Paleo - Pros/Cons
agbaeb
Posts: 179 Member
Really considering going paleo now that I can't have dairy (because of medical reasons)....
Pros?
Cons?
Pros?
Cons?
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What about all the other restricted food that you don't have problems with, would you as happily give them up for the rest of your life.0
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Check out the group forums. One group is Paleo/Primal.0
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There really is no cons. You eat whole foods but not dairy or grains. make sure you do eat lots of fruit and particularly veg with your meat. If you can do this for life then do it.0
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Cons?
no rice,
no quinoa
no spelt
no legumes (beans) (in most definitions of paleo)
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no wine....
no booze....0 -
There really is no cons. You eat whole foods but not dairy or grains.
No Dairy or grains sound like two pretty big cons to me.0 -
Pros:
No more skin break outs
Better Sleep
More Energy
No more aches and pains
Effortless weight loss
No more medications
Better blood work
Cons:
Prep work for veggies and fruits in advance (if you are someone that don't like to cook)
Negativity from people that think this way of eating is unhealthy.0 -
Cons?
no rice,
no quinoa
no spelt
no legumes (beans) (in most definitions of paleo)
....
no wine....
no booze....
People on Paleo drink wine and tequila.0 -
People on Paleo drink wine and tequila.
That's a surprise. Wine is a product of agriculture created long after the Paleolithic era was over. Isn't that contrary to the paleo philosophy?0 -
Cons?
no rice,
no quinoa
no spelt
no legumes (beans) (in most definitions of paleo)
....
no wine....
no booze....
People on Paleo drink wine and tequila.
Cavemen had tequila?
I love the arbitrary inclusion/exclusion. Milk and grain is evil cuz paleomon didn't have it, but distilled spirits are OK (even though distilled alcohol has been around for less than 1000 years).0 -
Monkeys eat overripe or fermented fruit to get drunk, maybe the paleos should do it that way.0
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Cons?
no rice,
no quinoa
no spelt
no legumes (beans) (in most definitions of paleo)
....
no wine....
no booze....
People on Paleo drink wine and tequila.
Cavemen had tequila?
I love the arbitrary inclusion/exclusion. Milk and grain is evil cuz paleomon didn't have it, but distilled spirits are OK (even though distilled alcohol has been around for less than 1000 years).
It is not about what "caveman" had. This is a template for healthy living.
Tequila is made from agave and wine is made from fruit - allowed due to not being grain based like most liquors and beers.0 -
So this intro from Wikipedia is wrong?
The paleolithic diet (abbreviated paleo diet or paleodiet), also popularly referred to as the caveman diet, Stone Age diet and hunter-gatherer diet, is a modern nutritional plan based on the presumed ancient diet of wild plants and animals that various hominid species habitually consumed during the Paleolithic era —a period of about 2.5 million years duration that ended around 10,000 years ago with the development of agriculture. In common usage, such terms as the "Paleolithic diet" also refer to the actual ancestral human diet.0 -
Cons?
no rice,
no quinoa
no spelt
no legumes (beans) (in most definitions of paleo)
....
no wine....
no booze....
People on Paleo drink wine and tequila.
Cavemen had tequila?
I love the arbitrary inclusion/exclusion. Milk and grain is evil cuz paleomon didn't have it, but distilled spirits are OK (even though distilled alcohol has been around for less than 1000 years).
It is not about what "caveman" had. This is a template for healthy living.
Tequila is made from agave and wine is made from fruit - allowed due to not being grain based like most liquors and beers.
Aren't processed foods not allowed on the Paleo diet?0 -
Cons?
no rice,
no quinoa
no spelt
no legumes (beans) (in most definitions of paleo)
....
no wine....
no booze....
People on Paleo drink wine and tequila.
Cavemen had tequila?
I love the arbitrary inclusion/exclusion. Milk and grain is evil cuz paleomon didn't have it, but distilled spirits are OK (even though distilled alcohol has been around for less than 1000 years).
It is not about what "caveman" had. This is a template for healthy living.
Tequila is made from agave and wine is made from fruit - allowed due to not being grain based like most liquors and beers.
It's distilled alcohol. Why do you think there's a whit of difference?
In what fantasyland is anything remotely related to grain/dairy/etc. poison, but 80 proof alcohol is A-OK?
Hilarious.0 -
grapes, barley, oats, hops...They all existed back then, right?0
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Cons?
no rice,
no quinoa
no spelt
no legumes (beans) (in most definitions of paleo)
....
no wine....
no booze....
