The Paleo Diet starts from two very simple premises:
The human being is adapted to living in nature.
Food is one of the things that impacts our health the most.
So far we surely all agree.
The question is: What are those foods to which we are more adapted and that make us feel better?
In today’s article we will tell you about the foods allowed on the paleo diet and also its benefits and many recipes to help you adapt even better.
What is the paleo diet?
The Paleo Diet teaches us that we must eat the foods to which our physiology is more adapted, and to avoid the most recently introduced foods, since we cannot digest them or take advantage of them as well.
The human genome was shaped by thousands of years of hunter-gatherer life.
We are adapted to what we ate, to the amount of sunlight we were exposed to, to the type of movement we had to make to survive.
Changes in the genome are very slow.
While the world has radically changed after the industrial revolution, the human genome has barely changed and is still adapted to Paleolithic conditions.
Hence the name of the Paleo Diet or Paleolithic diet.
The Paleo Diet is specially designed to make it easy to blend into your lifestyle without starving. In addition, it will provide you with all the micronutrients you need.
These are the foods that ideally make up the Paleolithic Diet and those that you should avoid or directly not consume.
Allowed and recommended foods:
- Fruits, vegetables and tubers
- Meat (preferably grass)
- Eggs
- Shellfish
- Nuts and seeds
- Healthy fats (avocado, coconut, butter or ghee …)
- Spices and condiments
- Olive oil
Foods to avoid:
- Dairy products
- Grains and cereals
- Processed foods
- Sugars
- Vegetables
- Starches
- Alcohol
