Where does the paleo diet?
The paleo diet all kinds of vegetables, fruits, roots, nuts, seeds, meats, seafood and eat healthy fats and grain and its derivatives (flour, pasta, bread ...), legumes, dairy is excluded and all processed and refined products.
But paleo diet is not a diet, it's a lifestyle based on our cavemen ancestors, the paleovida. The Paleolithic was the period in which we evolved from Homo habilis, the first hominid to Homo Sapiens, ie us.
Why eat well?
We had a paleo diet for more than 2 million years (Long!), Our body has evolved with this power, ie, we are "facts" to eat well. Only 10,000 years ago we eat cereals, legumes and dairy, so quickly did not give us time to evolve to tolerate and probably never do it. We remain genetically the same as 60,000 years ago. The paleo diet is the diet that is more in tune with our bodies.
What's wrong with cereals, legumes and dairy?
With the advent of agriculture and livestock appeared as autoimmune diseases (multiple sclerosis, lupus, arthritis reumtoide, etc.), allergies, acne, obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer, infertility, hypertension and Alzheimer (to name a few). With the paleo diet we avoid.
Let's start with dairy:
What mammal drinks milk from another species? Or better ... What mammal still drink milk after breastfeeding? No One. Paleo Cookbook answer: The fact that 65% of the world's population can tolerate lactose also helps to shop
realize that something is wrong, although lactose is not the main problem.
Milk is a super food that serves to rapidly grow the offspring of mammal (including, of course, human babies), helps build the immune system and say it gives a "push" to start living.
This white coctelazo of hormones and proteins stimulates growth by raising levels of a hormone called IGF-1. The problem is that works like offspring, also functions in adults ... No, we grow but does not stimulate cell growth, so that high levels of IGF-1 are associated with tumors and cancers.
Also, when we drink cow's milk we are taking bovine insulin interacts with our immune system which recognizes as foreign and make antibodies thereto. This makes us resistant to insulin, the previous step to diabetes and obesity. Due to this interaction with the immune system, milk is also closely linked to autoimmune diseases and allergies. The paleo diet drastically reduces allergies. (How do I substitute milk?)
Cereals:
Cereals are some natural defenses against being eaten by animals according to (like us). These defenses are translated basically poison, something we can not digest and hurts us. They are called "anti-nutrients" and the most damaging of these is the gluten. These antinutrients destroy us intestine and flora causing inflammation and permeability leading to countless diseases, from intestinal problems to autoimmune diseases, allergies and others.
The good news is that the intestine heals very fast, you can have it permeable one day after eating pasta, bread, etc. and have it cured the next day if you are careful.
The other problem is that they have high glycemic index. By consuming these types of carbohydrates on blood glucose level is greatly elevated and need secrete large amounts of insulin to regulate it. This leads to: Obesity, diabetes and also these ups and downs of glucose and insulin make us fluctuate energy constantly With the paleo diet you have steady energy throughout the day as the insulin level does not go up and down like a roller. Russian everyday.
Recent Paleo cookbook studies also show that a diet high in carbohydrates, such as the typical Western diet is the main cause of cardiovascular disease instead of being saturated fats like we always believed.
All the beneficial properties that are cereals and legumes such as fiber (which actually have is insoluble and not going well), minerals or protein (that have incomplete for us) we can find in larger quantities and quality in vegetables, fruits, meat and fish that are eaten in the paleo diet, and the latter will not hurt you in the gut.
Where I will draw calcium paleo diet?
This is the first questions that arise when starting a paleo diet. It turns out that milk at the same time provide some calcium ... decalcified us (and do not add much as the market would have us believe).
Now, almost all foods contain calcium, which are sesame, almonds, oily fish, eggs, all green leafy vegetables and algae. The paleo diet, daily calcium intakes without realizing it. A good example of this is found in the Amazonian tribes and other current hunter-gatherer societies in which they carry a fully paleo diet and women, they also have many children throughout his life, not decalcified or menopause or never .
Yes, my life thinking that we had to drink milk everywhere and what we should have done is stop drinking it descalcificarnos.
Saturated fat can be a high percentage of calories ingested without incurring any health problem. With the paleo diet should avoid eating meat from "factory" and eat only meat from healthy animals, which have been able to move free and have been fed properly, ie meat we call bio or ecological. This type of meat is more expensive, if you can not afford to always eat meat bio, is no excuse for puffing to donuts instead. With eggs is easy, because in all supermarkets sell range eggs and we can easily identify the code that are printed. Fat is not bad, fat does not accumulate as fat (slimline) and cholesterol consumed does not increase blood cholesterol. (The saturated fats cause heart disease NO s )
Main benefits of paleo
Best performance when making
physical exercise.
Stable blood sugar levels.
Using stored and ingested fat
as energy.
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