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PALEO IS THE GO!!

The Paleo diet or Caveman diet is all about eating real food - fresh, natural food like meat, vegetables and fruit. It is about choosing foods that are nutrient dense, minimally processed, with lots of naturally-occurring vitamins and minerals, over foods that have more calories but less nutrition.

The Paleo diet is not a low calorie “diet” – it encourages you to eat as much as you need to maintain strength, energy and a healthy weight. In fact, the Paleo diet is probably higher in fat than conventional recommendations. Healthy dietary fat isn’t the enemy – it’s a great energy source when it comes from high quality foods like avocado, coconut and olives. It’s not a “low carb” approach by design, but since you are eating vegetables and fruits instead of bread, cereal and pasta, it just happens to lean a bit in that direction.

Eating like this is good for maintaining a healthy metabolism, and will help to reduce inflammation within the body. It does great things for energy levels, body composition and performance in the gym. It also helps to minimize risk for a whole host of lifestyle diseases and conditions, like diabetes, heart attack, stroke and auto-immune diseases.

Fad diets, crash diets, miracle pills and “meal replacements” are not part of a balanced, sustainable path towards improved health and fitness. Instead the Paleo diet encourages you to eat high quality meat, seafood and eggs, plenty of fresh vegetables and fruit, and healthy sources of dietary fats. You don’t have to count calories, and you won’t find any built-in points or penalties, either – no arbitrary systems that disconnect the food choices you make from their actual physical consequences. You just eat good food, put your meals together in a way that is simple, balanced and (most importantly) sustainable, and experience all of the real, tangible benefits that come from a nutritional plan designed to optimize your metabolism, reduce systemic inflammation and have you looking, feeling and performing at your best.

To find out more about the Paleo/Caveman diet try visiting the following websites: www.thepaleodiet.com, www.whole9life.com

References

The Whole30 Made Simple – 2011 Edition “Change your life in 30 days”

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