something that gets your body healthy and functioning properly. I have had so much energy when eating Paleo, and feel incredible! The weight comes off a little slower then some of those crash diets, but is so worth it in the long run!

BrettPGH

It's a diet where people say they eat as primitive man ate, then make ludicrous claims that primitive man drank tequila.

I don't get it. It's not like man in Paleolithic times was a picture of health. The slightest physical problem and they'd pretty much just die. They didn't choose their foods based on nutrition content. They ate whatever they could find that wouldn't kill them.

If you want to eat paleo go find a live chicken, rip it open and burn all the edible bits in a fire. Congratulations, you're on the Paleo diet. It provides no more benefits then if you just ate a regular piece of chicken, but as was said earlier...cult members and all...

tmauck4472

basically it's meats and veggies and a few fruits depending on if your wanting to lose fat or not.....meats, grassfed, fish, not farm raised, No grains, no pasta, no rice no potatoes except yams or sweet potatoes. Google it there is a ton of information on it, just keep searching for a post you don't have to purchase a book to learn what you want to learn. I'm almost doing this anyways so for me it's not that big of a stretch

LuckyLeprechaun

It's a diet where people say they eat as primitive man ate, then make ludicrous claims that primitive man drank tequila.

I love caveman tequila with my caveman pizza!

RonSwanson66

It's a diet where people say they eat as primitive man ate, then make ludicrous claims that primitive man drank tequila.

I love caveman tequila with my caveman pizza!

Spanaval

There is nothing really wrong with the food portion of a paleo diet. There is no scientific basis for the claims, and the exclusions are arbitrary, but if it gets you to eat less processed food, so much the better.

secretlobster

Okay I'm a defender of paleo/primal eating and I'm hoping that my response to you will be relatively sane.

Like many (not all) diets, there is a grain (lol) of truth to paleo/primal. Eating meat, fish, eggs, and vegetables in abundance is good for you. I think we all know that. Once you get past the parts that are common sense (move around a lot, eat food in its most unprocessed form), you get into the real flesh of most DIET PROGRAMS where people get caught up in small details, but this is necessary for the survival of the DIET PROGRAM because the small details are what sell books/products. So the "food restrictions" and ground rules become an essential part of any diet that originally existed for the sake of common sense.

I felt great when I followed paleo/primal more religiously than I do now (I eat bread pretty rarely, my diet is mostly vegetables and meat) but I don't see a good enough reason to avoid grains and legumes 100% forever. I think paleo is a movement that started out making a lot of sense but as it refined into a diet program, and became a list of "foods you can eat" vs "foods you can't eat", it really lost a lot of its credibility.

JayByrd107

If you seek an outside source, look for a site that is simply giving an overview of paleo; pros and cons. If the person who is running the site makes money off you buying into paleo, then be VERY skeptical. If you're getting your information from someone who has nothing to lose or gain by you choosing/not choosing their way, you can be reasonably sure that they are giving you the straight scoop.