I want to begin a eating routine to quit eating so much carbs from refined starches and move toward eating like humans did 40000 years ago...animals, plants, veggies, fruit, berries, seeds. Any nutrition experts here to help me transition safely and healthily? I run a lot so I am not sure how much to eat of each catagory.
There is nothign healthy about refined carbs/starches. Just cut them out. It isn't that hard. What do you need to know?
Just eat whatever you can catch or find. That's what they did.
I caught a pizza last night.
I got gored last night while attempting to obtain some wooly rhino filet mignon.
you can't eat grains or dairy on a true paleo diet. so basically you eat potatoes. its good if you have a lot of food allergies. I need my dairy and rice/corn chex cereal!!! i'm mostly gluten free otherwise
Get you carbs from sweet potatoes, potatoes, squash, carrots, pumpkin, other starchy vegetables, and fruits. Also, don't be afraid of fat and make sure you get enough calories from eating avacados, fatty meat/fish, and cooking in butter, coconut oil, olive oil, lard.
caveman not ronald mcdonald wrote:
Any nutrition experts here to help me transition safely and healthily?
Asking for impossible...
Well, if you want to copy sooo healthy caveman lifestyle, why don't start with something more easy - quit soap, stop using shelters and clothes...
good luck getting into caveman lifespan - they used to die around their 30's.
tomtom wrote:
good luck getting into caveman lifespan - they used to die around their 30's.
Modern medicine + Caveman diet that matches biological makeup = long life.
real food wrote:
make sure you get enough calories from eating... fatty meat... and cooking in butter, coconut oil..... lard.
fantastic advice! ....that only an idiot could give.
What the f*** is wrong with you people that you need some bullshit fad diet with a label and club membership to feel happy about how you eat???
There is absolute NOTHING wrong with eating whole grains. And if avoiding grains is the big SECRET to paleo, then big f***ing deal, expect zero change in how you feel or train or live.
And no matter how you bullshit fad diet fags spin it, excess saturated fat ISN'T your best diet choice. And you can link me to 1000 BS cult bloggers denying it and it won't change a damn thing.There is no great gov't conspiracy to keep you from your butter, lard and, fat laden cheeseburger. Oh, wait, let me guess, a 3 lb high fat burger with 50 grams of sat fat is fine, as long as one avoids the roll it comes on? Oh god you morons are out of your collective minds.
answers wrote:
Modern medicine + Caveman diet that matches biological makeup = long life.
Since when caveman diet matches biological makeup? It makes so much sense as "not using medicine matches biological makeup", cavemans didn't had antibiotics, right?
There's only one tribe on the planet on "paleo" diet with very long lifespan, free of diseases such as heart problems or cancer - it's the island of Kitava, on Papua New Guinea. And guess what? Their diet is almost exactly opposite to the"caveman" diet. They eat almost no meat, no fats, no protein, almost vegan, carbs being around 80% of their calories income.
To the OP, here is a good place to start:
It was the advances made before 1920 that led the quality of life we have now. And healthcare even in the 1920s was pathetic. Look at a graph. No really, do it. It was because we had more food not better medicine that people lived longer (in America).
Nutrition got the most of us from age 35 to 60 by 1920. It was healthcare that did the rest.
OP is a dumbass.
Listen to it after the first 2 minutes of him talking about sea salt... very interesting.
http://undergroundwellness.com/new-usda-food-guidelines-strike-out-again/
Sorry, about 3 minutes in
sewer systems did more than anything to promote longevity.
Yes, this guy is a freaking genius.
"Sean has a Bachelor’s in Kinesiology (big deal)... and ...as a Functional Diagnostic Nutritionist (FDN) and Certified Metabolic Typing Advisor (CMTA) {??? what the F' is that} ... he jokes that he got his Master’s from Amazon.com."
Yes. A good joke indeed. But the joke is on you, because anyone who thinks they can learn a subject by reading popular best sellers pulled from Amazon has his had up his ass. Not surprisingly he quotes that dimwit Gary Taubes (an equally uneducated "nutrition expert")
Why do fools like you trust nobodies who blog on the internet, and are sure that there is a gov't conspiracy to get you to eat unhealthy foods?
The guy is a dummy who has made up his mind and who wants to make $ pushing popular fad "fight the power" ideas. Lame.
Paleo diet is the latest fad. Give it time and it'll pass. Stop worrying about what you're eating and live life. You could be hit by a bus tomorrow.
tomtom wrote:
There's only one tribe on the planet on "paleo" diet with very long lifespan, free of diseases such as heart problems or cancer - it's the island of Kitava, on Papua New Guinea. And guess what? Their diet is almost exactly opposite to the"caveman" diet. They eat almost no meat, no fats, no protein, almost vegan, carbs being around 80% of their calories income.
This says their average lifespan is 45:
http://www.staffanlindeberg.com/TheKitavaStudy.htmlOf course, they don't have modern medicine.
On the contrary to the above:
"Suppose you were forced to live on a diet of red meat and whole milk. A diet that, all told, was at least 60 percent fat — about half of it saturated. If your first thoughts are of statins and stents, you may want to consider the curious case of the Masai, a nomadic tribe in Kenya and Tanzania.
In the 1960s, a Vanderbilt University scientist named George Mann, M.D., found that Masai men consumed this very diet (supplemented with blood from the cattle they herded). Yet these nomads, who were also very lean, had some of the lowest levels of cholesterol ever measured and were virtually free of heart disease.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22116724/
Commonality between their opposing diets? Saturated fat.
here's your diet:
have mostly vegetables
some fruit
some whole grains
some nuts/seeds/legumes
a bit of lean meat
a bit of dairy
some fish
very few sweets
and have a good variety
and plenty of water
can't get much better than that.