The Paleo Diet, Healthy Caveman Today
Today, there are many different kinds of diet programs based on sophisticated programs with complicated calorie counting. In contrast with those, Professor Loren Cordain, from Colorado State University, introduced the Paleo Diet (Paleolithic Diet). The Paleo diet program is introduced since 1980, but famous from 2002, especially in the United States.
The Paleo diet refers to the human diet in the era before the familiar agriculture, namely Paleolithicum era, in which human find food by hunting and gathering. The Paleo Diet or the Caveman Diet, or Stone Age diet, or also called Warrior diet, is diet program that underlie on the principle of eating wild plants and animals such as those foods eaten by primordial humans from 10,000 years ago. They eat more meat, grains, fresh vegetables, and fruits and do not know the salt, sugar, and milk. The primordial human fossils have showed that none of them is obese.
According to Cordain, the the Paleo diet managed to balance the omega 6 and omega-3 that can prevent chronic heart attacks and other chronic diseases. Proponents of this diet program claim that Paleo diet is most suitable for us biologically, because has balanced nutrition. With the balanced nutrition, our body becomes healthier and also able to reduce the risk of various diseases.
Food in the Paleo Diet
Basically, the Paleo diet menus include hunted food, fished food, and harvested food, such as eggs, berries,nuts, meat, shellfish, fish, vegetables, roots, and fruits. Unfortunately, the exact same food with food in the Stone Age is no longer possible, because right now, most of the foods in the Paleo diet menu list are not from the wild. Nowadays, the food obtained by planting or preserving. But at least you can still take a modified version of the original of the Paleo diet menu such as food with no additional ingredients, meat, eggs, fish, nuts, poultry, vegetables, and fruits.
In the the Paleo diet menu list, you will not find foods made from sugar, potatoes, milk, legumes, processed oil, and all kinds of food that emerged after the era of agriculture begins. In the Paleo diet program, you are required to ignore the salt and all kinds of beverages other than water, organic green tea , and coconut water. Supporters of the Paleo diet recommends eating foods derived from organic plants, fish caught from the wild, and animals that eat the weeds, because it is more similar to the nutritional quality of foods eaten by our ancestors.
You may not need to always eat this way. According to Cordain, using the Paleo diet as much as 80% of the time, can provide health benefits. Cordain also recommend to try this diet for two weeks and seeing if you can feel the benefits.
Heather Mangieri, MS, RD from the American Dietetic Association said that the Paleo diet program has some very positive aspects, but due to limitations, make the diet people can only practice the Paleo diet for a while because it is too difficult to maintain due to various things, such as a less varied menu, cost, and potential to cause nutritional deficiencies resulting from eliminating a number of food groups.
If you think the Paleo diet is suitable for you, make sure to add a supplement containing vitamin D and calcium. A diet without grains, dairy, processed foods, sugars, etc., will likely lead to weight loss. But for the long term, it may be very difficult to continue to follow.
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