People on Paleo drink wine and tequila.
Cavemen had tequila?
I love the arbitrary inclusion/exclusion. Milk and grain is evil cuz paleomon didn't have it, but distilled spirits are OK (even though distilled alcohol has been around for less than 1000 years).
It is not about what "caveman" had. This is a template for healthy living.
Tequila is made from agave and wine is made from fruit - allowed due to not being grain based like most liquors and beers.
It's distilled alcohol. Why do you think there's a whit of difference?
In what fantasyland is anything remotely related to grain/dairy/etc. poison, but 80 proof alcohol is A-OK?
Hilarious.
There is fermented tequila too. Not all is distilled.0 -
I did paleo for a bout a month. It made me feel amazing and really helped with weight loss, and inflammation, and bloating, and headaches etc. The only con I found was that it was really hard to maintain. For someone who eats most of their meals at home, this wouldn't be a problem. It just didn't work for me, as I leave 8 hours before lunch and had no way of keeping any food cold or being able to heat anything up. Overall though, I think it's awesome, I just wish it were a bit more convenient. And eating out at a restaurant is a huge challenge!0
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People on Paleo drink wine and tequila.
That's a surprise. Wine is a product of agriculture created long after the Paleolithic era was over. Isn't that contrary to the paleo philosophy?
I'm not a Paleo supporter or apologist, however, that is actually incorrect. Winemaking occurred--and arguably originated--during the Paleolithic era, as people drank naturally fermented wild grapes in pouches made of animal skin.0 -
I did paleo for a bout a month. It made me feel amazing and really helped with weight loss, and inflammation, and bloating, and headaches etc. The only con I found was that it was really hard to maintain. For someone who eats most of their meals at home, this wouldn't be a problem. It just didn't work for me, as I leave 8 hours before lunch and had no way of keeping any food cold or being able to heat anything up. Overall though, I think it's awesome, I just wish it were a bit more convenient. And eating out at a restaurant is a huge challenge!
Eating out is easy............
Steaks or seafood and steamed vegetables. Easy peasy.0 -
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I did paleo for a bout a month. It made me feel amazing and really helped with weight loss, and inflammation, and bloating, and headaches etc. The only con I found was that it was really hard to maintain. For someone who eats most of their meals at home, this wouldn't be a problem. It just didn't work for me, as I leave 8 hours before lunch and had no way of keeping any food cold or being able to heat anything up. Overall though, I think it's awesome, I just wish it were a bit more convenient. And eating out at a restaurant is a huge challenge!
true...at first it is inconvenient...but restaurants are really easy...meat and veggies....MarksDailyApple has some ideas on the inconvenience factors...he does get over the top sometimes but overall its a good source0 -
I did paleo for a bout a month. It made me feel amazing and really helped with weight loss, and inflammation, and bloating, and headaches etc. The only con I found was that it was really hard to maintain. For someone who eats most of their meals at home, this wouldn't be a problem. It just didn't work for me, as I leave 8 hours before lunch and had no way of keeping any food cold or being able to heat anything up. Overall though, I think it's awesome, I just wish it were a bit more convenient. And eating out at a restaurant is a huge challenge!
Eating out is easy............
Steaks or seafood and steamed vegetables. Easy peasy.
Seafood? Hopefully only the kind that you can reach down and grab. Anything too deep or fast isn't paleo eating.0 -
I did paleo for a bout a month. It made me feel amazing and really helped with weight loss, and inflammation, and bloating, and headaches etc. The only con I found was that it was really hard to maintain. For someone who eats most of their meals at home, this wouldn't be a problem. It just didn't work for me, as I leave 8 hours before lunch and had no way of keeping any food cold or being able to heat anything up. Overall though, I think it's awesome, I just wish it were a bit more convenient. And eating out at a restaurant is a huge challenge!
true...at first it is inconvenient...but restaurants are really easy...meat and veggies....MarksDailyApple has some ideas on the inconvenience factors...he does get over the top sometimes but overall its a good source if you want your head filled with nonsense and fantasy
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Cons?
no rice,
no quinoa
no spelt
no legumes (beans) (in most definitions of paleo)
....
no wine....
no booze....
People on Paleo drink wine and tequila.
Cavemen had tequila?
I love the arbitrary inclusion/exclusion. Milk and grain is evil cuz paleomon didn't have it, but distilled spirits are OK (even though distilled alcohol has been around for less than 1000 years).
It is not about what "caveman" had. This is a template for healthy living.
