Foods

Eating Paleo Part Four

September 14, 2018 |

The Tsimane – A Window into the Paleolithic World The Tsimane (pronounced ‘chee-mah-nay’) are a traditional hunter-gatherer society who live in the rainforests of the Amazon region of Bolivia. There are only about 16,000 of them alive today with most living along a tributary of the Amazon River called the Maniqui River. They enjoy a…

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All About Avocados

September 7, 2018 |

Avocados contain a wide array of healthy nutrients that everyone should be looking for in their daily diet. They are a good source of panthothenic acid (Vitamin B5) and most of the other B vitamins, folate, Vitamin E, Vitamin K and Vitamin C, dietary fiber, copper and potassium. They also contain phytonutrients including phytosterols (beta-sitosterol,…

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Eating Paleo Part Three

August 31, 2018 |

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…

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Eating Paleo Part Two

August 17, 2018 |

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…

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Eating Paleo Part One

August 3, 2018 |

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…

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