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The Paleo Diet
It consists of cutting modern foods from your diet and returning to the way of the early hunter-gatherer ancestors.
The diet can improve your health by eliminating high-fat and processed foods that have little nutritional value and too many calories, and loading up on fruits and vegetables that are bursting with healthy vitamins, minerals, and fiber.
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Foods to Eat and Avoid
Eat: Lean cuts of beef, pork, and poultry and game animals, eggs, fish fruit, not starchy vegetables, nuts and seeds and olive, flaxseed or walnut oil.
Avoid: Processed foods, dairy, grains, legumes, starchy vegetables, sugar, artificial sugars and fruit juices.
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A Sample Menu
Breakfast: Onion and spinach omelette with liver pâté
Lunch: Tuna wrapped in lettuce with almonds
Snack: Hard-boiled eggs
Dinner: Beef bourguignon
Dessert: Ice cream made from coconut milk
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Risks and Benefits
Pros:
- Nutritious, Easy to Follow and It Involves Exercise.
- The diet helps with managing autoimmune diseases, although evidence is limited and anecdotal.
Cons:
- Expensive, Possibly Boring, and Limited Evidence of healt...
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What to Expect
- You could lose weight following a Paleolithic diet.
- Get calcium and other nutrients you’re missing by not having dairy products and certain grains.
- Health benefits are likely to result from cutting out processed food and sugar and replacing them with frui...
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The paleo diet and research
Researchers found that the paleo diet led to more short-term improvements in some risk factors for chronic disease.
There is not enough evidence to make any strong claims, especially its longterm effects.
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- The Paleo diet was born in academic circles in the '70s. Walter Voegtlin wrote that modern kinfolk would be much healthier if only they returned to the pre-agricultural food habits of the Paleolithic era.
- An academic evangelizer, Loren Cordain, trademarked and built a brand...
The Nutrient Sufficiency of the Flexitarian Diet
Switching to a flexitarian diet means that you're opting for quality lean meat - chicken, turkey - and lessen the intake of processed meat.
There is not much drawbacks to this diet because each and every meal will include lots of plant-based meals, fruits, and vegetables.
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Poor diet
We all know that eating healthy is necessary but not many of us practice that on daily basis.
Many of us eat processed foods, junk foods, and foods rich in salt and sugars. Not just those, we often do not include vegetables and fruits in our diet. This habit forms the basis of a lot of dis...
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