Tequila is made from agave and wine is made from fruit - allowed due to not being grain based like most liquors and beers.
It's distilled alcohol. Why do you think there's a whit of difference?
In what fantasyland is anything remotely related to grain/dairy/etc. poison, but 80 proof alcohol is A-OK?
Hilarious.
There is fermented tequila too. Not all is distilled.
Stop making things up.
Tequila is, by definition, a distilled spirit. There may be fermented agave (beer?wine?), but it ain't tequila.
That's like calling beer "undistilled whiskey".0 -
Cons? There are only 2 peoples in known history that existed on what we call the paleo diet. The traditional Australian Aborigines are one, and unfortunately the other escapes my memory right now, but I think it was an obscure tribe in Africa. Neither have a physique I would particularly want to imitate. (note: there are very few if any Australian Aborigines still existing on their traditional diet)
On the pros side, it can be good for a time to lose weight or to achieve a specific goal.
If you can no longer have dairy, I see no reason to cut out all the other things that get excluded in a paleo diet. There are plenty of dairy alternatives that you can include in your diet without having the added difficulty of going completely paleo.0 -
grapes, barley, oats, hops...They all existed back then, right?
Barley and oats are those evil grain things that paleo doesn't allow. They might have had wild grape wine though, like the other poster said.0 -
I'm not a Paleo supporter or apologist, however, that is actually incorrect. Winemaking occurred--and arguably originated--during the Paleolithic era, as people drank naturally fermented wild grapes in pouches made of animal skin.
That's possible, but after some googling I couldn't find anything that pushed wine making back any further than the Neolithic. There are lots of claims on wine magazine sites and such that wine making dates back to the paleolithic, but my quick search didn't turn up any proof. Maybe my Google-fu is just weak.0 -
Cons?
no rice,
no quinoa
no spelt
no legumes (beans) (in most definitions of paleo)
....
no wine....
no booze....
People on Paleo drink wine and tequila.
Cavemen had tequila?
I love the arbitrary inclusion/exclusion. Milk and grain is evil cuz paleomon didn't have it, but distilled spirits are OK (even though distilled alcohol has been around for less than 1000 years).
It is not about what "caveman" had. This is a template for healthy living.
Tequila is made from agave and wine is made from fruit - allowed due to not being grain based like most liquors and beers.
It's distilled alcohol. Why do you think there's a whit of difference?
In what fantasyland is anything remotely related to grain/dairy/etc. poison, but 80 proof alcohol is A-OK?
Hilarious.
There is fermented tequila too. Not all is distilled.
Stop making things up.
Tequila is, by definition, a distilled spirit. There may be fermented agave (beer?wine?), but it ain't tequila.
That's like calling beer "undistilled whiskey".
You are officially on ignore because you are just silly and not worth my time.
Go look it up.0 -
I'm not a Paleo supporter or apologist, however, that is actually incorrect. Winemaking occurred--and arguably originated--during the Paleolithic era, as people drank naturally fermented wild grapes in pouches made of animal skin.
That's possible, but after some googling I couldn't find anything that pushed wine making back any further than the Neolithic. There are lots of claims on wine magazine sites and such that wine making dates back to the paleolithic, but my quick search didn't turn up any proof. Maybe my Google-fu is just weak.
From National Geographic: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/07/0721_040721_ancientwine.html0 -
Cons?
no rice,
no quinoa
no spelt
no legumes (beans) (in most definitions of paleo)
....
no wine....
no booze....
People on Paleo drink wine and tequila.
Cavemen had tequila?
I love the arbitrary inclusion/exclusion. Milk and grain is evil cuz paleomon didn't have it, but distilled spirits are OK (even though distilled alcohol has been around for less than 1000 years).
It is not about what "caveman" had. This is a template for healthy living.
Tequila is made from agave and wine is made from fruit - allowed due to not being grain based like most liquors and beers.
It's distilled alcohol. Why do you think there's a whit of difference?
In what fantasyland is anything remotely related to grain/dairy/etc. poison, but 80 proof alcohol is A-OK?
Hilarious.
There is fermented tequila too. Not all is distilled.
Stop making things up.
Tequila is, by definition, a distilled spirit. There may be fermented agave (beer?wine?), but it ain't tequila.
That's like calling beer "undistilled whiskey".
You are officially on ignore because you are just silly and not worth my time.
Go look it up.
I have.
Words have meanings. I challenge you to show a link to tequila that isn't distilled.
(Not that it would make the arbitrary inclusion any less silly).0
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