About Paleo Diet

What is the 'Paleo Diet'?

The diet is based on the belief that human beings have not yet evolved with a tolerance to grains and dairy or namely the 'agrarian' lifestyle brought about by farming and producing our own food sources. Instead it focuses its attention on returning to our ancestral roots of the hunter gatherers by consuming only foods that our ancestors would have eaten like grass fed organic meat, wild game, vegetables and minimal fruit.
The diet itself is not restrictive as some would believe and has numerous varieties of foods that can be consumed liberally without fear of gaining weight or causing any aggravation to one's body.


What will the 'Paleo Diet' do?

Due to the connection between processed carbs and refined sugars with diabetes, weight gain and heart disease the 'paleo diet' claims to aid in weight loss, reduce the chance of developing type 2 diabetes and heart disease and may help with autoimmune diseases. Only minor scientific studies have been carried out to prove the validity of the diet and many sceptics still remain. However a diet that encourages the consumption of healthy natural and unprocessed alternatives to our current lifestyle is well worth looking at particularly when over 60% of the worlds population are obese or overweight.

Day 28 ~ Extending the Weeding

Many of you might remember that I was doing a detox program that involved a weeding stage designed to heal a leaky gut... well I have decided to extend that for a further 6 weeks so 12 weeks in total.
My reason is that since I have spent 31 years without ever doing a detox or cleanse so specific therefore I feel my body is only going to benefit from an extended cleanse.
I haven't forgotten that I planned to keep everyone updated with whats involved in the seeding stage and the feeding stage so I definitely will when the time arrives. Also I have a very important appointment coming up with an integrated GP in the Central Coast which I will also post all the details. A girlfriend of mine has been seeing a doctor at Invitation to Health for years and says they are general practitioners with open minds, techniques in alternative therapies and have access to numerous testing methods that most doctors won't even tell you about... sounds promising!

Today I followed my usual routine with the fish oil, VitaKlenz and stuff, although I did recently add vitamin D to that since I believe I was severely vit D deficient (brittle hair and nails and poor wound healing). You may have noticed that I have temporarily ceased taking the slippery elm and that's due to the decreased absorption of vitamins when on slippery elm. I will continue it once I have completed the course of vit D.


Breakfast



Poached eggs with bacon and pan fried tomato... yum!


Lunch



Steamed Hoki with asparagus, sweet potato chips and vinaigrette (I was a little naughty coz not supposed to have below-ground veggies while weeding... but I couldn't resist)!


Dinner

Dinner was a disaster...
I tried a paleo version of tempura and it kind of worked but it certainly wasn't amazing to say the least.
Oh well... there's always next time...
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