Diets
Why it Fails The Paleo diet can be an improvement on the eating habits of many people of today. It eliminates processed foods and refined carbohydrates, fast foods and fried foods and it embraces fruits and vegetables, nuts and seeds in their natural states. Unfortunately, it also encourages large amounts of meat in spite of…
Read More...Why it works…..temporarily at least A change in eating from the standard Western diet to a well-executed Paleo diet can be beneficial to health. After all, the Paleolithic Period did not have processed food, fried foods, dairy, isolated oils, sugar or salt, all of which are implicated in our modern health problems. In addition, the…
Read More...Introduction to the Paleo Diet The Paleo Diet roared into being with the appearance of a book by Loren Cordain published in 2002 called “The Paleo Diet”. Its menus appealed to North Americans whose taste buds were already finding satisfaction in high fat, high animal-protein foods and at a time when nutrition recommendations were pushing…
Read More...Sometimes it seems difficult to understand how our food choices could have such a significant effect on our health. Many people believe that as long as they provide their body with energy and protein along with some sources of nutrients that they are good to go. It must be pointed out that the human body…
Read More...There is a swirling vortex of misinformation regarding diet and health floating around in the public consciousness. Do not allow yourself to be sucked into this whirlpool. If you’re eating in an unusual way, and eating a whole food plant-based diet would be classified by many as unusual to the extreme, it is sometimes hard…
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