I do not understand this Paleo diet thing.

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It's okay to have as much fried bacon and sausage you want but you can't have, say a whole grain tortilla? How is that healthy?

Anyone know about this or have friends/family who do this diet? I have a few friends on instagram that are doing it and its grossing me out. But maybe that is because I am pretty close to becoming vegetarian.

[erniebufflo]

It works for some people so I can't begrudge that.

But, unless you have a medical reason to avoid carbs, I really believe that a healthy, balanced diet is always better and more sustainable than a crazy diet that eliminates an entire food group.

Plus: cave men were not all that informed about modern nutrition. So...

[lolaburns]

I'm pretty sure paleo followers eat lean protein not sausage and bacon.


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Jan 13, 2013 23:14:20 GMT -5 lolaburns said:

I'm pretty sure paleo followers eat lean protein not sausage and bacon.


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Both of the people I know who are doing it have either posted pictures of bacon and sausage and hashtagged paleo next to it, or bragged in person about how they can eat bacon every day. Lol, maybe they are doing it wrong?

[lolaburns]

Lol yea totally wrong.


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Dr google says you can indeed eat bacon!

Eta: almost everything i see on google popping up says you can even eat fattier cuts like bacon and ribs. Websites that are only about the paleo diet.

[mikehoncho]

I have no idea what this diet is about but it sounds like Atkins, no? My mom has been doing a modified version of atkins for YEARS and she is thin but super unhealthy. Eating meat for every meal is OK but carrots are not? Seriously, she picks them out of food like salads or roasted veggies, etc

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[lolaburns]

I have some guy friends into Paleo and they only eat grassfed free range lean meats- not bacon or sausage. So yea, you can probably have bacon ( especially if to went out in your back yard and killed the cow yourself) but eating a shit ton of it and them saying you are on the " Paleo Diet" is stupid.


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[lolaburns]

Don't know, Jnoelle but this is what I consider the traditional " paleo":http://robbwolf.com/what-is-the-paleo-diet/


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I can click the linky on my phone

I mean it makes sense you should only do lean meats but maybe there's a loop hole and people take advantage? Maybe they aren't as health conscious?

All I did was google, "can you eat bacon on paleo" and there are a lot of very excited people. Hah

[erniebufflo]

True Paleo would be hunter/gathering all your food, so we'd all be skinny as crap. These Internet folks just aren't hardcore enough.

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Jan 13, 2013 23:57:21 GMT -5 erniebufflo said:

True Paleo would be hunter/gathering all your food, so we'd all be skinny as crap. These Internet folks just aren't hardcore enough.

Ha!

[eav2c]

I don't get it but as MH pointed out it reminds me of the Atkins diet. So, wouldnt their bodies be in ketosis all the time? That has to be extremely unhealthy, no?

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I hope people on this diet realized cavemen lived to like 25 on average or something! Either way, the best diet is moderation!

[cat19]

Jan 13, 2013 23:25:18 GMT -5 lolaburns said:

I have some guy friends into Paleo and they only eat grassfed free range lean meats- not bacon or sausage. So yea, you can probably have bacon ( especially if to went out in your back yard and killed the cow yourself) but eating a shit ton of it and them saying you are on the " Paleo Diet" is stupid.


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I want a bacon cow.

[Regina Philange]

All this thread is doing is making me seriously want bacon.

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Jan 13, 2013 23:14:20 GMT -5 lolaburns said:

I'm pretty sure paleo followers eat lean protein not sausage and bacon.


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This, I understand the logic behind it because a friend of mine is hardcore paleo and a crossfit instructor. Could I do it myself? No way, but it works for him and his wife.

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The paleo diet saves me because I was in such a restricted diet at first. I don't eat many read meats at all though, I don't like greasy things so no bacon or sausage here.

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Jan 14, 2013 1:25:48 GMT -5 eav2c said:

I don't get it but as MH pointed out it reminds me of the Atkins diet. So, wouldnt their bodies be in ketosis all the time? That has to be extremely unhealthy, no?

the difference is they can eat fruits and nuts. But apparently they are only supposed to be eating lean cut meats.

[mamasaurus]

The thing that bugs me about it is that people get all up on their high horse about their "cave man" diet and start preaching at me about my unhealthy vegetarian diet, BUT anthropologists cannot agree on any one cave man diet. It probably varied widely from region to region, season to season, and year to year depending on what was available. Some paleolithic cultures probably ate almost no meat, while others ate mostly fish and hardly any red meat, and still others did eat a lot of red meat, but probably not bacon or sausage because pork is a farmed animal! I have a feeling that if a cave man landed a wild boar, he was not going to sit there grinding sausage with a bunch of rocks, case it by hand, and then smoke it on the fire all before eating it. Archeological evidence suggests that early man probably cooked large game whole in pits.

I might take these paleo people more seriously if any of them gave an actual shit about actual paleolithic diets and cooked their meat over open fires or in pits. Until then, I will write most (not all, but most) of them off as nutters like the one with the paleo mom blog who divorced her H for not doing the diet with her since eating grains makes you a "smelly worm."

[laurack]

1. It's not atkins and generally one wouldn't have to be in ketosis unless they wanted to. Paleo diet doesn't forbid fruit. Ketosis occurs at generally very low levels of carbohydrate intake, eating a couple bananas would eliminate this for most folks

2. Yes I have encountered many paleo diet-ers, I used to do crossfit and if you do crossfit and eat like a normal person you are eschewed! However I refused to do this diet and just laughed at people who insisted I'd feel better without oatmeal.

3. I think for some this style of eating can work. Basically the way you lose weight is this: you consume less calories than you burn. A lot of popular diets revolve around cutting out food groups. It's kind of a cut and dry way of reducing calories that works often.

4. A lot of things about the diet I agree with. It tends to push naturally raised meats and a high vegetable consumption. It automatically stops people from eating much processed food, if it is being followed correctly. It gets rid of "fat fear" often. I think people these days sometimes are a bit weird about dietary fat. Dietary fat is a good thing, and a very necessary nutrient. Trying to eat as little dietary fat as possible IMO is not a great diet plan.

The things I dislike about it:
-Religious Zealotry surrounding it. Going "too far". Ridiculous to assume that a diet filled with lean meats, vegetables, fruits, nuts and seeds would suddenly become "Bad" if a cup of rice or oatmeal was included.
-People thinking that it isn't actually about calories (aka people thinking thermodynamics is a made up thing)
-People doing it wrong and just using it as an excuse to eat loads of steaks and pounds of bacon
-Tends to be far too meat focused IMO. I'd rather an approach like Micheal Pollan's.
-No cheese? No thank you. lol

[laurack]

Also I think there is some amusing irony to people following a strict caveman diet and blogging about it. You know, from a computer.

Not to mention that cavemen lived to be about... I don't know, 20?