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| IF YOU CAN’T FIND IT IN THE WILD, DON’T EAT IT! |
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| Wednesday, 21 July 2010 13:53 |
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After reading a lot about Raw Food, it was now time for some literature on the Hunter-Gatherer diet.
Two books have captured my attention: “ PRIMAL BLUEPRINT” And “THE PALEO DIET”
PRIMAL BLUEPRINT  Author Mark Sisson takes you on a journey through human evolution, comparing the life and robust health of our hunter-gatherer ancestors with a day in the life of a modern family - exposing potential health issues that arise from trying to do the right things living in the 21st century.Sisson teaches how the right high-fat diet can actually help one lose weight; how popular low-fat, grain-based diets might trigger illness, disease, and lifelong weight gain; why doing too much cardio exercise might actually suppress the immune system and how some of today's most common medications might make a health condition even worse. THE PALEO DIET  According to author Loren Cordain, modern health and diet problems didn't start with the advent of packaged snack food, but much earlier--back at the dawn of the agricultural age many thousands of years ago. As humans became less nomadic and more dependent on high-carbohydrate diets, we left behind the diet we had evolved with, which is based on low-fat proteins and plenty of fruits and vegetables.Sugars, fats, and carbs were rare, if they were present at all, and survival required a steady, if low-key, level of activity.Cordain's book The Paleo Diet blends medical research with a sprinkle of individual anecdotes, practical tips, and recipes designed to make his suggestions into a lifestyle. According to Cordain , paleolithic humans were fit and lean because, as hunter-gatherers, they ate what was available: meats low in saturated fats, fresh fruits, and nonstarchy vegetables. Nor did they suffer from heart disease, cancer, and diabetes, the byproducts of our poor eating habits and lack of exercise. The author asserts that by eliminating grains, dairy, refined sugars, and processed foods from our diets, we, too, can thrive as our ancestors did. Raw food and the Paleo diet are two different theories, but to me they have so much more in common than one would think at first. One sentence goes for both of them: IF YOU CAN’T FIND IT IN THE WILD, DON’T EAT IT! |
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