The rise of health concerns continues to proliferate throughout the country from increasing obesity rates to the astonishing number of our population with high blood pressure or diabetes. It’s enough to make anyone want to second-guess everything they eat and put in into their bodies. We ask our doctor’s, and ourselves “what can be done?” Eat right, and exercise. Those are the parameters for maintaining a healthy life. So it’s only natural that across the board we’ve got numerous exercise programs to help you lose weight fast or build lean muscle. Then we’ve got every diet under the sun, the no carb diet, high protein diet and all juice diets. Through research we can find and utilize programs and healthy habits that we can practice for a long healthful lifetime.
The Paleo Diet also known as “The Caveman Diet” has gained wide popularity across the country with everyone from celebrities to your average Joe’s next door. The uprising of this diet better referred to as a lifestyle has come from ideas and guidelines that are not new by any means. The foundation of The Paleo Diet stems from our ancestors, the Paleolithic, who lived over 40,000 years ago. They consumed foods that were available to them. Their diet consisted of lean proteins, carbohydrates that came from fruits and vegetables and their fats were monounsaturated of polyunsaturated. They did not have dairy or grains (unless it was a time of starvation). They of course did not use salt on their foods and there were no refined sugars and no processed foods available. They were lean and healthy, free of diseases such a hypertension and high blood pressure. “The medical evidence shows that their body fat, aerobic fitness, blood cholesterol, blood pressure and in...
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...dy as a whole. The Paleo Diet Is met with both negative criticism and followers who swear by it. In choosing to start life living the Paleo way I believe there are more benefits to adverse effects and those who disapprove with the diet cannot find health risks associated with it as long as it is followed by the guidelines provided.
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The first diet I choose to look at was the Bulletproof diet (the one my brother is following) started by Dr. David Perlmutter. Bulletproof is the more extreme version of Paleo even if Dr. Perlmutter isn’t exactly following the Paleo diet, since his own modified version of this is the Bulletproof diet, I decided to use him to be a base for Paleo since he is the most publicized speaker about this diet. Dr. Perlmutter’s diet is filled with controversy; one of his claims is that wheat is an opiate; this has ...
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As emphasized again and again by author Robb Wolf in his popular book, The Paleo Solution: The Original Human Diet, “Agricultural diets of today make us chronically ill.” The Paleo Diet, by forcing us to eat more like our caveman ancestors, fixes all of our detrimental, highly-processed, ca...
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According to Gibbons and her research if the modern man were to start eating as their ancestors had they would see a reduction in certain diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, cancer, and high blood pressure. She also notes that certain aspects of a Paleolithic diet can be to harsh for a modern human such as a red-meat heavy diet like that of the Inuit tribes of Greenland. Another problem Gibbons points out is that the bodies of modern humans would not be able to breakdown some foods because our digestive systems have evolved to a point where we have problems breaking down such
Wardlaw, G.M. and Smith. Contemporary Nutrition: Issues and Insights. 5th Edition. Boston: McGraw-Hill, pp 85, 2004.
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