Primal / Paleo Diet

Quote from tomdavis:

Eliminate ALL processed food from your diet. No sugar or refined carbs (e.g. cereals, pastas, breads, cookies, etc.)

Eat fresh organic vegetables, fruits, nuts, seeds and a small amount of lean meats. Eliminate grains and keep milk products to a bare minimum. Only drink water and herbal teas.

I did this for a year and my cholesterol fell from 290 to 150. My triglycerides fell from 400 to 80. I lost weight and I no longer get tired in the afternoon. At night I sleep better than ever.

Processed foods are killers. Anywhere you find high levels of processed foods you will also find epidemic levels of obesity, diabetes, heart disease and cancer.

Stop eating things that come in boxes, bottles (except water), bags and cans. That stuff will destroy your health.
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Is canned fruit and vegetables(I'm lazy), multi grain wheat bread and whey protein powder bad for you?

Do you mind sharing one or 2 days of meals you eat ?

Thanks
 
Quote from Free Thinker:

i have a non scientific observational study from my family. 2 sisters a couple of years apart. sister a was normal size as a teenager. sister b was heavy as a teenager. both married and had families. sister a ate the standard farm diet her whole life. meat and potatoes. we would kill a cow and fill the freezer every fall. sister a never ate anything green. she hated vegatables. by the time she was in her 50s she weighed over 250.
sister b grew up the same way. a ranchers wife eating meat they raised for almost every meal. she was also over 250 in her 50s. then she got converted to a seventh day adventest religion and adopted their vegetarian diet lifestyle.
fast forward 30 years. sister a is bedridden in a nursing home. arthritis, heart problems several other problems. not a good quality of life.
sister b is still a vibrant active woman. no sign of arthritis. lives in her own home probably looks closer to 60 than 80. looks to be about 170 lbs.
to make things more interesting sister b had 3 kids who did not follow the 7th day diet guidelines. one died at 50 from heart a attack. one has diabetes and the 3rd is heavy.
not conclusive proof but interesting.
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Thanks for sharing your story.I've started to go vegan and its stories like this that keeps me going
 
Yeah, some comments on forums are so incredibly dumb that the only explanation is that these people work on the dark side : pharma/junk food industries.
 
Quote from AK Forty Seven:

Is canned fruit and vegetables(I'm lazy), multi grain wheat bread and whey protein powder bad for you?

Do you mind sharing one or 2 days of meals you eat ?

Thanks
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Changing the way I eat was not easy for me. Previously, I ate a lot of "prepared" and "processed" foods. Now I rarely eat anything that comes in a can, bottle, bag etc. I rarely eat grains or milk products.

This is not a "diet." Diets don't work. This is a permanent lifestyle change for me.

Here's what I ate the past couple of days. I'm on the west coast and wake up very early to trade, so I have to fit my meals around my trading schedule. All fruits and vegetables are fresh (organic whenever possible). Chicken is free range and all fish is wild caught.

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THURSDAY

Breakfast (4:15am): Two poached eggs, half an avocado, herbal tea.

At my trading desk by 5:00am: Snacks while trading -- Almonds, 1 grapefuit and 2 apples.

Lunch (after trading -- usually about 1:00pm): A very large salad with butter lettuce, arugala, kale, tomatos, bell pepper, cucumbers, sliced chicken breast and pine nuts. Olive oil and vinegar dressing.

Dinner (about 5:00pm): Poached salmon, half an avocado, asparagas, steamed spinach.

Evening snack: Walnuts and blueberries.

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FRIDAY

Breakfast: poached salmon (left over from the night before), a large pear, herbal tea.

Snacks while trading: 1 avocado, 2 apples, almonds

Lunch: A very large salad with romain lettuce, kale, tomatos, bell pepper, cucumbers, tuna and pine nuts. Olive oil and rasberry vinegar dressing.

Dinner: Grilled chicken breast with roasted bell peppers, sliced tomatoes, sliced cucumbers, steamed carrots and steamed beans.

Evening snack: Walnuts, pecans and red respberries.

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There are 5 things I work into my meal plan every day because they are very nutrient dense:

1. Kale
2. Apples
3. Avocado
4. Fresh berries
5. Raw nuts

- Instead of grains I eat Quinoa (pronouced "keen-wah"), which is a seed
- I don't eat white potatoes, but I do occasionally eat yams

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I used to be lazy about the way ate, too, so I know exactly where you're coming from. The way I changed was by applying the same discipline to my eating that I do to my trading.

-- Do research
-- Make a plan
-- Test it throughly
-- Make necessary changes
-- Execute with discipline and precision

My grandfather used to tell me: "Self-discipline is the breakfast of champions." He was right.
 
Quote from AK Forty Seven:

Is canned fruit and vegetables(I'm lazy), multi grain wheat bread and whey protein powder bad for you?

Do you mind sharing one or 2 days of meals you eat ?

Thanks
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Posted this before, but it is a good outline for the foods mentioned in this thread.

http://www.draxe.com/healing-diet/

Many quick read articles and videos on the website. If you go to the homepage, in the upper right hand corner there is a link to receive a free PDF mini-book - - - Superfood Super You - A Superfood Guide to Weight Loss, Detox, Anti-Aging and Building Muscle. A quick read too, but again.....pulls many things together about what people have been mentioning in this thread.
 
primal also means people lived without wifi, cell phones, radiation, electrical wires, etc.

it is esp. important during sleep- turn these things off!

heavy metals toxification- there was no such shit 1000 years ago.

its where chlorella comes in- #1 supplement in japan.

chlorella is the most potent food on the planet:
- full aminoacids,
- the biggest amount of chlorophyll per gram
- the most effective in detoxification - from radiation, lead, fluoride, PCB, mercury.
- highest vitamin D per gram
- together with spirulina highest amount of cystine and tryptophan per gram, both precusors of cascade of crucial hormones

On the positive side: there was never a time in history when a single man can eat such a variety of superfoods: gojis (china), chlorella (japan), noni(tahiti), turmeric(india) ginseng (korea, china, america), cacao (mexico, peru), pomegranates, maca(peru).
 
Quote from AK Forty Seven:

Is canned fruit and vegetables(I'm lazy), multi grain wheat bread and whey protein powder bad for you?

Do you mind sharing one or 2 days of meals you eat ?

Thanks
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The problem with canned is for fruit they add HFC or Sugar. So you arent really getting the benefit of eating fresh fruit.

With vegetables, so much salt is added that is also destructs the value of the vegetable.

If you cant do fresh, frozen would be the next step.

Salt is a whole different issue. The RDA is wayyyy to high.
 
Quote from WardTrader:

The problem with canned is for fruit they add HFC or Sugar. So you arent really getting the benefit of eating fresh fruit.

With vegetables, so much salt is added that is also destructs the value of the vegetable.

If you cant do fresh, frozen would be the next step.

Salt is a whole different issue. The RDA is wayyyy to high.
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Canned fruits and vegetables are, as you describe, "processed foods" and therefore no better than junk food.

I agree with you that fresh is the very best and frozen is an acceptable alternative.
 
Everywhere you find high levels of consumption of sugar and processed foods you will also find epidemic levels of obesity, diabetes, heart disease and cancer.
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Is sugar toxic?

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-57407128/is-sugar-toxic/

Dr. Robert Lustig, a pediatric endocrinologist at the University of California, believes the high amount of sugar in the American diet, much of it in processed foods, is killing us. And as Dr. Sanjay Gupta reports, new scientific research seems to support his theory that sugar is toxic, including some linking the excess ingestion of sugars to heart disease.
 
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