Paleo diet help?

[Wifezilla]

I made bone broth yesterday and just made it in to chicken and veggie soup today. I then put it in serving sized containers and popped it in the freezer. I have 9 lunch sized servings now. I did the same with quiche. Made several batches up in muffin tins, took em out and popped them in the freezer. Again, lunches ready to go.

 

[MyKidLuvsGreenEgz]

I love bacon-wrapped pineapple chunks ... I don't know much about the paleo diet so not sure if that qualifies, but this sounds like something that might help me. Hmmm.... meat.

Not sure I can do without my legumes. I love split peas or lentils cooked in the crockpot with bacon and onions.

Just a note about high triglycerides ... mine are around 650 ... down from 1200 or so. It's my liver and try as I might, I can't bring it any lower. Turns out it's hereditary.

FYI.

 

[freemotion]

If you eat grains/beans in moderation and ONLY those prepared by traditional (or modified traditional...we have access to processing that the societies that Dr. Price studied did not have access to....electric grinders, refrigerators, etc.) methods you will probably be eating a lot less. Let those yummy beans be a side dish and not the main dish, so limit it to two servings....half cup each serving, so one cup of beans max....and you'll be fine....maybe. No more gigantic dinner plates of beans or pasta.

If you are hand-rolling pasta after soaking the flour with whey or sprouting the wheat berries before grinding you will be eating a LOT less grains! It's a lot of work! The MEN article on "Artisan Bread in Five Minutes" or something like that lends itself well to traditional preparation and is very easy. I posted a whole wheat bread recipe somewhere that I now use for the occasional pizza and sandwich rolls (very thin...I pat the dough out on a cookie sheet, bake it, and then cut into small rectangles with a pizza roller. Sliced in half, these are great for small sandwiches, big on fillings and low on bread. Soaked/fermented, of course.)

We eat by at least ten of the eleven principles that Dr. Price found to be common to the most healthy peoples he studied (working on the liver....will try adding it to spicy sausage this coming pig processing) and it has transformed our health.

 

[Britesea]

I had not heard of the paleo diet until I read about it here, so I went over to website and looked it over. Although it may be a good diet, I can see lots of room for misconceptions in it, not to mention it seems like the kind of diet that most people would not be able to keep up for very long. What is the reasoning behind no legumes? If peeled white potatoes are ok, why would primitive man have overlooked pea pods and bean pods sitting there just waiting to be eaten? (and just a leetle bit snarky, I noticed that grubs were NOT on the menu).

 

[Wifezilla]

Not being able to keep it up is NOT an issue. People I know have been eating this way for decades. People say the same thing about low carb and I think I am on year 5 by now. There is a learning curve , but after a while it becomes second nature.

As for the rationale behind no beans, basically if it wasn't part of a typical human diet 10,000 years ago, the hard core followers don't eat it. Beans and tomatoes were "new world foods". Dairy didn't become part of food chain until about 4000 - 5000 years ago so they avoid dairy as well. As for potatoes, white potatoes are a recent food as well. Most paleos I know don't eat them.

And when it comes to peas, they weren't cultivated until around 7500 years ago. They miss the cut off.

 

[freemotion]

If a way of eating clears up your health issues and makes you feel fantastic.....yep, it becomes easy to follow. Especially when a cheat makes you sick again. So my recommendation for anyone changing their way of eating....gradually ramp up if you need to, but try to get fully on board and stay there without cheating for a few weeks at least so you will know if it is right for you. Then add or eliminate foods one at a time for a week or so, then add/eliminate them back in/out to see if that particular item is a problem or a help.

I do great on the NT way of eating (low on grains/beans and always properly prepared), but I am very curious about GAPS and will be getting the book and seeing if that will help the bit of lingering digestive stuff I deal with. Paleo is not for me, neither is ovo-lacto veg even though I have access to the best dairy and eggs possible. I know this because when it is hot I don't have an appetite and realized that I hadn't had meat in a few days lately. I was craving popcorn.....for the saturated fat (pastured bacon grease/butter/pastured feta), and finally had a nice, big, grass-fed beef burger with a slab of cheese and my body said, "aaaaaaahhhhhhhhh, thank you!"

 

[Wannabefree]

I just can't help but think it...ya'll can smack me if ya want but the folks who originally ate paleo....are all dead now. Doesn't that scare any of you?

Just kidding

 

[freemotion]

Ha-ha!

The research of Dr. Price into the practically disease-free and long-lived peoples and their diets/lifestyles is fascinating and very solid research, IMO.

 

[Wannabefree]

Ha-ha!

The research of Dr. Price into the practically disease-free and long-lived peoples and their diets/lifestyles is fascinating and very solid research, IMO.

Meh...they had a cleaner environment too though if you think about it. They had cleaner everything...not many neighbors to muck it up The diet is good, but we still won't get the same results unfortunately. Paleo people didn't have to take their kids to doctor's offices and have someone else's snotty diseased child spreading their love around. Not to mention public school, WalMart, even church.....we can try though

 

[freemotion]

During Dr. Price's research there were people within the tribes that left and were eating the "displacing foods of modern commerce" and got all the diseases to go along with it. Also, missionaries brought in these foods, such as rice, and the diseases followed but without the medical care. So it wasn't always germ exposure.

I rarely get sick anymore and I teach and attend religious services twice a week so am exposed to a lot of germs, dh, too. I used to catch everything that went around....called it "virus of the month club." Exposure to a toxic environment is all the more reason to control what we can since there is so much that we cannot control.