Do you want to develop a body like a caveman or cave woman? The primal diet or better know as the Paleo Diet is your answer. Follow what I tell you and you will be on the way to having a stronger, more agile, muscle rippled, Greek God of a body. Many celebrities and athletes have gotten the body of their dreams following this primal diet.
This diet is the diet of our Caveman/Cave women ancestors; it was the era of a very diverse diet that contained all the nutritional elements that made the Caveman mimic the abilities of the animals that he pursued. He was fast, agile, strong, and had super endurance. It was either be a competitor or die.
So, what is the difference between the primal diet and other diets?
In general this diet is abstaining from foods that our metabolism was not designed to digest. Our diet has changed since the era of the Caveman but our metabolism is still the unaltered genetically coded system of our Caveman ancestors. In other words if it comes in a box our metabolism does not know what to do with it. We wonder why we develop problems with our digestion and science puts a name on that problem and develops a pill to counteract the symptoms, but what you are experiencing is an allergy to something your body recognizes as foreign.
Dairy products are a very good example. We become lactose intolerant and the doctors give us pills to counteract this disease. This is not a disease but our body rebelling to dairy products which our caveman ancestors did not consume. Cows were not domesticated until the many centuries later and since that time we have been having digestive problems attempting to consume these dairy products. The hype is that milk is good for us, milk is good for calves, but not for humans. The calcium it contains can be found naturally in many different fruits and vegetables.
Here are some of the other products we need to avoid with the Primal diet;
Avoid processed sugar.
Sugar and artificial sweeteners are not necessary in your diet. Sugar is found naturally in fresh fruits and vegetables and the amount is sufficient for needs of your body. Processed sugar causes your pancreas to secret large amounts of insulin which promotes the storage of fat. It also suppresses your immune system leaving you wide open for disease. This diet is diabetic friendly and the only diet that your doctor will have no problems accepting. Check out Ph.D. Nancy Appleton's article "146 Reasons Why Sugar Is Ruining Your Health".
Eliminate Grains.
There is a lot of hype promoting whole grain breads as being healthy, actually they fall in the same category as white bread and it is something foreign to our caveman metabolism. You need to realize that our whole problem with our allergies and diseases began about 10,000 years ago when man decided to start living in one place and cultivating his own food. What happened was that his diverse diet became a diet of his own crops mainly wheat, corn, and barley.
The fresh fruits and vegetables were all but eliminated from his diet and vitamin deficiency began causing problems. The whole grain itself is not the problem it is the refining that causes the problems. In cracking the grain the germ, which contained the essential nutrition is discarded and what is left is gluten. We remember it from our childhood as a form of paste. It makes great breads, pie crusts, cookies, cakes, and biscuits; but it is what we call refined carbs and these carbs transform straight to fat. You will find that eliminating these refined carbs from your diet will cause a great weight loss.
Whole wheat breads that are bought at your supermarket are just hype and contain sugar and also white refined flour. As I said white flour is just a paste or binder and when added to whole wheat it causes it to bind and to allow yeast to make it rise. If there was not any white flour in whole wheat bread it would be a form of hard tack.
Legumes are another of the products we need to eliminate from our diet.
These include soy products, peas, lentils, peanuts and beans. In nature there is a balance between plants and animals that allows for a species to survive. Legumes developed there own defenses in a chemical we call lectins. Lectins are a carbon-binding protein that is essentially a pesticide. This protein has to ability to bind with sugar that is needed for the plant's maturation but it cannot be fully digested in our system. With this binding power it can attach to our intestinal lining and cause us a lot of distress. In order to process these products they would have had to been fermented, boiled, or some other process which our ancestors would not have had the knowledge.
Because of the lectins ability to attach to the intestinal wall this causes damage and eventually can cause breaks or breaches in the intestinal wall allowing free agents such as ecoli to enter our blood stream. Once these agents are allowed free movement they can attach to any organ causing damage which immediately brings our autoimmune system into play which causes mayhem. Lectins are linked to such autoimmune problems as IBS, Crohn's, colitis, thyroiditis, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, and arthritis.
Is the Primal Diet worth your time and effort? If you substitute your evening meal for a Paleo meal for a period of two weeks you will notice a marked difference in your health, you will sleep better, wake up more alert, and have more energy throughout the day. This difference will definitely be your wakeup call. This diet is worth you time to search for more articles, information, cookbooks, and tips on getting started.
