Make Natural Meals With The Paleo Diet

By Andrew Simpson


In the time when our ancestors had to hunt down a wooly mammoth to get our food, there were no homo sapiens who had double chins or a spare tire about their gut. Living in a time when you had to find your own food in the wild meant a healthier diet for all. You can take advantage of the practices of the past with the Paleo Diet.

The Paleo Diet is the solution to a huge number of different weight issues. If you simply want to eliminate love handles or if you want to totally change your eating habits, going for all-natural ingredients is the best way to ensure that you do not put on more pounds.

Why does the Paleo Diet work? All-natural food in today's world is becoming more and more of a rarity. This is because factory farming makes it easier and easier to put food on the table, even if that food has only a fraction of the nutrition that natural ingredients do. The Paleo Diet combats the advance of artificial food that creates artificial health problems.

Artificial ingredients and corn-based products are a major reason why the majority of Americans are overweight. Managing your calorie intake by choosing only natural food choices is the best way to trim your love handles and eliminate any extra chins. What makes the paleo diet such a viable alternative to factory-farm grown food?

Many of the foods we eat today may as well have been specifically designed to make us fat. Hydrogenated oils are almost impossible to digest in the human metabolism and turn instantly to fat once they are eaten. High fructose corn syrup, likewise, is effectively pure sugar and will be stored as body fat unless immediately burned off.

Do you love a T-bone steak seared to perfection? Since our ancestors could hunt and eat wild cattle, you can enjoy one as well. Do you like to nibble on trail mix? Dried fruits and nuts were just as available back then as they are now. Even some anachronisms like ice cream can be made on the Paleo diet, provided you use ingredients (like natural cocoa and vanilla beans) that would have been available in the time of wooly mammoths.

The major limitations on the Paleo Diet are the foods that are manufactured in laboratories rather than on farms. Since mankind did not domesticate any animals in the Stone Age, dairy products are off the menu, though you can use substitutions like coconut milk for many of your favorite treats. The oils and syrups that plague modern meals are eliminated.

This is the great advantage of the Paleo Diet. Ten thousand years ago, someone who caught a fish or nabbed some eggs or brought back a cauliflower plant to the tribe would have eaten it and enjoyed every bit of nutrition. Today, we eat potato chips that contain no nutrition at all.

Choosing the Paleo Diet is not about restricting yourself. In fact, it is just the opposite. Nearly every meal you have ever had can be incorporated into the Paleo Diet so long as it is made with natural ingredients. If you love lobster bisque, you need only ensure that the ingredients are as natural as the lobster and the vegetables -- our ancestors did not have a food processor, but that is not a problem.

This does not mean, however, that you cannot substitute many of your favorite choices to make what you enjoy on the Paleo Diet. Wheat flour, for instance, was not an option of the ancients, but you can make baked goodies out of almond flour, coconut milk, and honey to satisfy a sweet tooth.

The end result is more fat burned away from your stomach, thighs, arms, and waist. It is not a matter of counting calories, simply a matter of letting your body process the nutrition it needs on a daily basis.

The Paleo Diet can be for everyone, even vegetarians and vegans, since it offers choices that appeal to all tastes and preferences. If you have been frustrated by diets before, do not change how much you eat, change how much good food you eat.




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