Paleo diet - cure or bullsh*t?
Like the Atkins, Keto, Intermittent fasting and other diets, Paleo places results in the lack of calories. Limit your food - you'll eat fewer calories.
The problem with Paleo diet is that for some reason it recalls our ancestors (Why should everyone eat what they ate? Do we live in caves? Do we not have enough variety of food?). The positive point is the intake of fruits, vegetables and nuts.
The negative point is the lack of dietary fiber, vegetable protein, low glycemic index carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals and antioxidants that are found in whole grains and legumes.
Paleo diet is designed as a 2/3 vegetable diet, but today is carried out similar to the Atkins diet. Loads of meat, but fruits and vegetables when possible. Sulfur containing amino acids increase the risk of disease, they'are found in meat protein (as well as cholesterol, saturated fat ...).
Do you want a diet that will help you quickly lose weight and get some benefits or a diet that will help you lose weight healthily and get all the benefits (including maintaining healthy eating habits).
I recommend you limit the amount of animal products that affect negatively on your health and increase fruits(berries), vegetables (dark leafy greens)and legumes(chickpeas, beans) which will assure the healthy functioning of the body.
I personally believe that living like a hunter-gatherer is the healthiest way for humans. That era epigenetically formed us over millions of years, including our brains (and what it needs for growing), while eating wheat and drinking milk, only occurred during the last 10.000 years or so
i am not paleo, but this is clear ignorance and bias.
For anyone who wants to understand Paleo diets I highly recomend "The Paleo Approach" by Sarah Ballentyne. One of the top nutrition books of the past century in my opinion.
http://www.thepaleomom.com/
I love hazelnuts! I would eat them day and night ;D
Buddy, sulfur containing amino acids are contained almost every protein. Methionine is in many cases the first amino acid in a protein sequence as its codon, AUG is the start sequence for the ribosome. Cysteine is also an extremely common amino acid for protein structure as it forms sulfur-sulfur bonds with other cysteines in reducing environments, which links sections of proteins together and keeps them properly folded.
Your statements regarding amino acids are what we would call "bro science."
Thanks for clearing that up.
You seem to know a lot more than I do.
I am just a computer scientist.
I know more than some, less than others.
There are more half-truths and confusing pseudoscientific interpretations on the internet then seemingly well reasoned analysis of how things actually effect the body. Your or anyone's confusion with these things is understandable. The availability of information on the internet is a wondrous thing, unfortunately a lot of that information is wrong and is actually doing people a disservice. How is the average person supposed to be able to identify the legit research from poorly designed research? It all looks largely the same to the untrained eye... :(
Depresses me a bit actually....
wow great!
Food for thought!
dubloon135
I thought the idea of certain diet's such as the Keto diet is to change your composition macro nutrition. In the case of Keto diet, that is to induce ketosis in the body. It doesn't necessarily mean a caloric deficit.
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