As we saw in the previous point, many benefits follow the Paleolithic diet. However, to enjoy all these benefits, a great effort must be made. Changing the eating habits to which we have become accustomed throughout life is not an easy task.
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However, if you have armed yourself with enough determination to carry out this objective, below we will mention some menus that you can implement to carry out the paleo diet without suffering too much.
What to eat for breakfast?
The first meal of the day is one of the most important. Therefore, it is worth eating well to start the daily day in the best way. It is important to remember that the paleo diet does not place restrictions on the amount of food to be eaten, as it recommends that you eat until you reach a state of satiety.
Thus, these are some of the foods that you can combine to enjoy a healthy and delicious breakfast:
Avocados
Fruits.
Coffee (although it should be consumed without sugar or sweeteners).
Infusions (without sweeteners).
Grilled eggs.What to eat for lunch and dinner?
Eating both lunch and dinner with the paleo diet is usually similar. Perhaps the adaptation process is more difficult to assimilate during lunch because we usually eat rice, grains, and quite heavy foods at this meal.
Thus, with the paleo diet, all these types of meals must be replaced by vegetables. Similarly, the same procedure should be done with dinner. However, it is likely that for this one, it will be less difficult for you to adapt since it is normal that during dinner, they get used to eating lighter foods.
Can I skip the paleo diet from time to time?
Living in the 21st century, it can be very difficult to adhere faithfully to these eating habits. Therefore, skipping this diet very sporadically is not such a bad thing. However, the important thing is to prevent these “jumps” from becoming habits.
In addition, it is also recommended that when skipping the diet, in the same way, try to choose the healthiest options or those that are closest to the philosophy set forth by this diet.
This diet is attributed to promoting a much healthier metabolism, the disappearance of many of the conditions related to systemic inflammation, and even the elimination of diabetes. But what does it consist of?
Much is heard today about the Paleolithic Diet. Like many topics in nutrition, unfortunately, much of what you hear is distorted information, which contradicts itself and leaves many people wondering what exactly it means to eat Paleo style.
This diet is attributed to promoting a much healthier metabolism, the disappearance of many of the conditions related to systemic inflammation, and even the elimination of diabetes. These attributions, which vary depending on the characteristics of each person, are because the Paleolithic diet changes the balance of macronutrients, the glycemic load, the balance of fatty acids and sodium/potassium, the acid/base balance, the intake of fiber and micronutrient density, compared to the modern traditional diet.
But to begin with, we must make it clear from a documented approach and based on the work of scientifically informed promoters what the Paleolithic diet IS NOT, precisely to demystify misconceptions about this nutritional approach.
Demystifying the Paleolithic diet
The Paleo diet is not a single diet
Eating Paleo is not a diet in the sense of the rest of the popular diets that consists of a series of specific and strict rules of what to eat and what not to eat, how much for how long.
Just as there was no single diet that our ancestors consumed, there is no single way to eat Paleo, but many and varied ways to mix the foods considered allowed. In this regard, this diet is more of a flexible, many-sided eating approach and strict only on the basics.
In this way, the Paleolithic nutritional approach has variants that can be adapted to any type of life, nutritional and economic circumstances, just in the same way that our ancestors adapted to different environments in different parts of the world.
The Paleolithic diet has no strict rules
Eating palaeolithically does not consist of a specific menu-type list. It’s not even about caloric servings and specific nutrients.
Practically the only strict rule (which isn’t because it depends on your physical activity habits) is to consume only minimally processed foods of natural origin, the closest to what our ancestors before the adoption of agriculture know they consumed.
And even if we did not have paleontological, historical, and evolutionary data on the diet of our ancestors, the Paleo eating approach is based on the logic that before industrialized foods, our ancestors consumed nothing more than minimally processed natural foods.
The Paleo diet is not technically a diet
For all the above reasons, a Paleolithic diet is not technically a diet or a diet, but a whole lifestyle not only related to food, for the simple reason that it is based on the evolutionary biology and psychology that they kept surviving. To our species for millions of years, circumstances to which the human being is originally adapted and are adaptations that continue in our genes to date.
So, a functional Paleo diet is about healthy eating and adopting a physical activity that is equally emulating to the physical activity that our ancestors carried out; them out of necessity, now us out of health.
The Paleolithic diet is not about eating exactly like our ancestors.
As we already mentioned, contrary to what even nutrition and health professionals still believe, we do have enough information to have a good idea of the diet of our ancestors. Both the analysis of the diets of current hunter-gatherer populations and historical records and anthropological research have provided and continue to provide the data on which the central idea of the Paleolithic diet is based.
However, even with this information, a paleo diet based on that information does not establish that the foods are exactly those that are known to be those consumed by our ancestors. To begin with, because it is neither possible nor practical to emulate Paleolithic eating habits to the letter in modern life and because many modern foods are very different from those consumed by humans before agriculture.
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