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Hi - welcome to the journey! There are plenty of us here to help. You can add me if you wish - I follow a generic hunter/gatherer eating style (both primal and paleo are essentially hunter/gatherer with various wrinkles to sell their books). I'm all about keeping it simple and avoiding replicating the SAD way of eating…
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Most nuts are high in Omega 6 fatty acids - which is something that paleo/primal diets try to avoid. It is why nuts are eaten is small amounts - while they do have health benefits, we are trying to eat so that the Omega 3 to Omega 6 ration is 1:1 (or at least 1:10) and nuts drag the ratio in the other direction. The amount…
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What I'm saying is that a hunter/gatherer diet is not rocket science. It is naturally low-carb; and since you need fat for energy and protein for body maintenance in roughly equal amounts, the percentages work themselves out fairly quickly. If you take Sisson's recommendation that 100g of carbs is the baseline between…
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I'll respond differently. Our hunter/gatherer forebears didn't have computers - or even concept of macro nutrients - and managed to eat healthily. Use the macro goals as guidelines. Just that. Knowing that carbs should be in a certain range helps you to eat appropriately, but if you're a little high (or low) on any given…
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I go easier - screw faking up the crust.... 'Pizzabellas' (I made pizzas using portabella caps as the crust), a garden salad with some leftover chicken breast thrown in, and some berries for dessert. Scrape the gills out of the portabella, then fill with your favorite pizza toppings (in this case tomato sauce, fresh mozz,…
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I just use a high quality olive oil and either balsamic, red wine or rice wine vinegar - depending on the salad ingredients.
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Half a cup a day isn't too much - as long as you are doing well on Omega 3s to help balance it. I love my pistachios, and can go thru a cup or more in one sitting - which means I have to really watch when I eat them. :)
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I don't know what you mean by 'lots'. While nuts are generally healthy in moderate amounts, there are things to keep in mind: - most nuts are high in Omega 6s, and trying to lower that is a prime focus of paleo/primal eating. - roasting nuts oxidizes their fats, making them less healthy. Eat raw nuts if possible. - salted…
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Like others have said, it's a regional thang. When I was a kid in Michigan, we all called it 'soda pop'. Now I just call it soda. Things like that also change over the years to where it is somewhat generational. When I was young, oleomargarine was generally referred to as 'oleo' - now it's just 'margarine'.
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Here's probably everything you'd want to know about diet soda: http://www.marksdailyapple.com/diet-soda-healthy/ My personal opinion is that you should wean yourself from it as soon as you are able to. One of the primary reasons we eat a hunter/gatherer dietary path (like Paleo or Primal) is to minimize the insulin…
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Ideally, this is true - however, for a lot of us it takes a bit before we figure out the plant to animal ratio of what we eat. If someone starts Primal/Paleo with the idea that they can eat nothing but steaks and bacon, then they are still going to gain weight. That happened to me in the beginning - I was "what? I have to…
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Sugar is sugar. It may have a slightly different fructose/sucrose ratio, but sugar shouldn't be a part of your eating plan unless it has a piece of fruit around it.
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OK, let's put things into perspective... It isn't about evolution. Mankind has been growing/eating grains for about 10,000 years - and mankind has been around for a LOT longer than that. We were created/evolved to eat a hunter/gatherer, non-grain diet...plain and simple. 'Paleo' and 'Primal' are brand names, for Mark…
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I've always preferred my coffee black - any fat I need I get from the accompanying eggs and bacon.
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It's not a thing to buy into...read up on the science and follow what you decide is true. Most of us who following a hunter/gatherer-type diet (Paleo, Primal, etc) don't bother with things like protein shakes. Others have decided that the convenience of a quick shake-like meal using 'approved' ingredients outweighs the…
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Fullofspice and Howl_Sharowkn have good advice.... The main point is: substituting fat for energy instead of carbs/sugar. All carbs get converted into glucose, and get used first (as energy if you're active, or converted to fat if you're not) because glucose in the bloodstream cause a host of long term, systemic issues.…
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^^^ This is better than my answer. :)
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All 'intermittant fasting' is is skipping a meal... Not much to explain. Kids shouldn't be fasting, anyway - just make sure they're really hungry before feeding them.
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According to Mark Sisson (marksdailyapple.com), one of the primary Primal sites, we're to forget about the whole 'net carb' idea. The carb levels he recommends are total carbs. Ketogenesis: under 50g/day Active dieting: 50-100g/day Maintenance or high-exercise regimen: 100-150g/day SAD: over 150g/day.…
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There are several different paprikas (regular, smoked, Hungarian, etc.) that have slightly different flavor profiles and can add a lot to a dish. As mentioned, paprika is dried, ground red bell pepper (sometimes other peppers in the same heat/sweet range). Everything you'd want to know: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paprika
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Yeah, I long ago changed mine to read 'Meal 1' thru 'Meal 6'. I don't differentiate between meals and snacks - I eat when I eat.
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Yeah, if you do 80% cocoa or higher. Lower than that, and you'll find too much sugar or dairy in them.
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Why fluff it all up with the word 'fasting'? Eating only when you are hungry is the most normal, natural thing in the world. 'Skipping a meal' is an artificial concept - three meals a day is the result of the Industrial Revolution, when workers were forced to eat a set times to maximize productivity. If you are less…
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Even 'nitrate free' bacon has nitrates. The phrase is a legal dodge because the product does not use sodium nitrate - it gets the nitrates from celery powder or kale powder, where the nitrates occur naturally. The bacon gets to be called 'uncured' because there isn't enough nitrates to keep it shelf stable at room…
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Well, that's the crux then: if you are a 'grazer' then that's what your body prefers. Several small meals are processed the same as a few large ones (and to my mind more 'hunter/gatherer' to boot). But if you are a 'snacker' in the sense that you've always got to be nibbling on something salty or sweet, then it may be a…
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Depends on what you mean by 'processed'. Jerky is just thinly sliced steak seasoned in a marinade and then cooked/dried over a low-heat source to preserve it at room temperature. Basically a steak. Generally a 'processed food' is one where you are modifying the ingredients (like extracting protein isolate from soy) and…
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As you are noticing from the responses - it depends. :) If you are hitting fast food as a normal eating choice, I'd say 'avoid' - as it's been pointed out, the meats aren't grass fed/pastured, and the frying oils are generally the worst ones you can ingest - and everything has a bun or tortilla around it. But if you're…
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I kinda consider the whole Paleo/Primal debate much like Methodist/Baptist: 98% alike - but everyone focuses on the other 2%. ;) While my dairy consumption has gone down tremendously since before my 'hunter/gatherer' days, I still use cheese/butter/yogurt on occasion. When I do, I use either goat or sheep dairy.
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To add to the answer: while oats are a grain, and thus not paleo...if you are going to eat a grain, you could do worse. When you look at the nutritional problems with different grains, you get (from better to worse): Rice>oats>wheat>corn Of course, we're talking about whole grains - once you process them, all bets are off.…
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I just use goat butter.